![]() ![]() But what is of greater and more lasting importance to the history of our constitutional democracy are the stunning disclosures Comey makes about the years of secret surveillance and torture that President Bush initiated, President Barack Obama ignored, and President Trump is threatening to resurrect and expand. ![]() It’s not until page 211 that Comey recounts his now-familiar meetings and conversations with Trump. By and large, pundits and book reviewers have overlooked Comey’s most explosive revelations involving illegal conduct in the White House. In A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership, Comey brings readers inside the White House for a shocking firsthand account of this abuse of presidential power.Įxcept that it’s 2004, not 2017. The president of the United States may have been blatantly violating the law, and Comey was being asked to compromise his principles out of loyalty to the president and his administration. The rule of law and the very integrity of the government were, he thought, at stake. FOR JAMES COMEY, it was a pivotal moment. ![]()
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