Fired FBI Director James Comey turned down an invitation to be interviewed by the Senate Intelligence Committee next week, according to that panel’s leading Democrat.
Asked on MSNBC Friday afternoon if he believed it was “critical” to speak to Comey, Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) affirmed that it was, but said “he won’t be testifying on Tuesday” as he was invited to do.
“I have enormous respect for Jim Comey and I believe at the appropriate time and place, he will tell his side of the story,” Warner continued. “And my hope is that will be in front of our committee.”
Trump unceremoniously fired Comey late Tuesday afternoon. His administration first cited a recommendation from Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who was sharply critical of Comey’s controversial handling of the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server, before Trump revealed that he made the decision to fire Comey unilaterally.
The FBI and House and Senate Intelligence Committees are all conducting investigations into Russia’s interference in the U.S. presidential election, including possible collusion between Russian operatives and Trump campaign officials.
Feeling so torn about this. Hoping for eleventy dimensional chess by James Comey, but then I think of that damn leaked letter he sent to Chaffetz last fall. And the way the press pounced on that. So yeah, torn.
But I hear from the internet rumor mills™ that he’s very good about keeping his own paper trail. Between that and the need to lawyer up, he’s got some things to do to line up his ducks in a row.
Being hot the trail of an investigation into DJT, then fired in obstruction of justice, then threatened, I find myself rooting for him. Mostly I’m rooting for US. The nation, the republic, for democracy.
I don’t.
“Wonderful thing, a subpoena”.
What I wouldn’t give for that particular power, you have no idea.
From what movie is that still? It looks familiar, but I can’t place it.
Absence of Malice