President Trump fired James Comey, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, on Tuesday afternoon.
According to a letter from Trump that was reportedly hand-delivered to Comey’s office by Trump’s longtime top security aide, the president acted because Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein recommended that Comey be dismissed. Comey was in Los Angeles and reportedly learned of the news from the television.
In a letter to Trump, Sessions stated that “a fresh start is needed at the leadership of the FBI” and that he concurred with the reasoning of an attached memo by Rosenstein regarding Comey.
The Rosenstein memo stated that he “cannot defend the Director’s handling of the conclusion of the investigation of Secretary [Hillary] Clinton’s emails.”
“The Director was wrong,” Rosenstein wrote, “to usurp the Attorney General’s authority on July 5, 2016, and announce his conclusion that the case should be closed without prosecution. … Compounding the error, the Director ignored a longstanding principle: we do not hold press conferences to release derogatory information about the subject of a declined criminal investigation.”
That is, Trump is claiming that he fired Comey because the FBI director acted unfairly toward Clinton.
The reaction from Democrats toward Trump’s decision has been uniformly negative, with many now demanding that the Justice Department appoint a special prosecutor to oversee the ongoing counterintelligence investigation of the 2016 Trump campaign.
If we don't get a special prosecutor, every American will rightfully suspect that the decision to fire #Comey was part of a cover-up.
— Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) May 9, 2017
Donald Trump’s decision to fire FBI Director James Comey raises serious questions about what his administration is hiding.
— Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) May 9, 2017
Comey should be immediately called to testify in an open hearing about the status of Russia/Trump investigation at the time he was fired.
— Ron Wyden (@RonWyden) May 9, 2017
Sen. Pat Leahy, D-Vt., said that Comey’s firing was “nothing less than Nixonian.”
LEAHY: "This is nothing less than Nixonian." pic.twitter.com/n4R4fWSgib
— Dustin Volz (@dnvolz) May 9, 2017
Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tenn., also recalled the so-called Saturday Night Massacre in 1973 when top officials at the Justice Department resigned rather than carry out President Nixon’s demand that they fire a special prosecutor investigating the Watergate scandal. Cohen stated that “our democracy is in danger” and asked Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, R-Wis., to appoint a bipartisan commission to investigate “the Trump-Russia relationship.”
Ryan must appoint bipartisan, non-classified, public & transparent commission to investigate #TrumpRussia. Our democracy's in danger. #Comey pic.twitter.com/GDGv0EfJnk
— Steve Cohen (@RepCohen) May 9, 2017
Several Republicans also appeared concerned by Trump’s actions. Sen. Richard Burr of North Carolina, chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, which is conducting an investigation into any ties between Trump and Russia, said that “I am troubled by the timing and reasoning of Jim Comey’s termination.”
Just in from Burr: “I am troubled by the timing and reasoning of Jim Comey’s termination." pic.twitter.com/sNl98EVRWJ
— Ali Watkins (@AliWatkins) May 9, 2017
Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona stated that Comey’s firing “only confirms the need and the urgency” for a “special congressional committee to investigate Russia’s interference in the 2016 election.”
Removal of Director Comey only confirms need for select cmte to investigate #Russia's interference in 2016 election https://t.co/LfKlwSw6iQ
— John McCain (@SenJohnMcCain) May 9, 2017
By contrast, Sen. Lindsay Graham, R-S.C., appeared sanguine about Comey’s removal:
Given the recent controversies surrounding the Director, I believe a fresh start will serve the FBI and the nation well.
— Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC) May 9, 2017
White House counselor Kellyanne Conway appeared on CNN to defend the firing. When Anderson Cooper asked Conway why Trump fired Comey, despite having praised his treatment of the email investigation on the campaign trail, Conway responded that Cooper was “looking at the wrong set of facts.”
Anderson Cooper calls out Kellyanne Conway: your explanation for why Trump fired Comey doesn't make any sense. pic.twitter.com/NBflbxNPyP
— CAP Action (@CAPAction) May 10, 2017
For its part, the Nixon Library tweeted, “FUN FACT: President Nixon never fired the Director of the FBI,” with the hashtag #notNixonian.
FUN FACT: President Nixon never fired the Director of the FBI #FBIDirector #notNixonian pic.twitter.com/PatArKOZlk
— RichardNixonLibrary (@NixonLibrary) May 9, 2017
It would appear that the folks here are pretty much committed to the destruction
I read the typical response of a Congr-ass-man and I have to laugh . . . “our duuuuhhumb-ocracy is in danger” . . . What was your first clue Sherlock?? We haven’t had a democracy for a long time . . . instead our so-called “republic” is a rule by elite plutocratic oligarchs and their special interests. So nothing has changed or is changing. Things are the way they have always been . . . a noble lie to convince the many they hold the reigns of power while the few who hold the reins, laugh up their sleeves at the rest of us.
Too bad The Intercept did not replay the interview of Glenn Greenwald on Democracy Now:
https://www.democracynow.org/2017/5/10/glenn_greenwald_on_trumps_shocking_firing.
Schwarz and Emmons please note: not a single Twitter quote in the entire piece.
This was never democracy in the US. Protecting Comey is not protecting democracy.
Comey was fired bc of all the CrookClinton investigations did not want to be prosecuted by PresObama DOJ Tarmach Lynch–> so tjey dumoed it all on the FbiComey stage and made a public circus BEFORE IT REACHED THE AJ! That is the beauty of CrookdClintOs– comey was just SANDERED!!
Wrong. “Our democracy” is dead. Catch up so your future articles will be accurate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tu32CCA_Ig
what democracy?
Glen and Snowden don’t believe there is democracy in the united snakes of america, they just use anything they can against Trump because they believe he is making a fascist dictatorship. In this case, they align together with the CIA and military industrial complex against Trump. Trump and CIA are snakes, some people decided to align with one snake against another one :)
The truth is that everyone in DC has wanted him out ever since his bizarre performance last July, when he assumed office (in his mind) as AG – after Lynch just happened to bump into Bill C at the airport and had a friendly chat with him on her plane. He’s continued playing AG since then.
In his most recent buffoonery before the senate he clearly conflated Billary with that other charming couple, the Abedin-Wieners – and their various laptops, pouring more acid into the still fresh wounds of the Pantsuit, who still can’t help licking them.
The former director also seems to have conflated the Lynch salad with the Russian dressing (which the other diector has said is nothing but vinegar) – so high time for him to go, as Fancy Nancy said last year.
The Frito has cited this as the cause of his ex-directorship – he is the only person with the authority to send the former director packing, and he has done so (‘I’m with ME’ would certainly have done with delight and extreme prejudice).
