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Ten-year term. that's why it's such a big deal that trump fired him only a few years into that term. but there was controversy when obama hired him in the first place. there was controversy on the left because james comey is thought to be a republican. james comey had served in a high-ranking position. he'd been deputy attorney general in the george w. bush justice department and that was at a time when the george w. bush justice department was implicated in having given legal cover to the bush administration's policy of torturing terrorism suspects. on paper, that makes somebody with a resume...

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American officials say the strongest defense against an isis attack in the u.s. is good intelligence. but the fbi says it's getting harder to monitor terrorism suspects. a problem the fbi director calls going dark. nbc justice correspondent pete williams explains. >> reporter: though u.s. intelligence officials say they don't yet know how the plotters kept in touch, one senior official says he'd be shocked if they didn't use some method of communication that the police cannot monitor. counterterrorism officials tell nbc news that isis has recently been running a 24-hour help desk. manned by ha...

>> but in a forthright speech on the senate floor today mark udall called on the president to get rid of all those responsible for torture in the cia including director john brennan. >> it's bad enough not to prosecute these officials, but to reward or promote them and risk the integrity of the u.s. government to protect them is incomprehensible. the president needs to purge his administration of high level officials who are instrumental to the development and running of this program. >> all this means is that instead of having a debate about crime and punishment, we are having a debate about ...

That story changed the way the world saw the united states, probably permanently. it changed the fundamentals of what we know about this war on terror idea. and the fact that the story was published frankly changed the way the u.s. government felt it could get away with while conducting its war on terror. two years later in 2007, followed up on a tip she got in a random unsolicited phone call. she pulled the threads she found and she ended up following another investigative thread in the post. and this one didn't have to do with the way the united states treated terrorism suspects. it had to d...