NPR

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The attorney general has attempted to move the ball forward on the political defense Republicans have adopted for the president. That's apparently not good enough for President Trump.

Futurity

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From his earliest days in the White House, President Donald Trump has inspired some to muse on his perceived similarities to Richard Nixon. But it wasn’t until after President Trump fired FBI director James Comey on May 9—in the midst of an investiga

Los Angeles Times

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Rankings for hard-cover books sold in Southern California, as reported by selected book stores: ___ Nonfiction 1."A Higher Loyalty," by James Comey (Flatiron: $29.99) The former FBI director recounts his two decades in American government, including

Newsweek

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Comey holds himself up as a paragon of apolitical virtue, but critics see a self-righteous hypocrite who makes momentous decisions based on his own image and legacy.

The Guardian

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Despite claims made in her recent book, the news editors at the paper were never hostile to Clinton. The only proof I have is that I was there Jill Abramson is the former executive editor of The New York Times

The Atlantic

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The Trump administration has placed civil servants and nonpolitical government employees in a terrible position. Their job is to provide accurate, nonpartisan information and make decisions grounded in law; sometimes that involves providing testimony

The Atlantic

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Historians of the United States call the FBI director’s firing an extraordinary moment—but not entirely unprecedented.

The Atlantic

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When cabinet officials don’t push back on Trump’s efforts to delegitimize their agencies, they leave their staff frustrated and demoralized.

The Atlantic

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President Trump and his allies have attacked Democrats for not applauding the dismissal of an FBI director they criticized—but their concerns are misplaced.

TIME

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ON THE 11TH SUNDAY OF HIS PRESIDENCY, amid national approval polls as low as 35%, Donald Trump found himself on the back nine of his Virginia golf course, playing a foursome with his old rival Kentucky Senator Rand Paul. The group played to a tie, Pa

TIME

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LESS THAN 24 HOURS BEFORE HE sacked the FBI director, President Trump sat at dinner in the Blue Room sharing his bewilderment at the reactions he evokes. “It’s pretty amazing to me,” he said. “If you can actually make America great again, why would p

The Atlantic

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As a compromise spending bill passes Congress, the White House says the president will commit to signing it, while taking an “executive action” to get funding for his wall

Newsweek

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President Donald Trump seemed to think getting rid of FBI Director James Comey would be a clean kill. He was wrong.

NPR

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The FBI director told members of Congress his greatest fear isn't so much that a foreign nation might achieve some coup, but that too many citizens might no longer trust their own democratic process.

NPR

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House oversight committee Chairman Trey Gowdy wrote a letter to the White House expressing concerns about contradictions between the FBI director and White House officials over security clearances.

The Atlantic

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That was President Trump’s suggestion to NFL players who protest racial injustice. His comments, made in an interview with Fox News, highlight a dissonance in his thinking on free speech.

The Atlantic

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If you’re not worried about FBI Director James Comey getting fired, this man might change your mind.

The Atlantic

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Some are worse than others, though none represents what one would like to see from the Department of Justice.

NPR

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It's too soon to determine whether obstruction of justice laws may have been broken in President Trump's conversations with James Comey. And a D.C. defense lawyer says the key issue is Trump's intent.

The Atlantic

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President Trump criticized London Mayor Sadiq Khan for his remarks in the aftermath of Saturday’s London attack.

WHO

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Four-time Golden Globe nominee Jeff Daniels stars in this riveting two-part drama series, which examines the relationship between former FBI director James Comey (Daniels) and President Donald Trump (Brendan Gleeson). The first few days of Trump’s pr

The Atlantic

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Comey Again: President Trump responded to the upcoming release of a book by James Comey by railing against the former FBI director on Twitter, going so far as to call him an “untruthful slime ball.” Such comments appeared to confirm Comey’s highly cr

TIME

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AS THE SUN WAS SETTING ON THE EVENING of April 9, President Donald Trump gathered the Vice President, senior military leaders and his newly minted National Security Adviser around the long wooden table in the Cabinet Room to discuss one of the graves

Los Angeles Times

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Stephen Bannon nailed it. The Beelzebub-like Breitbart head and former presidential adviser declared that President Trump's May 9 dismissal of FBI Director James Comey was the biggest mistake in modern political history. That act, the 2017 equivalent

The Atlantic

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The spokesman for Vladimir Putin gave a funny answer on Monday when asked about Donald Trump’s claims that Barack Obama had wiretapped Trump’s phones during the 2016 presidential campaign. The Russian government “should not be in any way linked to U.

The Atlantic

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America’s courts—presently a thorn in the president’s side—are about to get a lot more conservative. And they will probably stay that way for a very long time.

Manhattan Institute

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Prior to arriving in Washington earlier this year, Senator Kamala Harris was known, mostly just among her fellow Californians, as the two-term district attorney in San Francisco and two-term state attorney general, heralded for her stylish wardrobe a

The Atlantic

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A Q&A with historian Beverly Gage about the history of conflicts between FBI directors and the executive branch

NPR

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News of Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's trip to Russia emerged on the same day FBI Director James Comey said his agency is investigating possible coordination between Moscow and the Trump campaign.

The Atlantic

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The firing of FBI director James Comey poses a question: Will the law answer to the president, or the president to the law?