The only ‘problem’ is that He has done, rather than Ze.
“The FBI director has no credibility,”
– Maxine Waters
“One standard was applied to the Russians and another standard applied to Hillary Clinton.”
– Nancy Pelosi
“I do not have confidence in him [Comey] any longer,”
– Chuck Schumer
A correction to your piece: The DAG is Rod Rosenstein, not Ron.
Thanks for this, we’ve fixed it.
Our democracy will be in trouble when Trump starts jailing or murdering his political opponents.
Political death by CrookdClintO, doublecrossed alaSanders or mortal death!
March 22, 2017 The FBI’s Conspiracy Theory of a Trump/Putin Collusion Has No Clothes
Unable to provide an ounce of evidence that a Trump/Putin conspiracy stole the presidential election from Hillary Clinton, the corrupt US “intelligence” agencies are shifting their focus to social media and to Internet sites such as Alex Jones and Breitbart.
http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2017/03/22/fbis-conspiracy-theory-trumpputin-collusion-no-clothes-paul-craig-roberts/#.WNVgf2XxZOQ.link
Our democracy will be in trouble when Trump starts jailing of murdering political opponents.
Our democracy/Republic has been toast for decades. Trump is just continuing the sedition hopefully in such a clumsy manner to expose his and much other corruption. Hell, The Russia may do US a favor and leak information that expose sedition and hidden agendas. We could end up better for it if We the people stand up for the Constitution. Endless war, endless lies and endless trick-UP economics needs to be addressed under the law if possible. Our future has been usurped by blind greed, malignant ambition of MIC and individuals of whom Trump is just the latest incarnation.
I couldn’t have said it better, though – whoever did the hacking – as a democrat, I was grateful to know that Billary and my national committee were sandbagging Sanders by (inter alia) using his Jewish atheism/agnosticism to smear him.
So, like millions of my fellow party members I sat the election out and watched a movie – Romeo and Juliet – and I could not agree more with Mercutio’s sentiment: “A plague on both your houses”.
Ha! Democracy is NOT in danger. It already died years ago. From NAFTA, the WTO and massive job outsourcing, to the AUMF, the USA Patriot Act, and the NDAA, to the Citizens United, McCutcheon and Shelby County Supreme Court rulings, to the Republican’t Party’s open and blatant voter suppression schemes, to the study that proves that our “representatives” do not, in fact, represent us anymore, only their billionaire campaign donors, it is deader than the dead parrot in the famous Monty Python skit. This is only yet another symptom of the full-fledged fascism we are already living…
It’s not dead. It’s resting.
Hello Pollyyyy! Wakey! Wakey!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oj8RIEQH7zA
Python rules on so many levels.
If this story is true…
http://www.newsweek.com/fbi-director-james-comey-russian-tampering-election-576417
…then Comey should obviously be fired.
Let’s see if we can all agree on some very very basic ideas that should really be noncontroversial.
1) The FBI Director should not be using the media to try and “influence” US elections. Even ignoring FBI/Hoover history, this behavior should get the FBI director fired. If we factor in FBI/Hoover history this behavior should make Comey unemployable in government forever.
Let’s just posit the hypothetical that Obama ordered Comey to write that op-ed. The only moral response by an FBI director would be to resign and publicly rebuke the president. The idea that Comey is pitching such an op-ed is off the charts insane.
Unless you think this is appropriate behavior for an FBI director, we really don’t need a special prosecutor to find out if this Newsweek story is true–Hell, I think this story was leaked to try and make Comey look good–so it shouldn’t be hard to find out if this really happened.
If it is true, then we can all agree that Comey should be fired, and then partisans can argue that Trump did the right thing for all the wrong reasons.
But at least we will all agree that this was the right thing–as opposed to toe bobbing on J Edgar Hoover’s feet for political expedience.
The Russian interference meme is totally bogus. There is no crime called “Russian interference in American elections.” So what is there to prosecute? Even if the Russians did interfere, There is no known connection to Trump. So, again what is there to prosecute?
American politicians are essentially for sale to bankers, Israel and Saudi Arabia and others, so how can they turn around and claim undue influence? Where is the Special Prosecutor to investigate Wall Street’s influence on our elections? Or Israel’s?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hMbFg7yM0A
“Even if the Russians did interfere, There is no known connection to Trump. So, again what is there to prosecute?”
First of all there were plenty of connections between people at the top levels of Trump’s campaign and Russia, Michael Flynn, Paul Manafort, and Carter Page just to name a few.
Secondly Comey wasn’t prosecuting trump he was investigating trump. Why are you afraid of an investigation? How do you know Trump has no loans from Russian banks? Or what deals were made ?
American politicians may indeed be for sale yet you only think it should be pursued when it fits into your political bias. The only way to achieve transparency in gov’t is to investigate possible wrong doing. What is bogus are the regressives who are defending Trump’s anti-democratic move pretending they are for progressive reforms in gov’t.
Conway prob wishes that her and Anderson were walking on WV State Capitol grounds. Your questioning is willfully disrupting gov. processes.
When Comey became a partisan actor in the presidential election, he became subject to the winds of politics. Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein is right. No sympathy for Comey here.
“By contrast, Sen. Lindsay Graham, R-S.C., appeared sanguine about Comey’s removal:”
You might call it “sanguine” but I see it as Graham being his usual limp-dicked self.
Yeah, so a federal police force is a bad idea. Turns out nobody knew (in Maher’s Trump voice)
Comey’s position became untenable: he had angered the democrats because of his handling of the Clinton security violations, and he angered the republicans because of the ties of Trump officials to the Russians during the campaign. But for any of them to decry his firing is almost as laughable as the contention that the FBI is a sacred institution and that it must be above politics. Its politicization came about with J. Edgar Hoover; it has never recovered from the excesses of the Hoover years.
Comey’s principal crime was that he was not politically compliant enough. The very issue over which he was most heavily criticized at his firing bears this out: his lack of obsequiousness toward the (inherently political) Attorney General. We can expect his replacement to be more compliant; perhaps a Steve Bannon protogée?
Any push for “reform” scares me more than the firing itself.
From the beginning, the FBI was set up as a totalitarian fiefdom of J. Edgar Hoover, and the idea was that presidents and anyone else was afraid to mess with them. In the Obama administration they became kind of decent, focusing on violent cops as much as protesters, racists as much as equal rights activists. It was progress…
What I’m afraid of is that the Republicans make a lot of noise, but let Trump get away with putting in his own loyal man, and then they write up a bunch of laws to lock that guy in place so that if people are allowed to go to the polls and elect a Democrat in 2000, he’ll still be under the thumb and the watchful eye of a domestic spying apparatus that has been purged top to bottom and made 100% subservient to the Republicans. Which will be a President scarcely able able to take a pee in the Presidential toilet without getting prosecuted for indecently exposing himself to the cameras the FBI set up in there.
