Comey Declines To Say If Trump Himself Was Under Investigation

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14. That's because the Cheatolini business is a natsec issue, probably under FISA

The HRC investigation didn't involve national security. Different rules apply to disclosure in the two cases. I fully understand why Comey is adopting a GLOMAR posture the DT investigation.

That said, I have to wonder why Comey went public with the Hillary investigation.

At the hearing yesterday he struck me as an exceptionally intelligent man with a strong sense of "country over party" morality. For me, that lends credence to the idea that he was under some kind of extreme pressure over the emails that we still don't know about. If I had to hazard a guess, he could have thought that the consequences of not cooperating with the Hillary letter would have jeopardized a much larger and significantly more consequential Trump investigation that was still in its infancy.

Given his performance yesterday, he doesn't strike me as the kind of man who plays party politics, or the kind who caves in at the drop of a hat.

I think that something else is going on with Comey that we know absolutely nothing about.