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Anxious to see FBI Director James Comey retire? According to the man himself, you're going to have to wait:
The FBI director has no plans to leave the post before the end of his 10-year term. "You're stuck with me for about 6 1/2 years," James Comey said at a cyber conference in Boston on Wednesday, urging conference organizers to invite him to speak again.
In recent days, NPR and other news outlets have reported Comey pressed the Justice Department without success to issue a public denial of President Trump's tweet that the FBI and President Barack Obama wiretapped his phones at Trump Tower. White House press secretary Sean Spicer said this week that Trump still has confidence in Comey's ability to lead the FBI. Comey, who served as deputy U.S. attorney general under President George W. Bush and who was named FBI director by Obama, has demonstrated a nearly unique ability to draw critics from both ends of the political spectrum.
Comprehensive coverage of the Comey saga.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 09 2017, @03:35PM (3 children)
n/t
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Thursday March 09 2017, @04:11PM (1 child)
Nah, everyone needs to know about this cross-dressing megalomani... oooh, wrong guy. Sorry.
:)
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 09 2017, @06:41PM
I might have a dam on the Colorado River to sell you too :)
(Score: 2) by takyon on Thursday March 09 2017, @10:06PM
Comey will always be welcomed here.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 09 2017, @04:34PM
only in a parallel universe where trump is president and snowden doesn't exist is wiretapping not total utter public communication vaccum sucking.
imagine TEH outrage: zeh elite getting all trumft up by spying ... errr .... wiretapping on private communication whilst the decade long warnings and writting on the walls by paranoid and generally considered crazy human rights activists ... errr... loonies was ignored because ... well we are better then them!
well the bridge is here .. time to cross it yet?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 09 2017, @04:35PM (17 children)
His main foul-up with H's email case is announcing it was being re-opened in connection with Weiner's laptop WITHOUT doing a cursory examination of possible H-related classified info breaches. When he did announce and was pressured for a cursory evaluation, it took only a few days. He should have spent that few days BEFORE announcing, in which case he'd likely not even announce it because it would fall below the level of concern to be announce-able that close to the election (or at all).
(Score: 2, Touché) by ikanreed on Thursday March 09 2017, @05:05PM (6 children)
Of course, for all the utterly baffling and, let's be honest, completely retarded reasons I've heard people cite for voting Trump, I've heard no one cite the Wiener investigation.
That requires entirely too much affirmative attention to details to be relevant to the kind of people who'd ever even think of voting for Trump.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 09 2017, @05:55PM
No, but it is probably the reason a lot of moderates decided to stay home that day.
Incidentally, the polling place I normally go to was all closed up with the lights off, but a tiny little sign directed people to the back of the building (where almost nobody was, with no sign of any real activity). That is where I voted. Someone who didn't feel strongly about any candidates might well have given up and gone home before finding that sign. I wonder how many polling places pulled similar stunts.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by DeathMonkey on Thursday March 09 2017, @06:06PM (3 children)
What are you talking about? "Emails" is pretty much the #1 reason cited.
The investigation had been closed and the damage done. You don't think re-opening it a week before the election had an effect?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 09 2017, @06:23PM
Reopening it implied H would be tied up in trials and investigations most of her tenure. Voters want somebody who can focus, like T (said biting my tongue).
(Score: 3, Interesting) by ikanreed on Thursday March 09 2017, @06:57PM (1 child)
Number one cited reason for voting Trump was actually "He will bring change", number 2 was "He tells it like it is", number 3 was "Clinton's past connections", which I guess could include some concern over "emails"
To be honest I'm still baffled beyond reason by the 10% who said they liked Donald Trump's personal integrity and values, it's really low on the list, but I can't envision what kind of person would say that under what circumstances.
In spite of that, I acknowledge how fair your point is. That a bigger umbrella concern could be tied together with the Wiener incident more directly than I'm giving it credit for.
You're right.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by tangomargarine on Thursday March 09 2017, @07:28PM
To be honest I'm still baffled beyond reason by the 10% who said they liked Donald Trump's personal integrity and values, it's really low on the list, but I can't envision what kind of person would say that under what circumstances.
Well, that's not an all-or-nothing statement. I imagine a lot of people liked that he "sticks it to the man" and "tells it like it is," and convinced themselves that all his other questionable personality traits weren't that big of a deal.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 2) by hemocyanin on Friday March 10 2017, @06:30AM
Comey basically said there was little new on Weiner's computer, which means Weiner had classified material on his computer. In what universe is that NOT a horrendous lapse of security?
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 09 2017, @05:07PM (6 children)
I'm not saying you're wrong, but it doesn't seem likely to me that the emails had any bearing on the election. White people, and white men in particular, and straight white men specifically, are tired of seeing the world crumble around them while also being told that it's there fault, despite nearly 2 centuries of ceding control and deliberately expanding inclusiveness.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by tizan on Thursday March 09 2017, @05:44PM (5 children)
That is a gut feeling kind of thing right....
Some analysis shows it had a definte effect for e.g
http://election.princeton.edu/2016/12/10/the-comey-effect/ [princeton.edu]
white men tired of whatever flipped the election ? really ...is that the way white men think of the historical arc motion towards equality.
treating people of color and treating women as equal human being called "deliberately ceding control and expanding inclusiveness" is like saying stopping mafiosi from killing people should be called "deliberately allowing access for air for people to breathe".
(Score: 2, Troll) by kurenai.tsubasa on Thursday March 09 2017, @06:13PM (3 children)
treating women as equal human being
Nobody wants to treat women as equals and you know it. I saw in Google News this morning that comedy news shows made a big deal last night about how incompetent assigned males are without women to save them from their inborn stupidity as incomplete beings.
