WASHINGTON
— Usually, top intelligence and law enforcement officials withdraw to
lives of tight-lipped relative anonymity after their careers end.
(Suffice it to say, they are not exactly known for viral Twitter
battles.)
But
as President Trump has voiced his grievances against the F.B.I. with a
series of insult-laden tweets, his targets have responded nearly in
kind, turning a conflict that would in the past have stayed behind
closed doors into a brawl for all to see.
Throughout the weekend, the president attacked “lying James Comey,” the F.B.I. director he fired last year.
He also celebrated the dismissal of Mr. Comey’s onetime deputy, Andrew G. McCabe, calling it on Friday “a great day for Democracy.”
Mr.
Comey struck back on the president’s preferred digital soapbox. “Mr.
President, the American people will hear my story very soon,” he wrote on Twitter
on Saturday, in what was most likely a reference to his coming book.
“And they can judge for themselves who is honorable and who is not.”
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