Former FBI Director James Comey is going to teach at Columbia University Law School in the coming spring semester.
“Comey’s experience represents a broadening of the Mark Initiative’s focus to include leadership of major public institutions, complementing existing offerings relating to corporations and law firms,” the university’s statement reads.
James Comey served as the director of the FBI from 2013 until 2017 when he was removed from the bureau by President Donald Trump. Trump’s attorney, Rudy Giuliani, later revealed that Trump fired Comey because he wouldn’t make a public statement that Trump wasn’t a target of the FBI’s investigation into alleged Russian interference in the 2016 election.
“He fired Comey because Comey would not, among other things, say that he wasn’t a target of the investigation,” Giuliani said during a 2018 interview on Fox News. “So he fired him and he said, ‘I’m free of this guy.’”
Last week, former Donald Trump campaign adviser Carter Page sued James Comey, among many others, in a federal court in Washington, alleging that he was illegally surveilled as part of the probe into alleged Russian collusion.
Also listed as defendants are former Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe, former FBI agent Peter Strzok, and former FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith.
Page “seeks that accountability and damages against the individuals and agencies who wronged” him, the lawsuit says.
“Page is entitled to relief for Defendants’ unjustified and illegal actions (including violations of federal criminal law), which violated federal statutes enacted to prevent unlawful spying on United States persons, as well as the Constitution,” the complaint reads.