The FBI is considering the possibility of a “spectacular” arrest and a first -a -a -a -a -a -a -a -ce -very -heart -rate walk, and agent of the agency, and suspended an agent who refused to participate in the plan, three sources familiar with this issue were told to CBS News.
Komi was Last week, accused of lying in Congress And the obstacle in the process of Congress, an unprecedented step that occurred after President Trump publicly gave the Prosecutor General Pam Bondi to look at his old enemy. The large jury voted for presenting him on September 25, and after a few hours Komi was I released the summons Send him to the federal court in North Virginia to be charged on October 9. His lawyers agreed to bring him to the prosecution, two sources reported.
But on the same day that his indictment, the FBI leadership discussed the transportation of Komi, instead of waiting for the former chief of the FBI to stop independently, the source of appeals told CBS News.
The source informed CBS News that the leadership asked for “large, muscular” agents to arrest Comey ”in full set,” including Kevlar vests and outer clothing decorated with the FBI logo. It was suggested that Chris Ray, a special supervision agent in the department for violent crimes in the FBI field office, will be able to collect those types of agents that comply with the bill, the source said.
Ray refused to participate in this regard, believing that he would be inappropriate and very unusual for the defendant from the white collars, like Komi, according to the source. Then he was suspended to disobedience.
Currently, the FBI is actively working on the creation of a team to arrest Komi between this moment and its appearance in court on Thursday, but other FBI leaders also refused to cooperate, a source who knew about appeals and a source of law enforcement agencies familiar with the situation. It is expected that the FBI will ultimately find someone.
CBS News turned to the FBI for comments. Komi lawyer, Patrick Fitzgerald, refused to comment on CBS News.
Reuters was The first to report The fact that the FBI agent was suspended to refuse help with a walk.
Law enforcement agencies have long decided to hold public walks for the Popovs, for some accused. Tactics are contradictory: critics claim that it undermines the presumption of innocence of the defendants. When Komi was the chief federal prosecutor in Manhattan during the administration of George Bush, New York Civil Freedom Union I wrote a letter Calling him to end practice, saying that “it seems that it is calculated simply to cause public humiliation and embarrassment of the accused.”
The accusation of the Komi marked the escalation in almost a ten-year hostility between Mr. Trump and the director of the FBI, whom he fired in the first months of his first term. Mr. Trump was criticized about the investigation of the FBI in Russian interference in the 2016 election, and Komi called Mr. Trump “Unusable to the president. “
The accusations are accused of Komi of lying during a hearing in the Senate five years ago, falsely saying that he did not allow anyone to serve as an anonymous source in media reports on the investigation of Hillary Clinton. The accusation does not make it clear who he allegedly authorized to be an anonymous source, or what entails a leak.
Komi is denied offensesField
The accusations followed the days of shock in the office of the US prosecutor's office in the eastern district of Virginia, where Komi was charged. Leading prosecutor in this office Eric Zibert resigned from work Two weeks agoAnd Mr. Trump replaced him with his former personal lawyer Lindsay Halligan. In less than a week, Halligan The large jury asked accuse Komi.
Some employees in the office distributed a note that claimed that the charges should not be put forward against Comey, a source of the Ministry of Justice, familiar with this issue, CBS News said last week.
The Ministry of Justice also fired two high -level prosecutors in the Eastern District of Virginia over the past two weeks, sources are familiar with this issue Said CBS NewsField
