James Comey Was Symbol of Washington

There are three days James Comey was a symbol of Washington. Donald Trump corruption and an executor of the law of the highest integrity in the campaign of Hillary Clinton. On Sunday the FBI director was the most controversial figure of the capital, heroic Trump, irresponsible Clinton and confusing to almost everyone.

Comey has a long history of trying to walk the political tension. With varying success, from the early days of his career. Comey career prosecutor who grew up in New Jersey and studied religion chemistry had his first contact. With a large-scale survey came in 1996 after a stint with the New York attorney. This year, he joined a Senate inquiry property investments Bill and Hillary Clinton, called Whitewater after a failed adventure has come.

He remained at the bottom of an investigation which eventually failed, but Comey soon joined two prestigious offices prosecutor in eastern Virginia and Manhattan. Where he pursued high profile case against identity thieves. Senior banker Credit Suisse and Martha Stewart.

In 2003 he was appointed deputy attorney general in the administration of George W. Bush making dissenting voice against the National Security Agency surveillance programs revealed in 2005 by the New York Times.

Comey told Congress later that night in March 2004. Attorney General John Ashcroft hospitalized for an emergency procedure. Ran the sickbed to prevent wiretapping renewal programs that the Department of Justice had determined that they were illegal.

Comey arrived just before the Chief and Chief of Staff Bush and Ashcroft did not sign the renewal. I'm angry Comey told the Senate in 2007. I thought I had just witnessed an effort to take advantage of a very sick man. Who has not the powers of the attorney general because they had summer transferred to me? That night was probably the hardest night of my professional life.

The following day, Bush changed the wiretap program. In these hearings, about a possible bad head advisor of the White House and, paradoxically, the lack of driving emails Republican National Committee, Comey told Congress he felt it was imperative that the Department of Justice on partisan politics.

The Department of Justice in my opinion is run by political appointees by the President, he said. But once you take these jobs and run this institution is very important to me that another institution in American life.

My people had to go before a jury of all stripes, talk to sheriffs of all stripes, judges of all the bands they had. To be considered good, not like this administration or this administration.

Comey left the Department of Justice in 2005 to Lockheed Martin, the largest military contractor in the US and possibly an investment firm and Columbia Law School. 2013 Barack Obama nominated Republican registered to direct the FBI. Joked that the 6ft 8in prosecutor was a man who raises high to justice and the rule of law.

It was confirmed that the seventh head of the agency in a vote of 93-1, only the senator from Kentucky, Rand Paul, voted against, above the national surveillance drones, and quickly took a number of controversial cases.

Although opposed warrantless wiretapping of the NSA. Comey has emerged as a strong supporter of US security agencies of Guardian, revealed a number of programs in 2013. A system that gave the FBI access to a wealth of data. Comey argued repeatedly that the security agencies should be tools to prevent the private encryption. And led the FBI to the court against Apple to unlock the phone of terrorist San Bernardino.

We are asking Apple to remove the vicious guard dog and let us find the lock. He told Congress in March. It's not your job to take care of public safety. That's our job. The encryption logic lead us to a place in a not too distant future where all our conversations and all our papers, and effects are totally private.

The legal battle ended in anticlimax, the FBI has found another way on the iPhone. Since then, he said the hack using does not work on newer phones.

Comey made a careful line on the race and murder police. Last year, he said it was unacceptable that the Guardian and the Washington Post have better data on. Which federal fire policy of the government but also mired in controversy by suggesting an effect Ferguson named after some violent protests Ferguson, Missouri. Police shot against a black teenager desarmado- can the police away from their responsibilities.

Comey admitted he had no proof of this assertion, which led to an unusually public disagreement with the president, who warned last year. What we cannot do is collect data or use evidence anecdotal to promote policies or feed the political agenda.

Since then, a Ministry investigation of the attempted Justice and St. Louis criminologist suggested that the effect Ferguson is plausible to explain a peak of a year in violent crime.The manager accesses the national notoriety in July. When it announced the findings of the FBI. Its investigation into whether Clinton and his staff had acted criminally in its use of a private mail server. He concluded that there was no evidence that intentional crimes were committed.

Comey has used a press conference break with tradition and its original sin in the words of a former official to state the facts in that time, several correct false statements of Clinton and his staff and to punish their Careless extremely email practices. Then he was called to Congress to defend its decision, which ended months of expensive investigation Republicans and inconclusive.

You know what would be a double standard? If it was generated by serious negligence, Comey told the House. No reasonable lawyer would take the second case in 100 years on the basis of gross negligence.

It is not enough to prosecute someone for these acts, he said. Calling the procedure hunting celebrities and adding. One of the things I learned in this case is that the secretary cannot be as sophisticated as people assume.

Asked about his voter registration, Comey said he most belonged to any party. The brief letter Comey wrote to congressional leaders on Friday. Admits he does not know, if the new emails found on a computer belonging to the spouse of an employee Clinton have meaning. This lack of information has become the focus on the manager. Who had broken with not only unprecedented? But with the advice of senior Department of Justice, to become public.

Comey an internal memo sent to staff, leaked to several news organizations, suggests that the director felt he had no choice but to act, given his testimony before Congress. I also think it would be misleading the American people. If we were not to complete the record, he wrote. At the same time however since we do not know the meaning of this collection recovered emails. I do not want to create a false impression.

In trying to achieve this balance, in a brief letter and in the midst of an election season. There is a significant risk of being misunderstood, but I wanted you to tell me directly about it.