James Comey To Testify In The Senate Ahead Of Elections

Washintong, DC – Former FBI Director James Comey He will testify before the Senate Legal Affairs Committee on Sept. 30, a month before the election, after Republicans have tried to accuse him that he and his agency conspired against Donald Trump in 2016.

Comey, who Trump fired in May 2017, will be one of the main witnesses in the investigation of the president of that commission, Lindsey Graham, into the origin of the investigation of the Department of Justice on Russia. Trump has long tried to discredit that investigation – which concluded in 2018 with a report by special counsel Robert Mueller – by calling it a “sham.” Graham said he had also invited Mueller to testify, but the former prosecutor declined.

Mueller found multiple communications between the campaign team and Russia in his investigation, but noted that there was insufficient evidence to determine that there was a criminal association between the two parties. The report also examined several occasions when Trump tried to obstruct the investigation, but said he could not reach a conclusion about whether the president obstructed justice.

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Republicans have turned their attention to a report by the Justice Department inspector general last year that found multiple errors and omissions in requests the FBI submitted to monitor a former Trump campaign aide as the probe began. Republicans, and Trump himself, have repeatedly said they believe the department was conspiring against the president before and after the election.

Democrats have argued that surveillance errors do not invalidate the Russia investigation, because the internal Justice Department report said the FBI was justifiable in initiating the investigation, and found no evidence that the agency acted with political bias. Democrats also lashed out at the Graham probe, as well as a separate probe by the Republican-controlled Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs, describing it as an attempt to give Trump a boost in an election year.

Separate reports from the inspector general related to Comey’s leadership in the Trump and Russia investigation and the Hillary Clinton email probe identified major misjudgments, but did not indicate having evidence that Comey acted with political bias.



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