By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com If Americans were given a choice who they’d like to have a one-on-one dinner with, fired FBI Director James Comey would be pretty high on that list for many. Well, the next best thing to that would be to hear Comey publicly testify before Congress. That’s now expected to happen. Comey…
Ross Parker was chief of the criminal division in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Detroit for 8 years and worked as an AUSA for 28 in that office. By Ross Parker ticklethewire.com President Trump is a media magnet, for better or worse. Debates on public policy and personal peccadilloes whirl so fast that it seems…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Two high-profile prospects for the FBI director job have signaled they don’t want it, reports Reuters. Advisers to Judge Merrick Garland and Sen. John Cornyn said they discouraged them from seeking the post, cautioning that they would be leaving important, secure jobs for one fraught with politics and controversy, reports Reuters. Nominating…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com In a tweet the other day, President Donald Trump suggested fired FBI Director James Comey be careful about leaking information to the press because he just might have tape recordings. Well, Comey has appeared to do one better: He apparently has notes of conversations with the president, and Aaron Blake of…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com There are many critics who think President Donald Trump should never have fired FBI Director James Comey. Then there’s folks like Michael Walsh, an author, screenwriter and contributing editor at PJ Media, who thinks Comey should have been fired by President Barack Obama. In a column in the New York Post,…
President Trump’s suggestion that he may have been recording conversations between himself and former FBI Director James Comey have prompted several senators to call on the president to disclose any related documentation.
Lawmakers are pleading with President Trump to avoid appointing any politicians to replace FBI Director James Comey.
If President Trump thought firing FBI Director James Comey would rein in the bureau’s robust federal investigation of ties between Russia and Trump’s campaign, the billionaire-turned-political newcomer made a terrible, potentially fateful miscalculation.
