The firing of James Comey was a shock to many and may have been to him, or his apparent ego, but it is now apparent that the first Deep State casualty of the "Swamp Wars" may have been justified. Comey was portrayed as a thorough professional, and although he was a registered Republican, he was not supposed to be affected by Party politics in his job. Even in May of 2017, just after Comey was fired, Peter Elkind, writing in The New Yorker took great pains to defend what he referred to as the former director's "independence." The article Elkind wrote, "James Comey's Conspicuous Independence" attempted to make the case that Comey's "greatest asset proved his undoing." Yet, in light of Comey's recent behavior in New York, the previous piece in The New Yorker was fake news, or a poor sales job.