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FBI Director James Comey 'terminated' by Trump
BBC
5 minutes ago
From the section US & Canada
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39866170
ETA: FBI Director James B. Comey's termination: Letters from the White House, Attorney General
Below: 1) Statement from the White House, 2) President Trump's letter to Comey, 3) letter from Attorney General Jeff Sessions and 4) letter from Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein
http://apps.washingtonpost.com/g/documents/politics/fbi-director-james-b-comeys-termination-letters-from-the-white-house-attorney-general/2430/
I wonder what took Trump so long to can him? According to him no one ever did anything wrong intentionally, they all got a walk and now he gets his.
I wonder what took Trump so long to can him?
Negotiating concession from the democrats perhaps; Wharton people rarely do anything without compensation.
Divemaster
05-10-2017, 07:53
The guy (not a reporter) who broke the story that there are grand juries investigating the Russia-Flynn connection has said supoenas have gone out, there are currently nine sealed indictments, and 16 more are expected soon.
Caveat: This dude was a former staffer in the Clinton White House, has an axe to grind, but is also well connected currently. And he had the grand jury story well before the media did.
Right now in D.C., every reporter is seeing who can become the next Woodward and Bernstein. The press won't be letting this bone go anytime soon. Keep track of how often "Nixonian" is used.
mark46th
05-10-2017, 08:17
Gracias a Dios. It's about time.
The press won't be letting this bone go anytime soon. Keep track of how often "Nixonian" is used.
Between "Saturday night massacre" and "Nixonian" I've already heard a montage of about 20 talking heads saying it. Oh, but that was from when Sally Yates was fired. ;)
Pat
bblhead672
05-10-2017, 11:19
And while the talking heads are exploding yet again, spewing their mouth sewer everywhere, Mr. Trump is moving on to the next item on the agenda.
Hopefully the next FBI Director is a law enforcement professional, not a political hack doing his masters' bidding.
Divemaster
05-10-2017, 11:32
And while the talking heads are exploding yet again, spewing their mouth sewer everywhere, Mr. Trump is moving on to the next item on the agenda.
Hopefully the next FBI Director is a law enforcement professional, not a political hack doing his masters' bidding.
The next thing on his agenda, the day after firing the guy in charge of the Russia investigation, was meeting with the Russians. The MSM and the Dems are wigging out. From an optics perspective, it may not have been the wisest move.
Between "Saturday night massacre" and "Nixonian" I've already heard a montage of about 20 talking heads saying it. Oh, but that was from when Sally Yates was fired. ;)
Pat
I heard a montage of dems asking for Comey's dismissal awhile back, they do not know what they want. Also I always liked President Nixon.
bblhead672
05-10-2017, 13:38
The next thing on his agenda, the day after firing the guy in charge of the Russia investigation, was meeting with the Russians. The MSM and the Dems are wigging out. From an optics perspective, it may not have been the wisest move.
I don't think to Trump "optics" matters much to the country's future, nor does "senate decorum and rules".
Trump is keeping things interesting....more popcorn please! :munchin
Divemaster
05-11-2017, 13:10
It seems the FBI is currently executing search warrants in connection with the Russia-Flynn investigation, starting with a GOP fund raising/consulting company in Annapolis.
It seems the FBI is currently executing search warrants in connection with the Russia-Flynn investigation, starting with a GOP fund raising/consulting company in Annapolis.
Good.
If someone violated the law then they should face the consequences...
...BUT...the Klinton Foundation and Hillary, Huma, Rice, Holder, Lynch, Lerner, etc., etc., and the rest should be also be thoroughly investigated.
Drain the swamp - the swamp consists of elites in both major political parties.
bblhead672
05-11-2017, 14:27
Good.
If someone violated the law then they should face the consequences...
...BUT...the Klinton Foundation and Hillary, Huma, Rice, Holder, Lynch, Lerner, etc., etc., and the rest should be also be thoroughly investigated.
Drain the swamp - the swamp consists of elites in both major political parties.
Yeah, let's also dig into the previous administration's interference in other countries elections.
Guilty parties - D or R - all need to be indicted and tried by a jury, preferably a jury comprised of bitter clinging deplorables.
My, my:Clinton fired FBI Director William Sessions on July 19th, 1993. Vince Foster was found dead on July 20th, 1993.
Divemaster
05-14-2017, 08:45
The same Dem source who beat the MSM on the search warrants is now claiming (and saying it is dual sourced) that currently under sealed indictment are: POTUS, Manafort, and Flynn. I have absolutely no idea of the veracity of this. But if y'all want to read it yourselves, the Twitter feed is @TrueFactsStated.
