James Comey

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Former FBI director James Comey endorsed the agency’s capability to impartially investigate allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, writing in a Sunday New York Times op-ed that the bureau is staffed with “people who just want to figure out what’s true.” Such an angle could lead…

His relationship with James Comey could present problems.

Today on the Daily Standard Podcast, Andrew Egger and Jim Swift discuss the latest in the debate over immigration policy and detained children and what to expect from the DOJ Inspector General memo as it pertains to the Mueller Investigation.

Parsing the Inspector General’s report.

He says he’s never been an anonymous source for a news story. Is that true?

Also, the president should think long and hard before sitting down with the special counsel.

A record number of signal-callers goes top-10. Plus: Misleading studio flicks, and breaking down the world one decimal point at a time.

How that might have been the act that got us the special counsel investigation.

Today on the Daily Standard Podcast, editor in chief Stephen F. Hayes joins host Charlie Sykes to discuss the handshake between Moon Jae-in and Kim Jong-un at the DMZ, Bret Baier's interview with former FBI Director James Comey, the fate of Michael Cohen, and Pat Buchanan's troubling curtain call.

Did the former FBI director try to give himself an advantage with the way he categorized his material?

Hosted by Charlie Sykes.

The former FBI director explains himself to a Manhattan audience that wants to like him but can’t forget his handling of Hillary’s emails.

Customers were sparse, but reporters plentiful, at a midnight sale of Jim Comey’s new book.

It's time for the FBI to release them.

When outgoing FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe was fired on the eve of his retirement last month, many Democrats protested that he was being cheated out of his pension for purely political reasons. But the administration’s official line—that McCabe had been fired for “lack of candor” after lying…

Two of the top Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee are calling on former Obama national security adviser Susan Rice to explain an “unusual email” she sent on the day of President Trump’s inauguration.

When the House Intelligence Committee released its memo arguing that the FBI and Department of Justice had abused the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court by using political opposition research as a basis for repeated surveillance requests, James Comey expressed perfectly the inconsistent…

The release of additional texts between FBI agents Peter Strzok and Lisa Page has some outlets reporting that the messages implicate President Obama for interfering in the bureau’s investigation of Hillary Clinton’s email.

If former FBI honcho James Comey’s Twitter feed is anything to judge him by, perhaps President Trump was right to can him—on the basis of his grating social media persona alone.

FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe is stepping down from his post at the FBI, NBC News first reported Monday.

The White House has a new argument for why President Donald Trump fired James Comey earlier this year: The FBI director possibly committed perjury. At her Monday briefing, press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders faced a question about former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon’s recent…

Special Counsel Robert Mueller has obtained a draft of a letter President Donald Trump composed laying out his reasons for firing FBI director James Comey, the New York Times reported Friday.

The Senate confirmed Christopher Wray as the new FBI Director by a 92-5 vote Tuesday, filling the spot left vacant when President Donald Trump fired James Comey in May.

On Wednesday, Christopher Wray, the president’s nominee to head the FBI, swore to maintain the independence and nonpartisanship of the Bureau, with the Trump’s May firing of then-director James Comey fresh in lawmakers’ minds.

The heads of the House Intelligence Committee’s Russia probe are threatening to use their subpoena power if the White House does not respond “appropriately and fully” as to whether it has documentation of conversations between the president and fired FBI director James Comey.

Tweet On Thursday morning, after the Senate Republicans unveiled their version of the bill passed last month in the House of Representatives, four conservative senators expressed their opposition to the bill as written (while leaving open the option to eventually support an amended bill). At least…

President Donald Trump said Thursday that he does not have tapes of his conversations with fired FBI director James Comey Thursday. But the top Democrats overseeing Russia probes in the House and the Senate said the president's statement still left questions unanswered.

The top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee said Sunday that the president is working to discredit and "take down" special counsel Bob Mueller, just as Mueller's probe is beginning.