If a man is unable to learn a programming language, you tell him that too bad, it's just not for him. If a woman is unable to learn a programming language, you find the nearest assigned male you can to blame. If that assigned male does not have a history of being an obedient sex object for women, that's all the proof that you need that he must have been doing something that was preventing that woman from learning.
That's a basic example. Women do not desire responsibility for their own actions, and you don't want them to have to have that responsibility either. In that way, men keep women hopelessly infantalized. Both of your gender castes seem happy that way.
(Score: 2) by RamiK on Thursday March 09 2017, @06:53PM
That's a basic example. Women do not desire responsibility for their own actions, and you don't want them to have to have that responsibility either. In that way, men keep women hopelessly infantalized. Both of your gender castes seem happy that way.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 09 2017, @08:02PM
Wouldn't have expected this rant from you. You should bookmark news stories that illustrate these points, with all the hubub about misandry nowadays it would be good to have decent examples. Otherwise they are just edge cases the same as sexual harassment / prejudice against women. Sure it happens, but is it really a trend? We've reversed a huge amount of misogyny since the 50s, but where are we really at now? Exploitative clickbait news articles aside.
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Thursday March 09 2017, @10:31PM
Then she stays and delegates her work to peers who are more than happy to comply because having the scent of good conditioner and perfume around the office works wonders for the productivity of desperate pandering dick-kneaders (not one of whom, by the way, will get laid).
It's like high-school and college, except that it's also the real world.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 10 2017, @01:23AM
Some analysis shows it had a definte effect for e.g
How scientific is that analysis, really? How can you objectively determine the reason someone voting for Candidate X or the reason someone didn't vote? If you ask people who they're going to vote for, you later verify the result of the election to a reasonable degree. Any polls which ask questions which can't later be objectively verified to see how many people were lying or simply wrong when answering the questions are unscientific. Frankly, I'm tired of seeing of people citing this trash.
But that's irrelevant to this. What you linked to is arguably worse, and can be trivially dismissed by saying that correlation is not causation. There is no real scientific evidence presented for their case and I doubt there will ever be any.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday March 09 2017, @07:53PM (2 children)
His main foul-up with H's email case is announcing it was being re-opened in connection with Weiner's laptop WITHOUT doing a cursory examination of possible H-related classified info breaches.
It was slightly more subtle than that. He send a letter to Congress stating he was amending his earlier congressional testimony which claimed the Clinton investigation was closed. I would be surprised if he were unaware of the effect that the letter would have. My suspicion is that he did this as payback for Obama administration interference in his investigation of Clinton earlier in 2015 and 2016. Late October right before a major election is a difficult time to fire an FBI director.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 10 2017, @07:12AM (1 child)
My suspicion is that
Thank you for sharing. My suspicion is that both Comey and Hillary are Lizard people, as sensed by great retired Football (soccer, to you idiot Americans) player, David Icke! In fact more people in America believe in lizard people than believe in illegal immigrants! https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/04/12-million-americans-believe-lizard-people-run-our-country/316706/ [theatlantic.com]
(quick calculation: Um, possibly 11 million illegal aliens, 12 millions who believe in lizard people; subtract the aliens who are actually aliens, and we are left with a positive one million Americans, who may or may not have voted for Trump or actually be citizens, but you can't argue with numbers.)
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(Score: 1) by khallow on Friday March 10 2017, @01:48PM
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I notice that you don't actually disagree with me. Obviously, you are insinuating I'm wrong, but with absolutely no attempt to demonstrate that I'm wrong. Perhaps you have an alternate explanation for Comey's actions?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by fishybell on Thursday March 09 2017, @05:55PM
I would love for this not to belong in the politics section.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 09 2017, @06:23PM
Like any good sycophant he will eventually stick his head out far enough, or be forced into a bad situation by his handlers, and CHOP goes the axe. It'll be worth the wait, hopefully he can't do too much damage before he gets tossed.
He is supported by 3 of the most fascist Presidents in history, that is NOT a ringing endorsement.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by HiThere on Thursday March 09 2017, @07:46PM (2 children)
It's not that I think he's done even a half decent job, or kept away from politics, or followed the law. It's just that judging from the other appointments his likely replacement would be worse.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 09 2017, @11:15PM
I'm not sure they could get worse, and if they can I welcome it!! This implosion of government might just be what we need to wake people the fuck up. Especially the people who work for these agencies...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 09 2017, @11:18PM
And put in a real patriot, Rudy Guiliani [crooksandliars.com]!
He'd certainly fit right in.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 09 2017, @11:58PM
White House press secretary Sean Spicer said this week that Trump still has confidence in Comey's ability to lead the FBI.
Of course Comey has the full confidence of Trump. And President Trump is well know for being consistent and never changing his mind on a whim. [wikipedia.org]
I'm not even sure if it's Trump or his various proxies (including Spicer) who keep shifting and flubbing it. Based on circumstantial evidence, I'm assuming it is Trump, but who knows?
And even more traditional, stubborn politicians have changed their mind suddenly. After all, Comey's definitely doing a heck-of-a job [wikipedia.org].
(Score: 2) by fnj on Friday March 10 2017, @10:43AM (1 child)
We are not "stuck with" this slimeball. This piece of shit could be fired by the President in a heartbeat. I'm not saying we have a President who is likely to do so, but it could be done.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 10 2017, @03:13PM
right. he could also be shot, hanged, tarred and feathered, locked up, etc.