This column has, to date, not analyzed the manifest problems with Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of President Trump for two reasons. First, because it fell outside my national security/foreign policy strike zone. Second, because many others — especially my…
So on Monday, Andrew McCabe, the FBI’s deputy director, abruptly resigned his position. We should all be happy to see that given McCabe’s record of behavior not quite up to the standards Americans are used to from the nominally-nonpartisan and…
No, don’t fire him. That way is boobytrapped. Instead, use your power as President to exercise control over him, in accordance with the rule of law. Where there is smoke, there is fire. Somewhere, right now in Washington, there is…
A few respectful thoughts on Special Prosecutors. First of all, now that we know we can have Special Prosecutors without there being any meaningful evidence of a crime, or in fact any evidence at all of a crime besides gossip…
“It makes me mildly nauseous to think that we might have had some impact on the election,” FBI Director James Comey testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee less than two weeks ago. Hearing Comey supercilious testimony, made me, well, mildly…
Is President Trump’s firing of FBI Director James Comey like the “Saturday Night Massacre” in October 1973, when President Nixon sought to fire Archibald Cox, the Watergate special prosecutor? Yes, say leading Democrats, most notably David Axelrod, President Obama’s campaign…
Washington President Donald Trump did himself no favor Thursday when he went on NBC News and essentially refuted the reason his team had given the press for why he fired FBI Director James Comey. Trump told NBC’s Lester Holt, “I…
