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18 Mar 2024, 4:00 am by jonathanturley
FBI Director James Comey received similar gentle treatment after removing FBI material and arranging for information to be leaked to the media. [read post]
15 Mar 2024, 4:01 am by jonathanturley
However, as shown by prior declinations — in cases like the contempt referral against former Attorney General Eric Holder, or the determination that former FBI Director James Comey removed FBI material and, through a friend, leaked it to the media — the Justice Department often seems to find insurmountable problems when asked to charge a fellow prosecutor or investigator The Rollins case showed a sense of total license… [read post]
10 Sep 2023, 8:13 am by John Floyd
     Hoover’s racist “war” on subversives and political enemies pales in comparison to the “war on Muslims” initiated by former FBI Director Robert Mueller in the wake of the 9/11 attack on New York City’s Twin Towers—a war maintained and enhanced by Mueller’s successors, former Director James Comey and current Director Christopher Wray. [read post]
29 Aug 2023, 7:46 am by jonathanturley
The Special Counsel found that the investigation lacked a factual foundation for the full investigation launched under former FBI Director James Comey. [read post]
23 Jul 2023, 8:40 am by jonathanturley
Notably, in his recent testimony, FBI Director Christopher Wray tried to blame his predecessor James Comey for the abuses, a claim that was recently undermined in the targeting of Republican staff members. [read post]
18 Jul 2023, 4:00 am by jonathanturley
In his most recent appearance before Congress, FBI Director Christopher Wray refused to provide any new information on various scandals but seemed eager to assign past abuses to his predecessor, James Comey. [read post]
26 Jun 2023, 10:56 am by Roger Parloff
Even Fox News chief political analyst Brit Hume, while voicing concerns about Trump’s conduct, did a version of the “many-Republicans-believe” dodge recently: At the same time, of course, . . . we’re going to hear an awful lot about the unequal application of justice from [Trump’s] defenders and perhaps from his defense team in light of the way in particularly the Hillary Clinton case was handled, where she was, where James Comey, then FBI… [read post]
15 Jun 2023, 4:01 am by jonathanturley
In the case of Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn, then-FBI Director James Comey later bragged that he “probably wouldn’t have … gotten away with it” in other administrations but that he sent “a couple guys over” to White House offices to question Flynn. [read post]
31 May 2023, 10:43 am by jonathanturley
Former FBI Director James Comey sat down for a remarkable interview on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360” this week. [read post]
25 May 2023, 7:00 am by jonathanturley
The DOJ already has a full plate of previously declined prosecutions outside of the DOJ, from the Holder and Comey cases to the perjury allegations leveled against Obama national intelligence director James Clapper, and more. [read post]
19 May 2023, 4:30 am by jonathanturley
” Nevertheless, former FBI Director James Comey would continue to reference the entirely unsupported “pee tape” in interviews. [read post]
18 May 2023, 5:30 am by jonathanturley
It turns out that the “pee-tape” was the creation of a Clinton operative without any factual basis despite years of the media (and former FBI Director James Comey) referencing the false salacious claim. [read post]
18 May 2023, 3:00 am by jonathanturley
The dossier would be used in the FISA court and former FBI Director James Comey would even continue to reference the false “tee-tape” claim from the report in 2018. [read post]
17 May 2023, 8:00 am by jonathanturley
Yet then-FBI Director James Comey opened the most extensive investigation ever into an American president based on that tawdry, tattered record. [read post]