Maurene Comey, the daughter of former FBI Director James Comey and a career federal prosecutor, issued a fiery memo a day after being ousted from her job at the U.S. attorney’s office for the Southern District of New York (SDNY), telling colleagues that “fear is the tool of a tyrant, wielded to suppress independent thought.”
“Do the right thing, the right way, for the right reasons without fear of retribution and without favor to the powerful,” Maurene Comey said in the Thursday message, which was obtained by multiple outlets.
“For the majority of my nearly ten years in SDNY, fear was never really conceivable. We don’t fear bad press; we have the luxury of exceptional security keeping us physically safe; and, so long as we did our work with integrity, we would get to keep serving the public in this office,” she wrote.
Comey was fired Wednesday from her post at the U.S. attorney’s office, where she worked for nearly a decade.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters at a briefing Thursday that the decision came from the Justice Department.
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