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James Comey's Slow Drip
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What did we learn from Monday's public testimony of FBI Director James Comey? National security ace Ben Wittes says Comey's statements were intriguingly "gentle," though they should still distress the president. Wittes is editor in chief of Lawfare and a senior fellow in governance studies at the Brookings Institution.
For the Spiel, Neil Gorsuch talks about a pointless race he once did and quotes David Foster Wallace, but doesn't talk about his judicial philosophy.
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