Comey was asked frequently about whether the president obstructed justice when Trump fired him last year. When it came to questions about his own conduct, however, Comey was loath to take any blame. “I still think the other alternative was worse,” Comey said, echoing a rationale he has expressed in public. The former FBI director said he was “glad” to hear of former national security adviser Michael Flynn’s cooperation with the Mueller probe, and he disputed the president’s suggestion that he and Mueller were close friends. “He’s certainly fit to be attorney general,” Comey said of Barr, declining to say whether Barr’s past comments warranted him recusing himself from overseeing Mueller’s probe.

Source: Washington Post December 09, 2018 00:18 UTC