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Trump Fires FBI Director James Comey (washingtonpost.com)
The White House said today that President Trump has fired FBI director James Comey. Press Secretary Sean Spicer said in a statement: "President Donald J. Trump informed FBI Director James Comey that he has been terminated and removed from office. President Trump acted based on the clear recommendations of both Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and Attorney General Jeff Sessions. 'The FBI is one of our Nation's most cherished and respected institutions and today will mark a new beginning for our crown jewel of law enforcement,' said President Trump. A search for a new permanent FBI Director will begin immediately."
The Washington Post reports: Earlier in the day, the FBI notified Congress that Comey misstated key findings involving the Hillary Clinton email investigation during testimony last week, saying that only a "small number" of emails had been forwarded to disgraced congressman Anthony Weiner, not the "hundreds and thousands" he'd claimed in his testimony. The letter was sent to the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, more than a week after Comey testified for hours in defense of his handling of the Clinton probe. In defending the probe at last week's hearing, Comey offered seemingly new details to underscore the seriousness of the situation FBI agents faced last fall when they discovered thousands of Clinton aide Huma Abedin's emails on the computer of her husband, Anthony Weiner. "Somehow, her emails were being forwarded to Anthony Weiner, including classified information," Comey said, adding later, "His then-spouse Huma Abedin appears to have had a regular practice of forwarding emails to him for him I think to print out for her so she could then deliver them to the secretary of state." At another point in the testimony, Comey said Abedin "forwarded hundreds and thousands of emails, some of which contain classified information." Neither of those statements is accurate, said people close to the investigation. Tuesday's letter said "most of the emails found on Mr. Weiner's laptop computer related to the Clinton investigation occurred as a result of a backup of personal electronic devices, with a small number a result of manual forwarding by Ms. Abedin to Mr. Weiner." The letter also corrected the impression Mr. Comey's testimony had left with some listeners that 12 classified emails were among those forwarded by Abedin to Weiner.
So, how many in the White House were under indictment for Treason, then?
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After all it was Comey who got him elected.
Where are we going and why are we in a handbasket?
Is this right?
Who's next?
Cue the Trump haters! Surprised this took so long. Guess the Donald had to get some ducks in order to, block the J. Edger Hoover style internal backlash to minimize beltway fallout. Also, why is this on Slashdot?
next a russian mole as head of the FBI.
Next up: NSA.
episode 3, season 2. amirite?
Well there goes that year long FBI investigation into Trump/Russia connections down the toilet.
You would think After Flynn and Julian Assange, others would learn to not help men like trump. He will use you and then throw you under the bus. I guess it is Comey's turn to fall on his sword for 45.
it'll be yuuge!
If they can find him maybe they can appoint Fox Mulder to be the new Director. In Trump's world there isn't much difference between reality and TV fantasy.
This guy bent and broke the law sooooo many times. There is no "intent" test in the statue nor CFR regarding violation of the espionage act. I know that a lot of OTHER READERS OF SLASHDOT hold a clearance, for their jobs. If you had done one 1000th of the shit that Hillary and Huma had done, do you have ANY DOUBT that you wouldn't be pounds rocks into gravel, in Leavenworth? Go eff yourselves, liberal monkeys. The law matters.
... you know the rest.
This is what get you with this guy: used and thrown away. Sounds like Comey wasn't willing to help bury the investigation into the mango-in-chief's ties to Russia. With the way the swamp is being "drained" in DC, I expect the new head of the FBI to be someone from the mob. ;)
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
:)
Starting ASAP.
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FBI Directors are traditionally non-partisan, and serve a 10 year term that is not at the pleasure of the president, unlike political appointees. This isn't to say that the President doesn't have the power to fire the Director, but it hasn't been done before, and would be a very unusual step. The question then is what is the cited reason for it, because given the current situation and ongoing investigations, it's really really suspicious, on par with the Watergate "midnight massacre" where Nixon fired both the Attorney General and the Deputy AG before getting to someone that would agree to fire the Special Prosecutor that was investigating Watergate.
