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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 Geezer on Friday May 12 2017, @05:46PM
Looking over all the he said-she said and hyperbole in the whole pathetic Trump-Hillary-Russia kerfluffle, what bothers me is not some ham-fisted blundering by the FSB for whomevers' sake, but the utter politicization of all the intelligence and law enforcement agencies involved. The Deep State seems to be in disarray, with carefully-timed leaks supporting both sides, obviously political decisions, privacy and ethical violations, and generally bad morale all around.
I'm not naive. The FBI was always a political tool, and its directors hold Praetorian sway over the political class. Think J. Edgar Hoover. In time passed, there was just more discretion.
But there doesn't seem to be a shred of professional ethics or impartiality left anywhere. Since it would take a modern-day Diogenes to find honorable people to reform the agencies and King Solomon to get the factions to accept it, I despair of meaningful reform.
Maybe it's for the best to just accept the obvious and get on with it without all the media hoopla, like Voltaire's Candide.