Trumps Standoff With Comey Overshadows Russian Threat
WASHINGTON Lost in the showdown between President Trump and James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director, that played out this past week was a chilling threat to the United States. Mr. Comey testified that the Russians had not only intervened in last years election, but would try again.
Its not a Republican thing or Democratic thing it really is an American thing, Mr. Comey told the Senate Intelligence Committee. Theyre going to come for whatever party they choose to try and work on behalf of. And theyre not devoted to either, in my experience. Theyre just about their own advantage. And they will be back.
What started out as a counterintelligence investigation to guard the United States against a hostile foreign power has morphed into a political scandal about what Mr. Trump did, what he said and what he meant by it. Lawmakers have focused mainly on the gripping conflict between the president and the F.B.I. director he fired with cascading requests for documents, recordings and hearings.
But from the headquarters of the National Security Agency to state capitals that have discovered that the Russians were inside their voter-registration systems, the worry is that attention will be diverted from figuring out how Russia disrupted American democracy last year and how to prevent it from happening again. Russian hackers did not just breach Democratic email accounts; according to Mr. Comey, they orchestrated a massive effort targeting hundreds possibly more than 1,000 of American government and private organizations since 2015.
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