James Comey

Trump Aide Roger Stone Declares Innocence After James Comey References Him During Congressional Testimony

... aide Roger Stone declares innocence after James Comey references him during Congressional testimony. Stone has been making the rounds on TV in the wake of Comey's testimony Monday. Topics: Donald Trump , FBI investigation , Roger Stone , Russia , Politics News , Video News , News. (Credit: AP Photo/Mary Altaffer). President Donald Trump’s adviser Roger Stone has been in the headlines quite a bit this month. After  adamantly denying allegations that he talked to Russian hacker Guccifer 2.0 during the 2016 election, as well as  surviving a serious hit-and-run incident last week  (which he believes may have been connected to his involvement in the case), Stone is now again receiving attention. This time, it is because FBI Director James Comey admitted that he was familiar with Stone during his congressional testimony on Monday. It is unclear whether Comey was referring to reports that Stone is under investigation or Stone’s various public ...

How The White House Got James Comey Wrong

... election, one of Donald Trump’s closest White House advisers made a startling—and completely erroneous—prediction: James Comey, the F. B. I. director, would testify that there was no collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. “The Russian collusion thing has always been bullshit,” the official said. “I think Comey will come down and say there absolutely was no contact, collusion, or anything like that with the campaign.”. The official conceded that, in the early days of the Trump campaign, the candidate attracted some dubious figures. Sam Clovis, an Iowa talk-radio host who had been appointed as Trump’s senior policy adviser, strained to put together a serious team. Meanwhile, fringe political operatives, such as Roger Stone, a longtime Trump adviser, and Stone’s good friend and ...

Who Is James Comey

... an incident in 2004 when he stopped then White House counsel Alberto Gonzales and Chief of Staff Andrew Card when, according to Comey’s account, they tried to get an ailing Attorney General John Ashcroft to sign off on extending the NSA’s wiretapping program. In testimony before Congress years later, Comey said, “I was angry. I thought I had just witnessed an effort to take advantage of a very sick man who did not have the powers of the attorney general.”. Jumping to 2016, Comey became a part of the presidential political fray when he recommended no criminal charges against Hillary Clinton regarding her use of a private email server but in an unusual public announcement said, “There is evidence that they were extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information.”. Then came Comey’s October surprise just days before the election when he wrote a letter to members of Congress saying ...

Fbi Director James Comey To Testify At Russia Hearing

... evidence suggesting Mr. Trump’s phones at Trump Tower were tapped by Obama. The FBI director had previously  briefed leadership in the House and Senate - known as the Gang of Eight - on Mr. Trump’s wiretapping allegations and other national security matters. Meanwhile, Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Maryland, released documents last Thursday that show Mr. Trump’s former national security adviser, Michael Flynn, was paid more than $67,000 from Russia companies before the presidential election. He accepted, for example, $33,750 from Russia’s government-run television station to appear at a December 2015 event in Moscow. The U. S. intelligence community issued a report in early January in which the CIA, FBI and NSA concluded that Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered a campaign involving covert intelligence operations and overt propaganda to undermine faith in the 2016 U. S. election, disparage Hillary Clinton and help Mr. Trump’s election chances. © 2017 CBS Interactive ...

The Russians 'were Unusually Loud In Their Intervention

... would have enabled Putin "to say to his domestic constituents: 'See? Elections in the West are just a sham, and they're nowhere near as fair as our elections.'". Comey and Rogers agreed that the Russians most likely viewed the operation as successful given the near-daily revelations about the Trump campaign's contact with Russia that have largely stemmed from those easily traceable hacks and phone calls. Reports emerged after the inauguration that the Kremlin was getting nervous about the chaos, because the government had been counting on Trump to improve the US-Russia relationship. But Comey said something Russia "may draw from this is that they were successful because they introduced chaos and division and discord, and sowed doubt about the nature of this amazing country of ours and our democratic process.". "Their number one mission was to undermine the credibility of our entire ...

Comey Testifies On Fbi's Russia Probe

... several times defensively about it this morning again, saying that the entire story was made up by Democrats. Now we have an FBI director not only saying, as he did last year, that he thought it was clear that Russia tried to act, but that the FBI is investigating this. GREENE: This hearing, I mean, still ongoing - but have we heard from lawmakers responding to this and speaking this morning. DETROW: A lot of the early testimony and early statements has been kind of recapping what we know so far. That's something that Democrat Adam Schiff did in his opening statement, kind of laying out the increasingly complicated timeline of events here. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING). ADAM SCHIFF: Is it a coincidence that Jeff Sessions failed to tell the Senate about his meetings with the Russian ambassador, not only at the convention but a more private meeting in his office and at a time when the U. S. election was under attack by the Russians? Is it a coincidence that Michael Flynn would lie about a conversation he ...

What You Should Know About The Fbi Director

... Towers at a U. S. military base in Saudi Arabia. He was the victim of a home break-in as a teen. One lesson Comey learned about criminal justice came decades before he stepped foot in a prosecutor's office. As a 15-year-old, Comey was a victim of crime himself. While home alone with his brother in 1977, a man known as "the Ramsey rapist" — who had sexually assaulted two neighborhood babysitters — broke into their Allendale home and searched the house as they locked themselves in their bathroom. The two brothers escaped through a window, but ran into the rapist again on their lawn and called the cops, according to a local paper. In an interview with "60 Minutes ," Comey said the incident taught him how to have compassion for the victims of crime. "I think it most affects me in giving me a sense of what victims feel. And that even the notion no one was physically harmed, doesn't mean no one was harmed. Because I thought about that guy every night for five years. So I think it's made me a better prosecutor and investigator for being able to feel better what victims of crime experience," he said.". U. S. Attorney for the Southern District James Comey, fields ...

Comey Stands By U.s. Intelligence Assessment That Putin Wanted Trump To Win Election

... Trump to win election. Del Quentin Wilber and. David S. Cloud. Two of the nation's top counter-intelligence officials stood by the U. S. intelligence assessment in January that Russian President Vladimir Putin's government sought to help Donald Trump win the 2016 election. Under questioning from Rep. Mike Conaway (R-Texas), FBI Director James Comey and Adm. Mike Rogers, director of the National Security Agency, said nothing has changed since they issued their Jan. 6 report on Russian interference in the election. The report found that senior Russian officials, including Putin, wanted to undermine the U. S. democratic process, hurt Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and help Trump's campaign. Comey and Rogers declined to provide details on how the intelligence community reached that assessment. "They wanted to hurt our democracy, hurt her and help him," Comey said, adding that officials had reached that ...

Seth Meyers Thinks James Comey Turned Hillary Clinton Into Arya Stark

... focus not on the potential Russian ties—but “on literally anything else.” Meyers seemed most amused by South Carolina congressman Trey Gowdy, who seemed to wonder if Barack Obama might have been responsible for leaks regarding the investigation. “You think Obama was the leaker?” Meyers scoffed. “Have you seen what he’s been up to ? That dude hasn’t even been near Wi Fi for two months now!”. And then, of course, there was the time Comey was forced to fact-check a tweet that the president fired off about the hearing while it was still underway. “Witnesses in a hearing are now fact-checking the president’s tweets about that hearing during the hearing,” Meyers said. “They might as well just throw to Ernie, Kenny, and Charles.”. Given how bonkers all of this is, it’s hard not to scoff a little at the moment when Comey said he cannot confirm or comment on an ongoing investigation, and resisted the comparisons to “past instances where the Department of Justice and the F. B. I. have spoken about the details of some investigations.”. Meyers, sporting an acid grin, could ...