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Acting FBI director refutes White House claims on Comey
Testifying before the Senate Intelligence Committee, acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe says ousted FBI Director James Comey enjoyed 'broad support' among the agency, rejecting White House claims those in the FBI lost faith in him.
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WASHINGTON, US (REUTERS) The man who took over from ousted FBI Director James Comey declined to say on Thursday (May 12) whether he ever heard Comey tell Donald Trump that the president was not a target of an investigation into possible collusion between Russia and Trump's 2016 presidential campaign.

In testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee, acting FBI director Andrew McCabe also pledged that he would inform the panel of any effort by the White House or others to interfere with the agency's probe into alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 election.

He also rejected White House claims that FBI workers had lost faith in Comey, saying the former FBI director enjoyed 'broad support' among those in the agency.

McCabe testified in place of Comey, who Trump dismissed as FBI director on Tuesday in an action that has roiled Washington.
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Democrats have accused the Republican president of trying to foil the FBI's probe into Russian meddling. Republican Committee Chairman Richard Burr asked McCabe whether he ever heard Comey tell Trump the president was not the subject of investigation.

McCabe sidestepped the question, saying he could not comment on an ongoing investigation.

In his letter firing Comey on Tuesday, Trump wrote, "While I greatly appreciate you informing me, on three separate occasions, that I am not under investigation, I nevertheless concur with the judgment of the Department of Justice that you are not able to effectively lead the Bureau."

US intelligence agencies concluded in a January report that Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered an effort to disrupt the election that included hacking into Democratic Party emails and leaking them, with the aim of helping Trump.

Leaders of the US intelligence agencies, including Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats and CIA chief Mike Pompeo, testifying on Thursday said they agreed with that finding.

Moscow has denied any such interference and the Trump administration denies allegations of collusion with Russia.

Thursday's hearing was scheduled to address global security threats, but there were frequent questions about Comey and the FBI's Russia probe.

Several congressional panels are also investigating Russia's role in the election. The Senate intelligence committee's top Democrat, Mark Warner, said in light of Comey's firing, "It is important to restate the critical importance of protecting the independence and integrity of federal law enforcement."

The firing has made the committee's investigation into Russia's influence on the presidential election even more important, Warner added.

"And while it's clear to me now more than ever that an independent special counsel must be appointed, make so mistake our committee will get to the bottom of what happened during the 2016 presidential election," Warner said.

Democrats have ramped up calls for an independent investigation into the Russia issue, and some Republicans in Congress have also said they were concerned about the timing of the move.

Republicans control both chambers in Congress.

"We will not be deterred from getting to the truth. These actions will do nothing to undermine our resolve to follow the evidence where ever it leads," Warner added, although he said he was not happy with the pace of the committee's probe.

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley called on the FBI to publicly confirm whether or not it is probing Trump.

In a statement, Grassley said that Comey had previously briefed him and the panel's top Democrat, Senator Dianne Feinstein, and that the lawmakers "heard nothing that contradicted the president's statement."

Trump is weighing a visit to the FBI's Washington headquarters in coming days to address agents, White House spokesman Sarah Huckabee Sanders told CBS News. The Trump administration has said Comey's firing was unrelated to the Russia investigation.

Former Republican congressman Mike Rogers is being considered as a candidate to replace Comey, a senior White House official said.

 

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North Korea in eerie coded radio message that risks sparking global WAR

KIM JONG-UN’s hermit state has sent a chilling coded message across South Korea’s airwaves in a defiant act that heaps pressure on the peninsula amid fears of a new war.










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The North resumed airing the eerie numbers via its radio station in Pyongyang last June, using them to direct their spies in the South, it is believed.

But the ghostly broadcasts – which usually happen at midnight – were aired last night for the first time since Moon Jae-in was made the South’s president.

It had been hoped the politician’s Liberal views would ease tensions, but crazy Kim’s latest act is a strong sign he’s a man who won’t be tamed.

The new coded message was read out on Radio Pyongyang at 1.15am (4.15pm UK time) by a female announcer.

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She said she is instructing “no.27 expedition agents” to “review” their “foreign language lessons”, according to the South’s Yonhap news agency.

