"Goodbye Iowa. On the road home. Gotta get back to writing," @FormerBu tweeted with a picture of a contemplative Comey staring out at the Midwestern state's flat horizon.
— Reinhold Niebuhr (@FormerBu) October 23, 2017
The handle's username, "Reinhold Niebuhr," refers to a liberal theologian on whom Comey wrote his senior thesis as an undergraduate at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia.
— Seung Min Kim (@seungminkim) October 21, 2017
In May, US President Donald Trump fired Comey from his post as the head of the nation's top law enforcement agency — something he only found out about from the news, catching him "flat footed," as the Los Angeles Times put it. The University of Chicago law graduate had been briefing a team in California before learning from a TV report that he had been dismissed.
Benjamin Wittes, founder of the Lawfare website and a friend of Comey's, tweeted "in light of this latest tweet, I will confirm that @FormerBu is, in fact, James Comey himself."
— Benjamin Wittes (@benjaminwittes) October 23, 2017
Several Twitter observers commented, "He's running!!!" Whether he's just out for a jog, as the photos indicate, or gearing up for political battle, remains to be seen.
— Stefan Becket (@becket) October 21, 2017
In reference to the former FBI director's 6' 8'' (about 2.03 meters) height, one netizen quipped "u are tall enough to start the federal bureau of power line investigations."
u are tall enough to start the federal bureau of power line investigations pic.twitter.com/JXVXprJmA2
— Haley Byrd (@byrdinator) October 23, 2017
