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Hugh Hewitt

Professor Hugh Hewitt is a lawyer, law professor and broadcast journalist whose nationally syndicated radio show is heard in more than 120 cities across the United States every weekday afternoon. Professor Hewitt has been a frequent guest on CNN, Fox News Network, and MSNBC, and has written for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and the Los Angeles Times. Hewitt writes daily for his blog, HughHewitt.com, which is among the most visited political blogs in the U.S. He is also a weekly columnist for The Washington Examiner and Townhall.com.

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Comey’s firing isn’t like the ‘Saturday Night Massacre.’ It’s pretty straightforward.

Thu, May 11, 2017

Long ago and far away, when I was a young special assistant first to Attorney General William French Smith and then to Attorney General Edwin Meese, the young staff would automatically stand up whenever William Webster, then head of the FBI, walked into a room. At Friday morning roundtable briefings in the attorney general’s massive conference room, when...
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Comey’s firing isn’t like the ‘Saturday Night Massacre.’ It’s pretty straightforward.

Thu, May 11, 2017

Long ago and far away, when I was a young special assistant first to Attorney General William French Smith and then to Attorney General Edwin Meese, the young staff would automatically stand up whenever William Webster, then head of the FBI, walked into a room. At Friday morning roundtable briefings in the attorney general’s massive conference room, when...
Read More

Comey’s firing isn’t like the ‘Saturday Night Massacre.’ It’s pretty straightforward.

Thu, May 11, 2017

Long ago and far away, when I was a young special assistant first to Attorney General William French Smith and then to Attorney General Edwin Meese, the young staff would automatically stand up whenever William Webster, then head of the FBI, walked into a room. At Friday morning roundtable briefings in the attorney general’s massive conference room, when...
Read More

Comey’s firing isn’t like the ‘Saturday Night Massacre.’ It’s pretty straightforward.

Thu, May 11, 2017

Long ago and far away, when I was a young special assistant first to Attorney General William French Smith and then to Attorney General Edwin Meese, the young staff would automatically stand up whenever William Webster, then head of the FBI, walked into a room. At Friday morning roundtable briefings in the attorney general’s massive conference room, when...
Read More

Comey’s firing isn’t like the ‘Saturday Night Massacre.’ It’s pretty straightforward.

Thu, May 11, 2017

Long ago and far away, when I was a young special assistant first to Attorney General William French Smith and then to Attorney General Edwin Meese, the young staff would automatically stand up whenever William Webster, then head of the FBI, walked into a room. At Friday morning roundtable briefings in the attorney general’s massive conference room, when...
Read More

Comey’s firing isn’t like the ‘Saturday Night Massacre.’ It’s pretty straightforward.

Thu, May 11, 2017

Long ago and far away, when I was a young special assistant first to Attorney General William French Smith and then to Attorney General Edwin Meese, the young staff would automatically stand up whenever William Webster, then head of the FBI, walked into a room. At Friday morning roundtable briefings in the attorney general’s massive conference room, when...
Read More

Comey’s firing isn’t like the ‘Saturday Night Massacre.’ It’s pretty straightforward.

Thu, May 11, 2017

Long ago and far away, when I was a young special assistant first to Attorney General William French Smith and then to Attorney General Edwin Meese, the young staff would automatically stand up whenever William Webster, then head of the FBI, walked into a room. At Friday morning roundtable briefings in the attorney general’s massive conference room, when...
Read More

Comey’s firing isn’t like the ‘Saturday Night Massacre.’ It’s pretty straightforward.

Thu, May 11, 2017

Long ago and far away, when I was a young special assistant first to Attorney General William French Smith and then to Attorney General Edwin Meese, the young staff would automatically stand up whenever William Webster, then head of the FBI, walked into a room. At Friday morning roundtable briefings in the attorney general’s massive conference room, when...
Read More

Comey’s firing isn’t like the ‘Saturday Night Massacre.’ It’s pretty straightforward.

Thu, May 11, 2017

Long ago and far away, when I was a young special assistant first to Attorney General William French Smith and then to Attorney General Edwin Meese, the young staff would automatically stand up whenever William Webster, then head of the FBI, walked into a room. At Friday morning roundtable briefings in the attorney general’s massive conference room, when...
Read More

Comey’s firing isn’t like the ‘Saturday Night Massacre.’ It’s pretty straightforward.

Thu, May 11, 2017

Long ago and far away, when I was a young special assistant first to Attorney General William French Smith and then to Attorney General Edwin Meese, the young staff would automatically stand up whenever William Webster, then head of the FBI, walked into a room. At Friday morning roundtable briefings in the attorney general’s massive conference room, when...
Read More

Comey’s firing isn’t like the ‘Saturday Night Massacre.’ It’s pretty straightforward.

Thu, May 11, 2017

Long ago and far away, when I was a young special assistant first to Attorney General William French Smith and then to Attorney General Edwin Meese, the young staff would automatically stand up whenever William Webster, then head of the FBI, walked into a room. At Friday morning roundtable briefings in the attorney general’s massive conference room, when...
Read More

Comey’s firing isn’t like the ‘Saturday Night Massacre.’ It’s pretty straightforward.

Thu, May 11, 2017

Long ago and far away, when I was a young special assistant first to Attorney General William French Smith and then to Attorney General Edwin Meese, the young staff would automatically stand up whenever William Webster, then head of the FBI, walked into a room. At Friday morning roundtable briefings in the attorney general’s massive conference room, when...
Read More

Comey’s firing isn’t like the ‘Saturday Night Massacre.’ It’s pretty straightforward.

Thu, May 11, 2017

Long ago and far away, when I was a young special assistant first to Attorney General William French Smith and then to Attorney General Edwin Meese, the young staff would automatically stand up whenever William Webster, then head of the FBI, walked into a room. At Friday morning roundtable briefings in the attorney general’s massive conference room, when...
Read More

Comey’s firing isn’t like the ‘Saturday Night Massacre.’ It’s pretty straightforward.

Thu, May 11, 2017

Long ago and far away, when I was a young special assistant first to Attorney General William French Smith and then to Attorney General Edwin Meese, the young staff would automatically stand up whenever William Webster, then head of the FBI, walked into a room. At Friday morning roundtable briefings in the attorney general’s massive conference room, when...
Read More

Comey’s firing isn’t like the ‘Saturday Night Massacre.’ It’s pretty straightforward.

Thu, May 11, 2017

Long ago and far away, when I was a young special assistant first to Attorney General William French Smith and then to Attorney General Edwin Meese, the young staff would automatically stand up whenever William Webster, then head of the FBI, walked into a room. At Friday morning roundtable briefings in the attorney general’s massive conference room, when...
Read More

Comey’s firing isn’t like the ‘Saturday Night Massacre.’ It’s pretty straightforward.

Thu, May 11, 2017

Long ago and far away, when I was a young special assistant first to Attorney General William French Smith and then to Attorney General Edwin Meese, the young staff would automatically stand up whenever William Webster, then head of the FBI, walked into a room. At Friday morning roundtable briefings in the attorney general’s massive conference room, when...
Read More

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