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A Higher Loyalty

Truth, Lies, and Leadership

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Former FBI director James Comey provides an insider’s look at three US presidencies.

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Former FBI director James Comey describes himself as scrupulously nonpartisan – a seeker of truth and a neutral broker of information. As a Republican who served in high positions under George W. Bush, Barack Obama and Donald Trump, Comey espouses the need for public servants to check their political biases at the door. In Comey’s version of events, he comes across as even-keeled and self-critical, a rare Washington, DC, player who’s willing to see the good and bad in those on both sides of the aisle.

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“The Ramsey Rapist”

In 1977, James Comey was a high school senior living in northern New Jersey. Comey was home alone with his younger brother when an armed burglar broke into their house. The gunman paralyzed Comey with fear and panic. Comey talked the burglar into locking Comey and his brother into a basement bathroom with a window as an escape route. No one ever caught the burglar, but the episode marked the end of the Ramsey Rapist robberies and assaults in northern New Jersey. The encounter traumatized Comey and set him on a path to become a federal prosecutor and, later, FBI director.

Salvatore “Sammy the Bull” Gravano

As an assistant United States attorney in New York City in the early 1990s, Comey prosecuted Mafia cases. The job put him in close contact with Salvatore “Sammy the Bull” Gravano, a notorious mobster who agreed to testify against mob boss John Gotti. Gravano laid out the rules of La Cosa Nostra. Among them: no killing cops, no selling drugs, no killing “made men” and no affairs with the wives of made men. While the Mafia avoided killing law enforcement officers, fearing retaliation, mobsters routinely ignored...

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James Comey was director of the FBI from 2013 to 2017. He served as the deputy US attorney general in the George W. Bush administration.

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    E. P. 8 years ago
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