Three questions raised by the Comey hearings

JUNE 9, 2017 WASHINGTON—Former FBI Director James Comey’s testimony on Thursday about his interactions with President Trump riveted Washington like no such congressional appearance in decades. Yet in some ways Mr. Comey’s words were just the opening scene in a lengthy legal drama to come. Trump himself tweeted on Friday morning that he feels “totally vindicated” by Comey’s admission that he did tell the president on a number of occasions that Trump personally was not then a target of an FBI counter-terrorism investigation.

Trump and his surrogates moved to attack Comey as a “leaker” for the latter’s admission that he’d orchestrated the appearance of a New York Times story on memos he’d written following White House meetings. The Trump administration now faces a grinding investigation by Justice Department special counsel Robert Muller that will likely last years and could slow progress on the GOP legislative agenda. Comey, before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, previewed some of the most important themes likely to surface in this probe.

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