Flake baffled by firing
By Dylan Smith | TucsonSentinel.com
In the wake of President Donald Trump’s firing of FBI Director James Comey on Tuesday, U.S. Sen. John McCain said the move “confirms the need and the urgency … for a special congressional committee to investigate Russia’s interference in the 2016 election.”
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“While the president has the legal authority to remove the director of the FBI, I am disappointed in the president’s decision to remove James Comey from office,” McCain said in a statement released by his office Tuesday afternoon.
Comey, who came under even more political fire after the nonprofit news outlet ProPublica reported that he made recently misleading statements to Congress about the probe of Anthony Weiner’s laptop just before the November election, was dismissed by Trump on Tuesday. Comey’s FBI has been handling the investigation into allegations that Russia’s Vladimir Putin attempted to play a role in Trump’s win over Hillary Clinton.
