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FBI director fired for the purpose of obstructing justice
2017 May 10, 1:35pm 3,468 views 18 comments
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FNWGMOBDVZXDNW
2017 May 10, 5:47pm
Comey asked for more money to investigate trump last week. The response... You're fired.
Ceffer
2017 May 10, 6:13pm
FBI director fired for the purpose of obstructing justice
I knew there was a good reason.
MisdemeanorRebel
2017 May 10, 9:33pm
Just FYI, the new Deputy AG Rosenstein wrote a letter recommending Comey's dismissal.
Who approved of Rosenstein? Chuck Schumer, just weeks ago, who thinks the world of him as a lawyer.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/09/us/politics/comey-fbi-memo-rod-rosenstein.html
If Comey told him three times that he himself was not under investigation, then there is no obstruction of justice because there is no justice to obstruct. I doubt Sessions and Rosenstein let him release that letter unless they could back up that claim. By the way, word is that acting director McCabe DID tell Trump he wasn't under investigation, but that he wasn't going to tell that to the Press as it would be "inappropriate".
The Media plays a game with "Trump" and "Trump's Associates" by saying just "Trump" or "Trump Administration". Right now, the IC has investigated and given up on Trump and his Associates for lack of evidence. Now they want to look at Flynn's Associates, the Associates of Trump's Associates. Then it will be the Associates of Associates of Associates of Trump. Eventually, by the Degrees of Speculation Separation, they'll eventually find some far removed point of contact and the Media will, like Palestinians with a bloody shirt, wave it to the world screaming ULULULULULU.
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2017 May 10, 10:25pm
Who approved of Rosenstein? Chuck Schumer ...
Just because you vote someone in, doesn't mean you agree with everything they do or believe.
By the way, word is that acting director McCabe DID tell Trump he wasn't under investigation ...
When many people around you have credible cause to be under investigation, yet you yourself are not, it doesn't mean you are free from having done something yourself or are free from investigation indefinitely. Best case scenario is Trump will come out of this as only a "useful idiot" for Russia. Our intelligence services appear to have to be debugging the oval now due to poor conduct by Trump today.
Rosenstein has threatened to resign due to him being portrayed as the motivating factor in firing Comey. Rosenstein is another career now forever tarnished by the touch of Trump. So sad.
Bottom line: At what point do you decide an independent investigation is the best way to clear Trump and his campaign? Hillary weathered investigation after investigation. Trump looks terrified!
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2017 May 10, 10:28pm
... he would have been impeached by the Republicans.
The Republicans are racing against the tide of public opinion now : Can they get their tax cuts for the mega rich before they must jettison this toxic President? Stay tuned!
"Who approved of Rosenstein?"
And now Rosenstein has realized what a shitshow this administration is and is on the verge of resigning.
"CLINTON FIRES SESSIONS AS FBI DIRECTOR"
Do you not understand what happened here? Firing someone is fine. Firing someone because they are investigating you and your possible ties to treasonous behavior? Not fine.
FNWGMOBDVZXDNW
2017 May 11, 7:54am
And now Rosenstein has realized what a shitshow this administration is and is on the verge of resigning.
Being on the verge is not good enough. The title is misleading. If you threaten something, you usually have a demand - make an ultimatum. You can't threaten to resign after an event happens. You just resign. It's not clear to me WTF is going on with Rosenstein. He'll undoubtedly be asked by Congress.
Dan8267
2017 May 11, 7:55am
CLINTON FIRES SESSIONS AS FBI DIRECTOR
False equivalency. From your own article
The president told reporters afterwards that he acted after Attorney General Janet Reno "reported to me in no uncertain terms that he {Sessions} can no longer effectively lead the bureau and law enforcement community" and that he agreed with that assessment.
Clinton's action ended an agonizing public debate that began last January when a scathing report from the Justice Department's Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) accused Sessions of numerous ethical lapses. Although a Clinton spokesman immediately described the report as "disturbing" and administration officials concluded within weeks of taking office that Sessions had to be replaced, the White House permitted him to stay on for months -- a delay that senior FBI officials say badly demoralized the bureau and exacerbated an already painful rift between the director and top bureau managers.
Reno, reading from a letter she wrote the president, said she had concluded that Sessions "had exhibited a serious deficiency in judgment involving matters contained in the {OPR} report and that he does not command the respect and confidence needed to lead the bureau and the law enforcement community in addressing the many issues facing law enforcement today."
Sessions's future was thrown into doubt earlier this year when the OPR report found that he had abused his office by setting up official appointments to justify charging the government for personal travel, improperly billed the FBI nearly $10,000 for a fence around his home, and refused to turn over documents on his $375,000 home mortgage, which investigators said they suspected involved a "sweetheart deal."
