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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.
Well, I don't really know but a wild hunch tells me just one. And he sits in the Oval office. Just sayin'.
Bo is still in the White House? What a naughty dog!
Well, the next director cannot do any worse for you... Comey has found NOTHING after over a year of trying to prove a link between Trump and the Russians.
Seriously, you guys are digging into something that, even after this much attention, has yielded nothing important. Surely any replacement would be better for you, sure cannot be any worse.
BTW... Could it possibly be there is nothing to find? Naw, keep digging!
"File to fit, pound to insert, paint to match" - Aircraft Maintenance 101
Or he's just getting rid of every liberal sack of shit in the government. That's what really scares you.
Good riddance, and frankly thank god he's destroying the bureaucracy. It was a sodden left wing institution that should be done away with.
Washington DC needs to be nuked, but this will do.
Who made Snowden the Pope?
Come to think of it, Assange is way more honorable, and credible. Didn't betray his country either.
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.
And how about if he fired a FBI director that has publicly said on at least three different occasions that he isn't under investigation for anything at all?
See that "Preview" button?
You don't understand what a question is, do you, young Padawan?
"National Security is the chief cause of national insecurity." - Celine's First Law
Just like we needed an independent investigation into Whitewater, and Benghazi.
Remember, also: "Better Dead than Red."
filthy ignorant red baiters.
You are living in a fantasy world if you think Trump is worried about what will be revealed in an investigation of 'his ties' to Russia.
That's the really freaky thing about how the left is treating the whole Trump/Russia deal. They're huffing on their own fumes. An investigation isn't going to find anything wrong that Trump did.
Talk about a Democratic version of the Benghazi deal.