Per Politico — former FBI Director James Comey has declined an invitation to testify in a closed session next Tuesday before the Senate Intelligence Committee.
And I think that’s smart of him, because, as Eric Garland notes, whoever was there can say whatever they want to the media about what he said afterwards, and he has no way to disprove it, nor do fact-checking Dems on the Committee. Since Trump has declared media war on Comey, his minions in the Senate are likely to follow suit.
Comey’s not quoted as saying “public or bust,” but I suspect that’s the message. This is a guy who’s not afraid of the “tapes.”
I suspect it’s also maybe something of an FU to Orange Teeny Twit-chy TRAITOR Fingers.
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Adding something, spurred by a comment by yet another liberal (“Make Trump cough up the tapes”) : House Democrat of Illinois Raja Krishnamoorti sent a letter to the WH Counsel today, for exactly that purpose.