Newt Gingrich defended President Trump against allegations that Trump's firing of James Comey was a crime. Gingrich's legal interpretation: "the president cannot obstruct justice." I'm not a lawyer, but neither is Newt Gingrich (he holds a Ph.D. in European history), and if I can google some legal…

Today on the Kristol Clear podcast, Democrats may want to impeach President Trump for anything or nothing, and Republicans may want to try to protect him, but Bill Kristol argues it isn't politics that will determine who wins that high-stakes contest, but the outcome of Special Counsel Robert…

The most strident Trump critics have a problem. There's no evidence Jeff Sessions, the attorney general and former Alabama senator, colluded with Russian officials to sway the election toward Donald Trump. This was the implication of questions from Democratic senators at Tuesday's Senate…

Today on the Daily Standard podcast, senior writer Michael Warren recaps Tuesday's Senate Intelligence Committee hearing where Attorney General Jeff Sessions testified about his actions during and after the election.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee Tuesday afternoon on Russia's potential interference in the 2016 election. Sessions also faced questions on President Trump's handling of the James Comey firing, the appointment of special counsel Robert Mueller, and…

Who is running the White House's defense against claims of obstruction of justice and others stemming from the ongoing Russia investigation? From the looks of it, it's Marc Kasowitz, the outside counsel of President Donald Trump.

After a brief and uncharacteristic pause, Donald Trump has unloaded on James Comey. Today on the Daily Standard podcast, editor in chief Stephen Hayes comes by to talk about the President's strategy against his former FBI director.

The fallout from last week's Senate Intelligence committee hearing with former FBI director James Comey continues. The White House—and Donald Trump's new outside counsel Marc Kasowitz—has decided on two messages, each distilled into two of the president's Sunday morning tweets.

This week on the Confab, executive editor Fred Barnes tells host Eric Felten about the rules Trump lives by. And senior writer Michael Warren talks about how living by those rules helped get the president in his Comey mess.

Today on the Kristol Clear podcast, editor at large Bill Kristol talks with Eric Felten about what it means, over the long haul, for Republicans to be the party of Trump. And, who had the worse week, Donald Trump or Theresa May?

Washington is still trying to make sense of James Comey's congressional testimony yesterday. My immediate reaction is here. A very smart lawyer—a friend of THE WEEKLY STANDARD and no fan of Donald Trump—emails this sharp analysis, which questions the reasons for and legitimacy of the special…

Without having to pour a single free drink, the Capitol Hill bar that promised to buy a round every time President Trump tweeted Thursday morning during James Comey's must-watch congressional testimony drew at least 500 customers. That was Union Pub general manager Ashley Saunders's best guess…

What did we learn from James Comey, the fired FBI director, when he testified on June 8 before the Senate Select Intelligence Committee? Not enough to prove Donald Trump committed high crimes and misdemeanors warranting impeachment, as the president's most strident opponents were hoping. Neither…

It's not hard to understand why Donald Trump was frustrated with FBI director James Comey. In the weeks before the inauguration and the weeks that followed, Comey repeatedly told Trump that he was not under investigation as part of the FBI's probe into Russian attempts to influence the 2016…

What did we learn from James Comey, the fired FBI director, when he testified on June 8 before the Senate Select Intelligence Committee? Not enough to prove Donald Trump committed high crimes and misdemeanors warranting impeachment, as the president's most strident opponents were hoping. Neither…

It's not hard to understand why Donald Trump was frustrated with FBI director James Comey. In the weeks before the inauguration and the weeks that followed, Comey repeatedly told Trump that he was not under investigation as part of the FBI's probe into Russian attempts to influence the 2016…

Today's hearing with James Comey contains at least one rather revealing nugget unrelated to the Trump-Russia investigation—that the Obama Justice Department improperly tried to influence the the Clinton email investigation:

A Donald Trump tweet is the reason we have a special counsel investigation into Russia's attempts to influence the 2016 election and possible collusion between Trump associates and Russians, according to testimony from former FBI Director James Comey.

After weeks of anticipation, former FBI director James Comey testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee, speaking publicly for the first time since President Donald Trump fired him last month.

On Wednesday, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence released the prepared opening statement of former FBI director James Comey, kickstarting the most anticipated event in Washington since President Trump's inauguration.

