Anthony Weiner’s Not Coming Back. But He Has Nowhere to Go.

The man who was almost New York’s mayor talks about the current campaign, selling tweets and why he feels bad for the media.

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The New York Times 3:28 am on June 5, 2021
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U.S. Put Gag Order on Times Executives Amid Fight Over Email Logs

The push began in the Trump administration and continued under President Biden, and the Justice Department obtained a gag order to keep it from public view.

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The New York Times 12:22 am on June 3, 2021
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Trump Administration Secretly Seized Phone Records of Times Reporters

The admission by the Biden Justice Department followed similar recent disclosures to The Washington Post and CNN.

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The New York Times 6:25 pm on January 15, 2021
Tags: A Lie Someone Told You About Yourself (Book) ( 2 ), Books and Literature ( 1,728 ), Comey, James B, Davies, Peter Ho ( 2 ), Klein, Joe, Saving Justice: Truth, Transparency, and Trust (Book) ( 3 )

James Comey and Truth in Government

Joe Klein talks about Comey’s “Saving Justice,” and Elisabeth Egan discusses Peter Ho Davies’s “A Lie Someone Told You About Yourself.”

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The New York Times 11:00 pm on January 10, 2021
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Book Review: ‘Saving Justice,’ by James Comey

Comey’s “Saving Justice” is a revealing memoir that describes his feelings about Trump and his worries about the nation.

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The New York Times 9:40 pm on December 23, 2020
Tags: A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life (Book) ( 3 ), Aftershocks: A Memoir (Book) ( 2 ), Black, Emily Rapp ( 2 ), Books and Literature ( 1,728 ), Bush, Keisha, Chammah, Maurice ( 2 ), Comey, James B, Didion, Joan ( 4 ), Ditlevsen, Tove ( 3 ), Feaver, William ( 2 ), Freud, Lucian ( 3 ), Jones, Robert Jr (1971- ) ( 3 ), Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World (Book) ( 2 ), Let Me Tell You What I Mean (Book) ( 2 ), Let the Lord Sort Them: The Rise and Fall of the Death Penalty (Book) ( 2 ), Nimura, Janice P ( 2 ), No Heaven for Good Boys: A Novel (Book), Owusu, Nadia ( 2 ), Rosen, Kenneth R ( 3 ), Sanctuary: A Memoir (Book) ( 2 ), Saunders, George ( 6 ), Saving Justice: Truth, Transparency, and Trust (Book) ( 3 ), The Copenhagen Trilogy: Childhood, Youth, Dependency (Book) ( 3 ), The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine (Book) ( 2 ), The Lives of Lucian Freud: Fame, 1968-2011 (Book) ( 2 ), The Prophets (Book) ( 3 ), Troubled: The Failed Promise of America's Behavioral Treatment Program (Book) ( 2 ), Winchester, Simon (1944- ) ( 2 )

13 New Books to Watch For in January

Essays from Joan Didion, George Saunders on why fiction matters and plenty more.

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The New York Times 11:00 am on September 30, 2020
Tags: Comey, James B, Federal Bureau of Investigation ( 307 ), Graham, Lindsey ( 60 ), Presidential Election of 2020 ( 3,597 ), Russian Interference in 2016 US Elections and Ties to Trump Associates ( 277 ), Senate Committee on the Judiciary ( 79 ), Special Prosecutors (Independent Counsel) ( 76 ), Trump, Donald J ( 5,538 ), United States Politics and Government ( 6,520 ), Wiretapping and Other Eavesdropping Devices and Methods ( 31 )

Comey to Defend Russia Inquiry in Senate Testimony

The former F.B.I. director has long been a target of President Trump’s.

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The New York Times 3:46 pm on September 24, 2020
Tags: Comey, James B, Daniels, Jeff ( 4 ), Gleeson, Brendan ( 3 ), Hunter, Holly, McNairy, Scoot, Ray, Billy ( 4 ), Showtime ( 26 ), Television ( 1,441 ), The Comey Rule (TV Program) ( 4 )

Review: ‘The Comey Rule’ and What a Fool Believes

Showtime’s political drama is a scattered but searing picture of failed self-righteousness.

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The New York Times 9:00 am on September 23, 2020
Tags: A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership (Book) ( 2 ), Comey, James B, Daniels, Jeff ( 4 ), Gleeson, Brendan ( 3 ), Presidential Election of 2016 ( 241 ), Ray, Billy ( 4 ), Showtime ( 26 ), Television ( 1,441 ), The Comey Rule (TV Program) ( 4 ), Trump, Donald J ( 5,538 )

‘The Comey Rule’: Why Watching Jeff Daniels Ruined James Comey’s Day

Based on the former F.B.I. director’s 2018 memoir, the mini-series recounts a history so recent that viewers may experience whiplash. For Comey, watching Daniels in action prompted tears — and nausea.

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The New York Times 6:00 pm on August 31, 2020
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How Has Donald Trump Survived?

Michael S. Schmidt’s “Donald Trump v. the United States” describes the uncomfortable tenures of two influential White House figures.

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The New York Times 3:56 pm on August 1, 2020
Tags: Bolton, John R ( 51 ), Books and Literature ( 1,728 ), Comey, James B, Manigault, Omarosa ( 5 ), McCabe, Andrew G ( 3 ), Presidential Election of 2016 ( 241 ), Spicer, Sean M (1971- ) ( 6 ), Trump, Donald J ( 5,538 ), United States Politics and Government ( 6,520 ), Writing and Writers ( 513 )

In Trumpworld, the Grown-Ups in the Room All Left, and Got Book Deals

A large club of Trump administration evictees have turned their bracingly bad experiences into a new genre: political revenge literature.