I thought Comey was the American most singularly responsible for Hilary Clinton’s loss–Besides Bernie of course.
Now he is the buttress of Democracy? What a difference a day makes!
This morally untethered, any argument in a storm (and there is always a storm), reality starts over every day, nobody will remember or bother look things up on the internet, marketing completely trumps engineering, PR spokesperson, perception is reality, politically expedient, news cycle win, manipulate versus convince…travesty that is held out as pretend moral philosophy has killed the political parties.
Hating the other is not a moral philosophy.
In fact, a moral philosophy demands that we dismiss certain arguments that may have a short term here and now benefit–because of a larger belief system.
This is not a question of consistency–morality demands change, constant justification and refinement–but by definition if every argument is available to you, then you believe in nothing.
What is hilarious is how hard it is to find people who believe in nothing–evidenced by the caliber of the Resistance.
How morality drives evolution.
“I thought Comey was the American most singularly responsible for Hilary Clinton’s loss–Besides Bernie of course.
Now he is the buttress of Democracy? What a difference a day makes!”
lasnaemchoozem hunnee Hillarius Clitnon iz knot partikularly gud at teh nay nay.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppgk9Mj1n88
iz enuf too giev a bodee whiplarsh don u no.
The playing field will level out soon. If there is a problem here the news leaks will start appearing soon, or perhaps a whistle blower.
Just remember, a whistle blower brought Nixon down.
The problem is that the real whistle blowers are getting lost in a chorus of faux-blowers.
actually i came here to read greenwald tell us all how there is nothing to be concerned about.
how Russia/trump doesn’t exist and what a brilliant idea to wait 4 months to fire the FBI director over something he was praised for.
but..sadly i had to resort to reading all that from the comments of the Hillary Clinton haters who for some pathological reason is blamed for everything that happens in the world by the readers here.
what a horrible lot of miserable misinformed depressed hateful people reside in the comments section here!
Strange comment, given there’s little reference to Clinton in this thread. But regardless, if you think identifying with Hillary Clinton reflects well on you and affords you some kind of moral high ground, you’re wrong. Hillary’s an absolutely shamelessly corrupt warmonger, nothing more. You’re hardly aligning yourself with MLK or Gandhi.
Very nice counter-punch, they are all under the veneer the same.
Blah blah blah. Cry me a river. While there is definitely some financial connections between dodgy Trump and some dodgy Russians, there is still no conclusive proof that the Russian government influenced the US elections whatsoever. So before that, anything is just speculations. And like Xavi said, to stand by Hillary Clinton doesn’t really put you on the moral high ground.
Thats exactly right. There is no conclusive proof.
Thats why a special prosecutor is so necessary.
It time for the facts to be fully presented.
Also I would never characterize the Trump / Russia connection as “some”.
I personally believe that this is the heart of the matter. It most likely is in the tune of billions of dollars and influence that is not in the US interest.
It matters less to me about meddling as that has been going on for decades.
But “influence” peddling is another matter.
Especially with the thugs who stole the state industries as they went “public” in Russia.
Trumps MO has always been to to business with organized crime figures (as a life long NYC citizen, I know this for a fact) this is nothing new for him.
Trouble is he is not a Fresh Meadows resident any longer and the consequences are more important.
The guy is monarchical and anti democratic. (and please I know the democrats are not much better) and I want to know what he is hiding.
Yes, a spineless piece of shit Trump is for sure. In no sense am I pro-Russia, but I’m also not ready to jump on the anti-Russia bandwagon the mainstream media and neoliberals had been going for a while now.
I think you’re getting caught in the weeds of the political soap opera, and are operating under the false assumption that Trump and Hilary represented the only options in a binary political process. But that’s BS. Neither Clinton nor Trump are qualified or have the temperament to be President. Once we assume that, then the problem resolves into view: the entire political process has indeed been corrupted. But not by Russians, or ISIS, or the New World Order, or ZOG, or whatever alien face Alex Jones saw in his pee-foam that morning, or – indeed – the FBI director! The people who caused this sh!tshow are the corporations who’ve been subverting your democracy for the last 50 years.
But if it makes you feel better, please continue to complain that the journalists who are actually doing their job, are merely tilting at windmills.
I agree with your sentiment here.
There is a strange, almost ferocious antipathy for Hillary Clinton on this site.
The intensity and uniformity of these Clinton haters’ comments seems out of proportion to her actual impact. I see her as a relatively harmless and inoffensive technocrat; someone more comfortable in pant suits discussing policy
Yet here she’s treated as if she’s the reincarnation of Che Guevara at the height of the Cold War. Or the Devel at an Evangelical Revival. The blind fury directed towards her seems almost hysterical. Pointing this out — expressing the banal opinion that she’s not as bad as Trump — seems to provoke angry and illogical and responses.
Even when Trump fires Comey in a naked abuse of power, few of the Clinton hating zealots here seem to find it worthy of their outrage. Apparently they’re saving their emotional ammo for Clinton’s next appearance at a Woman’s Perspective forum on C-SPAN.
Something strange is going on which I can’t quite explain.
I’m gratified when others notice it as well.
Without acknowledging as real your hyperbole, it could be that the antipathy given to progressive ideas by people like Clinton, Obama, Emmanuel etc. is the reason why she is not “liked” to the level you prefer. The election of Trump is not a “recommendation” for the neoliberal world view, it is proof of it’s complete failure.
While I get your suspicion of all things pro-Russia and/or anti-Hillary, I don’t go as far as to defend Hillary – she was not as she seemed (or was, depending on where you stand).
Having said that, I voted for Hillary as I was confident that Trump was/is nothing but a self-promoting huckster whose motto is “get even 10 times worse” and is evidently an ignorant, money-grubbing, tyrant-loving, vindictive, egomaniac. While Hillary may have identified with some of those traits, she is not ignorant, and we would not now – a little more than 100 days into the Trump presidency – find ourselves on the edge of a constitutional crisis and possibly more.
Oh, and one for the Russophiles: Russia did hack, is hacking, and will hack into our political system in the future. The preponderance of evidence points in this direction. And the world is round and global climate change is real.
Here’s a good source of info in Comey and Clinton: http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2017/may/09/year-fact-checking-about-james-comey-clinton-email/
M’kay. Thanks for visiting. Drive safely.
Nephrite or Jadeite?
Her mouth did her in – -which is saying a lot considering what came out of the Frito’s maw – but she still won’t shut it.
