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“Everybody who disagrees with me has to come back to Oct. 28 with me and stare at this and tell me what you would do,” he said. “Would you speak or would you conceal? And I could be wrong, but we honestly made a decision between those two choices.”
Mr. Comey acknowledged the toll that decision had taken.
“Even in hindsight — and this has been one of the world’s most painful experiences — I would make the same decision,” he said.
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“Everybody who disagrees with me has to come back to Oct. 28 with me and stare at this and tell me what you would do,” he said. “Would you speak or would you conceal? And I could be wrong, but we honestly made a decision between those two choices.”
Mr. Comey acknowledged the toll that decision had taken.
“Even in hindsight — and this has been one of the world’s most painful experiences — I would make the same decision,” he said.
2. Trump’s Twitter Complaint
Mr. Comey pushed back against President Trump’s contention on Twitter that he “was the best thing that ever happened to Hillary Clinton in that he gave her a free pass for many bad deeds!”
Mr. Comey said that was not his intention.
“I believe what I said: There was not a prosecutable case there,” he said.
Mr. Trump made the assertion late Tuesday. Hours earlier, Mrs. Clinton said at a Women for Women International event in New York that if the election had been held before Mr. Comey sent his letter to Congress, “I would be your president.”
3. Silence on Russia Investigation
Mr. Comey repeatedly refused to answer questions about the F.B.I.’s investigation into possible links between Mr. Trump’s associates and the Russian government.
But he said that the Russian government was still trying to influence American politics. Russia is “the greatest threat of any nation on Earth given their intention and capability,” he said.
4. Rudolph Giuliani and F.B.I. Leaks
Lawmakers also asked Mr. Comey about leaks to journalists and others about the investigation of Mrs. Clinton. As part of that back-and-forth, he tacitly acknowledged that the F.B.I. was looking into what former Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani of New York, who was a close adviser to Mr. Trump’s campaign, knew in the days before the election.
In October, Mr. Giuliani said on Fox News that the Trump campaign had “a couple of surprises left” about Mrs. Clinton. Three days later, Mr. Comey revealed the reopened investigation. Mr. Giuliani later acknowledged that he had known about the new materials the F.B.I. had seized that prompted Mr. Comey to notify Congress.
On Wednesday, Senator Patrick J. Leahy, Democrat of Vermont, asked Mr. Comey whether anyone at the F.B.I. had been in contact with Mr. Giuliani during the campaign and discussed the investigation with him.
“I don’t know yet,” Mr. Comey said. “But if I find out that people were leaking information about our investigations, whether to reporters or private parties, there will be severe consequences.”
Investigating Mr. Giuliani — who was sharply critical of Mr. Comey’s decision to recommend that Mrs. Clinton not be charged with a crime for how she handled classified materials — puts Mr. Comey in an awkward position. When he was a young prosecutor in New York, Mr. Giuliani was his boss.
5. A Push to Renew a Surveillance Law
In both his prepared testimony and his answers to questions, Mr. Comey repeatedly returned to another hotly debated topic, but one separate from the election: the government’s warrantless surveillance program.
Its authorizing law, Section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act, is set to expire at the end of 2017 unless Congress extends it, and Mr. Comey urged lawmakers to act.
Section 702 permits the government to collect, without a warrant, phone calls and emails of noncitizens abroad from American telecommunications and internet companies. Congress enacted it in 2008 to legalize the National Security Agency’s warrantless surveillance program, created after the Sept. 11 attacks, and the F.B.I. has played a growing role in using and administering it.
“We can’t lose 702,” Mr. Comey said.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny said on Thursday that authorities in Russia were stopping him going abroad to seek urgent medical treatment after an attack that left him mostly blind in one eye.
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Donald Trump’s election collusion scandal with Russia is back firmly in the spotlight this week, thanks to the quickening pace this week of witness testimony in Congress – but it’s far from the only major scandal which Trump is facing. In fact things are now so stacked against Trump that a leader of the influential Senate Intelligence Committee is saying that Trump will probably be ousted.
That’s the word coming from Senator Mark Warner, the Democratic ranking member on the Senate Intel Committee, according to a fascinating new expose from the New Yorker. It quotes the mild mannered Warner as having privately told friends that the odds are “two to one against” Donald Trump completing his full term (link). In other words, he believes Trump will probably be ousted.
As the ranking member, Senator Warner has access to a level of classified information that no one else on the committee beyond Republican chairman Richard Burr has gotten to see – and my own expectation is that he’s basing his prediction on what he’s seen but can’t yet reveal. On some level this echoes the reaction from Senator Dianne Feinstein, the ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, who seemed stunned nearly speechless after she received a classified briefing on Trump-Russia several weeks ago (link). In other words, the people who have learned the most about the depth of Trump’s actions seem the most convinced that he’s a goner.
That process, of course, is not advancing nearly as swiftly as many among the anti-Trump general public would like to see. But investigations into a sitting President, and in particular the impeachment and ouster of a President, are meant to be a slow process by design – in order to prevent a corrupt Congress from using a phony scandal to swiftly oust a legitimate President. But while the process of ousting Donald Trump is a long one, the people in the know – such as Mark Warner – are predicting that it’ll happen. And the further the investigation and scandal progress, the less able Trump will be to carry out his political agenda in real world terms. Help fund Palmer Report
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