Keep the FBI Out of Politics
Whether Trump’s firing of James Comey threatened national security is a question for Congress, not the FBI.
The man behind the curtain.
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The American people have a right to know if their president is a Russian agent.
Richard Nixon delivered a version of this line in November 1973, as the Watergate scandal gathered steam. Now President Donald Trump has had to tell reporters he is not a spy after the New York Times reported that the FBI had launched a counterintelligence probe into the president himself in May 2017. As former FBI general counsel James Baker told House lawmakers in October, the president’s obstruction of the bureau’s Russia investigation “itself would hurt our ability to figure out what the Russians had done, and that is what would be the threat to national security.”
