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FBI Director James Comey Sacked
The Washington Post reports that:
FBI Director James B. Comey has been dismissed by the president [...] a startling move that officials said stemmed from a conclusion by Justice Department officials that he had mishandled the probe of Hillary Clinton's emails.
Previously:
Clinton Told FBI She Relied on Others' Judgment on Classified Material
FBI Recommends No Prosecution for Clinton
F.B.I. Director James Comey Is Fired by Trump
President Trump has fired FBI Director James Comey:
President Trump has fired the director of the F.B.I., James B. Comey, over his handling of the investigation into Hillary Clinton's emails, the White House said Tuesday.
[...] Under the F.B.I.'s normal rules of succession, Mr. Comey's deputy, Andrew G. McCabe, a career F.B.I. officer, becomes acting director. The White House said the search for a new director will begin immediately.
I never liked Comey (see this cluster of stories), but I doubt there will ever be an FBI Director I like.
Related:
We're Stuck With Comey
Earlier in the day...
FBI Director Comey Misstated Huma Abedin Evidence at Last Week's Hearing
ProPublica reports that most of FBI Director James Comey's testimony to Congress last Wednesday related to Huma Abedin's mishandling of classified emails was inaccurate, and that FBI officials are privately acknowledging the mistake(s) but are still considering their next move:
FBI director James Comey generated national headlines last week with his dramatic testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee, explaining his "incredibly painful" decision to go public about the Hillary Clinton emails found on Anthony Weiner's laptop.
Perhaps Comey's most surprising revelation was that Huma Abedin — Weiner's wife and a top Clinton deputy — had made "a regular practice" of forwarding "hundreds and thousands" of Clinton messages to her husband, "some of which contain classified information." Comey testified that Abedin had done this so that the disgraced former congressman could print them out for her boss. (Weiner's laptop was seized after he came under criminal investigation for sex crimes, following a media report about his online relationship with a teenager.)
The New York Post plastered its story on the front page with a photo of an underwear-clad Weiner and the headline: "HARD COPY: Huma sent Weiner classified Hillary emails to print out." The Daily News went with a similar front-page screamer: "HUMA ERROR: Sent classified emails to sext maniac Weiner."
The problem: Much of what Comey said about this was inaccurate. Now the FBI is trying to figure out what to do about it. FBI officials have privately acknowledged that Comey misstated what Abedin did and what the FBI investigators found. On Monday, the FBI was said to be preparing to correct the record by sending a letter to Congress later this week. But that plan now appears on hold, with the bureau undecided about what to do.
[...] According to two sources familiar with the matter — including one in law enforcement — Abedin forwarded only a handful of Clinton emails to her husband for printing — not the "hundreds and thousands" cited by Comey. It does not appear Abedin made "a regular practice" of doing so. Other officials said it was likely that most of the emails got onto the computer as a result of backups of her Blackberry.
Also at Washington Post (alternate analysis), The Hill, The New York Post, and USA Today.
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(Score: 2, Informative) by hemocyanin on Wednesday May 10 2017, @04:19AM (3 children)
Are you kidding? Democrats are practically orgasming every time they hear Rachel Maddow say RussiaRussiaRussia. And while GWB was an evil fuck, Obama just doubled down on everything he did. If you don't know this, you are paying attention only to hagiography and not to facts. The entire Democrat establishment is a bunch of pro-war, corporatist, bankster loving, surveillance creeping, prison building cretins. Literally the only difference between the DNC and GOP, is abortion and bathroom access. Other than that, they're the same lot of mother fucking assholes destroying the middle class and blowing up random people around the world for the profit of a few.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 10 2017, @01:08PM
Haha, wow. Are you trying to say that Trump doesn't want nuclear war with Russia?
Don't give me any horseshit about his campaign promises. He's been a politician since he descended the golden escalator, and he's been routinely demonstrating that our usual method of observing that a politician's lip motion is strongly correlated with his use of outright deceit remains accurate.
Wake me up when you Republicans have an actual plan that at least all of you can agree to for healthcare
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday May 10 2017, @05:47PM (1 child)
If there's no difference then why has Trump spent the first four months in office repealing stuff?
(Score: 2) by hemocyanin on Thursday May 11 2017, @03:09AM
The difference is simply which subset of the 0.1% each party caters to. Republicans push the agenda of old industries, plus war, surveillance, prisons, and unfair free trade. Democrats push the agenda of Banksters/tech venture capital mostly, plus war, surveillance, prisons, and unfair free trade. Republicans rely on gun lovers so they tend to (at least mouth) support for the 2nd Amendment. Democrats are a little smarter and fearing a new French Revolution, especially the red necklace part, are devising ever more clever ways to make the 2nd Amendment irrelevant. Both support policies to depress wages -- Republicans by crushing unions, Democrats by importing labor (though Democrats aren't all that union friendly either).
I hope that is nuanced enough for you. In either case however, their constituents are a subset of the ultra-wealthy and they couldn't care less about workers or the middle class.