Comey canned
The New York Times reports that the president has fired James Comey, the F.B.I. director.
“While I greatly appreciate you informing me, on three separate occasions, that I am not under investigation, I nevertheless concur with the judgment of the Department of Justice that you are not able to effectively lead the bureau,” Mr. Trump said in a letter dated Tuesday to Mr. Comey.
“It is essential that we find new leadership for the F.B.I. that restores public trust and confidence in its vital law enforcement mission,” Mr. Trump wrote.
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Memos released by the White House show that Rod Rosenstein, the newly sworn-in deputy attorney general, that recommended Mr. Comey be fired over how he disclosed the investigation into Mrs. Clinton.
Mr. Comey broke with longstanding tradition and policies by discussing the case and chastising the Democratic presidential nominee’s “careless” handling of classified information. Then, in the campaign’s final days, Mr. Comey announced that the F.B.I. was reopening the case, a move that earned him widespread criticism.
Democrats are calling for Comey’s testimony on that elusive investigator into the Russian question before he leaves office hoping for a smoking gun. Honestly, I don’t think Comey hurt Clinton’s campaign at all before the election. Not as much as her name and her personality and the general behavior of the Democrats.
I will read Comey’s book…if he lives long enough to write one.
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Ooh…..will Come commit suicide by shooting himself in the head 3 times?
and then locking himself in a duffel bag and proceeding to toss that selfsame duffel bag into a river.
yep, in the “back” of the head, clinton style! imo
So if Chelsea asks if he wants to visit Ft. Marcy park he should JUST SAY NO!!
I always thought that Chelsea Clinton was a Foster Kid, knowhutimean?
Bye, Felicia.
+1
No surprise, no shock, not in the slightest unprecedented. The only question was when it would occur – and maybe whether he would resign or be fired.
Lasted longer than I expected.
Lasted longer than MOST OF US WANTED! Good Riddance!!
To my mind, the crap he spewed the other day about not being convinced that Abedin knew she was doing wrong with the emails was more than enough to can his sorry ass.
Doesn’t matter if she knew or not. Ignorance of the law is not a defense for committing the crime. And that whole mob of felons knew exactly what they were doing and didn’t care.
I want to hear from those that said President Trump didn’t have the authority to fire this POS…..10 year tenor just went out the window…..Bye
Zerohedge has all the docs there… the deputy AG’s report was pretty damning. When you have Jamie Gorelick (AKA: the Mistress of Disaster) ad Eric Holder throwing you under the bus, you know you’re fucked.
Next – Koskeinen and Lerner in prison orange…
From your lips to God’s ears. And preferably they’ll be joined in prison orange by a rather large number of others.
Don’t hold your breath. People like this have a way of escaping their due punishment.
Only in THIS life, NOT IN THE NEXT!
Correct. Lawyers won’t keep you out of Hell.
Dems want him to testify on something that ALL of the intel community has already said is a non-story? Hell, the testimony yesterday said the most credible information was the Russian Dossier… that was written by a 4chan porn fan-fic writer.
Comey was too much under the influence of his deputy, Andrew McCabe, whose physician wife is trying to become a major player in the Democrat party in Virginia. Likewise, she’s tight with Terry McAuliffe, that carpetbagging weasel who is governor of Virginia and a molted skin of that snake, Bill Clinton. McAuliffe donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to Dr. McCabe’s recent losing campaign and you can bet that money came from Clinton sources to try to influence that investigation into Hillary’s emails.
Touch just one strand and that whole web vibrates…
July 2016 Liberals: Comey is awesome
October 2016 Liberals: Obama needs to fire Comey NOW!!!!!
May 2017 Liberals: OMG Trump fired Comey!!!!! What is he trying to hide
The amazing thing is how much outrage they’ve got going now when they were yelling at Obama for not firing him before the election.
So, Obama can fire him but Trump can’t because Obama is black/rich/democratic/liberal/socialist/media-beloved and can do whatever he wants, or something like that.
Maybe all the back logged cases posers have filed against us will get some attention now.
That Federal Investigation Megan Morse had Congress launch against us has been pending for a long time now.
Last time I seen her she looked to be getting fluffy. Swallowing her own bullshit will cause that.
I guess we better keep a low profile from now on.
Well, this certainly appears to refute the theory that Comey torpedoed the Clintoon campaign because he was a secret Trump ally.
Yep. Agreed.
I personally had no issue with him.
But I do understand the political and cohesive/unity issue.
Sometimes the coach has to go even though the team wins….
His efforts to be non-partisan led to both sides hating him.
Some people didn’t like him for giving Clinton a pass and other people didn’t like him for reopening the investigation.
It just floored me that he outlined a list of clear violations of the handling of classified material and then gave her a pass on all of it. Didn’t even suggest as much as withdrawing her clearance…nada
Yep, this was bullshit. But it was not him that gave the pass. It was the justice department.
