GOP Intelligence chairman troubled by Trump's firing of FBI director

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http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/332657-gop-intelligence-chairman-troubled-by-trumps-firing-of-fbi-director

Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr (R-N.C.) said Tuesday he is “troubled by the timing and reasoning” of President Trump's firing of FBI Director James Comey.

“I have found Director Comey to be a public servant of the highest order, and his dismissal further confuses an already difficult investigation by the committee,” Burr said in a statement.

The chairman is leading a Senate investigation into Russia’s influence over the 2016 presidential election.

“In my interactions with the director and with the bureau under his leadership, he and the FBI have always been straightforward with our committee,” Burr said. “Director Comey has been more forthcoming with information than any FBI director I can recall in my tenure on the congressional intelligence committees.”

So, just to be clear, not only was Comey himself caught entirely off-guard by this, the Senate Intelligence committee was too. This is absolute chaos.

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1. I read, in several places, that he knew he was

going to be fired. It took a week to come up with an excuse and it's complete deflection (the excuse that is).