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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: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 12 2017, @05:05PM (9 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 12 2017, @05:05PM (#508724)

    Hedging his bets, is how it seemed to me.

    That's about as straightforward demonstration of conspiracy logic as it gets.
    The narrative is expanded to incorporate each new contradictory fact in way that still arrives at the predetermined conclusion.

    Interesting, though, that you would characterize me as extreme left or extreme right.

    You are extreme left in the way the alt-right are extreme right. Hyper-capitalism isn't of interest to them just as marxism and anarchism isn't of interest to you.

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Runaway1956 on Friday May 12 2017, @06:29PM (3 children)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Friday May 12 2017, @06:29PM (#508780) Journal

    Go ahead, mock conspiracy theories. While you're mocking, you seem to fail to see an obvious conspiracy that was exposed. The Clinton "dynasty" had it's woman installed as the head of the DNC. Ultimately, their woman was forced to resign in disgrace, because the conspiracy was exposed. You use the term "conspiracy theory" as if it is some kind of proof that the theorist is crazy. Granted, there are crazies who are conspiracy theorists, but there are real conspiracies as well.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 12 2017, @08:15PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 12 2017, @08:15PM (#508836)

      The Clinton "dynasty" had it's woman installed as the head of the DNC. Ultimately, their woman was forced to resign in disgrace, because the conspiracy was exposed.

      Or, critically thinking - she resigned because the DNC knows how to manage PR and all the hysteria over office-gossip email was getting in the way of the DNC running a national campaign.
      All that happened was that she transferred to the clinton campaign staff. If there was an actual scandal there she would have been too toxic to bring on.

      You use the term "conspiracy theory" as if it is some kind of proof that the theorist is crazy.

      No, I use it to describe a mode of thinking where people start with a per-determined conclusion and back-fit confirming facts while ignoring contradicting facts.

    • (Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Saturday May 13 2017, @12:33AM (1 child)

      by DeathMonkey (1380) on Saturday May 13 2017, @12:33AM (#508917) Journal

      The DNC preferring the Democrat candidate is about as much of a "conspiracy" as a bunch of postal workers colluding to deliver the mail.

      • (Score: 2) by hemocyanin on Saturday May 13 2017, @01:59AM

        by hemocyanin (186) on Saturday May 13 2017, @01:59AM (#508951) Journal

        Except there was not "THE" Dem candidate. There were several. The scandal is they colluded to support a particular one in violation of their own rules.

  • (Score: 1) by khallow on Friday May 12 2017, @09:54PM

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Friday May 12 2017, @09:54PM (#508872) Journal

    That's about as straightforward demonstration of conspiracy logic as it gets. The narrative is expanded to incorporate each new contradictory fact in way that still arrives at the predetermined conclusion.

    Don't the facts have to be contradictory first in order to be contradictory? And what's the rival explanation for Comey's behavior?

  • (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Saturday May 13 2017, @12:30AM (3 children)

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Saturday May 13 2017, @12:30AM (#508916) Journal

    That's about as straightforward demonstration of conspiracy logic as it gets.
    The narrative is expanded to incorporate each new contradictory fact in way that still arrives at the predetermined conclusion.

    ? Cease, troll. Your slights and mischaracterizations are tedious. It's not a conspiracy that Comey did what he did, nor did I construe it as such. What I wrote was what I read from the situation. It's called "reading the tea leaves," and everyone does it.

    As for my response to your point, you were raising a different aspect of the situation you believe disproves my interpretation, but which I do not.

    You are extreme left in the way the alt-right are extreme right. Hyper-capitalism isn't of interest to them just as marxism and anarchism isn't of interest to you.

    Ah, so clearly words and labels have no meaning for you, as you re-define them or contort them to fit your conception when others refute them or challenge them. Sounds quite like you accuse others of what you are guilty of.

    You have no idea what the set of my political beliefs comprises. Even if you were a regular reader here and had formed an impression of the same from my posts you would not have the whole, because I have never expounded the whole here. That's not what this site is for, and nobody cares what Phoenix666's beliefs are or how he comes down on any given issue anyway.

    So what you're really doing, in a sophomoric and churlish fashion, is slinging around random slurs that have no connection whatsoever to your targets but are purely, solely selected to get a rise out of them.

    In short, you're a troll.

    --
    Washington DC delenda est.
    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 13 2017, @02:31AM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 13 2017, @02:31AM (#508963)

      >That's not what this site is for,

      hmmm on the contrary, sn is people etc and you sir are most certainly one of them! :)

      so now to this...

      >Even if you were a regular reader here and had formed an impression of the same from my posts you
      >would not have the whole, because I have never expounded the whole here.

      and this...

      >and nobody cares what Phoenix666's beliefs are or how he comes down on any given issue anyway.

      i have been here since the start (posting anon to spare my blushes) and i deeply appreciate your
      contributions, and comments. we seem to agree on a lot but then every now and again we dont
      and i've never quite figured out what part of the jig saw i'm missing, which is a long winded way
      of saying that for the record, i for one would like to "have the whole" if you'd care to. maybe a journal post?

      live long and prosper.

      • (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Saturday May 13 2017, @03:23AM

        by Phoenix666 (552) on Saturday May 13 2017, @03:23AM (#508977) Journal

        I don't know if you're the same AC I was responding to. That's the tricky thing about ACs, really. If you have been on the site from the beginning, I encourage you to pick a handle and stick with it. Nobody will know you from Adam, still, but it brings a certain useful degree of rhetorical discipline that keeps you from shooting from the hip. That in turn, I believe, makes for a better, more productive discussion we can all get more out of. If you're gonna disclose state secrets or confess some deep, dark, shameful secret, sure, play the AC to the nines. That's not most cases. But if it's to avoid blushes, well, then rise to the occasion and compose the strongest arguments you can on matters you believe in.

        i have been here since the start (posting anon to spare my blushes) and i deeply appreciate your
        contributions, and comments. we seem to agree on a lot but then every now and again we dont
        and i've never quite figured out what part of the jig saw i'm missing, which is a long winded way
        of saying that for the record, i for one would like to "have the whole" if you'd care to. maybe a journal post?

        If you're not the same AC and that's sincere, thanks. I would say that while it's nice to agree with someone it's never a good to agree with someone completely. If that happens, each of us must understand that as the alarm it is, because it says we've stumbled into the dead pocket of air inside an echo chamber and don't have long to live.

        I would also say that I appreciate the sentiment about a journal, but I don't have the answer. I don't have a perfect ideology; Marx, Nietzsche, Kant, and many other deep thinkers couldn't do it, and I don't even want to try. Besides, manifestos are dull.

        Peace, and long life.

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        Washington DC delenda est.
    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 13 2017, @04:12AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 13 2017, @04:12AM (#508994)

      Even if you were a regular reader here and had formed an impression of the same from my posts you would not have the whole, because I have never expounded the whole here.

      You don't know me!
      Ignore that words that come out of my mouth, look into my heart!

      Its like you've been taking lessons from Kelly-Anne Conlady. [politico.com]

      Every time you think you are proving yourself, you are. You just don't know yourself enough to realize what you are really saying.