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While the President has the legal authority to remove the Director of the FBI, I am disappointed in the President’s decision to remove James Comey from office. James Comey is a man of honor and integrity, and he has led the FBI well in extraordinary circumstances. I have long called for a special congressional committee to investigate Russia’s interference in the 2016 election. The president’s decision to remove the FBI Director only confirms the need and the urgency of such a committee.
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Hello and welcome to our live coverage of fallout from president Donald Trump’s firing on Tuesday of FBI director James Comey.
The White House has said, in a series of official letters, that Comey was fired for mishandling an investigation of Hillary Clinton’s emails. But that explanation is the object of intense skepticism this morning, with critics claiming that Trump has attacked the independence of the justice department and the rule of law, either out of personal anger or impulsiveness, or out of a desire to protect himself or his associates from the law.
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The Rosenstein memo is dated...today. So there was no real recommendation from DOJ. Trump wanted to do it, and they created a paper trail.
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I am troubled by the timing and reasoning of Director Comey’s termination.
While the President has the legal authority to remove the Director of the FBI, I am disappointed in the President’s decision to remove James Comey from office. James Comey is a man of honor and integrity, and he has led the FBI well in extraordinary circumstances. I have long called for a special congressional committee to investigate Russia’s interference in the 2016 election. The president’s decision to remove the FBI Director only confirms the need and the urgency of such a committee.
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Voice of America: Trump Defends Decision to Fire FBI Directorby webdesk@voanews.com (Steve Herman)
U.S. President Donald Trump is defending his move to fire FBI Director James Comey, saying he lost the confidence of "everyone in Washington, Republican and Democrat alike." In a series of Wednesday morning tweets, Trump said Comey "will be replaced by someone who will do a far better job, bringing back the spirit and prestige of the FBI." Critics of the move to dismiss Comey have said it raises questions about the FBI's probe into Russian meddling in the November presidential election and possible collusion between Trump campaign aides and Russian interests. Trump, in a blunt letter to Comey Tuesday, told him: “You are hereby terminated and removed from office, effective immediately.” The president added that Comey “is not able to effectively lead the bureau.” U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation directors are appointed for a single 10-year term. Comey was appointed four years ago. Comey was speaking to a group of FBI employees in California when he learned he had been fired. Media reports say he saw mention of his dismissal on TV screens but initially thought it was a prank. So far, he has not made any public statement. The reasons for Comey’s dismissal were outlined in two separate letters written by Attorney General Jeff Sessions and his deputy, Rod Rosenstein. They essentially accused Comey of taking the law into his own hands. Comey “made serious mistakes” handling the conclusion of the investigation of emails of Trump’s general election opponent Hillary Clinton, wrote Rosenstein, accusing the FBI director of usurping the attorney general’s authority when Comey concluded there should be no prosecution of the former secretary of state. It is not clear why Trump took the action Tuesday concerning events that occurred months before he won last November’s presidential election. A Republican member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Lindsey Graham, said “given the recent controversies surrounding the director, I believe a fresh start will serve the FBI and the nation well." But for some other Republican members of Congress the president’s action caused a breach. Richard Burr, chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, said he is "troubled by the timing and reasoning" of the Comey firing. He called the dismissal "a loss for the bureau and the nation." John McCain, a Republican who sits on the Homeland Security and Government Affairs committee, said in a statement that “while the president has the legal authority to remove the director of the FBI, I am disappointed in the president's decision to remove James Comey from office.” Another Republican senator, Jeff Flake, on the Twitter social media network said he “had spent the last several hours trying to find an acceptable rationale for the timing of Comey’s firing. I just can’t do it.” Congressman Justin Amash, a Republican member of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, said on Twitter he is “reviewing legislation to establish an independent commission on Russia” and termed “bizarre” Trump’s reference in the termination letter to Comey noting the FBI director had assured the president repeatedly he was not under investigation. Democratic members of the Senate Judiciary Committee called Trump’s action “Nixonian” — a reference to President