In other words, it had better be a really damn good reason.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/09/us/politics/james-comey-fired-fbi.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news
It sounds as if they intend to prosecute Secretary Clinton...
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/0... Good luck, Secretary Clinton.
I know, a lot of you disagree and think that it's cliche and not authentic, but I do enjoy that new sitcom about a TV buffoon getting elected as the US president. Every week a new episode full of laughter and surprises.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
keep getting rid of the players and the only person left to look at is the manager
"Old man yells at systemd"
"Trump Fires FBI Director James Comey"
L-O-fucking-L!
I swear, if this so-called president wasn't busy destroying the country through his greed, ignorance, and epic incompetence, I'd be laughing my ass off at the antics of this draft-dodging clown.
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
From my understanding Comey was not telling the truth quite frequently when testifying, even last week.
He said Huma had sent her husbands hundreds of thousands of Clinton's emails, and they had to use "electronic wizadry" to get it down to 6000 to review (there is audio/video of him saying this). Apparently I'm now hearing that the number of Clinton emails on Weiner's computer was 12. With 12 he could have gone over them in an hour or two, gotten the results and secretly given it to Congress and not made the mess in late October. Its now difficult to track down if this is true or not.
-- Being a Trump supporter, I believe if this is true he deserved to be fired --
A couple weeks ago he was asked point blank if the FBI was wiretapping Trump or his campaign, he said no. You will notice IMMEDIATELY Rodgers next to him said not to rule it out. Since then we found out Carter Page, a US citizen and Trump campaign advisor, was being listened on with a FISA warrant from the FBI. Comey purged himself under oath to Congress when he said that. I assume he did that for political reasons.
-- Comey should be fired for lying under oath to Congress ---
I'm sure there are plenty of other examples, including what Trump put into his letter firing Comey. But it was becoming apparent Comey could not be trusted to be honest or do his job competently.
So long and Thanks for all the Fish! - DJT
Time for a new Political party in the US (or two!) One is off the rails Other cant pony up a leader.
Trump does not suffer fools....
And the entire left wanted Comey fired up until the minute Trump fired him.
5 out of 6 people enjoy Russian Roulette & 6 out of 7 Dwarfs are not Happy
Somebody contacted Trump through a backdoor.
I find it curious that so many people who have spent months crying that Comey was a scoundrel who needed to be fired, are now complaining that Trump fired him.
Almost like nothing will please them?
-Styopa
SO GOOD! I can't wait to see how trump pisses all of you dumb cucks next. The popcorn is ready.
It was the "Saturday Night Massacre."
The "someone" that agreed to fire Nixon's Special Prosecutor was Robert Bork, who is more well-known these days as President Reagan's nominee to the post of Associate Justice of SCOTUS in 1987.
It's ALL they need to nail Hillary Clinton (screw intent bs misdirection). As an attorney & secretary of state she knows about classified information NOT being mishandled as she did.
* Ignorance of the law != excuse!
APK
P.S.=> That is the BOTTOM-LINE here & HOW to take her out... apk
...then it stands to reason that he may have lied about other important matters, such as Snowden.
Strangely, Snowden supports Comey in this matter.
I'm a bit confused here, so could someone check if I get this right:
About ten days before the election, Comey comes out with news saying that tons of new evidence against Hilary Clinton has been found. This certainly didn't help her campaign, and it is quite possible that this ensured that Trump became president. Clinton supporters obviously think that what he did was wrong, and that he should have kept his mouth shut. Some Trump supporters may think the same thing, but may be happy that he gave Trump an advantage. Other Trump supporters may think he did the right thing.
Everyone thinks that Trump has reason to be grateful to Comey. But now comes the news that what Comey said was actually not the truth: That there was very little evidence found, and no really bad evidence. So while people may disagree whether or not he should have spoken, everyone agrees that he shouldn't said things that are not true.
So he may have handed Trump the election, but not just by talking, but by talking and not saying the truth. And now instead of being grateful, Trump says (correctly) that it is not acceptable for the chief of the FBI to lie in such important matters, and fires him.
