Jim Comey is coming out with a new book, but the fired FBI director’s tome won’t be an October surprise.
Published by Flatiron Books, Saving Justice: Truth, Transparency, and Trust has an expected release date of Jan. 12, 2021, about a week before Inauguration Day. According to its Amazon description, Comey “uses his long career in federal law enforcement to explore issues of justice and fairness in the U.S. justice system” and “he knows better than most just what a force for good the U.S. justice system can be, and how far afield it has strayed during the Trump Presidency.”
“Comey shows just how essential it is to pursue the primacy of truth for federal law enforcement,” the description adds. “Saving Justice is gracefully written and honestly told, a clarion call for a return to fairness and equity in the law.”
Comey has come under renewed scrutiny in recent weeks as the credibility of British ex-spy Christopher Steele’s anti-Trump dossier, which the FBI relied heavily on to justify surveilling Trump campaign associate Carter Page, has increasingly been criticized.
The FBI director’s new book will be a follow-up to his No. 1 New York Times bestselling memoir, A Higher Loyalty, published in April 2018, in which he discussed his career in government, including his controversial handling of both the FBI’s “Midyear Exam” investigation into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s private email server and the bureau’s “Crossfire Hurricane” investigation into Russian election interference and allegations of Trump-Russia collusion, along with details of his brief stint as bureau chief under Trump before he was fired in May 2017.
Showtime’s The Comey Rule, based on Comey’s memoir and starring Dumb and Dumber actor Jeff Daniels as Comey, will air in late September.
News about the book comes after Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham released two documents declassified with the help of Attorney General William Barr on Friday. The first document was a 57-page transcript of the FBI’s interviews with Steele’s primary subsource in January 2017, which contradicted numerous claims made in the dossier. A second document showed typed notes from now-fired FBI special agent Peter Strzok harshly criticizing a New York Times report from February 2017. Strzok criticized Steele and repeatedly disputed the leaked claims in the piece about contacts between Trump associates and Russian intelligence.
Graham and other Republicans believe that the FBI’s leadership, including Comey, likely knew about the dossier’s flaws yet used it anyway. U.S. Attorney John Durham’s investigation of the Trump-Russia investigators is also looking into Comey’s actions.
