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James comey a higher loyalty5/12/2023 ![]() (Full disclosure: This critic certainly did. “Even knowing what I know now, I wouldn’t have done it differently,” he writes in his 2016 wrap-up, “but I can imagine good and principled people in my shoes making different choices about some things.” It’s all too easy to imagine either a Clinton or Trump partisan reading that vague “some things” phrasing and flailing their arms in renewed exasperation. What, I wondered, could possibly interfere. ![]() I fully intended to serve as director of the FBI through the year 2023, writes Comey, that year being when his 10-year term, begun under Barack Obama, expired. He pores over each of his most controversial decisions - such as deciding to publicly reveal, days before the election, that a criminal inquiry into Hillary Clinton’s private email server had been reopened - but comes to conclusions certain to satisfy no one but the most willingly forgiving. Former FBI director Comey, much in the news, reviews his career and speaks his mind about his dismissal. Indeed, Comey is on a bit of a redemption tour here, a reclaiming of his legacy. ![]() The good-faith reading of all this is the version Comey himself is selling, most recently on ABC’s 20/20 with George Stephanopoulos: that Trump is not normal, not “morally fit,” not worthy of the same respect and admiration as George W. ![]()
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