James Comey

The Russians 'were Unusually Loud In Their Intervention

... knew," he said. Comey suggested that Russia may have wanted the US government to tell the public what Russia was doing, so as to "amplify" its efforts. "Their loudness, in a way, would be counting on us to amplify it by telling the American people what we saw and freaking people out about how the Russians might be undermining our elections successfully," Comey said. Many cybersecurity and Russia experts share the view that the Russian hacking and disinformation campaign throughout the election was highly conspicuous. Digital footprints were left on the Democratic National Committee and John Podesta hacks, which were sloppy and easy to link back to the Kremlin, as state-sponsored Russian news agencies like Russia Today and Sputnik openly backed Donald Trump. American eavesdroppers, meanwhile, reportedly intercepted calls between foreign nationals and Russian officials discussing the presidential campaign — and between Michael Flynn and Russia's ...

Comey Testifies On Fbi's Russia Probe

... GREENE, HOST. The director of the FBI, James Comey, told lawmakers this morning that his agency is investigating possible links between Donald Trump's presidential campaign and Russia. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING). JAMES COMEY: I have been authorized by the Department of Justice to confirm that the FBI, as part of our counterintelligence mission, is investigating the Russian government's efforts to interfere in the 2016 presidential election. And that includes investigating the nature of any links between individuals associated with the Trump campaign and the Russian government and whether there was any coordination between the campaign and Russia's efforts. As with any counterintelligence investigation, this will also include an assessment of whether any crimes were committed. GREENE: All right. That was FBI director Comey in his opening statement before the House ...

How The White House Got James Comey Wrong

... investigation last year. “But I do think I should have been,” he said tersely. He also complained that there was now a “cloud” over the White House, and said that it was “very problematic” that Comey would not disclose whether current Trump officials were under investigation. Nunes, like the White House, tried to distance Trump from any actions taken by his former campaign advisers. “I have no evidence of collusion or conspiracy, especially as it relates to anybody who is in the White House,” he said. “There’s all these extra characters out there who I don’t think really had anything to do with the campaign.” Asked by another reporter about Page and Stone, Nunes claimed, implausibly, that he had never heard of them. But if Nunes seemed concerned it’s because, like the White House and Schiff, he understands that Comey is conducting a wide-ranging inquiry, and that nobody outside the agency knows the extent of it. Someone asked Nunes if Trump himself could be the subject of the F. B. I.’s investigation. Comey had refused to comment when asked the same question earlier during the hearing. “I highly doubt that,” Nunes said. “But you know what? We don’t know everything.”. ...

What You Should Know About The Fbi Director

... column. Comey told the school paper in 2014 that he met his wife Patrice at the college after she nominated him to run for president of the dorm council, saying "That's probably my last experience with elected politics and will be for my entire life." Comey credited his undergraduate education with inspiring him to work in public service. Related: Comey Disclosures Leave Trump Alone on Island of Conspiracy Theories. "What the College taught me was to think well and try to understand other points of view. It really lit a fire in me to do something to help other people," he told The Flat Hat. After graduating from the University of Chicago in 1985, Comey began working two years later as an assistant U. S. attorney in a Manhattan office headed by Rudy Giuliani. Six years later, he moved to Richmond to work as a federal ...

Seth Meyers Thinks James Comey Turned Hillary Clinton Into Arya Stark

... at how numb we all are to Trump-related chaos. To say that the first two months of Donald Trump’s presidency have been chaotic might be putting things mildly. Complications and controversy have dogged Trump’s administration from Day One, and at this point, Seth Meyers has begun to wonder if any Trump-related scandal is even capable of shocking the nation anymore. After all, if F. B. I. director James Comey confirming an investigation into potential links between the Russian government and the president’s campaign won’t do it, what will. “That is a huge, huge deal,” Meyers marveled, “and yet only 60 days into this administration, you hear that, and you’re like, ‘Meh.’ At this point, Melania would have to take Trump on a high-speed chase in a Ford Bronco for us to say, ‘This is unexpected! This is a twist I didn’t see coming!’”. During Meyers’s ...

Trump Aide Roger Stone Declares Innocence After James Comey References Him During Congressional Testimony

... group.” He also argued that “to think that our intelligence community has not been politicized would be naive.” When asked if he believed President Barack Obama had wiretapped Trump Tower during the 2016 election, Stone responded, “I think it is certainly possible and I think we’re going to find out.”. On Monday, Stone reiterated on Alex Jones’ show Info Wars that he is “anxious to rebut allegations that I had any improper or nefarious contact with any agent of the Russia State based on facts not misleading and salacious headlines. Claims of Russian influence or collusion in the Trump Campaign by the Intelligence Community are backed up by ZERO evidence.”. He added, “As I told the Times I am willing to appear voluntarily if the committee isn’t looking for the headline of issuing a subpoena.”. Stone did not reply to requests for comment when Salon mentioned it was ...

Fbi Director James Comey To Testify At Russia Hearing

... Whitehouse, D-Rhode Island, confirmed that they gave Comey until this past Wednesday to inform the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism about whether the FBI is investigating President Trump’s wiretapping claim about Obama. Graham said that if Comey doesn’t provide the information, his subcommittee in the Senate would issue subpoenas. Comey’s hearing also comes after the panel’s leaders, Chairman Devin Nunes, R-California, and Ranking Member Adam Schiff, D-California, said they have not seen any evidence from the Justice Department that supports Mr. Trump’s claim that President Obama had tapped his phones at Trump Tower during the election. The top members of the Senate Intelligence Committee also say that they’ve seen no evidence suggesting Mr. Trump’s phones at Trump Tower were tapped by Obama. The FBI director had previously  briefed leadership in the House and Senate - known as the Gang of Eight - on Mr. Trump’s wiretapping allegations and other national security matters. Meanwhile, Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Maryland, released documents last Thursday that show Mr. Trump’s former ...

Who Is James Comey

... I thought I had just witnessed an effort to take advantage of a very sick man who did not have the powers of the attorney general.”. Jumping to 2016, Comey became a part of the presidential political fray when he recommended no criminal charges against Hillary Clinton regarding her use of a private email server but in an unusual public announcement said, “There is evidence that they were extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information.”. Then came Comey’s October surprise just days before the election when he wrote a letter to members of Congress saying that the investigation had been reopened because of another investigation into disgraced former congressman Anthony Weiner. Comey would soon announce that nothing new was found, but according to the Clinton campaign, the damage had been done, as Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook would describe after the election: “I think it is hard to imagine the kind of impact that that letter had.”. Trump could decide to oust ...

Comey Stands By U.s. Intelligence Assessment That Putin Wanted Trump To Win Election

... the intelligence community reached that assessment. "They wanted to hurt our democracy, hurt her and help him," Comey said, adding that officials had reached that conclusion by December. In part, the FBI and intelligence agencies came to believe that Putin wanted Trump to win because he very much disliked Clinton, Comey said. "Putin hated Secretary Clinton so much that the flip side of that coin was that he had a clear preference for the person running against the person he hated so much," Comey said. Conaway interjected with an anecdote about his wife cheering for the Texas Tech Red Raiders on the football gridiron and wondering whether such an analysis may be too simplistic. "That might work on Saturday afternoon when my wife's Red Raiders are playing the Texas Longhorns," he said. "She really likes the Red Raiders. The logic is because he didn't like candidate Clinton that he automatically liked Trump. That assessment is based on what?". "Well, it's based on more than that," Comey ...