When on the Daily Standard podcast, senior writer Michael Warren and host Eric Felten discuss tomorrow's James Comey testimony today.

Fired FBI director James Comey will testify on Thursday before the Senate Intelligence Committee about his dealings with President Trump, the FBI's investigation into Russia's interference in the U.S. election.

Is Jeff Sessions on his way out? That would be a reasonable interpretation of White House press secretary Sean Spicer's cautious response to a question during Tuesday's press briefing. Asked whether President Donald Trump still has "confidence" in his attorney general, Spicer said, "I have not had…

South Carolina senator Lindsey Graham suggested Friday that a planned hearing next week with former FBI director James Comey could descend into a political "hit job" if the director focuses only on reported conversations between him and the president.

Lionel Shriver is a novelist who is controversial in the literary world for her withering criticism of "cultural appropriation." It's the notion that if you belong to one ethnic, racial, or gender group, you're barred from writing fiction with characters from another group. If you're Asian, for…

"Does anyone remember when Donald Trump wasn't president?" Senator Roy Blunt (D-Missouri) asked the audience recently at a Capitol Hill seminar sponsored by the law firm Baker-Hostettler.

Today on the Daily Standard podcast, editor at large William Kristol wraps up the week in Trump, from the Comey memo to President Trump's "nut job" comment to the Russians. Is there a team who can turn this around for Trump? And if so, would he listen?

The fish, as they say, rots from the head first. And Donald J. Trump is the head of the executive branch. It's not that the U.S. government isn't beset by innumerable problems and systemic dysfunction. But in the here and now, Donald Trump is the problem. The president is the dysfunction.

Former FBI director James Comey will testify publicly before the Senate Intelligence Committee after Memorial Day, the panel's chairman and ranking member announced Friday evening.

On the same day Donald Trump called his deputy attorney general's letter about James Comey a "recommendation" for termination, Rod Rosenstein told senators in private that he assembled the document at the president's request only after Trump decided to fire the FBI director.

Washington greeted the news that the Justice Department had named Robert Mueller special counsel to oversee the FBI's investigation of Russian meddling in the 2016 election with a collective sigh of relief. The speed and intensity of events and developments about this interference—and the…

Washington greeted the news that the Justice Department had named Robert Mueller special counsel to oversee the FBI's investigation of Russian meddling in the 2016 election with a collective sigh of relief. The speed and intensity of events and developments about this interference—and the…

The fish, as they say, rots from the head first. And Donald J. Trump is the head of the executive branch. It's not that the U.S. government isn't beset by innumerable problems and systemic dysfunction. But in the here and now, Donald Trump is the problem. The president is the dysfunction.

Robert Mueller—the former FBI director who on Wednesday was appointed by the Department of Justice as a special prosecutor to investigate Russian meddling in the 2016 election, and possible collusion with Trump campaign associates—loves to prosecute.

Today on the Daily Standard podcast, editor in chief Stephen F. Hayes updates us on the latest details of the fallout resulting from the firing of FBI director James Comey.

"I hope you can let this go," Donald Trump is reported to have said in a private conversation with James Comey. The president was apparently asking the then-FBI director to put the kibosh on the bureau's investigation into former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn. The reported quote is said…

Speaker Paul Ryan committed the House Wednesday to "follow the facts wherever they may lead" in response to a growing briar patch of allegations against the Trump White House, including a report that the president discouraged James Comey from continuing an investigation of former national security…

The pressure to respond to a constant stream of Trump administration controversies appears to be taking its toll on congressional Republicans. Strain began to show on Capitol Hill Tuesday even before the New York Times reported that President Donald Trump asked James Comey in February to end the…

Does the president have recordings of the conversations he had with James Comey? It's a question the White House has had to deal with since Friday morning, when President Trump tweeted a vague threat of sorts to the man he had ousted as FBI director. "James Comey better hope that there are no…

Arizona senator John McCain says the mounting controversies surrounding the Trump administration are reaching the level of Watergate.

Texas senator John Cornyn, a Republican member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, took himself out of the running for FBI director on Tuesday.

The headlines I saw said that only 29 percent of Americans approve of President Trump's decision to fire James Comey. That includes the headline written by NBC News about its own poll, which produced that result.

