The 7th director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, James Comey, was dismissed who had been under public and political pressure in his role in which controversy that involves communication of classified information of a prominent U. S. politician?
Dismissal of James Comey: James Comey, the 7th director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), was dismissed by U.S. President Donald Trump on May 9, 2017. Dismissal of James Comey:  Comey had been under public and political pressure as a result of both the FBI's role in the Hillary Clinton email controversy and the FBI's investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. elections, which also involves a possible collusion with the 2016 Donald Trump campaign. Hillary Clinton email controversy: In March 2015, it became publicly known that Hillary Clinton, during her tenure as United States Secretary of State, had used her family's private email server for official communications, rather than official State Department email accounts maintained on federal secure servers. Hillary Clinton email controversy:  Those official communications included over 100 emails which contained classified information at the time they were sent, as well as nearly 2,100 emails which were not marked classified but would retroactively be ranked as classified by the State Department.
Hillary Clinton email controversy