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16 Nov 2017, 10:10 am by Vanessa Sauter
Dianne Feinstein, ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, asked for documents related to any possible participation of  Jared Kushner in the dismissals of former FBI Director James Comey and former national security adviser Lt. [read post]
12 Nov 2017, 6:52 am by John Floyd
  Third Undisclosed Meeting with Russian Ambassador   In a June 8, 2017 appearance before Congress, former FBI Director James Comey refuted Sessions’ denials by telling the Senate Intelligence Committee that the attorney general may have had a third, undisclosed meeting with Kislyak at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, D.C. in April 2016. [read post]
10 Nov 2017, 1:44 pm by Susan Hennessey, Benjamin Wittes
Finally, there’s the matter of what all of this means for President Trump, who famously asked then-FBI Director James Comey to back off of the Flynn investigation in the period before he then fired Comey. [read post]
This difference in public confidence comes against a backdrop of ongoing speculation about whether Department of Justice political appointees will interfere with or adequately protect the Mueller investigations, and it comes as well against a backdrop of James Comey’s firing as FBI director after refusing to back off the Russia probe. [read post]
7 Nov 2017, 11:54 am by John Floyd
  Mueller Appointed as Special Counsel by Trump Administration   After Trump fired former FBI Director James Comey in May 2017, Deputy Attorney General Rod J. [read post]
29 Oct 2017, 5:12 pm by Tom Smith
Mueller, whose office is apparently leaking the “secret” news that a grand jury has approved charges against an unidentified defendant, assumed his role with one big conflict, his relationship with his successor at the FBI, James Comey. [read post]
28 Oct 2017, 3:09 pm by Susan Hennessey, Benjamin Wittes
Specifically, it appears that the obstruction of justice investigation begun when FBI Director James Comey was fired is in all likelihood not advanced enough to be producing indictments yet—if it ever will. [read post]
26 Oct 2017, 4:00 am by Daniel Richman
In an effort to avoid refighting the Crypto Wars, and recognizing the value of innovation and the problem with top-down mandates, Rosenstein, like former FBI Director James Comey, took pains not to demand any particular solution, looking only for some key management technique or other arrangement that the government could require the provider to draw on. [read post]
25 Oct 2017, 10:26 am by Tom Smith
(The "salacious and unverified" description comes from former FBI Director James Comey.) [read post]
19 Oct 2017, 12:41 pm by Vanessa Sauter
The attorney general refused to disclose any details of his private conversations with President Trump concerning former FBI Director James Comey’s dismissal. [read post]
18 Oct 2017, 9:00 pm by CAFE
Preet talks to Benjamin Wittes of Lawfare about the firing of FBI director James Comey, why President Trump should be impeached, and exactly how, given the chance, Wittes would sidekick Vladimir Putin in the chest. [read post]
18 Oct 2017, 9:07 am by Garrett Hinck
The investigators asked Spicer about the circumstances of Trump’s firing of James Comey and Trump’s Oval Office meeting with Russia’s foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, and the Russian ambassador, Sergey Kislyak. [read post]
15 Oct 2017, 1:54 pm by Allan Blutstein
Exam'r, Oct 14, 2017 Government lawyers asked a judge Friday to deny CNN's request to force the FBI to publicly disclose former FBI Director James Comey's memos documenting his interactions with President Trump about the Russia investigation.The news network made the case in a lawsuit filed with the U.S. [read post]
13 Oct 2017, 11:30 am
”  Reportedly asked then-FBI Director James Comey to jail reporters who publish classified information. [read post]
12 Oct 2017, 2:59 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
In that regard, it is material that former FBI Director James Comey interpreted the president’s “hope” that he would drop the investigation into Flynn as an instruction to drop the case. [read post]
Fourth and finally, Kohse and Wittes contend that some evidence—such as President Trump’s May 12 tweet suggesting that James Comey “better hope there are no ‘tapes’” of their conversations—could prove exculpatory rather than incriminatory because they reflect President Trump’s intent to keep Comey honest. [read post]
11 Oct 2017, 4:30 am by Bob Bauer
James Madison also worried about the elevation of “unworthy” leaders who would have “very great powers” and against whom the polity should be “effectually guarded. [read post]
10 Oct 2017, 2:55 pm by Emma Kohse, Benjamin Wittes
But the public record contains substantial evidence that President Trump attempted to impede the investigations of Michael Flynn and Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, including by firing FBI Director James Comey. [read post]
10 Oct 2017, 2:55 pm by Emma Kohse, Benjamin Wittes
But the public record contains substantial evidence that President Trump attempted to impede the investigations of Michael Flynn and Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, including by firing FBI Director James Comey. [read post]