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J. Edgar Hoover was said to be the ultimate bureaucrat. He always wrote memos about his every activity, meeting and requirements. He was known to usurp power that was not part of his duties. He also kept a file on everyone he dealt with. Most of the file were filled with meaningless papers, but he occationally had the goods on some of his file personalities and softly extorted what he wanted from them. He was also not a very tall man, but he wanted to have impression of height, so he ha a platform built in his office. His desk was on that platform and J. Edgar was behind the desk looking down on all he cam in his office.
James Comey appears to also be the ultimate bureaucrat and usurper. He, unlike J. Edgar, does not need a platform from which to look down on people. m/r

Comey Memo Says Trump Asked Him to End Flynn Investigation

By MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT MAY 16, 2017

WASHINGTON — President Trump asked the F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, to shut down the federal investigation into Mr. Trump’s former national security adviser, Michael T. Flynn, in an Oval Office meeting in February, according to a memo Mr. Comey wrote shortly after the meeting.

“I hope you can let this go,” the president told Mr. Comey, according to the memo.

The existence of Mr. Trump’s request is the clearest evidence that the president has tried to directly influence the Justice Department and F.B.I. investigation into links between Mr. Trump’s associates and Russia.

Mr. Comey wrote the memo detailing his conversation with the president immediately after the meeting, which took place the day after Mr. Flynn resigned, according to two people who read the memo. The memo was part of a paper trail Mr. Comey created documenting what he perceived as the president’s improper efforts to influence a continuing investigation. An F.B.I. agent’s contemporaneous notes are widely held up in court as credible evidence of conversations.

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