The three people involved in effecting the termination of FBI director James Comey last week were President Donald Trump and the two highest officers in the Justice Department, Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. The Constitution vests in Trump the executive…

Editor at large William Kristol joins the Washington Examiner's Hugo Gurdon and Byron York to discuss the firing of FBI director James Comey.

In this episode of THE WEEKLY STANDARD Confab, Fred Barnes and Michael Warren discuss the James Comey firing fire-storm. Andrew Ferguson reports on the lurch to the left in Virginia's Democratic gubernatorial primary. And Ethan Epstein on the lurch to the left in the presidency of South Korea.

Today on the Daily Standard podcast, editor at large William Kristol discusses his recent editorial and how the Comey firing and its after effects have changed the political climate profoundly in just a few days. Talk of Trump not finishing his term isn't just a punchline any more.

The firing of FBI director James Comey was a long time coming, to hear the insiders of the Trump administration tell it. But the final actions that put it in motion took place over the course of slightly more than 24 hours—light speed by government standards, and the hastiness and improvisation…

President Donald Trump fired James Comey just as the FBI director moved to expand and intensify the bureau's counterintelligence investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and the possible collusion of Trump advisers in those efforts.

The three people involved in effecting the termination of FBI director James Comey last week were President Donald Trump and the two highest officers in the Justice Department, Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. The Constitution vests in Trump the executive…

The firing of FBI director James Comey was a long time coming, to hear the insiders of the Trump administration tell it. But the final actions that put it in motion took place over the course of slightly more than 24 hours—light speed by government standards, and the hastiness and improvisation…

Among the swirling parts of the controversy over President Trump's firing of FBI director James Comey, there's one that matters most. It stands in the way of the naming of a special prosecutor, the creation of a bipartisan, joint House-Senate committee to investigate the Trump-Russia connection, or…

Today on the Daily Standard podcast, senior writer Michael Warren analyzes the various reporting regarding the firing of FBI director Jim Comey. What have we learned? Nothing.

Acting FBI director Andrew McCabe was on Capitol Hill Thursday nominally to discuss worldwide threats, but that did not stop him from facing questions about reaction within the bureau to the dismissal of James Comey. McCabe said that the vast majority of FBI employees did not lose confidence in…

Bloomberg is reporting that President Trump is considering former Rep. Mike Rogers to replace James Comey as FBI director. Rogers is a former FBI agent; by the end of his seven terms in Congress he was the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee. Bloomberg's report suggest that Rogers "would…

Why did President Trump fire James Comey? The initial explanation offered by the administration on Tuesday night was that the FBI director had mishandled the investigation of Hillary Clinton's private email server, dating back to a public appearance by Comey back in July 2016—10 months ago. It had…

Today on the Daily Standard podcast, editor at large William Kristol weighs in on Donald Trump's firing of FBI director Jim Comey.

The Senate Intelligence committee investigation into Russian election interference may face a few procedural bumps but will ultimately be brought to fruition despite the Trump administration's firing of FBI director James Comey, Republican committee members said Wednesday.

Tuesday at the White House began with an almost unusual stillness, with President Trump having no public appearances on his schedule. Trump met with aides, received his daily intelligence briefing, and tweeted a series of criticisms of his former acting attorney general. A normal morning, really.

In the wake of President Trump's surprise firing of FBI director James Comey, Democrats are redoubling their calls for an independent investigation into Russian election interference, including any potential ties between the Trump campaign and Russi.

President Trump has fired the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. In a statement, White House press secretary Sean Spicer said James Comey has been "terminated and removed from office." Spicer also stated that both Attorney General Jeff Sessions and the deputy AG, Rod Rosenstein,…

FBI director James Comey stood by his October decision to inform lawmakers that his agency had discovered new emails linked to the Hillary Clinton investigation, an event that Clinton and her allies continue to charge swayed the election at the last minute. Comey testified Wednesday before the…

The New York Times has a long story about the role FBI chief James Comey played in shaping last year's election. Buried well into the piece is this bombshell:

Where to begin? Monday was jam-packed with news regarding Donald Trump and his administration. Unfortunately the best news for Trump, a solid first day of hearings for his Supreme Court nominee (more on that below), was overshadowed by the appearance of FBI director James Comey and National…

Russia waged a conspicuous campaign to undermine the American political process and will continue attempting to do so in coming years, top intelligence and law enforcement officials told lawmakers Monday.