Are you citing John McCain’s tweets as if they were written by a person that didn’t have this outlandish militaristic agenda and shouldn’t possibly be investigated for war crimes and support of ISIS? Incredible.
Drain the Swamp!
How about a clean sweep/fresh start at the Dept of Justice. I mean, some of the leading personnel have been hanging around since the Civil War. Sessions is a throw back to the worst times in US history. The cretin with the drawl needs to go too, and I applaud states and cities that do not cooperate with his deportation plans.
It appears Trump gave Comey the choice between a golden handshake or a golden shower. He went for the stinking money, folks.
The real danger to “our” democracy is that it’s owned lock, stock and barrel by Big Money. This FBI nonsense is just a meaningless circus, something for political and media surrogates of Big Money to posture and throw shapes about. But something that has near-zero relevance to the real problems confronting America.
These people are all pigs. The best thing that could happen would be if they all killed each other.
This is not our (progressives or radicals) fight. Who cares about which pig dominates this infighting?
Democrats wanted Comey out but don’t like the timing…isn’t a win a win?
The DemocRATS may regret getting their wish, because it is likely that a new FBI director will be appointed who will go after Hillary and her band of miscreants her State Dept reign who violated security laws with the private email server.
That could wipe out her whole higher echelon of advisors and defenders. Which personally, I would love to see, in the interests of “Equal Justice Under The Law”. Obviously Lynch and Comey were under orders to protect her.
The only way that the DNC corrupted Dems will shut up about Hillary is when she and her little helpers are publicly exposed and prosecuted as the criminals they are. Then she could go back to the woods, or prison, and we could “start fresh” with the Dems purged of a major negative influence, that caused such heavy losses in elections over the recent past. Maybe Rep Trey Gowdy would make a great FBI Director.
M.I. – you forgot the word alleged in your childish zeal to convict someone. I thought we moved past the “see if she floats” test and actually started with facts.
Come on back when you find some evidence for your assertions and we can conduct a real investigation. Otherwise your mouth is just a spineless C-holster.
The job of the FBI Director is to accumulate enough dirt on the President so they can’t be fired. So either Mr. Trump is behaving recklessly, or Mr. Comey is incompetent and deserved to be fired. Both scenarios appear equally plausible at this point, so we’ll have wait until Mr. Trump’s FBI file appears on Wikileaks to make a final decision.
I think your job description was particular to J. Ogre Hoover.
Comey was compromised. To follow the Democrats logic : since the Russians already have all the Trump dirt files , Comey could have become subject to blackmail from the Kremlin.
Drain the swamp. And the list is still long….
How paranoid is this – I think Comey knew this was coming, the blunder over his testimony of how many classified emails Huma sent to the Weinerman was intentional. Pre-planned: aha ! Now Big Daddy has an excuse to fire him. This was set up from the top. He was a knowing lackey.
Jerome Corsi writes today:
“WASHINGTON, D.C. – Libertarian firebrand and long-time Trump confident Roger Stone looks forward to an opportunity to testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee about his alleged involvement with Russia to rig the 2016 election for Donald Trump.
“But after a letter dated April 28 from the Senate Intelligence Committee, jointly signed by the Chairman, Republican Sen. Richard Burr and by the Vice Chairman, Democratic Sen. Mark Warner, asking Stone to make himself available for a “closed interview with designated committee staff” at a mutually agreeable time, Stone is not so sure the U.S. Congress wants the American people to hear his side of the story.”
[more]
https://www.infowars.com/roger-stone-dares-dems-to-let-him-testify-under-oath-in-public/
Infowars is a bullshit conspiratorial site with little to no factual information. Now piss off, loser.
You can relay that news to Richard Stallman, Seymour Hersh, William Binney, Noam Chomsky, and other guests who have appeared on the Infowars radio show.
The Hacking investigation is making it hotter and hotter for Donald and the Republicans…….
Will Donald become the American equivalent of the Italian Silvio Berlusconi ?
What is a greater threat to our democracy is the way the FBI has been faking “terrorism” suspects they cradle and coax into situations so they can be arrested. Intercept has done a good job exposing those. Get back to that and let Trump continue to improve our relations with Russia which is desperately needed.
Facts to consider:
1. FBI directors are nominated by sitting Presidents and serve at their discretion
2. Trump has the option of replacing the FBI director without cause
3. Most FBI directors are afforded the face-saving opportunity to resign
4. Only one FBI director has been fired besides Comey. FBI Director, William Sessions, was fired by President Bill Clinton in 1993. Sessions was FBI director during the controversial 1992 confrontation at Ruby Ridge, Idaho, at which the unarmed Vicky Weaver and her son were shot dead by an FBI sniper. However, the murder of Randy Weaver’s wife and son were not the cause of Session’s dismissal. Rather, allegations of ethical improprieties were cited as the cause of Sessions being fired. President Clinton did afford him the opportunity to resign, but he chose to defy the request.
5. It is reported that Sessions learned of his dismissal by Trump while watching TV. Yet, members of Congress had been notified hours before his firing was made public; this suggests a significant degree of personal animosity directed at Comey by Trump. Thus the reason given for his firing seems contrived.
6. It has also been reported that “Federal prosecutors had issued grand jury subpoenas to associates of former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn seeking business records, as part of the ongoing probe of Russian meddling in last year’s election” just hours before Comey’s dismissal was publicly announced. The same article further reported that “The subpoenas represent the first sign of a significant escalation of activity in the FBI’s broader investigation begun last July into possible ties between Trump campaign associates and Russia.”
7. Fox news has dutifully stepped up to provide cover for Trump via the vilification of Comey over his purported improprieties in handling the Clinton Email affair.
Apropos of the foregoing, it is hard not to conclude that Trump is afraid of where a widened FBI investigation of possible ties between his campaign associates and Russia might lead. As Trump has already been forced to back-peddle on his express desire to do business with Putin by means of removing Obama’s sanctions of Russia over its pro-Assad military posture in Syria, it would appear that Tillerson’s fate might be closely tied to Trump’s. The removal of sanctions by Trump would have resulted in an immediate windfall for Exxon-Mobil who has already negotiated joint ventures in the Arctic with Russian state-controlled oil giant Rosneft in 2012-13. Even though the Obama administration had declared the entire US portion of the Chukchi sea and the vast majority of the Beaufort Sea “indefinitely off limits for future oil and gas leasing in Dec 2016, said ban would not affect Exxon-Mobil’s plans to operate in Russian controlled territory of the arctic. Because Tillerson was strongly recommended for the his cabinet position as Secretary of State by former CIA director Robert Gates and his business partner, Condoleezza Rice, it is very possible that Comey’s investigation into possible ties between Trump’s campaign associates and Russia has also threatened to reveal tripartite connections with the dark state.
