Hypocrisy much? Left & right slam Comey’s ‘shot clock’ oped about Kavanaugh FBI probe

Former FBI director James Comey has piped up about the bureau’s investigation into Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, saying it is “idiotic” to have a “shot clock.” His critics, both left and right, were not amused. The FBI opened a background investigation into Kavanaugh – his seventh – on Friday, after the White House humored […]

Andrew McCabe memo recalls conversation with Rod Rosenstein in which the deputy attorney general reportedly revealed Trump wanted him to mention Russia in statement on James Comey’s firing

Alex Wong/Getty Images Former deputy FBI director Andrew McCabe documented a conversation with deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein, in which Rosenstein reportedly indicated President Donald Trump wanted him to mention Russia in a statement on the firing of then-FBI director James Comey. Rosenstein pointed to Comey’s handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation as the […]

Text messages between 2 FBI employees show how they reacted to Comey’s firing and Mueller’s appointment as special counsel in the Russia investigation

The once-missing text messages between two former FBI employees were released to Congress on Thursday. The text messages — which span December 2016 through May 2017 — are between FBI special agent Peter Strzok and FBI counsel Lisa Page, who were in an ongoing, intimate relationship. Many of the text messages in the 49-page release are shorthand and are […]

Top Republicans demand Rosenstein turn over copies of James Comey’s memos about Trump

REUTERS/James Lawler Duggan Top Republican leaders demanded the Justice Department “immediately” release memos that former FBI director James Comey wrote about his conversations with President Donald Trump. Those memos are now a part of the obstruction of justice case special counsel Robert Mueller is reportedly building around Trump. The Republican lawmakers said there was “no […]

The Republican Party is piling onto an effort to discredit James Comey’s upcoming book

AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta The Republican Party threw cold water on former FBI director James Comey’s upcoming memoir. The Republican National Committee’s official Twitter account tweeted a mock-up of Comey’s book cover with a title that reads “A Higher Loyalty to Me, Myself, and I,” with some quotes criticizing him. The actual title to Comey’s […]

Trump calls Comey’s treatment of Clinton email probe ‘obviously a fix,’ calls for Justice Department to investigate

Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP The FBI recently confirmed that former FBI Director James Comey drafted a letter exonerating Hillary Clinton in the 2016 probe into her use of a private email server. Trump tweeted Wednesday that the investigation was “obviously a fix,” and called on the Justice Department to investigate. Trump fired Comey after becoming president, and is […]

Trump blasts Comey’s exoneration of Clinton as part of a ‘rigged system’

AP Photo/Alex Brandon President Donald Trump responded Friday morning to claims that former FBI Director James Comey began drafting a statment recommending against charging then-presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in a probe on her use of a private email server. “Wow, looks like James Comey exonerated Hillary Clinton long before the investigation was over…and so much […]

FBI releases ex-director Comey’s job performance survey

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has unexpectedly made public the results of a confidential annual employee questionnaire, including a survey on the three year performance of former director James Comey. Covering a three year period from 2015 -2017, the survey evaluated Comey’s flexibility and adaptability, initiative, integrity, resilience, team building and communication skills among other […]

James Comey’s Plan Seems To Have Worked Out Like He Hoped

Former FBI director James Comey testified last week that soon after he was fired in mid-May, he asked a friend to share the contents of a memo in which he described a conversation with President Trump that Comey had found troubling. “Didn’t do it myself, for a variety of reasons,” Comey told the Senate Intelligence […]

A senior Russian lawmaker dismissed Comey’s testimony as a ‘big bubble’

AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko WASHINGTON (AP) — A senior Russian lawmaker has dismissed the testimony of former FBI Director James Comey as insignificant. Comey, who testified before a Senate committee on Thursday, asserted that President Donald Trump had fired him to interfere with an investigation of Russia’s ties to the Trump campaign and reaffirmed the intelligence community’s […]