We have waited a long time
For Justice in the Matter of
Crimes Against Children
WASHINGTON POST
Opinion by James Comey
Dec. 9, 2019 at 8:14 p.m. GMT
James Comey is a former director of the FBI and a former deputy attorney general.
For two years, the president of the United States and his followers have loudly declared that the FBI acted
unlawfully in conducting a counterintelligence investigation of Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential campaign.
They repeatedly told the American people that the FBI had done all sorts of bad things, such as tapping Donald Trump’s
wires during the campaign, opening an investigation without adequate cause, with the intent to damage Trump, and
inserting secret informants into the Trump campaign.
President Trump said the FBI’s actions were “treason.” The current attorney general even slimed his own organization
by supporting Trump’s claims, asserting there had been “spying” on the campaign. Crimes had been committed, the
Trump crowd said, and a whole bunch of former FBI leaders, including me, were likely going to jail.