Trump's new Russian scandal: We don't know how much is true - but we know James Comey behaved... [View all]

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Donald Trump’s new Russian scandal: We don’t know how much is true — but we know James Comey behaved shamefully

Those salacious reports on Trump's ties to Russia are murky rumors — but Comey's villainy is clearer than ever

HEATHER DIGBY PARTON

Last Sunday on Meet the Press, there was a rather odd exchange between Chuck Todd and Sen. Lindsey Graham. The interview had taken place on the previous Friday, after the intelligence agencies had released an unclassified summary of their conclusions that the Russian government had hacked various institutions and engaged in propaganda on behalf of Donald Trump. John McCain said he simply believed the people in charge while Graham, as is his wont, went on quite a bit more. But this exchange caught my attention:

Todd: Are there still active investigations going on to try to figure out if there was coordination between campaigns and Moscow? … Is that currently happening now in other investigative agencies? FBI, a joint task force, anything like that? Is that currently happening and just we don’t know about it?

Graham: I believe that it’s happening. But you need to talk to them because I don’t want to speak for them.

As it turns out, there was much more to the story.

On Tuesday morning the Senate had scheduled two important hearings simultaneously, one for the confirmation of Sen. Jeff Sessions as the Attorney General and the other a hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee on the Russian hacking allegations, with FBI director James Comey making his first public appearance since the election. So it was expected that it would likely be a big news day and it definitely was. The Sessions hearing was interesting but it didn’t really tell us anything we didn’t know about the man. It was the other hearing that raised more questions than it answered.

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