#5, . It is reported that Comey learned of his dismissal by Trump while watching TV.
Small correction. Sorry.
Yes, Very good. Thanks for the correction.
It’s my gut feeling that that the “Russia” investigation will not discover collusion, but rather uncover some Russian financial dealings that may have legal consequences.
Ie…personal, financial enrichment of the Trump businesses and family.
http://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-trump-property/
give your gut another beer it seems to be acting drunk again.
Cute. But my gut prefers Scotch. ;)
It’s a hunch. True. But read the link I posted and ask yourself how much of an appetite does Trump have for Russian money and why won’t he release his tax returns?
There is a hidden element here that is only being hinted at via Rex Tillerson’s appointment as Secretary of State. Again Tillerson was recommended by former CIA director Robert Gates, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, and former National Security Advisor Stephen J. Hadley who are all partners in a firm called RiceHadleyGates. All three are members of the Council on Foreign Relations and former neo-con appointees of George W Bush. Exxon-Mobil is the most prestigious client of RiceHadleyGates.
According to Wikipedia Stephen J. Hadley is, or has been, a member of the:
1. Council on Foreign Relations,
2. Defense Policy Board,
3. Foreign Affairs Policy Board,
4. National Security Advisory Panel to the Director of Central Intelligence,
5. Board of Trustees of Analytical Services (“ANSER”), and the
6. Board of Directors at defense contractor Raytheon.
Of greatest significance is the fact that Stephen J Hadley is the chairman for United States Institute of Peace (USIP). Likewise, Rex Tillerson became a Member ex officio of the USIP upon being confirmed as Secretary of State. Trump’s National security Advisor, Michael T. Flynn, was the keynote speaker at USIP’s Passing the Baton conference on Jan 10, 2017.
Sreeram Chaulia wrote a very interesting article for the International Journal of Peace Studies entitled ONE STEP FORWARD, TWO STEPS BACKWARD: THE UNITED STATES INSTITUTE OF PEACE.
https://www.gmu.edu/programs/icar/ijps/vol14_1/Chaulia14n1IJPS.pdf
Abstract:
In working as a member of the Iraq Group in 2002, Hadley was responsible for allowing a disputed claim about Iraq’s quest for nuclear weapons material from Niger to be included in Bush’s January 28, 2003 State of the Union Address (see Niger uranium forgeries).
During the Syrian chemical weapons crisis in September 2013, Hadley appeared on Bloomberg TV, CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, and also wrote an op-ed piece for the Washington Post in which he advocated attacking Syria with missiles. At the time, Hadley was a director at Raytheon and owned 11,477 shares of stock, but the news organizations failed to disclose the link and conflict of interest. (Wikipedia: Steven Hadley)
It has been reported by Dana Priest that Trump’s campaign team first initiated contact with Lt Gen. Flynn in late summer 2015 for the purpose of seeking his advice on foreign policy. By that time, Flynn had already illegally received thousands of dollars from Russian businesses (e.g. RT), and was advocating for closer ties with Russia. And when Flynn was subsequently tasked to secretly meet with the Russian ambassador in late Dec 2016 for the purpose of addressing the lifting of sanctions, Donald Trump had already chosen ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson to be his Secretary of State.
In an article dated Dec 16, 2016, Demetri Sevastopulo of the The Financial Times reported that when Robert Gates was urging Donald Trump to consider Rex Tillerson for his secretary of state, “the former CIA director was one of the rare Russia hawks who was not concerned about criticism that the ExxonMobil chief executive was too close to the Kremlin.”
One rather curious side note is that United States Institute of Peace has been tentatively slated for defunding by the Trump administration to partially compensate for a proposed increases in defense spending.
“Yet, members of Congress had been notified hours before his firing was made public; this suggests a significant degree of personal animosity directed at Comey by Trump.”
More likely, just Trump being Trump, the petty, vindictive lout that he is known to be. He’s a piece of pathology, as demonstrated by his cabinet appointments, all of whom are the worst that we could have. Especially Sessions and Pompeo. Pompeo who was rubber stamped in by what was it, twelve DemocRAT Senators, including the to women from NH.
So much for the need for more women in Congress meme, the NH Senators approved an avowed torture approver, who is determined to use the method on Assange and Snowden if he can. Just another reason, like the “Leave Israel Alone” whining letter to the UN that all 100 of our embarrassing Senators, including Saints Sanders and Warren, signed this week. Well, I’m done with them all, for good. I’ve let my Senators and Rep know, the days of voting for Dems and then greatly regretting it (Obama, Kerry, Warren, now Sanders) are finally done.
First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton would probably make the same recommendation to any sitting president.
@realDonaldTrump ‘Cryin’ Chuck Schumer stated recently, “I do not have confidence in him (James Comey) any longer.” Then acts so indignant. #draintheswamp.’
presenting [drum roll]…… New acting FBI director is Andrew McCabe – and he too is caught in the toxic impact of Clinton as his politician wife got cash from a Hillary ally.
us congress, biggest little whorehouse in wdc
Good times.
Too bad this circus is our actual government.
Nixonian?…more like Erdoganian or Putinian.
Wait until Trump kills his first critic….we ain’t seen nothing yet….
p.s. now i realize Sessions da Turd is to Himmler as Trump is to…..
Our plutocracy is in danger. Hurray!!!!!!!!!
Well, Comey had quite the career – played a role in the Iraqi WMD debacle, over the Valerie Plame affair (she was targeted by the Cheney gang because she and her husband knew about their faked evidence on Iraqi WMDs) – in a cleaner role, apparently. Then was rewarded for loyal service with the job of General Counsel at Lockheed Martin. After HSBC got caught laundering drug cartel money and Loretta Lynch gave them a “deferred prosecution deal” – it was only $2 billion or so via El Chapo, not like kids get sent to jail for dealing cocaine. . . errr. . . anyway, Comey then went over to HSBC Holdings to help them with “due diligence” window dressing – cleaner! – and then, having proven his loyalty to Wall Street and the Military-Industrial complex, he was rewarded with the FBI job in Sep 2013 by Obama. Tried to play a double game in the 2016 election – first covered for Hillary Clinton by refusing to charge her with anything during the primary over her email server, because that would have helped Bernie Sanders – but then, fearful of appearing too partisan to the Trump supporters (some Timothy McVeigh issues with that crowd?), doubled back the other way in an attempt to appear even-handed. Just pissed everyone off in the end.
