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BREAKING: FBI Director James Comey FIRED
Get the “you’re fired” jokes in, because James Comey is out. Sean Spicer confirmed this during today’s daily press briefing at the White House.
“The president has accepted the recommendation of the Attorney General and the deputy Attorney General regarding the dismissal of the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation,” he said.
Get the “you’re fired” jokes in, because James Comey is out. Sean Spicer confirmed this during today’s daily press briefing at the White House.
“The president has accepted the recommendation of the Attorney General and the deputy Attorney General regarding the dismissal of the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation,” he said.
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BREAKING: FBI Director James Comey FIRED
Get the “you’re fired” jokes in, because James Comey is out. Sean Spicer confirmed this during today’s daily press briefing at the White House.
“The president has accepted the recommendation of the Attorney General and the deputy Attorney General regarding the dismissal of the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation,” he said.
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He's reached the stage where comparisons to Nixon are considered insulting… to Nixon.
As for Comey, looks like he outlived his useful idiot status and, after being wilfully used and abused, has now been cast aside like a spent Johnny bag.
As for Comey, looks like he outlived his useful idiot status and, after being wilfully used and abused, has now been cast aside like a spent Johnny bag.
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The president sacks the man leading the investigation into... the president.
Nothing suspicious looking about that at all, no sir!
Wrong, Comey on 3 occasions directly stated the FBI was not investigating Donald Trump. The conflated narrative the liberal media spinning is not based on any facts. Don't fall for Fake News.
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Boy Robert, you are just a Liberal Media narrative parrot lately! Here's a little history lesson for you that you won't get from the Liberal media.
The last president to fire an FBI director? Bill Clinton
It's been 24 years since a president fired the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
In 1993, President Clinton ousted William Sessions as FBI director after Sessions refused to voluntarily step down amid ethical concerns. It was the first and only time to happen in U.S. history. That is, until Donald Trump fired James Comey.
Here's another history lesson for you. Why was Billy Boy the first President to ever fire an FBI director? Ever heard of J. Edgar Hoover?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Edgar_Hoover
John Edgar Hoover (January 1, 1895 – May 2, 1972), better known as J. Edgar Hoover, was the first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) of the United States. He was appointed as the sixth director of the Bureau of Investigation — the FBI's predecessor — in 1924 and was instrumental in founding the FBI in 1935, where he remained director until his death in 1972 at the age of 77.
Hoover was the first FBI director and remained director for 48 years until his death. It is pretty well accepted how corrupt he was, and how he kept his position because he spied on everyone including presidents in order to blackmail them if needed so he could stay in power.
The sample size of FBI directors ever existing is relatively small since there was only 1 ever before 1973. Two now having been fired isn't an insignificant percentage of them.
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According to numerous sources, some of which I've linked to below, the FBI are currently investigating the Trump campaign and associates.
Telegraph:
Wash. Post:
Guardian:
Politico:
LA Times:
Salon:
Even your beloved Fox:
And your even more beloved Breitbart:
So, either you believe all of those stories (and many, many more) are fake or you think the FBI would thoroughly investigate someone's associates and campaign team but not bother to investigate the person in question.
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Funny you should attempt to insult me thus, given that I read that very fact earlier today in that very Guardian article that I linked to in my reply to your other hilariously ludicrous post.
I'm pretty sure that the Guardian fits your definition of "Liberal media".
You might want to check it out. The link is in the post above.
Then again, maybe you should avoid it; one part of your brain will be telling you it's fake whilst another part will be telling you it's true.
You might not be able to cope with the paradox.
Not that any of this matters.
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As I said above:
"or you think the FBI would thoroughly investigate someone's associates and campaign team but not bother to investigate the person in question"
Quite.
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BREAKING: FBI Director James Comey FIRED
Get the “you’re fired” jokes in, because James Comey is out. Sean Spicer confirmed this during today’s daily press briefing at the White House.
“The president has accepted the recommendation of the Attorney General and the deputy Attorney General regarding the dismissal of the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation,” he said.
Comey Dismissal Memo Suggests Turf War Between DOJ, FBI
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein’s letter detailing the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) rationale for calling for the dismissal of former FBI Director James Comey is heavy on professional grievance.
The memo, submitted to President Donald Trump on Tuesday, strongly suggests that officials at the Justice Department felt Comey improperly assumed prerogatives that rightly belong to career prosecutors at DOJ, instigating a bureaucratic turf war that left department officials displeased.
The memo opens with Rosenstein’s conclusion that Comey’s press conference on July 5, 2016, where he announced he would not recommend criminal charges over Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server, “usurped” the authority of his superiors at the Justice Department.
The Director was wrong to usurp the Attorney General’s authority on July 5, 2016, and announce his conclusion that the case should be closed without prosecution. It is not the function of the Director to make such an announcement. At most, the Director should have said the FBI had completed its investigation and presented its findings to federal prosecutors. The Director now defends his decision by asserting that he believed Attorney General Loretta Lynch had a conflict. But the FBI Director is never empowered to supplant federal prosecutors and assume command of the Justice Department.
The use of terms like “usurp” and “supplant” are both arresting and telling, as is Rosenstein’s assertion that Comey effectively “assumed command” of DOJ. This section of the memo argues Comey’s public statements stripped DOJ officials of prosecutorial discretion. In disclosing legal conclusions to the public, the former director foreclosed a number of options for department officials, leaving them little choice but to decline to pursue a case against Clinton. What’s more, the memo also states it was improper for Comey, whose role is restricted to finding facts, to reach any legal conclusions in the first place.
The thrust of this section of the letter is that Comey overstepped his bounds and made decisions, which were the province of the Justice Department, to the chagrin of many inside the agency. One might also reasonably speculate that many in DOJ’s non-political career staff share Rosentein’s conclusions. Rosenstein himself is a product of the career bureaucracy, and is respected in all quarters of DOJ.
A recent Politico Magazine piece on Comey’s political isolation seems to corroborate the possibility of widespread displeasure with the embattled director. The piece includes several quotes from aggrieved and anonymous sources inside the department impugning Comey’s integrity.
“He seemed to think that what was good for Comey is good for the institution. That’s jarring,” one senior Justice Department official said.
“He’s rapturous of his own righteousness,” said another.
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I'll give you that, it was extremely stupid for Trump to come right out and say this. He just poured gasoline on the fire. Scratch that, he just threw napalm on the fire.
