In A Higher Loyalty, Comey takes readers through the cases and personal events that. “Without any expression on his face at all, Bush turned back to me, dropping his hand. When Donald Trump fired FBI director James Comey on May 9, 2017.

Bush raising his hand to interrupt an Oval Office briefing so he could gaze out the window and watch Marine One blow snow all over the waiting press corps on the South Lawn. 1-Sentence-Summary: A Higher Loyaltyshares James Comey’s experiences as the director of the FBI and outlines what he learned about leadership, ethics, and politics throughout his life, career, and experiences with President Trump who was the reason he lost his job in May of 2017. When he first meets Obama, he is struck by his thinness, confidence and focus when he first meets Trump, Comey realizes that he looks shorter than on television and - zinger alert - that his hands are smaller than Comey’s though not “unusually so.” And in the book’s funniest moment, he recalls President George W. “I had gotten used to watching the world pass by through small dark bulletproof side windows,” he remarks, nicely capturing the distance and constraints of officialdom. You don’t serve as deputy attorney general and FBI director without being a Washington operator, and Comey has a good eye for life in the swamp. For Comey to suggest that the attorney general “appeared politically compromised” without offering supportive evidence does not seem particularly ethical. The Washington Post has reported that in 2016 the FBI received a Russian intelligence document citing an email in which Lynch supposedly assured the Clinton campaign that the investigation would not go too deep, but that the document was unreliable. The bookas well as Comey’s often pointed comments during the ensuing media tourdrew the ire of. 2018 Comey published the memoir A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership, in which he was highly critical of Trump, alleging that the president was unethical, and untethered to truth. Of course, it is also bothersome that the former FBI director would cite vague information to imply wrongdoing by the nation’s top law-enforcement official, with the very nature of the information making it hard for her to respond. In James Comey: Memoir and later activities.

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