During hearings with FBI Director James Comey and Adm. Mike Rogers, several Democrats joined ranking member Adam Schiff (D-CA) in claiming that the GOP's platform position on Russia was weakened at this summer's convention. Democrats suggested this weakening was a result of Russia's influence on…

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The New York Times is reporting that President Donald Trump will keep James Comey on as FBI Director for the foreseeable future.

President-elect Donald Trump said he has a "constructive meeting and conversation" with officials in the intelligence community Friday. Trump, who has recently cast doubts publicly about intelligence reports that Russian-supported cyber-attacks tried to influence last November's presidential…

House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi said there should be an investigation into Rudy Giuliani's alleged knowledge of FBI activity in the lead-up to Director James Comey's letter to Congress about the review of additional emails related to the Bureau's investigation of Hillary Clinton.

We mastodons who still receive our daily dose of New York Times when the dead-tree version lands on our doorsteps with a dull thud got a special treat Tuesday, a textbook case of the way "the newspaper of record" goes about its business these days. The front page headline read: "Comey Role Recalls…

Democrats have all but gone to war with FBI director James Comey. Their anger at him comes after Comey sent a letter to Congress last week that announced he would be reopening the investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of a private server as secretary of state. But President Barack Obama, who…

A savvy friend, a lawyer with political and government experience, writes:

Tim Kaine kept returning to one telling word Sunday. Hillary Clinton's running mate appeared on ABC News's This Week and was on-message responding to Friday's news that FBI director James Comey is looking at a new source of emails in Clinton's home-brew server scandal. "This is an unprecedented…

A special edition of editor William Kristol's weekly Kristol Clear podcast on the news that the FBI is again revisiting Hillary's emails, thanks to Anthony Weiner.

Bill Kristol says the Federal Bureau of Investigation and its director, James Comey, should come forward as soon as possible with the nature of their reopened investigation into Hillary Clinton's email server. Joining Cokie Roberts on ABC's Good Morning America Saturday morning, the WEEKLY STANDARD…

The FBI has reopened its investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server as secretary of state after the discovery of new, relevant emails.

The FBI released interview documents of its investigation of Hillary Clinton Friday, providing details of the bureau's probe into the former secretary of state's use of a private email server in conducting official business.

Hillary Clinton restated her claim Friday that the FBI assessed her as "truthful" in investigations into her handling of classified material over a private email server, saying she didn't elaborate enough when she used that characterization during a weekend interview with Fox News.

FBI Director James Comey's choice to recommend against the federal prosecution of former secretary of state Hillary Clinton has spurred no shortage of commentary, to say the least—including THE WEEKLY STANDARD's editorial this week, "Hillary Skates."

Multiple GOP lawmakers led by House speaker Paul Ryan have asked Obama administration officials and introduced legislation to revoke Hillary Clinton's security clearance.

The FBI director's decision not to recommend prosecution of Hillary Clinton for mishandling highly classified information is a bump in the road for Donald Trump's campaign against her—a pretty big bump. It may halt Trump's gradual narrowing of her lead in the general election race, at least for the…

The WEEKLY STANDARD Podcast with senior writer Stephen F. Hayes on FBI Director Comey's press conference on Hillary's private email server.

The director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation offered an assessment of the investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server as secretary of state Tuesday. Many of his conclusions contradicted Clinton's often-repeated assertions and criticized the former secretary of state…

President Obama says Hillary Clinton "could not have been more diligent" as secretary of state in a video her campaign released mere hours after FBI director James Comey accused her of being "extremely careless" in her handling of classified materials during her tenure.

The director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation says that while there is evidence Hillary Clinton and her State Department aides violated statutes with regard to her privately held email server, the Bureau will not be recommending the Department of Justice prosecute the former secretary of…