1. Some thoughts on the Comey book, based upon my new @rollingstone review of #AHigherLoyalty: rollingstone.com/politics/featu…
2. It is impossible to imagine Robert Mueller writing the book that Comey did, one that places himself at the center of the drama : rollingstone.com/politics/featu…
3. Comey falls far short of the “radical transparency” that he once embraced and that he says guided his actions during the 2016 campaign: rollingstone.com/politics/featu…
4. Where Comey could have provided fresh insight and helped us to understand the decisions that he, his leadership, and the Obama administration made, he often stops short. rollingstone.com/politics/featu…
5. Though Comey chronicles his own white lies about playing basketball, he stops well short of the thorough and full-throated explanation of his own actions throughout the 2016 campaign that so many Americans hunger for. rollingstone.com/politics/featu…
6. Much of Comey's book—too much—takes places in the blank spaces in between, glossed over as so much yadda yadda yadda. Somewhere between pages 190 and 191 takes place the entire summer of internal government debate over whether to go public on Russia. rollingstone.com/politics/featu…
7. There are core inconsistencies in Comey’s own explanations of his behavior—which seems to not weigh the politics of a Trump victory, while weighing heavily the politics of a Clinton victory. rollingstone.com/politics/featu…
8. Lastly, hard to miss that Andy McCabe is all but a ghost in the book until Comey is fired, despite McCabe’s central role in the Clinton email investigation—an omission so marked that it comes across as an almost intentional slight. rollingstone.com/politics/featu…
