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Democracy Dies in Darkness Keeping up with politics is easy now By Amber Phillips We have an even fuller picture of what fired FBI director James B. Comey thinks President Trump did wrong. All  seven of Comey's memos  detailing his private conversations with Trump were shared with Congress this week — and soon after, the media. Comey testified last summer about his concerns about Trump and leaked part of those memos to the media. Former FBI director James B. Comey is sworn in during a Senate hearing in June. (Alex Brandon/AP) There's so much attention on Comey's memos because they lift the curtain on what Trump ostensibly thinks of Russia and the Russia investigation in private — but they're only Comey's perspective. As such, Trump and his allies were quick to claim that the memos disprove the allegations connected to the president: that his campaign colluded with Russia to influence the election...

06 February 18 PM It's Live on the HomePage Now:   Reader Supported News Andy Borowitz | Nunes Says He Held Russia Hearings Alone in His Apartment and They Went Great  Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker   Borowitz writes: "Representative Devin Nunes, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, told reporters on Wednesday that he just spent several days alone in his apartment holding hearings on President Donald J. Trump's ties to Russia and that those hearings 'went really great.'"   READ MORE Carter Page on Good Morning America. (photo: ABC News) Carter Page Admits to Advising the Kremlin and Trump, but Doesn't Understand the FBI's Suspicion   Aaron Rupar, ThinkProgress   Rupar writes: "During an interview on Good Morning America on Tuesday, Carter Page admitted that he served as an adviser to the Kremlin before joining Donald Trump's campaign for president. But he doesn't think the FBI had good reason to view that as s...