ACLU Files FOIA Request For Docs On Comey Firing

FBI Director James Comey adddresses the Intelligence and National Security Alliance Leadership Dinner in Alexandria, Va., Wednesday, March 29, 2017. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)
FBI Director James Comey speaks to the Intelligence and National Security Alliance Leadership Dinner in Alexandria, Va., Wednesday, March 29, 2017. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)
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The ACLU announced Monday that it had filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the Justice Department and FBI for records related to Donald Trump’s abrupt firing of former FBI Director James Comey.

“White House interference with any FBI investigation is incompatible with democratic safeguards, and that’s especially the case when the investigation involves the President or his associates,” the director of the group’s National Security Project, Hina Shamsi, said in a statement. “Political meddling with law enforcement investigations is a recipe for abuse of power.”

She added: “It’s impossible to know the truth right now because the Trump administration has issued shifting explanations, each of which is increasingly troubling.”

Read the ACLU’s request below:

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  1. Good for them
    We sure need them for our eyes and ears (and lawyers)
    I contributed , and if you haven’t consider it
    Fighting for us

  2. FOIA on Comey. “Requests” for financial records from Manafort. NY State and City investigation of Trump properties.

    This week is starting off well.

  3. Avatar for darcy darcy says:

    Yea, but what comes after “Requests” as Manafort is a slick operator.

    Is ‘listen motherfucker’ next?

  4. No proably
    " We have the goods on you Manafort and you are facing 20 to life in a federal lockup Is there anything you might like to discuss with us in exchange for favorable sentencing"

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