The list of candidates to lead the FBI expanded Saturday as Attorney General Jeff Sessions interviewed eight potential replacements for the ousted James Comey — including a woman who investigated Bill and Hillary Clinton in the 1990s.
Alice Fisher, who served in the Justice Department under George W. Bush, was interviewed for an hour and a half Saturday morning.
FBI special agent Adam LeeAPFisher, who would become the FBI’s first female director if nominated and confirmed, was an assistant AG in the department’s Criminal Division and served as a counsel to the Senate special committee that investigated Bill and Hillary Clinton’s Whitewater scandal.
Her competition for the job includes Adam Lee, the special agent in charge of the FBI’s Richmond, Va., office and Michael Garcia, the former Manhattan US attorney whose investigation brought down then-Gov. Eliot Spitzer in a 2008 prostitution scandal.
Also interviewed were Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe, federal Judge Henry E. Hudson, former Bush adviser Frances Townsend and former House Intelligence Committee chairman Mike Rogers.
“We can make a fast decision,” President Trump said Saturday morning.
A nomination could be announced by Friday — the day Trump departs for Saudi Arabia on his first foreign trip.
“I think the process is going to go quickly,” Trump said.
