BY MAX KUTNER AND JOSH SAUL
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JAMES COMEY spends a lot of time away from Washington, D.C., and despite what you might have read, it’s not because he has no friends left there. Comey travels, a lot, all over the country. After the U.S. Senate confirmed him in 2013 as the director of the FBI, he resolved to visit each of the agency’s 56 field offices. “He did not want to just be sitting behind glass doors at FBI headquarters,” says Michael Steinbach, who retired in February as the FBI’s executive assistant director overseeing national security. “He wanted to get out.” And he isn’t just racking up frequent-lier miles—he talks to his agents and solicits their thoughts and concerns.