It really makes you wonder what Comey's motivation was. Did he want to throw the election, did he just want to look important? I'd say he got what he deserved, but the way it happened was in a very unexpected way.
It seems it really should not matter how the classified emails and documents got onto Anthony Weiner's or Huma's home computer, whether by emails or backups. Either way, classified materials should never have been there.
Employees fired by Trump:
Sally Yates
Preet Bharara
James Comey
Employees investigating Trump:
Sally Yates
Preet Bharara
James Comey
Weaselmancer
rediculous.
This quote is interesting:
"While I greatly appreciate your 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 unable to effectively lead the Bureau."
Bring back the old version of slashdot.
Donald Trump publicly complemented Comey's press conferences and other actions related to Hillary's email during his campaign events.
How stupid would you have to be to believe that Donald Trump fired Comey for the actions which he publicly commended him for?
Donald Trump is preparing for his criminal prosecution and impeachment just like Richard Nixon did in the leadup to his resignation in disgrace.
Nixon! Nixon! Nixon!
I don't understand why Comey didn't indict not only HRC, but also Huma and Weiner over mishandling of classified material. But the guy seemed to be trying to thread the needle.
Comey seemed to be trying to Do The Right Thing, as opposed to the rest of Washington.
Keep in mind folks, had you or I done anything these three did we would be in prison looking at 20 years.
Working hard trying to undo all the corruption and damage inflicted by the previous administration.
Now we need to bring back control of the Internet to US
Just fire the nukes already!
Bye Sibko.
The whole bunch are incompetent political hacks. Billiary has been given a pass for their crimes for years. The entire BHO administration was doing everything to cover for the Clinton crime foundation and the corruption in the State Department (among others) for the past eight plus years.
The range of commentary on this story is quite extraordinary. Making for some really good reading.
It appears the liberals are scattered across a wide gamut of emotion.
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America cannot afford to have a lawless traitor dictator.
Too many right wing nut jobs here. This place is starting to sound like Fox News in the comment section.
If you people are supporting Trump, the dumbest idiot ever to get elected president, on a site for geeks and nerds (hey, he's good at the cyber!), then something here is seriously wrong.
So long, and thanks for all the fish. I'm sure that reference will go over the heads of the right wing nutjobs.
If telephones are outlawed, then only outlaws will have telephones.
Can you pronounce "Control Fraud"? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_fraud)
All Comeys have to go!
If Barack Obama had fired an FBI director who was investigating him for treason, Fox News would be arming themselves on national television.
You are welcome on my lawn.
NSA head next? I hope.
Good riddance to filthy garbage. I hope he wallows in disgrace and dies.
Normal people don't turn on a dime on their convictions, going from hating someone's guts to defending them simply because it is expedient. The fact is that 99% of the people in the media now "defending" Comey would want his head if he were behaving as a good FBI director under Trump after what they blame him for with Clinton.
I miss when Slashdot was a tech site for nerds and posted news stories about tech.
Judging by your ID number, you weren't around then. Good riddance to ya!
needs to impeach Trump while there's still some of it left.
The one thing for Trump is he seemed to value his loyal cronies. And he owed Comey big time. Comey got him over the line, into the white house.
Maybe Comey was just crazy, and not one of Trump's cronies. Or maybe there is some real dirt that Trump wants buried.
But I actually doubt the latter because Trump would not be able to distinguish between what is reasonable dealings with a foreign power.
But for the Trump faithful (half the population) this just confirms that Trump is an honest broker. Prepared to make hard decisions when needed even if it affects those that supported him.
The DNC gave Bernie a good fucking - that undoubtedly helped put Trump in the White House
Eh - water under the bridge at this point.....
POTUS firing the head of the FBI could be considered news that matters.
Say what you want, but at least the political commentary here is better than what is available on the propaganda outlets.
If you are very very quiet and listen really hard you will hear the sound of everyone else laughing at the USA.
