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The new, temporary FBI Director Andrew G. McCabe says that employees loved Comey:
Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe Thursday rejected assertions by the White House that FBI employees had lost faith in James Comey and that the bureau's probe into Russian election meddling was one of its most minor concerns. "I hold Director Comey in the absolute highest regard. I have the highest respect for his considerable abilities and his integrity," McCabe told members of the Senate intelligence committee. He said Comey, who was fired by President Donald Trump on Tuesday, enjoyed "broad support within the FBI and still does to this day." He added, "The majority, the vast majority of FBI employees enjoyed a deep, positive connection to Director Comey."
Furthermore, he will inform the Senate of any interference with the Russia investigation:
Acting FBI director Andrew McCabe vowed Thursday that he would tell the Senate Intelligence Committee if the White House tried to interfere with the bureau's probe of possible coordination between the Kremlin and the Trump campaign to influence the 2016 presidential election — though he asserted that there had "been no effort to impede our investigation to date."
Meanwhile, President Trump has undermined the White House's messaging on Comey's firing, saying that he planned to fire "showboat" and "grandstander" James Comey regardless of any recommendation from Attorney General Jeff Sessions or Deputy Attorney General Ron Rosenstein. The President also insists that he is not under FBI investigation.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 12 2017, @04:24PM (6 children)
> Usurp
You keep using that word, I do not think It means what you think It means.
The AG requested Comey's recommendation.
Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch, conceding that her airport meeting with former President Bill Clinton this week had cast a shadow over the federal investigation of Hillary Clinton’s personal email account, said Friday that she would accept whatever recommendations career prosecutors and the F.B.I. director made about whether to bring charges in the case.
Ms. Lynch said she had decided this spring to defer to the recommendations of her staff and the F.B.I. because her status as a political appointee sitting in judgment on a politically charged case would raise questions of a conflict of interest. But the meeting with Mr. Clinton, she acknowledged, had deepened those questions, and she said she now felt compelled to explain publicly her reasoning to try to put the concerns to rest.
“People have a whole host of reasons to have questions about how we in government do our business,” Ms. Lynch said at an Aspen Institute conference in Colorado. “My meeting on the plane with former President Clinton could give them another reason to have questions and concerns.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/02/us/politics/loretta-lynch-hillary-clinton-email-server.html [nytimes.com]
(Score: 2, Disagree) by Runaway1956 on Friday May 12 2017, @06:05PM (5 children)
That didn't give Comey blanket authority to flap his gums to the media every other week on that and other issues. Historically, getting information out of the FBI is like pulling teeth - from a chicken. They don't give information away. But, there was Comey, running his mouth constantly, to any reporter who would listen.
Comey was usurping the authority of the AG's office. The AG's office makes announcements. But, neither the AG's office, nor the FBI, is supposed to have diarrhea of the mouth over political issues.
Usurp. I used the word correctly. Maybe you need to examine that word yourself.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 12 2017, @06:41PM
you are just pure id aren't you?
princess foot-stamping snowflake id
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 12 2017, @07:48PM
That didn't give Comey blanket authority to flap his gums to the media every other week on that and other issues.
Actual examples of Comey talking to the media?
None.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 12 2017, @07:48PM (1 child)
Your smugness and low iq were demonstrated nicely by your post. Thanks.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 13 2017, @12:39AM
We need to be patient with Runaway, because, . . . ah, fuck it! He's just an idiot.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 13 2017, @11:48AM
Heh welcome to the other side runaway, looks like you pissed off the shills. I agree, never has the FBI been so prominent in the news. I still feel like its all one big game, but I should stop underestimating human stupidity...