The report, based on sworn statements from more than 100 FBI agents, created an uproar within the bureau and was immediately attacked by Sessions and his outspoken wife, Alice Sessions, as the product of an internal cabal of FBI agents and former Bush administration officials out to get him.
Initially, some Clinton administration officials were willing to give the director the benefit of the doubt, expressing some sympathy for his argument that the report was a political "hit" by the outgoing Republican administration. But there was soon a consensus that many of the findings could not be dismissed.
The OPR found, for example, that Sessions bumped security agents off FBI planes and forced them to fly commercially so his wife could accompany him at government expense. FBI aircraft were diverted to pick up Alice Sessions in other cities and FBI vehicles were employed to take her to get her nails done, shop and pick up firewood.
Most troubling to administration officials was the OPR finding of a "sham" arrangement to claim a tax exemption on the value of his chauffeur-driven FBI limousine to and from work. Sessions had received a legal opinion from the chief FBI lawyer that he could use the exemption if he carried a firearm or kept one in the limousine.
The OPR reported that Sessions then obtained a handgun and kept it unloaded in a briefcase in the car. He never took any training, prompting former attorney general William P. Barr on his last day in office to write in a blistering memo to Sessions that the FBI director's use of the exemption "does not even pass the red face test."
So there you have it. Sessions was fired for being criminally crooked. Clinton's only fault, if any, was giving Sessions a chance to prove himself. If there were any political motivations behind Sessions being fired, it was the Republican Party behind those motives as stated in the article you referenced.
In contrast, Trump's firing of Comey was purely to derail the criminal investigation into Trump's cabinet, and thus is obstruction of justice by any standards, and is an offense that demands impeachment. Of course, the Republicans won't impeach because doing so would invalidate his Supreme Court appointment and other judicial appointments. Republicans have no ethics or loyalty to America. This failure of justice demonstrates that the president is above the law if his party controls Congress, and that our republic's checks and balances have completely failed. Regardless of petty politics, this is a big deal.
FNWGMOBDVZXDNW
2017 May 11, 8:18am
This article is partly about the Comey firing, but more about how people will eventually get Trump fatigue from all of the drama and narcissism.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trumps-real-undoing-may-creeping-fatigue-090016754.html
We'll never see another election until after the assassination.
Maybe the Great GOD Reagan will take Trump for destroying the Republican Party.
MisdemeanorRebel
2017 May 11, 9:15am
Just because you vote someone in, doesn't mean you agree with everything they do or believe.
But if you think highly of them, it means you trust their judgement.
And now Rosenstein has realized what a shitshow this administration is and is on the verge of resigning.
And yet he wrote a letter recommending that Comey be fired.
Rosenstein was upset when he started to be painted as the person whose recommendation President Trump acted on when choosing to relieve Comey of his duties, an anonymous person close to the White House told the Washington Post.
IC and Establishment Paper of Record quotes an anonymous person, no documents or any other collaborating information.
This article is partly about the Comey firing, but more about how people will eventually get Trump fatigue from all of the drama and narcissism.
People already have Russia fatigue. It's time to get to work. All predictions about Trump Fatigue and the rest have failed to bear fruit.
He's a threat to demonstrably failed Neoliberal policies that have gutted Middle America and kept a foot on their neck on behalf of Multinationals as represented by the Chamber of Commerce. Keeping the rumors of Russia flowing are a way to distract and prevent reform.
More later.
Comey should just be glad he was allowed to stay alive. The previous administrations didn't just fire their competition.
He's a threat to demonstrably failed Neoliberal policies that have gutted Middle America and kept a foot on their neck on behalf of Multinationals as represented by the Chamber of Commerce. Keeping the rumors of Russia flowing are a way to distract and prevent reform.
Is that why he nominated Gorsuch to supreme court who ruled that truck driver should be fired for "abandoning his cargo" in siberian like tundra weather? What a champion of the working class!
"And yet he wrote a letter recommending that Comey be fired."
Yes, it's quite a coincidence that he was forced to write that letter and now he wants to resign, huh?
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This is evidence that an organization is utterly incapable of investigating itself. The public's confidence in the federal government's ability to resist corruption is being eroded by this obvious attempt to prevent the long arm of the law from conducting an honest investigation.
If Bill Clinton had done anything remotely like this, he would have been impeached by the Republicans. This is nothing less than obstruction of justice and interfering with criminal investigations. Yet no Republican is calling for impeachment. Do we have to wait for Vladimir Putin to give Trump a blow job? What if it's just the other way around? This scandal makes the Lewinsky scandal look even more ridiculous.
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