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"who will rid me of this troublesome priest"
The Murder of Thomas Becket, 1170
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Why did James Comey say, ‘Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?’
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Why did James Comey say, ‘Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?’
Watch: Comey drops medieval 'meddlesome priest' reference in Senate hearing
(Reuters)
By Sarah Pulliam Bailey
June 8, 2017
Former FBI director James B. Comey told the Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday that he believed President Trump was ordering him to drop an investigation into former national security adviser Michael Flynn when Comey spoke with the president in February.
Comey said that during a meeting in the Oval Office, Trump told him, “I hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting Flynn go. He is a good guy. I hope you can let this go.”
“I took it as a direction,” Comey said. “I mean, this is a president of the United States with me alone saying, ‘I hope this.’ I took it as, this is what he wants me to do. I didn’t obey that, but that’s the way I took it.”
[Is ‘hope’ the same as an order? These senators don’t think so.]
Trump fired Comey last month amid an FBI probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election. During Thursday’s testimony, Sen. Angus King (I-Maine) asked Comey questions about what he assumed when Trump said to “hold back” on Flynn:
“You said [Trump] said, ‘I hope you will hold back on that.’ But when a president of the United States in the Oval Office says something like ‘I hope’ or ‘I suggest’ or ‘would you,’ do you take that as a directive?”
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Why did James Comey say, ‘Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?’
Watch: Comey drops medieval 'meddlesome priest' reference in Senate hearing
(Reuters)
By Sarah Pulliam Bailey
June 8, 2017
Former FBI director James B. Comey told the Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday that he believed President Trump was ordering him to drop an investigation into former national security adviser Michael Flynn when Comey spoke with the president in February.
Comey said that during a meeting in the Oval Office, Trump told him, “I hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting Flynn go. He is a good guy. I hope you can let this go.”
“I took it as a direction,” Comey said. “I mean, this is a president of the United States with me alone saying, ‘I hope this.’ I took it as, this is what he wants me to do. I didn’t obey that, but that’s the way I took it.”
[Is ‘hope’ the same as an order? These senators don’t think so.]
Trump fired Comey last month amid an FBI probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election. During Thursday’s testimony, Sen. Angus King (I-Maine) asked Comey questions about what he assumed when Trump said to “hold back” on Flynn:
“You said [Trump] said, ‘I hope you will hold back on that.’ But when a president of the United States in the Oval Office says something like ‘I hope’ or ‘I suggest’ or ‘would you,’ do you take that as a directive?”
Comey replied: “Yes. Yes, it rings in my ear as kind of, ‘Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?’ ”