James B. Comey

In his May 2007 testimony, describing the infamous strong-arming of John Ashcroft done by Andy Card and Alberto Gonzales to reauthorize Bush’s surveillance program, former Deputy Attorney General James Comey said he believed President Bush made a call to Ashcroft’s wife: COMEY: Mrs. Ashcroft...  

However, Ashcroft’s wife and chief of staff had alerted Deputy Attorney General James Comey what was afoot and Comey raced to the hospital and successfully ...  

In his testimony before Congress today, former Deputy Attorney General James Comey was quiet, understated, and devastating to Alberto Gonzales. It took Comey all of an hour and a half to shred Gonzales' contention that the U.S. attorneys fired last ...  

Then-Deputy Attorney General James Comey, who was running the Justice Department while Ashcroft was hospitalized for pancreatitis, had refused to sign off ...  

The testimony yesterday from James Comey re-focuses attention on one of the long unresolved mysteries of the NSA scandal. And the new information Comey revealed, though not answering that question decisively, suggests some deeply troubling answers ...  

Mr. Gonzales, who was then White House counsel, called the meeting after James Comey, who was then the deputy attorney general, refused to certify the ...  

Now Attorney General John D. Ashcroft was in the hospital, and James B. Comey, Ashcroft's deputy, refused to certify that the surveillance was legal. ...  

The report says Jackson-based US Attorney Dunn Lampton was put on a March 2, 2005, firing list after Deputy Attorney General James Comey rated his ...  

According to an e-mail obtained by federal investigators, Deputy Attorney General James Comey threw Vines' name out as among the "weak" prosecutors in ...  

And James Comey, the deputy attorney general of the United States, when he testified on the Hill, he said that these were US attorneys who were the best, ...  

Hamilton says James B. Comey's congressional testimony in May 2007, in which he described a hospitalized John Ashcroft's dramatic standoff with senior Bush ...  

Remember that Jack Goldsmith, Pat Philbin and James Comey didn't want to end the constellation of domestic surveillance activities now euphemistically ...  

On page 26 of the report, e-mail exchanges between Sampson and Deputy Attorney General James Comey discussed Vines. The document states, "In addition to the ...  

The report says McKay's name was on a March 2005 list of US attorneys to be fired, but was taken off after former Deputy Attorney General James Comey ...  

According to the report, former Deputy Attorney General James Comey told investigators that Heffelfinger was identified as weak over concerns he "was overly ...