The woman then called out a series of numbers, such as: “No. 18 on Page 451.”

Experts are still divided over what exactly North Korea is using the codes for.

But spooks believe the radio transmissions are designed to give spies secret orders which they can translate using a cipher book.
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This method was used during the Cold War, but it was suspended in 2000 when the two Koreas held a historic summit.

Yet last June the broadcasts resumed, and since then the North has broadcast numbers on 36 occasions including 16 this year.
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A previous broadcast addressed the “21st exploration team” and read out: “On page 924 number 49, on page 14 number 76, on page 418 number 37.”

The voice then continued with a further string of numbers and claimed it was calling for a “review” of a “math assignment”.
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Donald Trump escalates war with James Comey
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WASHINGTON • President Donald Trump has taken his fight with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to a new level, raising the spectre that he may have taped his conversations with director James Comey before firing him.

Mr Trump tweeted yesterday: "James Comey better hope that there are no 'tapes' of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press!"

He also suggested that he may cancel future press briefings and instead "hand out written responses for the sake of accuracy" because "as a very active President with lots of things happening, it is not possible for my surrogates to stand at podium with perfect accuracy!"

The messages followed Mr Trump on Thursday calling Mr Comey a "showboat" and a "grandstander" and insisting the FBI's Russia probe would show he did nothing wrong. He said he had sent a letter to a top Republican lawmaker declaring that he has no business dealings there.
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Yet, the congressional probes into possible ties between Russia and Mr Trump's campaign are pushing ahead and the nation's top law enforcement agency shows no sign of backing down in the face of the President's criticism.

Mr Comey's temporary replacement, Mr Andrew McCabe, made clear that he liked and respected Mr Comey, had no intention of briefing Mr Trump on the investigation into possible Russian interference in last year's presidential election as long as he held the job, and that he considered it one of the most important probes under way at the Justice Department.

One dismissal, many official accounts

Since US President Donald Trump's shock dismissal of FBI director James Comey on Tuesday, the official account of how and why he was sacked has changed.

On Thursday, Mr Trump appeared to contradict the initial version of events.

Here is a timeline of explanations provided by the White House and the President since Tuesday.

ON TUESDAY

Mr Trump fired Mr Comey, with a letter sent to FBI headquarters by his bodyguard. Mr Comey found out about the dismissal through the media.

LATER ON TUESDAY

White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer released a statement saying Mr Trump had decided to fire Mr Comey only after Attorney-General Jeff Sessions and Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein had recommended that Mr Comey be dismissed for his handling of last year's probe into Mrs Hillary Clinton's e-mails.

ON TUESDAY NIGHT

White House counsellor Kellyanne Conway told CNN that Mr Trump had taken the recommendation of Mr Rosenstein for Mr Comey's sacking.

ON WEDNESDAY MORNING

Vice-President Mike Pence told reporters on Capitol Hill that the dismissal was "the President's decision to accept the recommendation of the Deputy Attorney-General and the Attorney-General".

ON THE SAME DAY

Deputy White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Mr Trump had been thinking about letting Mr Comey go since winning the presidential election, but Mr Rosenstein had independently decided to review Mr Comey's conduct and had approached Mr Trump with his concerns.

ON WEDNESDAY EVENING

The White House released a new timeline of events. According to this version, Mr Trump had in recent weeks been "strongly inclined to remove" Mr Comey.

It added that Mr Trump had met Justice Department officials, and discussed reasons for removing Mr Comey.

But it said Mr Trump had made his final decision only after getting written recommendations from Mr Rosenstein and Mr Sessions.

ON THURSDAY

In an interview with NBC News, Mr Trump called Mr Comey "a showboat" and contradicted the earlier versions of events.

" I was going to fire Comey - my decision," Mr Trump told NBC. "I was going to fire regardless of recommendation."

LATER ON THURSDAY

Ms Sanders repeated the official White House timeline and said Mr Trump had already made up his mind to let Mr Comey go before meeting Mr Sessions and Mr Rosenstein. She said she had not asked Mr Trump that question directly before the previous day's briefing.

ON FRIDAY MORNING

In response to media criticism over the contradictory versions of Mr Comey's dismissal, Mr Trump tweeted: "As a very active President with lots of things happening, it is not possible for my surrogates to stand at podium with perfect accuracy!

