Tag: fbi

  • It Gets Worse

    This morning, the Times’ Michael S. Schmidt reported that Comey left a fantastic paper trail before he was fired: President Trump asked the F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, to shut down the federal investigation into Mr. Trump’s former national security adviser, Michael T. Flynn, in an Oval Office meeting in February, according to a memo…

  • Trump Fires FBI Director Running Investigation Into Trump’s Campaign

    (Now former) FBI Director Comey back in March, quoted by the New York Times: Mr. Comey said the F.B.I. was “investigating the nature of any links between individuals associated with the Trump campaign and the Russian government, and whether there was any coordination between the campaign and Russia’s efforts.” Yesterday Trump wrote this letter informing…

  • Winners Don’t Use Drugs

    Sean Hutchinson has the story behind the famous slogan: But what, then, should the slogan say? How could the Bureau be concise without coming off as condescending or paternalistic? The teams spitballed phrases and designs. Fay remembers that Davenport came up with the final slogan. Davenport believes it was someone else. “We were just tossing…