Hey maybe the new FBI Director can be convinced to re-open anthrax terrorism case on the letters from 9/18 and 10/9, 2001 that the FBI prematurely shut down in 2008; and which Obama vowed to never see reopened – that would be good for a few laughs, wouldn’t it?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zT7ATynE8_0
News flash: Our democracy has been in danger throughout the entire 21st century, and it’s more of a plutocracy than a democracy anyway.
And as Maine’s Susan Collins reminds the hysterical progressive left, Trump “did not fire the entire FBI.” He only let go its director.
Well it’s not the Saturday Night Massacre of the Nixon era – but give that a few months, who knows?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturday_Night_Massacre
Hilarious, the U.S. federal government is now the world’s laughingstock. This must have been that wiley Putin’s plan from day one – Trump gets elected, hijinks ensue, everyone has a good laugh. This calls for a large supply of popcorn.
Comey overreached. He crossed craft.
I enjoyed watching the Russian victory day parade on RT.com. Highly recommend it, as they lost 20+ million to our 700,000 in WWII, and defeated the Nazis. Most ‘MeriKans think US won the war. Well, in the Pacific we did, not Europe really.
I understand Trump wanting to align with the Russians on business deals. He likes going with a winner. Like Bill Hicks said, sorta, “if the Jews killed our Lord Jesus, then I’m going to go with the most powerful, the Jews.”
All the yammering from our whore Congress is really making me dislike them more than him. Trump is Trump and doesn’t try to hide it, whereas our Congress is a bought and paid for bunch of whores, and does all it can to hide it. Witness the letter to the UN on Israel within the past week. Signed by the whole Senate, not a single ethical one among them.
Let the Leaks Begin!
I think things will get much more interesting with the FBI agents doing various investigations of Center Right and Right politicians now that the agents are off the leash, at least temporarily, for a while.
He was recommended for termination by a United States Deputy Attorney General who served as a United States attorney in Maryland under Barack Obama.
Yes, after being nominated for that job by George W. Bush and confirmed, unanimously, by the Senate.
Rod Rosenstein has a long story as a government prosecutor. Leave it to you to pick one random factoid and try to turn it into something it isn’t.
BTW, Rosenstein was picked by Trump to replace Sally Yates, when she refused to defend his lame-ass Muslim Exclusion Order. You may have noticed that he didn’t hesitate to follow the orders of the Big Boss.
Leave it to you to respond to a simple statement on (unanimously confirmed) non-partisanship by trying to best it with a commentary of awareness of the officeholder’s “long story as a government prosecutor,” to feed your insatiable inflated ego on the comments section.
what a dishonest creature you are
WHAT A CROCK OF BULL. So as long as the director of the F…B…I… has an open investigation on the candidate turned president, he has a job, cant be fired?? Are you serious? Then in the next election cycle he can also open a file on the competing candidates and no matter who wins, cant be fired while investigations are pending? Are you insane?
That’s the conjob the democrats are now trying to SHOEHORN US into? That and Russia still did it. FYI, 1952 JFK beat HCL for senate in Mass. running as a Dem because the repubs believe JFK had a harder line against the Russians. It’s the longest running con in history and they’re still at it. Meanwhile Cuba has the best working therapy for cancer on the planet.
welcome to 3rd world usa
If you want to convince anybody that our democracy is imperiled by the Comey firing, the worst thing to do is go quoting Chuck Schumer and John McCain. Comey was a minor league opportunist working at a major league job. Ultimately, he ended up alienating everyone. The only tears anyone in Washington will shed for Comey are crocodile tears. If Intercept writers are going to start loading up their major stories with the perspectives of top officals and politicians, I might as well go back to watching Morning Joe. Is their no real, non-bullshit angle on this story?
I read strictly speaking the words of the author himself and he simply stated facts. The people he quoted I’m on the fence about, but the words by Jon himself were quite neutral. I would posit that it is important to present the opinions that he did and attempting to find balance would be hard here. I also feel Kellyanne Conway did a good job rebuffing the attacks.
I don’t think Jon is trying to convince anyone of any such thing. Rather, the headline includes a quote, sourced in the text of the piece:
Not really, only speculation, at this point. Schwarz is just writing pretty straight reporting, here. Surely that’s not, yet, a crime.
There’s some decent speculation in the comments, below. Check ’em out.
I am thinking that when everyone is in almost unanimous agreement in the Elite populous of politicians known as the 3 branches of gov’t, that Trump made a very good decision. I am glad to see Comey go. I have no illusions that Trump is doing the ‘right’ thing, he most certainly could care less. He, in fact, jumped the gun to halt the investigation into Hillary Clinton prematurely. He sees his great blunder now, maybe too late.
I figured his friendship w/ the Clinton’s was driving his decision, the first in a number of fast mistakes. He may have thought his world of high finance in Casino’s and NY Real Estate had more than prepared him for battle in Washington, then he met the mother of all casino’s: the money-making distribution syndicate– known as the Federal Government. He was unprepared for how viciously deceitful and murderous, politics has become. Now I am worried for the integrity of a replacement Where to find a morally incorruptible human being in Washington…impossible.
Trump is good friends with the Clintons, and you could see her crack a cheerful, knowing, good natured smile when Trump said in front of 65.6 million viewers that she belongs “in jail” during the second debate.
Of course Trump’s plan all along was to invite Hillary to the White House and hand the presidency to Hillary.
Also, Trump is a liberal–so says Mother Jones in a thoughtful August 2015 essay published to considerately allow voters 15 months to find a more centrist alternative to Donald’s liberalism:
http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2015/08/donald-trumps-top-ten-liberal-heresies
Citing blogger Kevin Drum, whose litany of getting polirical and economic takes wrong goes back many election cycles, is entirely unpersuasive.
Stepping back after seeing the reactions, don’t look immediately good for the democrats and mass media. I thought that a good possibility would be that Trump after getting his ass whipped and beaten by certain factions of the Deep State, might learn the game, and would learn to use the Oval Office to assert himself and gain control critical parts of the Deep State.
If in fact Trump has gained control of a significant organization of the Deep State, watch out. In two years, Trump will have his fist so far up the Democrats and mass media even McCain will be singing Putin’s praises and Rachel Maddow will demand his baby.
Greenwald in on his twitter page warned about he Deep State. So long as it bashed Trump, it was okay. …but shit turns around.,
And payback will be a mother. Unfortunately, it will include us prols also.
Not surprisingly, now we’re getting bogged down in the same minute info with the same “pundits” endlessly rehasing the same information to fill airtime and column space.
To summarize at this point:
Trump only wants yes people. Sessions is the AG. Rosenstein is the Assistant AG running the Russian investigation. He’s also a career DOJ attorney who does as he’s told.