Just remember, this is a former Clinton White House staffer who really wants this to be true. He also aknowledges the Deep State exists. He calls them patriots out to save democracy. At the very least, his account provides some insight on how the other side is thinking.
Divemaster
05-15-2017, 08:38
Hilarious! The Daily Kos, of all places, calls the "Trump indicted" dude a BS'er. Apparently that paragon of sanity and fair/balanced reporting, Keith Olbermann, has picked up the story as well. Would love to see Olbermann get his ass handed to him.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/5/5/1659292/-No-Claude-Taylor-and-company-are-not-reputable-sources-on-Trump-Russia
The same Dem source who beat the MSM on the search warrants is now claiming (and saying it is dual sourced) that currently under sealed indictment are: POTUS, Manafort, and Flynn. I have absolutely no idea of the veracity of this. But if y'all want to read it yourselves, the Twitter feed is @TrueFactsStated.
Just remember, this is a former Clinton White House staffer who really wants this to be true. He also aknowledges the Deep State exists. He calls them patriots out to save democracy. At the very least, his account provides some insight on how the other side is thinking.
Considering what goes on in the District of Criminals, if it were true it is small potatoes in comparison to the Clinton Foundation, Uranium One and Clintons giving missile tech to the Chinese, etc, etc, etc.. How many politicos in DC base their stock trades on insider information or tweak laws to cash in?
All that really matters is who you know and who you piss off.
Roger Stone says the new meme is going to be that Trump has Alzheimers, is not competent to hold office and the 25th Amendment will be invoked. Yet Pelosi, Watters and are still allowed to serve and Hillary Clinton gets a pass.
Good times.
ddoering
05-16-2017, 09:16
And if Trump asks true Americans to go guns up tomorrow....:lifter
And if Trump asks true Americans to go guns up tomorrow....:lifter
A lot of people will answer that call, it is where those 'punch lists' of who has been naughty or nice come to play.
PedOncoDoc
05-17-2017, 08:31
A lot of people will answer that call, it is where those 'punch lists' of who has been naughty or nice come to play.
I see that call as a rational response to the increasingly violent anti-Trump factions receiving support from all sorts of interesting sources...
Badger52
05-18-2017, 18:41
The guy who's had some memorable committee moments (many thankfully captured by C-SPAN) will be calling it quits (http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/05/18/chaffetz-to-resign-from-congress-in-june.html) after getting Comey (hopefully) up for another "friendly" chat.
NYT citing highly placed anonymous source...Trump to name Boris Badenov or maybe Natasha...to lead FBI.
GratefulCitizen
05-18-2017, 21:55
Perhaps there are deeper levels to the firing.
Shouldn't overlook the simple ones.
Come(d)y needed to be fired.
Perhaps Trump did it with a manner and timing designed to diliberately troll the hard-left base of his opponents.
The more worked up the base gets, the harder the dims have to work to placate their constituency.
However, they lack the power to do anything about it.
Eventually, the true believers will tire of the dims' impotence, and seek new (and more radical) leadership.
The party will move even further to the left, and keep losing.
Trump is using his opponents base against them.
Divemaster
05-19-2017, 00:14
On no level does any of this look good.
On no level does any of this look good.
Now many are calling this a criminal investigation including criminals like Senators Lindsey Graham and Richard Blumenthal but they couldn't find the time to prosecute a criminal investigation against Hilary Clinton or Obama.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/05/18/sen-lindsey-graham-russia-probe-looks-like-criminal-investigation/
http://www.breitbart.com/2016-presidential-race/2017/05/18/blumenthal-mounting-evidence-of-trump-obstructing-justice-were-talking-about-a-criminal-investigation/
Perfectly timed for the summer of rage..
Sources: Comey acted on Russian intelligence he knew was fake
By Dana Bash, Shimon Prokupecz and Gloria Borger, CNN
Updated 1:29 PM ET, Fri May 26, 2017
Washington (CNN)Then-FBI Director James Comey knew that a critical piece of information relating to the investigation into Hillary Clinton's email was fake -- created by Russian intelligence -- but he feared that if it became public it would undermine the probe and the Justice Department itself, according to multiple officials with knowledge of the process.
As a result, Comey acted unilaterally last summer to publicly declare the investigation over -- without consulting then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch -- while at the same time stating that Clinton had been "extremely careless" in her handling of classified information. His press conference caused a firestorm of controversy and drew criticism from both Democrats and Republicans.
