Tag: Hillary Clinton

The president has now said he planned to fire James Comey regardless of any recommendation that would have come from the Justice Department on the matter. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

James Comey’s Russia Rorschach test

W. James Antle III · June 9, 2017 4:01 am

Former U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch's request to call the investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server a "matter" rather than an investigation and her meeting on a tarmac with former President Bill Clinton factored into former FBI Director James Comey's decision to confirm he had reopened the investigation into Clinton's emails days before the election. Of course, Clinton won't blame Lynch for her loss, though. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)

Beltway Confidential

Hillary Clinton should add Loretta Lynch to her laundry list of people to blame for 2016, but she won’t

Emily Jashinsky · June 8, 2017 10:17 pm

The campaign is set to attract as much as $50 million in total spending, a record for a House race. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Jon Ossoff raises staggering $15 million since April in Georgia election

David M. Drucker · June 8, 2017 6:11 pm

Comey: Loretta Lynch Attempted to Influence Clinton Email Investigation

Mark Hemingway · June 8, 2017 6:01 pm

If we grant Comey that a "duty to correct" would be created by a public exonerating statement, there's another question: Why would that be so bad? (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Beltway Confidential

Did fear of political firestorm lead James Comey to refuse to announce Trump was not under investigation?

Timothy P. Carney · June 8, 2017 3:38 pm

Former FBI Director James Comey said Thursday that former Attorney General Loretta Lynch asked him to downplay the investigation into Hillary Clinton's emails by not calling it an investigation. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)

James Comey: Loretta Lynch told me not to call Clinton email probe an ‘investigation’

Kelly Cohen · June 8, 2017 3:06 pm

Congressman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, said Thursday morning that he hopes someone in the Senate asks former FBI Director James Comey why he only seems to have taken notes on his conversations with President Trump. (Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner)

National Security

Jim Jordan: How come only Trump’s talks with Comey were ‘memorialized?’

Pete Kasperowicz · June 8, 2017 12:16 pm

Whereas Democrats once castigated former FBI Director James Comey for his perceived influencing of the 2016 presidential election in Donald Trump's favor, they are now willing to use his testimony to guide their view of the president. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, left, and Susan Walsh, File)

James Comey goes from zero to hero with Democrats

W. James Antle III · June 8, 2017 4:01 am

How can one campaign for office in today's America without someone to blame? (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Republicans seek a new villain, while their true foe is in the mirror

Kristen Soltis Anderson · June 7, 2017 3:11 pm

Trump's decision represents "the height of egoism and moral vacuum seeking only their own well-being, even at the cost of the entire planet," North Korea said. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Under siege, Trump counterpunches from his Twitter comfort zone

W. James Antle III · June 7, 2017 4:01 am

An Ossoff victory would send a chill through the Republican Party ahead of the 2018 midterms, possibly derailing the GOP's government reform proposals. (AP Photo/Alex Sanz)

Ossoff, Handel set for first debate in tight Georgia congressional race

David M. Drucker · June 6, 2017 10:21 pm

Mattis: Taliban Can’t Be Part of a Political Solution in Afghanistan

Jeryl Bier · June 6, 2017 11:14 am