As for the clearance. The FBI does not grant or revoke clearances. He really had no ability to effect her clearance. Ultimately the president can grant whomever they like a clearance. If she had been elected she could not have been denied one.
It is clear there is two justice systems and Hillary is in a privileged system. But many at her level are given the same cover from prosecution because “no reasonable prosecutor” is willing to go after them for stuff like this.
“The FBI does not grant or revoke clearances.”
Thanks..I’ve had clearance for 36 years now, I’m familiar with the process.
That’s why I used the verb suggest. His findings can most certainly have influenced her status and prosecution. Same as their routine investigations and re-investigations do.
My point was it’s fukkered up no matter how it’s twisted up in the intricacy of the specific processes.
It was fucked up. But since she was a candidate for president the status of her clearance was not something that his suggestion would have any effect on. Comey knows this. So there is no reason to make any suggestions other than political reasons which he tried hard to avoid.
I heard rumors that Clinton investigators were prohibited from expanding their investigation to anything related to things found in Hillary’s emails beyond the potential compromise of classified information. Which means any corruption or Clinton Foundation money laundering was being protected.
If that is true then it was one of the most reprehensible abuses of power I have heard of in a long time and whoever was involved in suppressing an expanded investigation should be exposed and prosecuted.
Personally I would like to see them swing as traitors.
Yeah, I dunno…the ramifications and the privileges are above my pay grade and comprehension, but I get what you’re saying.
Dear God in Heaven…
I actually agree with poodle…
Smear my face with jam and strap me to an anthill !!!
He wasn’t non partisan! he was kissing the clintons asses up one side and down the other!
No Lars, his efforts to not upholding his office and the ethics of what we expect from law enforcement led people hating him.
You can be non partisan and have ethics and principles.
Comey did not.
Explain how he did not. My bet is your explanation will line up exactly with your political ideology.
Which is exactly my point.
How, exactly, was he unethical?
Go read the Deputy AG’s report, Lars. It’s damning of his conduct in handling the Hillary e-mail mess is what earned him his pink slip. Here’s a link to 10 events during his term that showed how he made a mess of things in the FBI:
https://news.grabien.com/story-10-major-fbi-scandals-comeys-watch
Here’s the report from the Deputy AG:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-05-09/president-trump-fires-fbi-director-james-comey
I agree with The Dep. AG. But I understand why Comey felt like he needed to be as transparent as possible during the election and make statements that seem outside the scope of his role as FBI director.
I get your point. If someone violates ethical obligations, it only matters to you who benefited from the ethics violation.
Sorry, but I don’t believe that.
Your point fails in your own wording. If you believe he was trying to be non-partisan, (balanced) then he was being unethical. Ethics have no party and no partisanship.
You do the right thing no matter what and no matter where they chips fall. Comey did not.
Unlike you, I don’t care who benefited from his violations. I do care that there were violations.
Apparently, you do not and are, in fact, willing to turn a blind eye based on your political ideology.
To paraphrase, you have met the enemy, and it is you.
If that is what you think I said then you did not “get my point”.
Of course it is what you meant. How else do you explain your justification and attack for saying that the ethics depend on one’s political ideology?
I say ethics should be paramount and let the chips fall where they may.
You believe that chips falling is more important than the ethics. .
You admit that you agree with the AG’s report on the ethical violations but blame trying to be non-partisan for that. If that is what Comey was doing – trying to be non-partisan by avoiding ethics, that too is a breach of ethics.
Well, Berkeley-boi, giving Clintoon and any number of her supporters a pass on multiple Federal felonies relating to her “private” email server starts the list. Then there’s either (a) pressuring field agents to terminate or “slow-roll” their investigation of the Clintoon foundation or (b) failing to tell others at DoJ to shove it when they tried to pressure field agents to do that.
I’m sure I could come up with more examples with a bit of effort, but for anyone not wearing ideological blinders (and/or who can think for themselves) that should be enough.
Now: about Kennedy and Khrushchev – got an answer yet? Are you still “waiting for guidance from Party Superiors”? Can’t you think for yourself?
The Piuperdink doesn’t have time to look up the Kennedy/Kruschev episode, Hondo. He’s too busy contemplating his navel and saving his energy for his next bit of drivel.
He most certainly has the time. However, he may be either unwilling or too lazy to do so.
Alternatively, for once he may have actually done some research – and realized he can’t give a logically-consistent answer without contradicting his own past statements and/or making his Party Superiors very angry.
Dunno why the last point would matter, though. We no longer should “fear the Commie”. He told us that himself.
Maybe he’s waiting for one of his UC Berzerkely Perfessers to spoon feed him another tidbit of bullshit Marxist propaganda that he thinks will dazzle us.
