Leonid Bershidsky, Columnist

Missing From Comey's Fireworks: Trump-Russia Collusion

The investigations haven't revealed much so far on one of their most important questions.

June 9, 2017 at 5:13 PM UTC

Leonid Bershidsky, formerly Bloomberg Opinion’s Europe columnist, is a member of the Bloomberg News Automation Team. He recently published Russian translations of George Orwell’s “1984” and Franz Kafka’s “The Trial.”

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James Comey's testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee centered on his interactions with President Donald Trump. But, in case anyone has forgotten, the underlying issue being investigated is the alleged Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election campaign and the possibility of collusion between the Trump campaign and "the Russians."

Though Comey wasn't asked too many questions about it, and wasn't willing to discuss the investigation itself in a public hearing, his remarks provided a useful, if somewhat disappointing, insight into the U.S. intelligence community's thinking on these matters.