Writing in an email to former U.S. Attorney for Little Rock Bud Cummins, James Comey explained why he’d felt compelled to defend David Iglesias and other of the fired U.S. attorneys. Comey had given quotes to The Washington Post and other papers praising them.
“I will not sit by and watch good people smeared,” Comey wrote in early March. “What’s that quotation about all that’s necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to remain silent?” You can read their email exchange here.
So that’s where we are now. The former deputy attorney general tacitly calling the administration’s actions “evil.”
Here’s video of Comey being questioned about the email from this morning’s hearing: