{"id":307727,"date":"2017-05-11T18:55:38","date_gmt":"2017-05-11T17:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/acting-fbi-director-contradicts-trumps-claim-about-comey\/"},"modified":"2017-05-11T18:55:38","modified_gmt":"2017-05-11T17:55:38","slug":"acting-fbi-director-contradicts-trumps-claim-about-comey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/acting-fbi-director-contradicts-trumps-claim-about-comey\/","title":{"rendered":"Acting FBI director contradicts Trump&#039;s claim about Comey"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe has directly contradicted a claim by President Donald Trump who recently fired FBI Director James Comey, saying he\u00a0lost the confidence of the \u201crank and file\u201d of the agency. \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Addressing the Senate Intelligence Committee,\u00a0McCabe rejected the White House\u2019s assertion that Comey \u201clost the confidence of almost everyone in Washington, Republican and Democrat alike.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can confidently tell you that the vast majority of employees enjoyed a deep and positive connection to Director Comey,\u201d he added, calling it \u201cnot accurate\u201d to say otherwise,\u201d he added, calling it the \u201cgreatest privilege\u201d of his professional career to work with Comey.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the hearing, McCabe refused to comment on Trump\u2019s claim that he had been told he was not under investigation related to the probe of Russian actions in the 2016 US elections.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe work of the men and women of the FBI continues despite any changes in&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2017\/05\/11\/521524\/Acting-FBI-chief-contradict-White-House-claim\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe has directly contradicted a claim by President Donald Trump who recently fired FBI Director James Comey, saying he\u00a0lost the confidence of the \u201crank and file\u201d of the agency. \u00a0\u00a0 Addressing the Senate Intelligence Committee,\u00a0McCabe rejected the White House\u2019s assertion that Comey \u201clost the confidence of almost everyone in Washington, Republican [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-307727","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}