Comey played prosecutor instead of investigator and paraded his ass out in front of the press every chance he got over the last 10 months. Hell, he shows up in front of Congress one day and tells them one thing, then his minions submit “revised comments” that say something totally different. He twisted the truth to fit the narrative.
Schumer disapproves which means it must be a good thing.
Schumer disapproves because it wasn’t a democratic president firing him.
Trump could cure cancer and Schumer would be screaming about how Trump is costing cancer doctors and researchers their jobs and how evil he is for not thinking of them and their children.
My version:
President Trump could develop a cure for cancer while Schoomah had it and Schoomah would cry that IT’S TRUMP’S FAULT that either the pills tasted like shit and/or the injections hurt while being administered.
The painful irony for the left is that the Hillbots and Hillary Clinton team constantly whining about Comey’s statement in October gave the GOP controlled congress the political justification to hold hearings and Trump political cover to fire Comey without it looking entirely like he was trying to derail a Russia connection investigation.
So now Trump and Sessions gets to work with GOP key leaders is choosing a replacement. One that is likely to be far less likable to Hillary and her drones.
Sad.
But maybe the dominoes will start to fall. If Trump and the new FBI director go after the Clintons I guarantee they will not go down alone. And both sides are corrupt as hell.
One that is likely to be far less likable to Hillary and her drones.
There you go again. You are excusing ethical violations and advocating people in the position of the top cop in the land have to be “liked.”
They don’t.
They have to follow the law and the ethical obligations of their position.
Sad.
Yep. It is sad that you would put up the law and ethics based on something akin to “liking” a person on Facebook.
You have met the enemy, and he is you.
Stop twisting what I am saying to meet your stupid fucking assumptions about me.
I am not saying he has to be liked. I am saying that Hillbots won’t like whoever Trump chooses. Hillary and Hillbots whining about Comey will lead to a replacement that is going to be WORSE for them.
Hillary and her drones helped create a situation where Trump and Sessions get to decide who to nominate for FBI director.
My hope is that whoever he or she is they have the integrity to investigate the kind of national level political corruption among establishment power that the FBI has largely avoided tackling. Starting with the Clintons.
The reference to “sad” was just a snarky Trumpism aimed at the irony of Hillary and her drones orchestrating another round of investigations about Hillary by whining about Comey and blaming him for her loss instead of accepting that she was just a shitty candidate.
“You have met the enemy, and he is you.”
Nice empty headed nonsense. How is my position on this “the enemy”?
Lars – the Democrats (and Bernie) will shit there pants over anyone that Trump appoints as the new FBI Director… because they can. They keep on swinging farther to the left that anyone that doesn’t meet their “ideals” will get a no vote from most, if not all of them.
IMHO the d-rats will shit themselves and go into meltdown REGARDLESS of who President trump nominates, period!
Imagine the scenario… Trump nominates Schumer, who has to figure out how to object….
Me, I think it’s funny that someone WHOSE TRADEMARK is the phrase “you’re fired” is catching grief for – firing someone. Reminds me of the the old story “but you knew that I’m a snake”
Stop twisting what I am saying to meet your stupid fucking assumptions about me.
They are your words, Lars. If you say the person will he “less likeable,” on some level you believe that being “liked” is a criteria for the job. It isn’t.
Hillary and her drones helped create a situation where Trump and Sessions get to decide who to nominate for FBI director.
Funny. I thought that the Constitution and the authority of the Executive branch did that.
Nice empty headed nonsense. How is my position on this “the enemy”?
You keep talking about the perception of Comey and how you understood that he did it and at one point in time, you seemed to believe that was acceptable. Now you are rolling a different tune.
You were advocating the very thing that you said you were against.
Ooh, *POW!*, right in the kisser!!! 😀 😆
Does that surprise you at all? From my perspective, the political left does little else.
I hope Sheriff Clarke gets his spot.
Sheriff Joe would be a good pick as well.
Another life destroyed due to mixing up with the damn clintons. They can never pay for all the lives they’ve ruined, and they sail off guilty as hell an d free asa aird
IMHO the Clintons have NEVER given even a remote tinker’s damn about anyone else around them to include their lives, that of their families or their well being. The Clintons are little more than talented Sociopaths that care nothing about anything other than their grip on prestige, power and wealth and would kill someone without a second thought just like you or I killing a cockroach in the kitchen.
So what are the odds of a new investigation into the Clinton Cartel now ????
Hopefully very high.
He would be doing the left and the country a huge favor if he finally shattered the “Clinton as Martyred Saint” myth the democrats keep trying to brainwash themselves and everyone else into believing.
As the gonzo journalist Dr. Hunter Thompson once said, “When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.”
It always seemed to me that Comey put himself between a rock and a hard place, and now that the election is over– it could have gone either way– he’s having to account for upsetting the bureaucratic food chain.
