The Comey Rule

James Comey interviews with President Obama and lands the job of a lifetime, Director of the FBI. But two years into his tenure,  the Bureau is plunged into two hugely controversial cases: "Midyear Exam," the investigation into Hillary Clinton's emails while serving as Secretary of State, and "Crossfire Hurricane," an investigation into Russia's ongoing attempts to derail the Presidential Election of 2016. Comey's decisions on those two cases will alter both his place in history and history itself.

James Comey’s FBI continues treading a dangerous path between two politically charged cases: the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails and Russian interference in the 2016 election. As possibly explosive new evidence against Clinton emerges just days before the election, Comey must thread a needle between upholding the law and influencing the outcome.

James Comey awakens on November 9, 2016, now known nationally as "the man who got Donald Trump elected." With that hanging over him, he now must try to find a way to work with the new President. That grows complicated when it becomes clear that Trump wants to use Comey, the Bureau, and the Department of Justice for his own political aims - forcing these two men on a collision course whose result is as inevitable as it is tragic.

As James Comey’s relationship with President Trump becomes increasingly untenable, the fallout from decisions made and not made becomes too large for any Director of the FBI to handle. Soon it will fall to Congress, with the aid of a Special Counsel investigation, to find a path through the wilderness of a full-blown constitutional crisis.