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7 Sep 2020, 10:04 am by Paul Rosenzweig, Vishnu Kannan
As the U.S. begins to see the light at the end of the Trumpian tunnel, it is time to begin thinking about the issue of repair. [read post]
10 Aug 2020, 5:25 am by Tom Smith
When Attorney General William Barr told the Senate last year that he believed spying did occur, he was lambasted in the media, including by James Comey and others involved in that investigation. [read post]
31 Jul 2020, 9:40 am by Tom Smith
Still, the wrongdoing at James Comey’s FBI and John Brennan’s CIA was serious, as the news this week amply demonstrates. [read post]
23 Jul 2020, 1:51 pm by Scott R. Anderson, Benjamin Wittes
Using that data, we were able to show a major drop in rank-and-file confidence in FBI leadership following the FBI’s controversial role in the 2016 elections and the even more controversial 2017 removal of former Director James Comey. [read post]
17 Jul 2020, 6:11 am by China Law Blog
by Linda Weiss; and The Entrepreneurial State by Mariana Mazzucato Jonathan – A Higher Loyalty by James Comey and The Room Where It Happened by John Bolton Fred – What Fiona Hill Learned in the White House (The New Yorker) by Adam Entous and Noel Philips’ trip reports. [read post]
9 Jul 2020, 6:58 am by Jack Goldsmith, Nathaniel Sobel
In May 2019, Attorney General William Barr tapped Connecticut’s U.S. [read post]
14 Jun 2020, 12:26 pm by Marty Lederman
  On Thursday, the Committee voted 12-10 along party lines to authorize Committee Chair Lindsey Graham to unilaterally issue subpoenas related to this Judiciary Committee "oversight" investigation, including to 53 specifically named current and former officials from the FBI, DOJ and the Intelligence Community:  Trisha Anderson, Brian Auten, James Baker, William Barr, Dana Boente, Jennifer Boone, John Brennan, James Clapper, Kevin Clinesmith, James… [read post]
13 Jun 2020, 1:28 pm by Angela Mauroni
” The committee also authorized subpoenas for “documents and communications related to, and the testimony at a hearing or deposition of any current or former executive branch official or employee involved in, the Crossfire Hurricane investigation,” and documents related to these hearings or investigations between individuals such as former US Attorney General Loretta Lynch, former FBI director James Comey, and former National Security Advisor Susan Rice. [read post]
13 Jun 2020, 6:05 am
We are told the Most Important Thing Ever is happening for days or weeks at a time, until subjects are abruptly dropped and forgotten, but the tone of warlike emergency remains: from James Comey’s firing, to the deification of Robert Mueller, to the Brett Kavanaugh nomination, to the democracy-imperiling threat to intelligence 'whistleblowers,' all those interminable months of Ukrainegate hearings (while Covid-19 advanced), to fury at the death wish of lockdown… [read post]
4 Jun 2020, 7:37 am by Benjamin Wittes
The occasional hearing at which to denounce James Comey and all his works is like comfort food. [read post]
2 Jun 2020, 9:00 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
Yet I started writing about this even before Trump rode Russian interference and James Comey’s irresponsible grandstanding into an improbable Electoral College victory in 2016.I say this not to pat myself on the back, because if ever the disclaimer “I hope that I’m wrong about this, but . . . [read post]
20 May 2020, 9:10 am by Elliot Setzer
The email says that then-FBI director James Comey worried about sharing classified information with the Trump team because of Michael Flynn’s frequent conversations with the Russian ambassador, but that Comey had no knowledge of Flynn sharing classified information with the Russian envoy. [read post]
In the wake of Attorney General William Barr’s unprecedented decision to drop the Department of Justice’s years-long prosecution of former Trump national security advisor Michael Flynn, many are asking: Is this the end of the case? [read post]
14 May 2020, 10:14 am by Elliot Setzer
Three Republican senators yesterday made public a declassified list of U.S. officials—including former vice president Joe Biden and former FBI director James Comey—who made requests that would ultimately “unmask” Trump adviser Michael Flynn in intelligence documents in 2016 and 2017, reports the Washington Post. [read post]
9 May 2020, 9:27 am by Tom Smith
“President Obama said he wants to be sure that, as we engage with the incoming team, we are mindful to ascertain if there is any reason that we cannot share information fully as it relates to Russia,” National Security Advisor Susan Rice wrote in an unusual email to herself about the meeting that was also attended by Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates, FBI Director James Comey, and Vice President Joe Biden. [read post]
It portrays FBI Director James Comey as insubordinate to a hapless Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates; and it portrays FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page as scheming villains. [read post]
1 May 2020, 12:32 pm by Quinta Jurecic, Benjamin Wittes
Over the last few days, the president’s supporters have taken a brief break from COVID-19, the economic collapse, and the 2020 presidential campaign to fixate anew on the case of General Michael Flynn. [read post]
1 May 2020, 7:49 am by Tom Smith
Previously undisclosed documents in the case of former national security adviser Michael Flynn offer us a chilling blueprint on how top FBI officials not only sought to entrap the former White House aide but sought to do so on such blatantly unconstitutional and manufactured grounds.These new documents further undermine the view of both the legitimacy and motivations of those investigations under former FBI director James Comey. [read post]
10 Apr 2020, 1:04 pm by Dianne Feinstein
Most notably, the president fired FBI Director James Comey for overseeing an investigation of Russian political interference during the 2016 presidential election. [read post]