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The New York Times 9:00 am on July 27, 2020
Tags: Comey, James B, Demings, Val ( 12 ), Democratic Party ( 1,626 ), Federal Taxes (US) ( 252 ), Harris, Kamala D ( 329 ), Polls and Public Opinion ( 542 ), Presidential Election of 2020 ( 3,597 ), Republican Party ( 1,831 ), Rice, Susan E ( 15 ), Taxation ( 147 ), Trump, Donald J ( 5,538 ), United States Politics and Government ( 6,520 ), Voting and Voters ( 461 )

A Trumpless Future Is Hard to Get Your Head Around

Can Biden — and his vice-presidential pick — take us there?

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The New York Times 6:11 pm on June 24, 2020
Tags: CBS Corporation ( 62 ), Comey, James B, Daniels, Jeff ( 4 ), Federal Bureau of Investigation ( 307 ), Gleeson, Brendan ( 3 ), Lane, Diane ( 2 ), Movies ( 1,107 ), Murphy, Ryan ( 13 ), Politics and Government ( 2,610 ), Ray, Billy ( 4 ), Russian Interference in 2016 US Elections and Ties to Trump Associates ( 277 ), Showtime ( 26 ), Television ( 1,441 ), Trump, Donald J ( 5,538 ), ViacomCBS Inc ( 21 )

Trump-Comey Mini-Series Will Air Before Election Day

The series director criticized ViacomCBS’s announcement that it would broadcast “The Comey Rule” in late November. On Wednesday, the air date was moved to September.

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The New York Times 10:26 pm on June 23, 2020
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Director of Trump-Comey TV Series Criticizes Postelection Release Date

In an email to the cast, the filmmaker, Billy Ray, lamented ViacomCBS’s announcement that it would show his adaptation of James Comey’s tell-all in late November.

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The New York Times 9:40 pm on June 16, 2020
Tags: Comey, James B, Flynn, Michael T ( 63 ), George Floyd Protests (2020) ( 1,259 ), Manafort, Paul J ( 21 ), Police ( 300 ), Stone, Roger J Jr ( 49 ), Trump, Donald J ( 5,538 ), United States Politics and Government ( 6,520 )

Trump Dismisses Criticism of Law Enforcement (Unless It’s His)

President Trump regularly assails law enforcement officials who investigate him or his friends as “dirty cops,” while staunchly defending the police who are accused of mistreating anyone else.

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The New York Times 9:07 pm on May 15, 2020
Tags: Amnesties, Commutations and Pardons ( 78 ), Barr, William P ( 212 ), Comey, James B, Constitution (US) ( 205 ), Ethics and Official Misconduct ( 207 ), Federal Bureau of Investigation ( 307 ), Flynn, Michael T ( 63 ), Gleeson, John ( 7 ), Justice Department ( 578 ), Russian Interference in 2016 US Elections and Ties to Trump Associates ( 277 ), Special Prosecutors (Independent Counsel) ( 76 ), Sullivan, Emmet G ( 18 ), Trump, Donald J ( 5,538 ), United States Politics and Government ( 6,520 )

The Justice Dept.’s Attempt to Drop the Michael Flynn Case, Explained

The move is highly unusual and has prompted a judge to appoint an outsider to argue against the department.

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The New York Times 10:02 pm on May 14, 2020
Tags: Barr, William P ( 212 ), Comey, James B, Flynn, Michael T ( 63 ), Ignatius, David ( 3 ), Justice Department ( 578 ), Kislyak, Sergei I ( 7 ), Russian Interference in 2016 US Elections and Ties to Trump Associates ( 277 ), Special Prosecutors (Independent Counsel) ( 76 ), United States Politics and Government ( 6,520 )

Trump White House Changes Its Story on Michael Flynn

Three years ago, President Trump swiftly fired his first national security adviser, Michael T. Flynn, for lying to the F.B.I. Ahead of the November election, Mr. Trump and his allies are now telling a very different tale.

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The New York Times 9:00 am on May 14, 2020
Tags: Barr, William P ( 212 ), Comey, James B, Flynn, Michael T ( 63 ), Ignatius, David ( 3 ), Justice Department ( 578 ), Kislyak, Sergei I ( 7 ), Russian Interference in 2016 US Elections and Ties to Trump Associates ( 277 ), Special Prosecutors (Independent Counsel) ( 76 ), United States Politics and Government ( 6,520 )

Trump White House Rewrites History, This Time About Flynn

The New York Times 4:10 am on April 30, 2020
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Flynn Lawyers Seize on Newly Released F.B.I. Documents

The documents show details of a debate among F.B.I. officials before interviewing Michael T. Flynn in 2017, days after he lied to the vice president about his talks with a top Russian diplomat.

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The New York Times 3:17 am on March 7, 2020
Tags: Barr, William P ( 212 ), Brennan, John O ( 5 ), Comey, James B, Durham, John H ( 22 ), Espionage and Intelligence Services ( 280 ), Federal Bureau of Investigation ( 307 ), Flynn, Michael T ( 63 ), Justice Department ( 578 ), Mueller, Robert S III ( 65 ), Presidential Election of 2016 ( 241 ), Russian Interference in 2016 US Elections and Ties to Trump Associates ( 277 ), Special Prosecutors (Independent Counsel) ( 76 ), Stone, Roger J Jr ( 49 ), Trump, Donald J ( 5,538 ), United States Politics and Government ( 6,520 ), Walton, Reggie B

Barr Increasingly Appears Focused on Undermining Mueller Inquiry

A judge’s criticism cast light on the first in a series of steps by the attorney general to take aim at the Russia investigation.

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