To pillage Dr Seuss "Huston hears a whohoohahahahahah"
"Mildly nauseous."
All of those were appointed under Obama's administration.
Lock him up 10 yrs ! he lied to congress
Odd, I never realized that you just have to defect to Russia and be under Putin's thumb before liberals will listen to you? :)
Remember " BENGHAZI " put the clintons in the cell with him !!!
Scott Adams has been calling this pre-bribery. Basically, they show the current office holder that they will be well cared for by throwing unearned money at the previous guy.
See that "Preview" button?
How many times have you heard the words "he has my full support" in the first few days of a scandal and then the person gets dumped a few days later? Surely you've noticed that in a few places, business, politics, all over the place.
As for Trump himself going from support to attack on something - consider his earlier praise for WikiLeaks and the current move to act against it:
http://bgr.com/2017/04/20/julian-assange-wikileaks-arrest-charges/
Is that sarcasm or something? Trump is not going to leave without leaving metaphorical claw marks on the floor as he's dragged out, and there's no sign of anyone dragging him out any time soon. He started in disgrace and isn't going to resign to avoid it.
Can we possibly sustain having Trump as our president? And uh, we're seeing how that's turning out now.
What d'ya mean? Everything's going great! What's that, crewman? Large iceberg off the port bow? I'm sure it'll be fine. This ship is unsinkable!
Freedom to fear. Freedom from thought. Freedom to kill.
I guess the War on Terror really is about freedom!
how do you even begin to respond to something this batshit crazy? Also, you'll still find the left wing media calling him a PoS, they're just as baffled as everyone else over the firing though.
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Russia's too complicated a mess to turn into anything the American people can sink their teeth into, but interfering with an investigation? Well "The coverup was worse than the crime" has such a nice ring to it. It reminds them of Nixon and (Bill) Clinton's scandals. Americans will get that.
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if Trump doesn't somebody in the Republican party will step up to hand this guy a cushy seat at a think tank and some juicy speaker gigs.
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90% of the post were plainly about the article submitted and how Trump shouldn't do this, but how can slashdotters forget that this is the same guy that hates encryption and wanted Apple to break their own iPhone? He did everything to encourage that golden backdoor and weaken security with publicity and law enforcement.
It should be clear that this guy is very outdated for today's world function. Although the means to remove him might not be great, there seems to be no alternative to remove someone that high without doing so. We do need a replace and hopefully not another one of those rotting potatoes.
It certainly is given that Comey informed the public on three separate occasions that Mr. Trump was under investigation.
She was like chocolate when she drank... semi-sweet at first and then increasingly bitter.
Guess some people never bothered to learn from it.
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
Don't forget about Diane Reynolds!
Poor Trump never left The Apprentace...
This is all politics and has nothing to do with Slashdot. Do we get all kind of political news from all the countries in the world posted here? Waste of space.
If firing Comey was meant to make the issue go away I think Trump is in for a shock. It's thrown fuel on the fire. There'll come a tipping point where most of his support base in congress is going to melt away and then it'll be curtains for this traitorous asshole.
He's the elected person who doesn't do the job.
If I turn up to work and do no programming, I'm not the senior programmer, I'm the lazy fuck being paid to be the senior programmer.
Orangina is a golf player who loves him some cake.
Trump knows he is in deep trouble and everyone knows it. We have an extremely corrupt president. One of the latest scandals is Jared's sister offering green cards to foreigners willing to make a $500,000 investment. Jared is about to have major legal issues as well under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act as is Trump. There are so many violations by Trump that we could create a whole new criminal agency to prosecute a long list of crimes involving Trump. It seems that one new violation a day is being unearthed. We no longer live in the USA. Currently we are the US Banana Republic.
Trump should appoint a horse as the new Director (and perhaps change the name of the position to "Incitatus"). That would make the U.S. government even more amusing.
What does this have to do with computers?
I hope the next president honors American values.
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You and your opinion are at best 50% of the US view of the situation. Your ego is making you a fool, or you are paid to be a fool. Either way, your generalization fallacy is bullshit. I'll say the same with the appeal to authority fallacies.
