Asked what Kyle Sampson and others in the administration might have meant when they referred to the “loyalty” of U.S. attorneys, James Comey replied “I don’t know what they meant.”
He then went on to explain that it was essential that the Justice Department be seen as “the other in American life,” that the DoJ had to be “seen as the good guys — not as this administration or that administration.” If the Justice Department didn’t have that “special trust,” then it was impossible to effectively do its job.
You might call this a contrast to the views of the current leadership in the Justice Department.
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