Why should anyone believe James Comey?
by Byron York, Chief Political Correspondent |
| September 26, 2020 10:03 PM
Fired FBI Director James Comey is having another moment in the spotlight with the premiere of a new movie, The Comey Rule, on Showtime. The makers fought to have the picture air before the Nov. 3 election, in hopes that it would become "part of the conversation" when the nation votes. By that, they mean they hope it will contribute to President Trump's defeat.
As it turns out, there is a more compelling portrait of Comey out at the same time, one that, perhaps unwittingly, casts serious doubt on the credibility of Comey's carefully planned campaign against Trump in the first half of 2017.
The portrait is in October Surprise, a new book by Washington Post reporter Devlin Barrett. The book focuses on the period in late October 2016, when the FBI was deep into the Crossfire Hurricane investigation and Comey decided, 11 days before the presidential election, to inform Congress, and thus the world, that the FBI had reopened the Hillary Clinton email investigation. The reopening, which ultimately came to nothing, outraged Democrats and Comey's colleagues in the Obama Justice Department.
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