In such an inner-beltway schema, the FBI is supposed to investigate things, and the AG is supposed to bring charges. Anything else amounts to coloring outside the lines. The problem, in the long ago days of last October, was that the FBI could have found evidence, say, that Hillary had plans to turn the White House into a Clinton Foundation-owned Holiday Inn for touring rap musicians, and AG Loretta Lynch would have done nothing about it. She was too busy having meetings with Bill Clinton at airports in Arizona.
History will probably show that Comey did the right thing by going public with Hillary’s email issues. Now he’s paying the price for it.
No. His “going public” late in the campaign was an attempt to save his reputation. Doing the right thing would have been to continue the investigation vice terminate it in the June/July time frame.
Comey was only covering his own butt after new info came to light in the press showing how much he was helping Clintoon hide concerning her mishandling of classified info.
Let’s see, former US AG Loretta Lynch had a private meeting with “Blowjob Willie” Clinton aboard a private jet after which Comey publicly said that there were not going to be ANY charges filed against Das Hildebeast, thus I think that Comey was little more than a fall guy. Think about it, Lynch worked for the Clintons in the past, thus her saying that no charges would be filed would pollute the waters around her, so Comey was made to fall on his proverbial sword. Either way, the Clintons are more than filthy enough to make Richard Nixon look like an Altar Boy.
In that scenario, API, Comey is far from an innocent scapegoat.
He didn’t say, “Eff that” and resign publicly. That’s what Richardson and Ruckelshaus did in a similar situation during Watergate.
Comey had the same option. He didn’t choose to exercise it, choosing instead to “go along to get along”.
I think a whole bunch of folks missed something essential.
Read that bit about “while I greatly appreciate you informing me” again.
Aloud. In your best “trump being snarky” voice.
Sarcastic. Snarky.
And the delivery was an immediate doorknob intersection with butt. Brutally.
Minoroty report time:
Comey tried a J Edgar on Trump. He attempted influence by suggesting another investigation or a leak of info.
Maybe he did this to HRC. Did she screw up the campaign, or throw it at the end?
J Edgar did that crap, it is widely believed. Did Comey give it a go?
Trump just axed a would-be kingmaker. When the details come out, it may get very, very ugly. Like “Comey’s quiet coup” ugly.
Comey’s actions have been compared to Hoover. The problem for me is that the minute we knew Loretta Lynch and Billy Jeff met on a fucking tarmac in planes? Yeah. No. Done. And now we also know that even more classified docs were found from Abedin to Wiener. Everything else he may have done? We’ll find out because the people under him will retire eventually and someone will write a book.
We’ve heard much about the clause line that Trump used in the termination letter stating that he (Trump) appreciated being told three times that he was not under investigation.
I have not heard this analysis, which I believe to be true – that had Trump not included that clause, the Dems would have been quick to jump on the firing and say that Comey was fired because he was investigating Trump’s ties to Russia and he (Comey) was getting too close to “the truth.”
It doesn’t matter whether it’s true or not… it plays.
That whole “serves at the pleasure of the President” thing seems to get a lot of folks confused.
When it’s no longer the president’s pleasure you’re out, period…end of sentence. Don’t like that concept? Don’t take an appointee position. Simple shit really.
Timing looks wonky, but most of what Trump does looks wonky so this is nothing but Trump being Trump and doing what suits him, which is his prerogative.
Should have canned Comey on day one. Shit can everyone that had anything to do with the previous eight years in an appointee position.
Clean starts and radical shifts require new faces and new blood.
Regardless of whether you agree or disagree with President Trump’s decision, I think we can all agree that finding out secondhand (via TV) that you’ve been fired is a shitty thing:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/05/10/james-comey-fired-ousted-fbi-director-learned-was-fired-from-tv.html
I criticized President Obama for not giving General Mattis a courtesy call a few years ago:
http://www.weeklystandard.com/obama-fires-top-general-without-even-a-phone-call/article/697744
I’m criticizing President Trump today for the same thing.
Nope…sometimes you gotta be an asshole to show that you mean business. This won’t be the last, either. For example, if the VA isn’t squared away riki-tik, that guy will get the boot.
So you were fine with how then-President Obama handled then-General Mattis’ firing/relief, cause “sometimes you gotta be an asshole to show that you mean business”?
I am at odds to understand the meaning of this…
“While I greatly appreciate you informing me on three separate occasions that I am not under investigation…”
Never seen any such wording in a termination.
But thankfully it’s OK for some filthy commie from a Russian news agency to enter the Oval Office and have an interview. WTF is going on? Comey may have been an ass, but he also may have been on to something. I smell a commie rat and a commie plot.
Trump threatened Comey in a tweet this morning.
The guy is unraveling and so is his administration.
This week was an inflexion point. It is downhill for awhile from here and Trump is already skimming rock bottom.