![]() ![]() ![]() Those leaders who never think they are wrong, who never question their judgments or perspectives, are a danger to the organizations and people they lead.” “Listening to others who disagree with me and are willing to criticize me is essential to piercing the seduction of certainty,” Comey writes. Lastly, his accounts of prosecuting the Sicilian-New York mob 20-30 years ago are great storytelling, even before it becomes apparent that he included that stuff to later show how Trump uses the exact same playbook, only much more ineptly than the mafia dons of yore. There’s a lot to dislike for progressives, particularly in the chapters where he describes his career as a prosecutor and in the FBI more generally: he places much naive faith in a system that is actually very racist and broken, and he has the blind spots one might expect from someone who’s only ever lived as a 6’8, upper middle class, college-educated, straight, white, Christian man. ![]() His comparisons of the conduct and temperament of Bush, Obama and Trump is likewise very compelling. And it’s importamt for how it meticulously documents Trump’s corrupt, unethical, and frankly guilty-as-hell looking communications with Comey around the Russia investigation. This book is good, and important, both for how it explains the terrible Catch 22 Comey was in when the Clinton emails turned up on Anthony Weiner’s laptop in late October 2016 (report and risk affecting the election don’t report and risk de-legitimizing the then-anticipated Clinton presidency). ![]()
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