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posted by martyb on Friday May 12 2017, @02:41PM   Printer-friendly
from the Will-he-be-fired,-too?-- dept.

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.


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  • (Score: 2) by kaszz on Friday May 12 2017, @05:02PM (12 children)

    by kaszz (4211) on Friday May 12 2017, @05:02PM (#508721) Journal

    Perhaps people just don't trust anything but just go on about their lives? Regardless the government still yield control via the police and by extension the military. They enforce taxes and laws. As soon as that breaks away all is up. Another possible outcome is that people will start to workaround and dislodge official institutions.

    He who has the gold makes the rules.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Grishnakh on Friday May 12 2017, @05:32PM (9 children)

    by Grishnakh (2831) on Friday May 12 2017, @05:32PM (#508747)

    Perhaps people just don't trust anything but just go on about their lives? Regardless the government still yield control via the police and by extension the military. They enforce taxes and laws. As soon as that breaks away all is up. Another possible outcome is that people will start to workaround and dislodge official institutions.

    This isn't a recipe for a successful nation. There's tons of crappy 3rd-world countries that fit your description to a tee: there's a government, no one trusts it, it's full of corruption, but it enforces taxes and laws (but corruptly), and people workaround the official institutions as much as they can. The result: these countries are economically in terrible shape, and they have revolutions and coups every now and then. Look at Mexico, for instance: there's some parts of the country where the townspeople have risen up against both the government and the drug cartels, and have taken over. The government doesn't even bother sending in the military to regain control because the government isn't trusted and it wasn't successful in keeping control away from the drug cartels in the first place, so they just let it slide.

    • (Score: 2) by kaszz on Friday May 12 2017, @07:03PM (8 children)

      by kaszz (4211) on Friday May 12 2017, @07:03PM (#508793) Journal

      Even USA can end up in that state. Even worse is that it will by its own doing. People could take control of the government again, but that requires a gigantic effort. It seems what really lacks is people with proper values in position of power.

      What nations are the most successful ones really from a citizen point of view? Japan?

      • (Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Friday May 12 2017, @07:13PM (1 child)

        by Grishnakh (2831) on Friday May 12 2017, @07:13PM (#508803)

        Yep, Japan and various small north/west European nations (the Scandinavian ones in particular, probably ones like Netherlands, Luxembourg, Switzerland too).

        This isn't to say these countries are perfect. Japan for instance has an enormous problem with a workaholic culture, but that's not a problem with government corruption or poor governance, in fact the government's been trying to work to change that. But none of these countries seem to have a big problem with their governments being completely out-of-touch with their citizens, or working against the citizens instead of for them.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 12 2017, @09:17PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 12 2017, @09:17PM (#508856)

          Shh make sure not to mention any of those failed socialist countries always come top of the Best Places To Live polls.

      • (Score: 4, Interesting) by aclarke on Friday May 12 2017, @07:33PM (4 children)

        by aclarke (2049) on Friday May 12 2017, @07:33PM (#508811) Homepage

        Your question about successful countries got me thinking, but not too much as I'm supposed to be working and we can't have thinking at work.

        If you download the PDF from http://worldhappiness.report/ed/2017/ [worldhappiness.report] you can get a ranking of countries by happiness. The top ten: Norway, Denmark, Iceland, Switzerland, Finland, Netherlands, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Sweden. The report breaks down the different factors contributing to "happiness" in each of these countries, and one factor is perception of corruption. There are countries like Singapore and Qatar with a low perception of corruption that score further down the overall list, but generally people in the top countries seem to be happy with their governments.

        Another interesting link: http://thealternativehypothesis.org/index.php/2017/01/30/populations-with-big-governments-tend-to-be-happier-if-and-only-if-they-are-smart/ [thealternativehypothesis.org] .

        Among high IQ nations, a significant correlation of 0.38 was found between government size and national happiness

        and

        This was not the case among low IQ nations. In these countries, IQ had a statistically insignificant correlation of -.01 with national happiness

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 12 2017, @07:56PM (3 children)

          by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 12 2017, @07:56PM (#508824)

          Another interesting link: " rel="url2html-18842">http://thealternativehypothesis.org

          Ugh. Yet another "racial realist" site that pretends to be objective but is just obfuscating their racism through cherry-picked decontextualized data and biased definitions.

          Besides, your two quotes aren't even apples to apples - one is government-size versus happiness the other is average IQ versus happiness.

          • (Score: 2) by butthurt on Saturday May 13 2017, @12:59AM (1 child)

            by butthurt (6141) on Saturday May 13 2017, @12:59AM (#508926) Journal

            > [...] obfuscating their racism [...]

            Some of the commenters there don't try to conceal it. For example, one remarks "[...] if the USA would have been a 100% White population and thus a high IQ population [...]".

            According to the failing New York Times

            [...] we have no direct genetic evidence regarding innate cognitive differences between blacks and whites. But we have accumulated a fair amount of indirect evidence since 1970. Most of it suggests that whether children live in a "black" or "white" environment has far more impact on their test performance than the number of Africans or Europeans in their family tree.

            -- http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/j/jencks-gap.html [nytimes.com]

            • (Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Sunday May 14 2017, @12:22AM

              by Grishnakh (2831) on Sunday May 14 2017, @12:22AM (#509292)

              Most of it suggests that whether children live in a "black" or "white" environment has far more impact on their test performance than the number of Africans or Europeans in their family tree.

              Well yeah: people are more a product of their environment and upbringing than their genetics, at least earlier on (in their later years, health problems from genetics have more of a factor, but this cuts across races). I've seen it in the South where my family comes from: (white) people are largely stupid, and it's due to their crappy, poor-education rural upbringing. Black people there aren't any smarter either (and their environment in the South is pretty much the same as the whites, just kinda segregated; they don't have anything like the environment of inner-city blacks in the northeast or Rust Belt). It's not race, it's environment.

          • (Score: 2) by aclarke on Monday May 15 2017, @06:44PM

            by aclarke (2049) on Monday May 15 2017, @06:44PM (#510175) Homepage

            I didn't read anything else on that site before posting the link. Also, please note that I didn't attempt to draw any further conclusion from the data presented, trying only to present an overview of the data. At the time of posting I thought of several causes for this but didn't want to get into that.

            Had I read more about the site, I wouldn't have posted the link. I don't want to be associated in any way with that site's overall point of view.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 13 2017, @05:47AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 13 2017, @05:47AM (#509022)

        > What nations are the most successful ones really from a citizen point of view?

        Yes, Japan. Also Scandanavia, Iceland, Canada. Arguably, South Korea. By their definition of citizen, Israel, but the Arabs would not agree. For straight able whites, the set gets much bigger (Aus alone).

  • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday May 12 2017, @06:18PM (1 child)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Friday May 12 2017, @06:18PM (#508774) Journal

    "government still yield control"

    That was just s simple spelling mistake, right? Should be "government still wield control". It threw me for a second, LOL!