Comey calls GOP bluff: 'I'm happy' to testify -- but make it public to thwart 'selective leaking... [View all]

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Source: RawStory


James Comey calls GOP bluff: ‘I’m happy’ to testify — but make it public to thwart ‘selective leaking and distortion’

BRAD REED
22 NOV 2018 AT 10:35 ET

Former FBI Director James Comey on Thursday responded to a subpoena from House Republicans — and he says he’s willing to testify as long as it’s in public.

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Additionally, Comey’s attorney on Thursday issued a statement saying that the former FBI director would fight the subpoena in court unless House Republicans agreed to let the hearing take place in public.

“Mr. Comey embraces and welcomes a hearing open to the public, but the subpoena issued yesterday represents an abuse of process,” said attorney David Kelley. “Accordingly, Mr. Comey will resist in Court this abuse of process.”

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Even though House Republicans will soon lose their power to subpoena witnesses, they have apparently been sending out last-minute subpoenas to key former law enforcement officials in an effort to try to prove the entire Mueller probe is a rigged “deep state” conspiracy against President Donald Trump.

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