[1andrew1]

Interesting piece about James Comey by the BBC's North American editor Jon Soppel who has read the book and watched the interviews. He concludes that Comey is still a threat as Trump has been unable to prove him a liar. And Trump's poor record on the truth front won't make this task easy.

He is deeply flawed. But ultimately it will come down to a question of who do you believe: the president or his former FBI director?

One has a bit of a track record of, how can one put this, making assertions that don't bear close scrutiny (for example, the false claims that Obama wasn't born in the US, therefore was illegitimate as president, that Muslims in New Jersey cheered when the twin towers came down in 2001, that the crowds for his inauguration were bigger than Obama's, that three million people voted illegally and that his was the biggest electoral college victory since Reagan - I could go on).

The other does not.

The president has called Comey a slimeball. Quite possibly. But to neutralise him fully, Donald Trump has to undermine his credibility, and prove he's a liar. That hasn't happened yet, so for the moment the 6ft 8in former FBI director can still walk tall.

And that makes him dangerous.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-43718532