SXSW Taps FBI Director James Comey [View all]

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http://www.austinchronicle.com/daily/sxsw/2017-01-26/sxsw-taps-fbi-director-james-comey/

FBI chief will discuss privacy and cybersecurity at March fest

South by Southwest has a hot ticket to announce today: The Conference plans to bring James Comey to Austin for a sit-down in mid-March.

Comey, if you’ve been living under a rock in Zanzibar, is the FBI director best known now for his royal bungling of the 2016 presidential election via a late October reveal to Congress (and in turn the general public) that his agency was still investigating whether Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton had used a private email server to do anything shady during her stint as U.S. secretary of state. Comey didn’t, you’ll remember, reveal at the time that Clinton’s central opponent, our current president, Donald Trump, was also under investigation by the Bureau for colluding with Russian forces to denigrate Clinton’s candidacy, an investigation that remains ongoing, and has perhaps expanded, today.