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23 May 2019, 4:52 am by Bob Bauer
Then the country will face the inevitable if misleading charge that Mueller has  editorialized in the style of James Comey’s press conference comments decrying Hillary Clinton’s “carelessness. [read post]
22 May 2019, 6:01 am by Matthew Borges
The Committee is also requesting documents from them relating to Michael Flynn, James Comey, the Mueller investigation and Michael Cohen, among other matters. [read post]
20 May 2019, 2:22 pm by Scott R. Anderson, Benjamin Wittes
Two years ago, Lawfare and a handful of other media organizations looked to the climate survey to see whether it supported then-Deputy Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders’s claim that President Trump had fired FBI Director James Comey because “the rank and file of the FBI had lost confidence in [him]. [read post]
The extent to which federal obstruction of justice statutes apply to the president, especially when concerning actions facially within the office’s powers under Article II, has been hotly contested at least since President Trump fired FBI Director James Comey in May 2017. [read post]
11 May 2019, 7:18 am by Jack Goldsmith
Someone on Twitter recently asked: “What is your most [fire emoji] take that absolutely infuriates people and you know deep down in your heart is 100% true”? [read post]
10 May 2019, 10:08 am by Mikhaila Fogel
The conversation covered how the FBI thought about the Russia investigation in those fateful months both before and after the president fired FBI Director James Comey. [read post]
9 May 2019, 1:00 pm by Kevin LaCroix
Attorney General James Comey issued a memo (the Cole Memo) that urged federal prosecutors to refrain from targeting state-legal marijuana operations. [read post]
7 May 2019, 4:34 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
CNN – “Special counsel Robert Mueller’s prosecutors didn’t want former FBI Director James Comey’s memos released because they feared that President Donald Trump and other witnesses could change their stories after reading Comey’s version of events, according to an argument they made in a January 2018 sealed court hearing. [read post]
4 May 2019, 11:50 am by Jack Goldsmith
I’ve been in a cave for several weeks crashing to complete my new book, and am only now emerging to read Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report and the commentary on it. [read post]
3 May 2019, 7:04 am by Jonathan Shaub
The administration faced the same problem when former FBI Director Comey agreed to testify voluntarily. [read post]
2 May 2019, 7:13 am
One of Banksy’s famous images is of a girl looking at a bluebird...MORE: I think what I remembered as "rots your brain" was really "eats your soul," and people were saying that on TV as a result of the James Comey op-ed that had run in the NYT that morning:[P]roximity to an amoral leader reveals something depressing. [read post]
29 Apr 2019, 7:58 pm by Riana Pfefferkorn
” As Gizmodo summarized, in the view of Wray and his colleagues and predecessors such as James Comey, “the tech industry’s best and brightest are just being recalcitrant and could offer up a golden key for law enforcement to access encrypted communications if they really wanted to. [read post]
29 Apr 2019, 11:34 am by Scott R. Anderson
On the morning of April 18, just hours before the long-awaited release of the Mueller report, Attorney General William Barr convened a press conference to reiterate what he viewed as the report’s “bottom line”: that the special counsel had failed to find sufficient evidence to show that President Trump or his campaign had colluded with Russia or obstructed subsequent investigations. [read post]
21 Apr 2019, 11:32 am by Quinta Jurecic
Firing of James Comey Obstructive act (p. 74): “Firing Comey would qualify as an obstructive act if it had the natural and probable effect of interfering with or impeding the investigation. [read post]
19 Apr 2019, 2:20 pm by Mark Graber
On January 27, the day after the President was told that Flynn had lied to the Vice President and had made similar statements to the FBI, the President invited FBI Director [James] Comey to a private dinner at the White House and told Comey that he needed loyalty. [read post]
The first episode of possible obstruction of justice the report discusses is Trump’s conduct involving his first national security adviser, Michael Flynn, and FBI Director James Comey. [read post]
“Really the best day since he got elected,” said Kellyanne Conway, the president’s counselor, about a day on which 400 pages dropped into the public’s lap describing relentless presidential misconduct and serial engagements between his campaign and a foreign actor. [read post]
18 Apr 2019, 12:41 pm by Lev Sugarman
Editor’s Note: Below are the executive summaries of the two volumes of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's final report. [read post]