Former FBI director Comey to face US senate

James Comey
Former FBI Director

Former FBI director James Comey who was fired last month by the US president is expected to be at the Capitol Hill to give his testimony before the US Senate Intelligence Committee about President's Trump involvement with  Russia meddling with the 2016 elections.


Comey no stranger to the senate as he had earlier given a testimony on the issue of Hilary Clinton's email scandal during the 2016 elections, calling the former Secretary of State and her staff 'extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information', off course Comey became very popular as well as his statement.

His scheduled Thursday appearance before the senate is attracting a lot of people who are eager and itching to hear his testimony about Trump.

The public line has been growing since 6:30am... #ComeyHearing pic.twitter.com/NHtLYt3f8N

— Doug Mills (@dougmillsnyt) June 8, 2017

He had prepared  his opening remark which he released Wednesday,in the statement, Mr. Comey detailed Mr. Trump’s efforts to influence the F.B.I.’s investigation into Russian meddling in the election, including repeated attempts to coax Mr. Comey into announcing that the president himself was not under investigation.

Though the written statement removed a measure of drama from the proceedings — answering a handful of key questions pre-emptively — there appears to be bipartisan consensus that Mr. Comey will find a way to make more news on Thursday, with the cameras rolling anew.

Mr. Comey said he had shared details of their conversations with “the senior leadership team of the F.B.I.”

But after Mr. Trump told Mr. Comey he hoped he would ease off the inquiry into Mr. Flynn, Mr. Comey said the team agreed not to inform Mr. Sessions — who was on the cusp of recusing himself from the investigation — or those working on the investigation.

It is likely that Republicans will not be satisfied with that explanation and push him to elaborate on why he did not tell Mr. Sessions or others at the Justice Department.

There are questions on all party's mind; while the democrats would like to know if the presdient t violate guidelines that prevent interference in F.B.I. investigations to see if they can gun for an impeachment without appearing too politically motivated thereby quashing their credibility.

With Republican John McCain regarding allegations of Trump interference by Comey as “more than disturbing” , are the willing to throw Trump a life line,

Where does Trump stand in the midst of Comey's public assertion of hi complicity in the Russian interference investigation? well see his twitter response, it's as good as him standing in the oval.

James Comey better hope that there are no "tapes" of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 12, 2017