Opinion
James Comey learned his J. Edgar Hoover lessons well
By Michael Goodwin
May 17, 2017 | 1:37am | Updated
Somewhere, J. Edgar Hoover is smiling. And why not, for the memo that James Comey reportedly wrote about a meeting with President Trump is positively Hooveresque in its potential implications.
Hoover died in office as the FBI director in 1972 because none of the six presidents he served under dared to fire him. They all feared he had too much secret information on them, so they kept their distance and he kept his job.
Maybe Trump didn’t know that history, but he’s suddenly getting a big nasty taste of it. A little more than a week after he fired Comey, Comey is firing back.
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