"Maybe the best thing to do would be to cancel all future press briefings and hand out written responses for the sake of accuracy???"

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Mr McCabe, a 21-year veteran of the bureau, made an effort during Senate testimony on Thursday to dispute White House assertions that his former boss had lost the trust of FBI rank-and-file workers.

"Director Comey enjoyed broad support in the FBI and still does to this day," Mr McCabe told the US Senate Intelligence Committee. He also said working with Mr Comey was "the greatest privilege and honour of my professional life".

Mr Trump seemed to acknowledge that the Russia probe might touch people once close to him, taking pains to point out in an interview with NBC News that Mr Comey assured him three times that he was not in trouble - but offered no such assurance regarding others in his campaign.

"I know that I'm not under investigation. Me. Personally," Mr Trump told NBC News anchor Lester Holt. "I'm not talking about campaigns. I'm not talking about anything else."

The clash between the President and the nation's premier law enforcement agency continued a week of high drama in Washington.

As the White House's explanations kept shifting for how and why Mr Comey was fired, the administration at one point cited a memo written by Deputy Attorney-General Rod Rosenstein laying out the argument against Mr Comey without calling for his dismissal.

Yet, Mr Trump dispatched that explanation, saying he would have fired the director regardless of what his top Justice Department officials said.

Also caught in the middle are career FBI agents and investigators unaccustomed to being in the public spotlight.

Mr Trump's justifications for firing Mr Comey have raised key questions about possible politicisation of law enforcement. In a letter on Tuesday to Mr Comey, Mr Trump said the director had on three occasions assured him that he was not under investigation. If true, that would be a breach of FBI norms against discussing ongoing cases.

Mr McCabe, under questioning by Republican Senator Richard Burr on Thursday, said he could not comment on any conversations that Mr Comey "may have had with the President".

He added that it would not be standard practice to tell someone they were not the target of a probe and he vowed not to do so for Mr Trump or other White House officials.

In the NBC interview, Mr Trump said he had reached the conclusion that "this Russia thing with Trump and Russia is a made-up story".

"The Fake Media is working overtime today!" Mr Trump tweeted yesterday morning. "Again, the story that there was collusion between the Russians & Trump campaign was fabricated by Dems as an excuse for losing the election."

But Mr McCabe assured lawmakers that he will not allow the probe to be cut short, especially for political reasons, saying: "The investigation will move forward, absolutely."

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With a threat of 'tapes', Trump tells ousted FBI chief not to talk to media
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Donald Trump warned ousted FBI Director James Comey on Friday not to talk to the media, a highly unusual move that prompted fresh charges the president is trying to silence the man who led an investigation into possible collusion between Mr Trump's election campaign and Russia.
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[WASHINGTON] Donald Trump warned ousted FBI Director James Comey on Friday not to talk to the media, a highly unusual move that prompted fresh charges the president is trying to silence the man who led an investigation into possible collusion between Mr Trump's election campaign and Russia.

On Twitter, Mr Trump appeared to suggest that if Mr Comey gave his version of contacts between them, the administration might produce tapes of conversations, although it was not clear if such tapes exist. The veiled threat added to the storm over Mr Trump's abrupt firing of Comey on Tuesday.

Critics have assailed Mr Trump for dismissing the FBI chief just as the agency is investigating alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 US election, and possible Moscow ties to the Trump presidential campaign.

The New York Times reported the president asked Mr Comey in January to pledge loyalty to him and that Mr Comey refused to do so. Such a request would undermine the standing of the FBI chief as an independent law enforcer and further fuelled charges that Trump has overstepped the norms of his office.
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"James Comey better hope that there are no 'tapes' of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press!" Mr Trump said in a string of Twitter posts on Friday.
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Mr Trump told Fox News he did not ask Mr Comey to pledge loyalty and only wants him to be honest. Mr Trump said he would not talk about the existence of any tapes.

CNN said Mr Comey is "not worried about any tapes" Mr Trump may have, citing an unnamed source familiar with the matter.

The top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, Mark Warner, told MSNBC that Congress would want to look at the tapes, if they exist.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation probe and parallel congressional investigations have clouded Mr Trump's presidency since he took office on Jan 20, threatening to overwhelm his policy priorities.