The newly appointed Deputy Attorney General provided the opinion that led to the dismissal. This was not, as you whacko leftists attempt to claim, a President taking action on his own.
Lastly, Comey was not the only investigator working on allegations, in fact he was not an investigator at all. He was the Director for the agency. What ever investigators are working will still be working.
Reality check - When a director or chief of police is fired, the pending cases don't all vanish and go away. Operations don't all stop and agents and officers don't sit at home with nothing to do. A temporary head takes over (defined by the chain of command) until a new director/Chief comes in and heads the agency.
The over the top hysteria and baseless claims are why Democrats keep losing people. You are dropping in California for pity sake, wake the fuck up! (or don't, and be the party of extremists without relevance)
-The wise argue that there are few absolutes, the fool argues that there are no probabilities.
The hacking (which outside of the paid by the DNC agency, there is no evidence for) revealed that Clinton was boosted and Sanders was shafted. And you claim that people outside of the DNC made it something other than a "fair fight"? Wholly delusional bullshit Batman!
The FBI requested access to the DNC servers and were _REFUSED_, so the only people claiming Russia hacked the DNC is the DNC and the agency that THEY_PAID FOR AN OPINION.
Other agencies claim Russia meddles, but Russia has meddled in EVERY election since the 1940's if not longer. The Police and FBI make sure that their meddling lacks direct impact. Russians cast 0 votes this election, and we have 0 voting machines tampered with by Russian agents. Voter fraud exists, but is more likely from illegal aliens when it occurs. I have seen no cases of absentee ballot fraud by Russian KGB/FSA agents.
-The wise argue that there are few absolutes, the fool argues that there are no probabilities.
After all it was Comey who got him elected.
Did you help Trump get elected... Because this is what happens when Trump gets elected.
Calling someone a "hater" only means you can not rationally rebut their argument.
Don't you know it's illegal to write real facts these days, As well as totally ineffective.
What you need is a story with pizzazz, chutzpah, and legs, such as that it was the Russians who forwarded those emails onto Abedin's husband's computer.
Where are we going and why are we in a handbasket?
Trump is re-enacting his stint as host of The Apprentice
There will be more firings and hirings
I argued against a person claiming everyone agrees with them. That does not mean I believe the same thing, and a tiny amount of thought would indicate that I have no such delusion or would have claimed "my side is right" instead of "half disagree". You just took some "common" out of common sense.
Jeff Sessions is not the "assistant Attorney General", your facts are wrong. At least try to use facts and reality, not bullshit and hyperbole put out by whackos.
Lastly, President Trump has not yet nominated anyone. You are basing your position wrong doing in fantasy land. Who exactly is telling you his appointment is bad, imaginary friend got your ear? Do you believe you are tuned into the aliens and they told you his pick would be bad? Or are you simply believing bullshit spread by jackasses with a political motivation for spreading bullshit? Until reality hits, if you truly believe your imagination, seek medical attention and get on some medication as you are a danger to society.
If Trump appoints someone other than a law officer who is capable of the job, I'll be right there with you bitching about the appointment. I am not happy with some of his picks so far, but the key appointments (AG, Supreme Court, HHS, DHS) have been pretty good. I base my opinion in reality, not fantasy land.
-The wise argue that there are few absolutes, the fool argues that there are no probabilities.
I like how once you republitards get your way, you suddenly don't want it any more. Well guess what, buttercup? TRUMP WON! GET OVER IT! Now go lay in that bed you made and you savor every moment.
Linking to the daily mail for citation says something about you. And it isn't flattering.
The game is almost over.
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
We need a new term to be defined here, here's one.. Democratic Dictator.
the GOP still thinks of Bork as some victim.
Two anonymous sources close to Politico tell me that article is BS.
There are almost no named sources, and the ones that are named say nothing whatsoever about Russia. They don't even quote the anonymous sources who allegedly talk about Russia.
For all we know, they were high-ranking White House insiders--under Obama.