Why Politicians Can't Stand James Comey
The FBI director was happy to shoot down Trump's wiretap claims, just as he didn't mind intervening when it hurt Hillary Clinton in the election. He won't be silenced.
MICHAEL DALY
03.06.17 1:15 AM ET
James Comey is a unicorn. So says a longtime senior law enforcement official who describes the FBI director as a rarer than rare creature in the nation’s capital. Comey, the official tells The Daily Beast, is a person who says and does exactly what he believes is right even if it is to his political disadvantage.
“That is the FBI director’s big problem,” the official figures. “In a town where almost nothing is on the level, no one knows what to make of a straight shooter.”
The official—who offered The Daily Beast his opinions in writing and in an interview and prefers not to be named—adds: “This is why Comey has almost always been misread in Washington. People have wasted enormous amounts of time trying to determine his hidden motives. It is because they so rarely see the man whose only motive is anything but hidden: To do the right thing. And no wonder they have trouble understanding it. It is Washington, where they have rarely, if ever, seen it before.”
Most recently, this unicorn asked the Justice Department to publicly dismiss President Trump’s claim that his phones were tapped on orders from President Obama. In making the accusation, Trump was in effect accusing FBI agents as well as Obama of a felony.
In asking for the Justice Department to reject the charge, Comey was in effect calling Trump a liar, albeit not publicly—yet, anyway.
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