Democrats accuse the Republican president of trying to dent the FBI probe by firing Mr Comey and have called for a special counsel to investigate the Russia issue.

INDEPENDENT PROBE?

The No 2 Democrat in the Senate, Richard Durbin, went further on Friday and said Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein should appoint an independent special prosecutor to pursue possible criminal charges related to Mr Comey's firing, although he did not specify if he meant such charges should be against Mr Trump.

But Mr Rosenstein does not see the need at this time for a special prosecutor, CNN reported. The Justice Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Reuters.

Mr Trump told Fox News in an interview he did not think an independent probe was necessary.

In a statement, Mr Durbin said that what he characterized as Mr Trump's admission that he fired Mr Comey because of the Russia probe was "dangerously close to obstruction of justice."

Mr Durbin said Mr Trump's tweet on Friday "could be construed as threatening a witness in this investigation, which is another violation of federal law." Mr Comey declined an invitation to testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee in a closed meeting on Tuesday for scheduling reasons, said Warner's spokesman. An official familiar with the matter told Reuters that Mr Comey had agreed in principle to testify behind closed doors at some point.

As has happened on previous occasions since Mr Trump took office, different versions rapidly circulated of an event - in this case phone conversations between Mr Comey and Mr Trump and a dinner they had at the White House.

The New York Times said Mr Comey told associates he declined to make a pledge of loyalty to Mr Trump when the president requested it while they dined just seven days after his inauguration. Mr Comey instead told Mr Trump he could count on his honesty, the Times said.

Mr Trump says Mr Comey had told him three times he was not under investigation in the Russia probe. He said in an interview on Thursday with NBC News that Mr Comey gave him this assurance during the White House dinner and in two phone conversations. Mr Trump said Mr Comey wanted to have the dinner because he wanted to stay on in the job.

Mr Comey has not publicly discussed any conversations he has had with Mr Trump.

NEWS BRIEFINGS

Mr Trump also hit back on Friday at media reports questioning the credibility of White House accounts of why Mr Comey was fired, which have changed over the course of the week, and threatened an end to regular White House press briefings.

"As a very active President with lots of things happening, it is not possible for my surrogates to stand at podium with perfect accuracy!" Mr Trump said.

"Maybe the best thing to do would be to cancel all future 'press briefings' and hand out written responses for the sake of accuracy???" Mr Trump told Fox News he would decide in "the next couple of weeks" whether the briefings would continue.

The White House initially said Mr Trump fired Mr Comey on the recommendation of the top Justice Department officials: Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Rosenstein. In the NBC interview on Thursday, Mr Trump said he would have fired Mr Comey regardless of any such recommendations.

The White House has said Mr Comey's firing was unrelated to the Russia probe. On Thursday, Mr Trump told NBC he knew he ran the risk that by firing Mr Comey he would "confuse people" and"lengthen out the investigation" into ties to Russia.

The president said he never pressured Mr Comey into dropping the FBI investigation, and added that there was no "collusion between me and my campaign and the Russians".

Mr Trump told Fox News he was surprised by the fierce reaction of Democrats.

"I thought that this would be a very popular thing, that I did, when I terminated Comey, because all of the Democrats couldn't stand him," Mr Trump said.

Mr Comey had angered Democrats over his handling of the probe of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server while she was secretary of state.

Mr Trump is considering 11 people to replace Mr Comey, a White House official said. Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe, Republican Senator John Cornyn, New York Appeals Court Judge Michael Garcia and former Assistant Attorney General Alice Fisher will be interviewed on Saturday for the post, an administration official said.

US intelligence agencies concluded in January that Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered a campaign of interference in the election aimed at tilting the vote in Mr Trump's favour. Moscow has denied any such meddling.

As part of the Russia investigation, the Justice Department last month requested former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort's banking records, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing sources familiar with the matter.

Seeking to bolster Mr Trump's case that he has had no concealed dealings with Russia, his lawyers said in a letter released by the White House on Friday that a review of Mr Trump's tax returns from the past 10 years showed no income from Russian sources outside of a few exceptions, and indicated he did not owe money to Russian lenders.

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