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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, 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.