If a Special Prosecutor is appointed, Rosenstein makes that decision. Not Congress, Trump or Sessions. Does anyone seriously believe that he’ll appoint a competent person?
Key people keep saying 17 intelligence agencies have a “high confidence level” that the Russians interfered with the election. But since it’s “classified”, nobody has ever produced any of it. And they never will. You want to prosecute/impeach Trump for obstruction?
To prosecute, you need evidence to justify a prosecution and a high chance of winning. All DOJ prosecutors are evaluated on a quota system. How many successful prosecutions do you have? They have to score political points to make the DOJ look good. Trump can control all classified information. Without releasing it, there’s no case.
Sessions and Robenstein won’t prosecute Trump. And Trump knows that. He’s still acting like a CEO. I only want yes people around me to reinforce my 100% perfect at all times image so my ego doesn’t get destroyed. As long as he maintains control, he can do whatever he wants. In his mind, I am above the law. You don’t like that? Fuck every one of you.
Now Comey is on his “You’re Not Going to Trash My Name” tour. Remember “Heck of a Job Brownie”? He got fired and then went on the warpath. Motherfuckers, you’re not gonna trash me in public! Fuck all of you! Then he wrote a tell-all book.
Will Comey sue for wrongful termination? That would involve disclosing information that’s part of an ongoing FBI investigation. Which is never done. So that’s a dead end.
Nobody in key positions will dare to stand up to Trump. Because they know they’ll get fired. To Trump, if anyone objects, fuck ’em. Goddamnit, I’m the President and I am ABOVE the law. Or so he thinks.
This assumes that Congress won’t pull a Lewinsky. Given how Trump is acting outside Republican orthodoxy, they just may. (Of course, we all know how that worked out- and it’s ironic that there was a real high crime Clinton committed not long before the House Impeachment vote that nobody in power thought was a high crime (Operation Desert Fox).)
The subpoenas represent the first sign of a significant escalation of activity in the FBI’s broader investigation begun last July into possible ties between Trump campaign associates and Russia.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/09/politics/grand-jury-fbi-russia/index.html
Do Dems have a vocabulary beyond “our democracy” and “folks”?
‘Folks’ was brought into current political lexicon by G.W. Bush.
Unfortunately, and while I recall that as true, Mr. Communete won’t accept anything not sourced to Alex Jones or infowars.
You misquoted Richard Burr – he never said “resignation” he said “termination.”
America is and has been a fascist military dictatorial police surveillance state since the
2000 elections when the President George W. Bush & the US Congress both
Democrats & Republicans stampeded the Patriot Act thou congress after 9-11, and we
only have ourselves to blame for electing these traitors to the Constitution, and nothing
will change until we have 3 or more party representation in Congress .
For America to be great again we must to abide by the Constitution ! ! ! NOT PERVERT
IT !
***** is a Fascist and as UN American as any person can be, he is a low life white trash
scumbag POS who may be financial rich, but who is morally bankrupt & worthless ! !
Those who support him are no better than he is . I judge people on their honor, character
& integrity this man has none of those qualities . WISE UP AMERICA !
REMEMBER: POLITICIANS, BUREAUCRATS AND DIAPERS SHOULD BE CHANGED
OFTEN AND FOR THE SAME REASON.
so criminal comey was fired by criminal trump because he didn’t investigate criminal clinton and he’s going to be replaced by another criminal
who gives a fuck?
You pretty much covered it. i used to enjoy this site I felt I picked some knowledge. Just more hysteria that has fuck all to do with anything other the gangsters in D.C. Oh and the Russians.
Cynical but tells the truth. (and gave me a good chuckle)
he he he he
Comey should never have been given the job and should have been fired by Obama. Who cares indeed.
Your comment is spot on. Except, I do give a fuck. I looked over at Lady Liberty tonight. She seemed to be in an awkward position. I think she was kissing her ass good bye.
Actually she kissed her ass good bye on 9/11/2001.
Newsflash to the headline writer and other naifs: Our Democracy was in danger years ago. It’s been dead for some time.
As the Iron Sheik would say: “Exactly”.
“Our Democracy” is a misnomer – always has been.
Still, the USA has had some near-hits before. This may be one.
One thing is for sure: We don’t know just how bad Bad can be until it’s here. Think things are bad now?
When a politician of either party says that they’re “troubled” by something, that means it’s going into the memory hole, and pronto.
How has James Comey’s behavior changed since last October?
How has presidential authority changed since last January?
What’s new now?
America gets to see what happens when fascism settles in.
Explanations don’t make sense. Opposition is eliminated. The
PresidentLeader purges career bureaucrats replacing them with Party loyalists. Laws are stridently invoked when convenient, ignored when inconvenient.While Comey’s firing may appear to be about the Russia investigation.
Would be dictators need loyalists in positions of authority.
“America gets to see what happens when fascism settles in.”
So, what’s new in America?
http://rarehistoricalphotos.com/henry-ford-grand-cross-1938/
THEN he made millions from WW2. What a guy!
If the subject is presidential tinkering with the Executive Branch to suit his whims and desires, not much.
What’s NEW is that Trump fired the deputy Attorney General and put in his own person, and Jeff Sessions as the Attorney General, and after they found the lever to put their seat back and their feet on the desk, they got around to writing an order to continue the purge. It’s not really that complicated. And while we might deplore Trump’s dictatorial power grabbing, it’s worth taking note that we wouldn’t *HAVE* Trump if Obama had simply defied any criticism and appointed a Democratic apparachnik to serve as a dutiful rubber stamp in the first place! As Trump surely will do now (only not a Democrat).
I’m not sure what position you mean Obama should have filled with an apparachnik.
But whatever.
I find it impossibly confusing when assigning blame to someone else for the actions of another. Whatever Obama might or might not have done, the “dictatorial power grabbing” belongs to Trump and Trump alone (and his confederates, of course).
Assign blame where blame belongs.
Instead, by inventing a series of “what ifs” designed to assign blame to someone other than the primary actor/agent, actual responsibility seems to evaporate. The primary actor/agent avoids responsibility by adopting that “but for” explanation.
It’s like straddling an imaginary universe and an actual universe. I.e., “if actor X had just done this or that, then actor Y could not have done this or that.”
We cannot know what actor Y would have done in that imaginary universe because it’s imaginary.
In the case of Trump, his authoritarian personality asserts itself — will assert itself — in different ways in different circumstances. Comey didn’t get Trump elected. Assange didn’t get Trump elected. Clinton didn’t get Trump elected. Russia didn’t get Trump elected.
Trump got Trump elected because he convinced more voters in key locations to vote for him (presumably).
