OT: Could this explain why Comey was fired?

[Alan Baker]

'WASHINGTON — Days before he was fired, James B. Comey, the former
F.B.I. director, asked the Justice Department for a significant increase
in money and personnel for the bureau’s investigation into Russia’s
interference in the presidential election, according to three
congressional officials who were briefed on his request.

Mr. Comey asked for the resources last week from Rod J. Rosenstein, the
deputy attorney general who wrote the Justice Department’s memo that was
used to justify the firing of Mr. Comey this week, the officials said.'

<https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/10/us/politics/comey-russia-investigation-fbi.html>

'The F.B.I. declined to comment. But Sarah Isgur Flores, the Justice
Department spokeswoman, said “the idea that he asked for more funding”
for the Russia investigation was “totally false.” She did not elaborate.

In his briefing with members of Congress, Mr. Comey said he had been
frustrated with the amount of resources being dedicated to the Russia
investigation, according to two of the officials. Until two weeks ago,
when Mr. Rosenstein took over as deputy attorney general, the
investigation was being overseen by Dana Boente, who was acting as the
deputy and is now the United States attorney for the Eastern District of
Virginia.'

And time a member of the Trump administration says something like
"totally false"...

:-)