James Comey, the seventh director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), was fired by U.S. President Donald Trump on May 9, 2017. Comey had been...
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James Brien Comey Jr. (/ˈkoʊmi/; born December 14, 1960) is an American lawyer who was the seventh director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)...
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Mueller special counsel investigation (redirect from 2017 Special Counsel for the United States Department of Justice team)
Mueller was chosen to lead due to a shortage of senate-confirmed U.S. attorneys. The dismissal of James Comey was a factor in the decision to use a Special...
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Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections (redirect from Intelligence reports of Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections)
January 2017. The dismissal of James Comey, the FBI director, by President Trump in May 2017, was partly because of Comey's investigation of the Russian interference...
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in reaction to Comey's firing. CNN reported that within eight days of Comey's dismissal, an FBI investigation on Trump for obstruction of justice was opened...
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members of the U.S. Senate that he recommended Comey's dismissal while knowing Trump had already decided to fire Comey. In the aftermath of Comey's firing...
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Truth, Lies, and Leadership by former FBI director James Comey. The miniseries stars Jeff Daniels as Comey and Brendan Gleeson as President Donald Trump....
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taking over from Acting Director Andrew McCabe after the dismissal of former Director James Comey by President Donald Trump. The FBI director is appointed...
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Rod Rosenstein (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from public domain works of the United States Government)
from supervision of Mueller, if he himself were to become a subject in the investigation due to his role in the dismissal of James Comey. Under that scenario...
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Paul Abbate (category Deputy Directors of the Federal Bureau of Investigation)
after President Trump's dismissal of James Comey, Abbate was on the shortlist of officials considered for the role of FBI director. In February 2018, Abbate...
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use of Scallon's videos. In 2017, Brown insulted commenters who disagreed with his defense of former President Trump's dismissal of James Comey, and...
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August: Eric Trump tells author James Dodson, "We don't rely on American banks [...] We have all the funding we need out of Russia", and says, "We go there...
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Alice S. Fisher (category Columbus School of Law alumni)
post of FBI Director following the dismissal of James Comey by President Donald Trump. Fisher withdrew her name from consideration the week of May 15...
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Many mainstream news outlets had questioned whether the dismissal was in response to Comey's request for more resources to expand the probe into Russian...
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January 2017. The dismissal of James Comey, the FBI director, by President Trump in May 2017, was partly because of Comey's investigation of the Russian interference...
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Legal teams involved in the Mueller special counsel investigation (category Aftermath of the 2016 United States presidential election)
investigation of Hillary Clinton's email server, which also contradicts the stated reason for Trump's firing of James Comey.[citation needed] As of December...
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Laurence Tribe (redirect from Board of Education v. National Gay Task Force)
were considering a vote of conscience against Donald Trump in the presidential election. After the dismissal of James Comey in May 2017, Tribe wrote:...
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2016 Democratic National Committee email leak (category Controversies of the 2016 United States presidential election)
Comey testified that the FBI requested, but did not receive, physical access to the DNC servers. According to Comey, the FBI did obtain copies of the...
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Sarah Huckabee Sanders (redirect from Bryan Sanders (First Gentleman of Arkansas))
12. She stood in for Spicer during the dismissal of James Comey and the controversy following it. Her defense of the Trump administration's actions led...
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Steele dossier (redirect from List of Trump–Russia dossier allegations)
truth of the information. James Comey disagreed with Clapper's wording, but Clapper's wording remained unchanged. Comey later told the Office of the Inspector...
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Crossfire Hurricane (FBI investigation) (redirect from FBI’s counterintelligence investigation of Donald Trump’s campaign)
investigation until May 2017, when his firing of FBI director James Comey raised suspicions of obstruction of justice, which triggered the Mueller investigation...
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current events. As of October 13, 2024,[update] 316 episodes of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver have aired. The tenth season of the show premiered...
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escalate active measures influencing U.S. politics. Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper said after the 2011–13 Russian protests that Putin's...
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2016 United States election leaks (category Controversies of the 2016 United States presidential election)
carrying out an investigation into the series of cyberattacks. On January 10, 2017, FBI Director James Comey told the Senate Intelligence Committee that...
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Robert Mueller (redirect from Identity theft of Robert Mueller)
himself from supervision of Mueller if he were to become a subject in the investigation due to his role in the dismissal of James Comey. On June 14, 2017, The...
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Michael Fanone (category Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia officers)
States presidential election, but stopped supporting him after his dismissal of James Comey and after comments he made that he perceived to be anti-Asian....
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Podesta emails (category Controversies of the 2016 United States presidential election)
James Risen criticized the media for its reporting on emails, arguing that the hacking of the emails was a more significant story than the content of...
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WikiLeaks (category Applications of cryptography)
in an Icelandic court. According to Thordarson, a few months after his dismissal by WikiLeaks the FBI agreed to pay him $5,000 as compensation for work...
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Donald Trump (redirect from 45th President of the United States of America)
counsel also investigated whether Trump's dismissal of James Comey as FBI director constituted obstruction of justice and the Trump campaign's possible...
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Criminal charges brought in the Mueller special counsel investigation (category Aftermath of the 2016 United States presidential election)
United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit agreed to re-hear the case en banc to either affirm the dismissal or reject it, which...
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