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struggle4progress

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Sun Oct 30, 2016, 01:51 AM Oct 2016

A look at FBI Director James Comey

Hope Yen, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Saturday, October 29, 2016 5:34:07 EDT PM

... As the deputy attorney general, Comey rushed to the hospital bed of Attorney General John Ashcroft to physically stop White House officials in their bid to get his ailing boss to reauthorize a secret no-warrant wiretapping program ...

Comey irritated Obama officials after he suggested last year that increases in violent crime across the country could be fueled in part by anxiety among law enforcement officers who increasingly fear being recorded by citizens ...

As the public face of the federal government, Comey went to court earlier this year to force Apple Inc. to help it open the locked iPhone by Farook after the California attack last December, which killed 14 people. Farook and his wife died in a gun battle with police ...


http://www.niagarafallsreview.ca/2016/10/29/a-look-at-fbi-director-james-comey

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A look at FBI Director James Comey (Original Post) struggle4progress Oct 2016 OP
And early Republican contender for 2020. Basic LA Oct 2016 #1
In 1996, Comey acted as deputy special counsel to the Senate Whitewater Committee ... SunSeeker Oct 2016 #2
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