Comey's actions based on what he knew was Russian disinformation offer a stark example of the way Russian interference impacted the decisions of the highest-level US officials during the 2016 campaign.
The Washington Post reported Wednesday that this Russian intelligence was unreliable. US officials now tell CNN that Comey and FBI officials actually knew early on that this intelligence was indeed false.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/26/politics/james-comey-fbi-investigation-fake-russian-intelligence/
Report: Comey Killed Clinton Investigation In Part To Counteract Russian Disinformation
Daily Wire
Ben Shapiro
MAY 26, 2017
On Friday, CNN reported, based on anonymous sources, that former FBI director James Comey put an end to the Hillary Clinton investigation in order to forestall the public impression that Clinton would be let off the hook in corrupt manner by Attorney General Loretta Lynch – not thanks to Comey’s concerns about the meeting between Lynch and Bill Clinton on a plane in Arizona, but thanks to Russian disinformation suggesting that Lynch would kill the investigation and exonerate Clinton.
CNN reports:
Then-FBI Director James Comey knew that a critical piece of information relating to the investigation into Hillary Clinton's email was fake -- created by Russian intelligence -- but he feared that if it became public it would undermine the probe and the Justice Department itself, according to multiple officials with knowledge of the process….The Russian intelligence at issue purported to show that then-Attorney General Lynch had been compromised in the Clinton investigation. The intelligence described emails between then-Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz and a Clinton campaign operative suggesting that Lynch would make the FBI investigation of Clinton go away.
But Comey never informed Congress that the allegedly Russian-planted email designed to cast doubt on Hillary’s exoneration was fraudulent. Instead, Comey’s friends told CNN that he didn’t care if the Russian-planted email reflected truth about Clinton-Lynch collusion – he worried that once the Russians released such information, credible people would buy it and the intelligence community wouldn’t be able to call it out as a Russian fraud for fear of “burning intelligence sources and methods.”
In other words, the Russians allegedly planted information designed to cast doubt on Hillary’s exoneration at Lynch’s hands – and in order to grant veracity to that information, Comey took the bullet for Lynch publicly.
This new information, if true, confirms two basic ideas.
First, the Russians were attempting to interfere with the election.
Second, Comey interfered in the normal law enforcement process in order to counteract the interference of the Russians – but without proper regard for the legal process regarding the Hillary investigation. Essentially, he was so focused on preventing the appearance of interference by Lynch that he ended up interfering himself.
http://www.dailywire.com/news/16907/report-comey-killed-clinton-investigation-part-ben-shapiro
Bottom line - Trump shoulda body slammed Comey, Putin and Hillary.
bblhead672
05-26-2017, 12:42
CNN report from anonymous sources, so it must be true, right?
More Deep State BS?
CNN report from anonymous sources, so it must be true, right?
More Deep State BS?
Perhaps, and a Friday before a holiday weekend news dump.
There is a lot of shit to clean up in that swamp.
ddoering
05-26-2017, 13:08
How is Russia trying to influence our election news anyways? We do the same thing. Its expected.
Perhaps the real story should be that the MSM tried to influence the election.
How is Russia trying to influence our election news anyways? We do the same thing. Its expected.
Perhaps the real story should be that the MSM tried to influence the election.
And, the one area where we have known improper collusion - CNN and Clinton campaign.
Agree - the real stories so far are MSM collusion, MSM influence and all these damn leaks.
Add to that the Comey spectacle.
FBI director Jim Varney has released a cloud of Keystone-Kop level trust in the system with the way he has trifled about wasHington DC
So has former CIA director David Brenner...
The men entrusted with our laws and out intelligence shouldn't even b entrusted with our stray animals.
They are both comedians -
Bottom line - Trump shoulda body slammed Comey, Putin and Hillary.
He did two out of three. Wait for the third.
Badger52
05-26-2017, 15:23
...he worried that once the Russians released such information, credible people would buy it and the intelligence community wouldn’t be able to call it out as a Russian fraud for fear of “burning intelligence sources and methods.”
Well, Comey doesn't have to worry about that, now that his "friends" have done that for him. Anonymously of course. Sad that Lewis Carroll isn't around to write this screenplay.
GratefulCitizen
05-26-2017, 20:38
Well, Comey doesn't have to worry about that, now that his "friends" have done that for him. Anonymously of course. Sad that Lewis Carroll isn't around to write this screenplay.
"Friends."
How appropriate.
The MSM, the dims, and various interested (and/or incompetent) parties have turned this issue into an episode of "Friends".
https://youtu.be/a4CS2tCjAgk