had that in abundance, soliciting opinions from those who disagreed with him and listening attentively. They welcome them. Knowing how to “do the right thing” is something that must be learned. But an individual moral commitment to doing “the right thing” is necessarily open-ended and indeterminate. An understanding that while words matter, actions matter even more.

I agree with you, Laurie, impeachment would be an ugly and divisive solution. When the smoke from this “fire,” as Comey calls it, clears away, we will be better for it. Lots of noise, is there any light? during his most exciting mobster-hunting period. A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership is a book by James Comey, the former Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), discussing ethics and leadership Comey encountered throughout his life, his career in public office, and his relationship with President Donald Trump, who fired him in May 2017.It was published by Macmillan Publishers' Flatiron Books on April 17, 2018. And Why?

The American people should not be shirking their duty in selecting people to represent our interests and then sit back and participate in all the name-calling and incivility.

One objection to Comey’s actions in 2016 is that, fully granting that he took them in good faith, there was no such agreement within the Department of Justice that the director of the FBI should assume this role.

raises these issues starkly. 1; I recently read A Higher Loyalty, by James Comey, former FBI Director. On this, his critics are right, and he is wrong. These and related passages of “A Higher Loyalty” about Comey’s public ethics have not commanded much attention, though Comey’s story is less interesting without them. He might have thought he was left with no choice, the other principals having disqualified themselves from participation. Which States Support the 'Unwilling and Unable' Test? We seem to have left half the country behind over the last few decades,  and we didn’t seem to notice or care that they were suffering. In the view of everybody, he was the man who won Trump his presidency.

The emotional commitment that people develop toward a service provider boosts customer retention and loyalty and prevents the search for alternatives among competing brands. There is nothing to agonize about in the Duke’s simple world. He argues that the circumstances were extraordinary and that other responsible officials, the attorney general in particular, could not in this particular case represent the apolitical independence that he wished to project for the Justice Department and the bureau.

It’s become a cold and cruel thing. A registered Republican, he was appointed to the position by Barack Obama in 2013, four years before being dismissed by President Donald Trump. McDaniel, who said that she had not read the book, stated that her opinion was based on "excerpts" she had heard.

Which is why “A Higher Loyalty,” James Comey’s part memoir, part book-length discussion of ethics and leadership, was so eagerly awaited. “Lordy, I hope not.” That is not in keeping with Reinhold Niebuhr.