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posted by cmn32480 on Thursday March 09 2017, @03:34PM   Printer-friendly
from the my-homey-comey dept.

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.


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  • (Score: 2, Touché) by ikanreed on Thursday March 09 2017, @05:05PM (6 children)

    by ikanreed (3164) Subscriber Badge on Thursday March 09 2017, @05:05PM (#477015) Journal

    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.

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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 09 2017, @05:55PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 09 2017, @05:55PM (#477035)

    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)

    by DeathMonkey (1380) on Thursday March 09 2017, @06:06PM (#477039) Journal

    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

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 09 2017, @06:23PM (#477048)

      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)

      by ikanreed (3164) Subscriber Badge on Thursday March 09 2017, @06:57PM (#477072) Journal

      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

        by tangomargarine (667) on Thursday March 09 2017, @07:28PM (#477088)

        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

    by hemocyanin (186) on Friday March 10 2017, @06:30AM (#477275) Journal

    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?