The legitimate questions about what the Russians were doing cannot be fired away. Indeed, if Comey has damaging testimony to offer, he would seem to be even more of a threat as a former FBI director than as an acting one. Moreover, the hearings for his successor will be dominated by the same topic, and to be credible the next FBI director will have to promise to pursue the investigations no less vigorously than Comey did.
I think the way forward (and out) is the same one that struck me as obvious two months ago: a blue-ribbon independent commission patterned on the 9/11 Commission and empowered to give the American people a complete accounting of what foreign powers did to intervene in the 2016 election.
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