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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: 2) by linkdude64 on Friday May 12 2017, @04:24PM (4 children)
It's written as if the White House had asked the FBI to stop its investigation.
Or am I the only one who gets that impression?
I'm also pretty sure that as an employee I'd also love an FBI director who required that apparently nothing get done about blatant crimes, that the law would not need to be enforced, and that they have no need to worry about competence or keeping their employment as they do not work for a competitive business, but instead are granted money from our pockets involuntarily.
His real bosses, the tax payers, are not happy with him. Republicans don't like that he didn't lock Hillary in prison where she belongs. Democrats don't like that he allowed Russia to "hack" his brain into re-opening the Clinton email investigation shortly before the election (because it's the revealing of the wrongdoing, not the wrongdoing that is bad - sort of sounds like how Republicans think of Snowden!)
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday May 12 2017, @06:36PM
"(because it's the revealing of the wrongdoing, not the wrongdoing that is bad - sort of sounds like how Republicans think of Snowden!)"
I have no evidence to support the idea, but I do believe you are right. Half the politicos in Washington probably do know who did what, when, where, and how - but they keep the info to themselves, for leverage. They aren't going to give that info to the press. It's always lower tier government employees who do the whistleblowing. No congress critter is going to expose another congress critter, and most political appointees follow that example.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 12 2017, @08:22PM
because it's the revealing of the wrongdoing, not the wrongdoing that is bad
Lolwut?
There was no wrong-doing. Nothing on weiner's laptop was new.
sort of sounds like how Republicans think of Snowden!
More like how republicans think of Flynn and the rest of the leaks of russian connections.
(Score: 2) by edIII on Friday May 12 2017, @09:35PM (1 child)
About the only fucking thing we agree on.
I'm not happy he didn't arrest BOTH Trump and Hillary. 3 trillion percent convinced that Hillary is a corrupt cunt guilty of pay-to-play, and that Trump is just as bad with his ties to Russia and Putin. Not to mention that the fucking twat is wholly against any kind of encryption that the FBI cannot read. He's gone along with the same bullshit they've been at for 30 fucking years, and that is that Americans cannot have privacy from the government.
Fuck that prick. He did nothing good for the country, and when the time came for him to stand up and REALLY do the JOB OF THE FBI, he fucked up in every way, shape, and form. He DID fuck up the election by emphasizing more of Hillary's issues and NOT investigating the Trump issues enough. Those two fuckers should've never made it to the party nominations, much less with an actual chance of running the country.
It's because of Comey that we are now ruled by Putin and the absolutely abhorrent positions of the Republicans. He can get hit by a fucking bus today, and that might make the American people happy.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 2) by linkdude64 on Saturday May 13 2017, @05:18AM
I'm not going to debate the Russia MSM narrative with you, just as I'm sure you believe in WMDs, probably believe Islam is acutally less violent than Christianity is today, etc. but yes, the FBI is supposed to be the agency that can take down fucking ANYone, and Trump is firing him because he knows he has made that entire organization look like a bunch of fence-sitting stooges with no skin in the game regarding the future of America, and no desire to rock the boat. His desire for a competent person in that position is a reasonable one, like many of his desires.
If Trump was thrown in the slammer, or at least barred from Presidency, I wouldn't have cared at the time, because it would've likely meant that Sanders would have won, but as it turns out, he's an enormous sellout pushover as well - and a good hearted puppet might be even more dangerous than one that is as obviously evil as Clinton is.