Comey pens op-ed calling for transparency in Mueller probe's final report

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Former FBI Director James Comey argues in a new op-ed that special counsel Robert Mueller's final report on the Russia investigation needs to be held to a stricter standard of transparency than some Republicans have argued.

According to Comey, who made his argument in The Washington Post, lawmakers who argued during Attorney General William Barr's confirmation hearing that he could not promise to publicly release Mueller's final report in full are "wrong."

"Republicans are wrong now, when they claim Justice Department rules forbid transparency about the completed work of the special counsel," Comey writes. "It is hard to imagine a case of greater public interest than one focused on the efforts of a foreign adversary to damage our democracy, and in which the president of the United States is a subject."

Mueller is investigating whether Russia interfered in the 2016 election, including whether the foreign power colluded with the Trump campaign. President Trump has repeatedly insisted there was no collusion and that the Mueller probe is a "witch hunt."

https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/432570-comey-pens-op-ed-calling-for-transparency-in-mueller-probes-final

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1. 'Comey wrote in his op-ed Monday that "providing detailed information

about a completed investigation of intense public interest has long been a part of Justice Department practice."

"It doesn’t happen often, because ordinarily nothing outweighs the privacy interests of the subject of an investigation that ends without public charges," Comey continued. "But department tradition recognizes that transparency is especially important where polarized politics and baseless attacks challenge law enforcement’s credibility."'

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2. You damn skippy. We paid for the product and we wanna see it. nt