Richard Nixon’s firing of officials investigating him during the Watergate scandal in the early 1970s. Democratic Party senators are calling for appointment of a special prosecutor to continue the Justice Department’s investigation into alleged ties between Trump’s presidential campaign last year and Russia. On the Senate floor, Dick Durbin, a Democrat who is a member of the Judiciary Committee, said any attempt to halt or undermine the FBI’s investigation into Russian interference in the presidential campaign “would raise grave constitutional issues.” Sen. Dick Durbin on Comey Firing Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said he told Trump “you’re making a very big mistake” by firing Comey, amid various investigations connected to the president’s 2016 campaign. “Why now?” added Schumer. “Are people going to suspect coverup? Absolutely.” House Minority Leader Charles Schumer statement on Comey firing "The Rosenstein memorandum is based on long-standing principles governing criminal investigations, but the timing - that is so problematic and concerning,” George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley told VOA. Hours after Comey’s firing CNN reported that grand jury subpoenas were recently issued in Alexandria, Virginia relating to the FBI’s Russia probe seeking business records from associates of Michael Flynn, who Trump fired as national security advisor. The subpoenas would be the first known significant escalation of activity in the government investigation into possible connections between the associates of the Trump presidential campaign and Russia. Earlier Tuesday, the FBI notified Congress that Comey overstated a key finding in the investigation of Democrat Hillary Clinton's emails during his congressional testimony last week. It said Comey erred when he told a congressional investigative panel that a Clinton aide, Huma Abedin, had sent "hundreds and thousands" of Clinton's emails from the 2009 to 2013 period she was the U.S. Secretary of State to Abedin's estranged husband, disgraced congressman Anthony Weiner. The actual number was far fewer, officials said. VOA's Pete Heinlein contributed to this report.
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FBI Director James B. Comey said at a hearing last week that it made him “mildly nauseous” to think that he may have influenced the outcome of the 2016 campaign.
New revelations about his apparently botched testimony are liable to make Democrats — and Comey — a little more than mildly nauseous. And they are going to damage Comey's best defense of his actions.
The Post's Devlin Barrett has confirmed ProPublica's reporting that Comey misstated key details of an investigation into Hillary Clinton at a hearing last week.
Specifically at issue are Comey's statements that:
- Top Clinton aide Huma Abedin “forwarded hundreds and thousands of emails” from Clinton's private email server to her husband, former congressman Anthony Weiner, as part of a “regular practice” of forwarding emails for Weiner to print out for Clinton, and …
- These emails contained classified information.
Barrett reports that this first claim is just not true and the second one obscures the fact that the few classified emails weren't marked classified at the time:
Neither of those statements is accurate, according to people close to the investigation. The investigation found that Abedin did occasionally forward emails to her husband for printing, but it was a far smaller number than described by Comey, and it wasn’t a “regular practice,’’ these people said. None of the forwarded emails were marked classified but a small number — a handful, one person said — contained information that was later judged to contain classified information, these people said.
To be clear, these weren't just small details that emerged from Comey's testimony on Wednesday; they were the headline for many new outlets that covered Comey's visit to the Senate Judiciary Committee, including The Post.
They were also key to Comey's testimony, in that he used them to defend his decision to disclose the new Clinton emails just 11 days before Election Day. Facing questions from Democrats about why he did what he did, Comey cited these facts as proof of the seriousness of the email discovery and the need to say something.
Democrats, including Clinton, have decried Comey's decision to offer details of an incomplete investigation so late in the election as pointless, extraordinary and even the difference between Clinton and Donald Trump winning the election. In candid remarks last week, Clinton posited that she would have been elected president if the election had been held Oct. 27 — the day before Comey's announcement.
The reason this is so troubling for Comey is because it calls into question his saving grace in this entire situation: his reputation as a nonpartisan, highly competent top law enforcement official.
Comey's first turn in the national spotlight came in 2007, when he delivered gripping testimony about a scene straight out of a movie. With Attorney General John Ashcroft confined to a bed in the intensive-care unit in 2004, Comey, his deputy, received a call that White House counsel Alberto Gonzales and Chief of Staff Andy Card were on the way to the hospital to persuade the ill Ashcroft to reauthorize President George W. Bush's domestic surveillance program. Comey beat them there, and Ashcroft didn't sign the document.
