Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Former FBI Director James Comey has tried to reassure his …
CNN — Former FBI Director James Comey pushed back against Attorney General William Barr’s attacks on the FBI’s Russia investigation, arguing on Wednesday that the Justice Department’s efforts to dismiss charges against Trump’s first national security adviser Michael Flynn were “deeply concerning.” “I have no idea what on Earth he is talking about,” Comey said when asked to respond Barr’s …
Attorney General William Barr on Tuesday blasted the conduct of the FBI a day after the release of an inspector general's report that found the Russia probe was properly predicated. His statements came on a day when Trump, who nominated Barr, criticized his own hand-picked FBI director Christopher Wray for his comments accepting the conclusions of a 476-page inspector general's …
Washington CNN — Former FBI Director James Comey said Thursday that “it sure looks like” President Donald Trump had criminal intent to commit obstruction of justice during special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation. At a CNN town hall in Washington, Anderson Cooper asked Comey whether, based on the redacted version of Mueller’s report on Russian interference in the 2016 election, he …
