科米將指稱川普試圖影響FBI調查工作
Fired FBI Director Jim Comey will tell the Senate Intelligence Committee Thursday that President Donald Trump asked him for loyalty during White House conversations concerning the agency's handling of investigations into current and former administration officials.
The committee released an advance copy of Comey's seven-page opening statement a day before his scheduled appearance. This came shortly after the Director of National Intelligence and other top intelligence officials refused to answer the committee's questions about Comey and the Russia investigation.
In his statement, Comey offers explosive details and accounts of five separate conversations he had with Trump, including suggestions that the president asked him to alter the course of FBI investigations.
"The president said, 'I need loyalty, I expect loyalty,'" Comey recounted about one White House meeting. "I didn't move, speak or change my facial expression in any way during the awkward silence that followed. We simply looked at each other in silence."
In his prepared remarks, Comey says he told Trump three times that he was not a subject of the FBI investigation into whether his associates had improper contacts with Russian government officials.
In another passage, Comey will testify that Trump asked him on February 14 to "let go" of the investigation into Michael Flynn, who had been fired as national security adviser the previous day. "I hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting Flynn go." Comey quotes Trump as saying. "He is a good guy. I hope you can let this go."
Trump last month flatly denied pressuring Comey to close or back down from the Flynn investigation. The president also rejected allegations that his associates colluded with Russia to influence last November's presidential election, calling it a "witch hunt."美國前聯邦調查局長科米星期四將告訴美國參議院情報委員會，川普總統在白宮與他就涉及FBI調查現任和前政府官員事宜的交談中，要求他保持忠誠。
科米預定在參議院情報委員會作證的一天前，該委員會公佈了科米預先準備好的7頁長的開場陳述 。在此之前，美國國家情報總監和其他高級情報官員拒絕回答該委員會有關科米和通俄調查的問題。
科米在他的陳述中，提供了他與川普5次交談的爆炸性細節和解釋說明，其中包括暗示川普總統曾要求他改變聯調局調查工作的方向。
科米詳細描述其中一次白宮會晤時說：“總統說：‘我需要忠誠，我期待忠誠。” 在隨後“令人難堪的寂靜中”，我“沒有動彈、講話或者改變我的面部表情”。我們只是在沉默中對視。”
科米在準備好的講話稿中說，他三次告訴川普，他不是聯調局有關他的助手是否和俄羅斯政府官員有不當接觸的調查對象。
在另外一段證詞中，科米將指出，川普總統今年2月14日要求他放棄對前一天剛剛被解職的國家安全顧問邁克爾·弗林的調查。科米引述川普總統的話說，“我希望你能讓這個調查過去，放弗林一馬。他是一個好人，我希望你能讓這件事過去。”
川普總統上個月否認曾向科米施壓，要求他停止或放棄對弗林的調查。川普還否認有關他的助手和俄羅斯勾結，試圖影響去年11月總統選舉的指稱，稱其是栽贓陷害的“政治迫害”。