“I was angry,” Comey testified. “I thought I just witnessed an effort to take advantage of a very sick man, who did not have the powers of the attorney general because they had been transferred to me.”
It was a moment of principle over politics, it seemed, and it has been cited as a key part of Comey's bio ever since.
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Comey would go on to be a bipartisan top political appointee when President Barack Obama picked him as FBI director in 2013. Over the course of the 2016 election, Comey found himself drawing huge amounts of criticism from both Republicans (for not recommending charges against Clinton in summer 2016) and then Democrats (for his late disclosure about the Abedin-Weiner emails). More recently, President Trump seems to have oscillated on how he feels about Comey, with Comey announcing that the FBI is investigating alleged contacts between the Trump campaign and Russia.
Through it all, there has always been an underlying belief among those who pay close attention to these things that Comey is a serious, apolitical public servant who may have made questionable decisions but whose heart was in the right place.
Getting details of such import wrong in his much-watched testimony to Congress certainly doesn't help him on the competence front; indeed, it's difficult to see how he could get them so wrong.
And for Democrats looking for reasons to believe that Comey was out to get them late in 2016, this will only feed the beast — fairly or unfairly.
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Mr. Trump cited Mr. Comey’s handling of the investigation into Mrs. Clinton’s emails in saying he had concluded Mr. Comey was “not able to effectively lead the bureau.” Mr. Comey broke with tradition by announcing last summer that he would not recommend charges for Mrs. Clinton or her aides and criticizing her “extremely careless” handling of classified information.
Then in October, less than two weeks before Election Day, Mr. Comey informed Congress that officers had reopened the investigation based on the new emails found on Mr. Weiner’s computer. Democrats were infuriated by that decision, and Mrs. Clinton said it cost her the election.
Republicans seized on Mr. Comey’s testimony last week as evidence that Ms. Abedin or Mr. Weiner should have been charged for how they handled classified information. Senator Ted Cruz of Texas brought up Mr. Comey’s comments on Monday in another hearing, asking James R. Clapper Jr., the former director of national intelligence, what he would have done if he learned that an employee “had forwarded hundreds or even thousands of emails to a nongovernment individual, their spouse, on a nongovernment computer.”
Mr. Clapper responded that if enough evidence were found, his office would have followed procedure and alerted the Justice Department that a crime was likely committed.
Mr. Comey said at last week’s hearing that the F.B.I. did not believe it had enough evidence to charge anyone with a crime in connection with Mrs. Clinton’s email server because it could not prove Mrs. Clinton or her aides intentionally broke the law.
“We could not prove that the people sending the information, either in that case or in the other case with the secretary, were acting with any kind of the mens rea — with any kind of criminal intent,” Mr. Comey said.
The New York Times noted in its coverage of Mr. Comey’s testimony on Wednesday that he had mischaracterized what the bureau had uncovered. A report late Monday in ProPublica saying that the F.B.I. was struggling to determine how to clarify Mr. Comey’s testimony set off a new round of criticism of his comments.
The investigation into Mrs. Clinton’s use of a private email server was a political liability throughout the 2016 presidential campaign. The case dragged on for months, contributed to Republican criticism that Mrs. Clinton was hiding something and created the spectacle of the Democratic front-runner being interviewed for hours at F.B.I. Headquarters last July.
The F.B.I. seized Mr. Weiner’s computer as part of a separate investigation into whether he had exchanged illicit text messages or photographs with a teenage girl. The bureau found evidence on the laptop that there were emails associated with Mrs. Clinton’s email server, and Mr. Comey gave his officers approval on Oct. 27 to request a search warrant to examine those emails. He informed Congress the next day.
The F.B.I. found nothing that changed its original conclusion not to recommend charges in the case.
In his testimony last week, Mr. Comey said that he felt obligated to inform Congress because he had testified earlier that the investigation had been completed.
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