Once elected, his authoritarian power grab is unsurprising.
If you voted for Trump, blame yourself. If you didn’t vote for Trump don’t blame yourself.
Hilarious! I thought that Comey was a dunce BEFORE Obama appointed him, and he did nothing else since to change my mind.
Hilarious also that an obvious KKK jerkoff, Jeff Sessions, squealed on him.
Just below, Michael Wilk asks, “What part of this is untrue?”
It appears to have only one part, and anyone who believes it to be true really must attend our slightly-used bridge auction, this weekend. Such deals!
The most likely explanation is that Comey is a straight shooter (albeit not a very bright one) and his recent bobbled testimony about the Abedin-Weiner email mess gave Trump and Sessions an excuse to fire him. They don’t want straight shooters, they want biddable minions and Sessions, especially, wants the nastiest fascist he can get to head the Fibbies.
Unfortunately (for all of us), this firing will massively reinvigorate the moronic Russophobia frenzy (Schwartz and Mackey are probably frothing over their keyboards as I type) but. . . Trump Don’t Care.
That’s exactly right. Comey’s probably relieved at this point. He can go down as a Democratic Party hero of sorts, just a few months after being their goat. Now, the fantasy investigation can go forward without his stalwart guidance . . . to nowhere. Rachel Maddow’s mind must be reeling.
Who knew that the FBI director stood between us and the forces aligned against democracy. Like John Podesta’s email stood between us and tyranny. Now Comey keeping his job is vital to ensuring democracy. One man can crash our system of government.
Is Comey some hero of democracy when he served on the Board of HSBC while they violated every fucking financial law to serve murderous Mexican drug warlords and deal with Iran?
Nah, no one seriously thinks that. For the Dims, the firing is just an opportunity to fire up the Trump-Putin bonfire.
methinks you have hit it on the proverbial nose.
It’s certainly in character for Trump to defend his good friend and fellow corrupt-establishmentarian Hillary Clinton; he also pointedly dropped all talk of prosecuting her (“lock her up!”) upon attaining the presidency.
That is not what’s going on here, Maisie. Trump and Sessions are just seizing an opportunity to get rid of a by-the-book operator (and a dunce, of course) in order to replace him with someone more to their (especially Sessions’) liking.
Why not both? We know Trump is not looking into holding Clinton accountable. (He even followed her policy recommendation and sent cruise missiles to attack the rightful government of Syria!) We also know he wants cronies in positions of power, as the case of Preet Bharara shows.
Mostly because we are way past any time at which there was even a chance that HRC would need a defense or be in any danger of being held accountable.
Shame. If a male commoner sent weapons to AQ or their allies, they’d be facing a long time in Terre Haute or ADMAX Florence (Females would likely get Coleman or Hazleton, if not FMC Carswell). A woman without connections disclosing classified info would likely get a lower sentence, as would someone who mishandled federal records.
You’ll get no argument from me on those scores. Well, except that I’d prefer to see her in the dock at Den Haag, answering to international war crimes charges.
There’s a transcription error in Rep. Burr’s statement:
“I am troubled by the timing and reasoning of Jim Comey’s resignation.”
According to the tweet below it, it should be “termination”, not “resignation”.
“a fresh start is needed at the leadership of the FBI”
WTF? You mean to tell me that Comey’s FBI- the one that distributes child pornography (especially to political targets), guns, and runs a gang stalking operation via the CVE and community policing schemes is corrupt?
Who Knew?? Trump has big balls- and confidence.
The only people worried about the ‘end of democracy’ by this prick getting fired are those who the FBI has dirt on, and is blackmailing.
And these same are the shitbag neocon-democrats who used the FBI as a political hit squad.
“I’m under investigation for possible collusion with a foreign government to manipulate our election…. possible high crimes and misdemeanors… impeachable offenses, treason… ?”
hmmm… let me think
I know!
I’ll fire the guy who’s investigating me…
and… oh! this is even better!… I’ll have the guy who’s ‘recused’ himself from this investigation due to his ethical lapses, inability to be impartial… and I’ll have him re-insert himself into the investigation…the one he’s not involved in…. and have him write the recommendation to fire the guy…
because…. and this is just genius… because he didn’t handle my opponent’s investigation properly!
that is poetic!
[rubs tiny hands in malevolent glee]
now that’s what I call gettin’ ‘er done!
right, fascists?
sounds straight up to me
where’s the derp state folks?
Calm down, kiddo. I know this is tough for the DNC to take. This isn’t about the “derp (deep) state” anyway. (I know how you feel about the lousy comments section right now.) And, while it’s not poetic, it is kinda funny the way Trumper is just doing what he wants, knowing (or not) that the Republicans who hate him too won’t give a damn about this latest mini-outrage. (See Lindsey Graham’s remarks.) I’m sure this is just as outrageous to you as that little bombing stunt he pulled a couple weeks ago–you know, the one that every major Demmy heartily approved of (not the least of which included You Know Who). At least in this case no one civilians were killed.
What part of this is untrue? By Comey’s own admission last year, had anyone else been as criminally reckless with state secrets as Clinton, that person would have suffered consequences. But since the suspect in a criminal investigation was a potential future boss, Comey gave her a free pass. This is highly corrupt and unethical. You know this for a fact. I’m frankly surprised it took this long to fire the boy. I’d have not only fired him the day I took office, I’d have looked into having my A.G. charge him with obstruction of justice had I been president.
Once again Schwarz is focusing on the wrong thing for the wrong reason.
Why now? Answer that one and be correct, and you’ll win the prize.
I doubt you’ll win the prize.
Forget the emails- I’d have frog-marched her over Odyssey Dawn. She aided and abetted the bad guys, they broke Libya, too many died.
Then again, let’s not forget the Petraeus (classified info) and Rove (secret email server) precedent. Holding her accountable would have raised questions as to why they were not held accountable.
Besides, you think Trump would have busted people who attended his wedding?
And NOBODY is talking about the criminality involved in The Clinton Foundation, The Clinton Global Initiative or any of their other shady “foundations”.
Just listen to this recent interview Lionel Nation did with Charles Ortel (the ONLY person who has bothered to research the crimes of Hillary, Bill, Chelsea Clinton and Co.):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoA7CsWrnHw
Rather ironic that one of the reasons for his firing is his spreading derogatory info about…Hillary? (Shades of Dan Burton denouncing Bush and Ashcroft over their refusal to aid his investigation into the Clintons. He even called Bush “a dictatorial president” and said John Ashcroft was “acting like he’s king”.)
Everyone’s flip flopping…even Sanders was calling for Comey’s resignation a few months ago.