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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 Thexalon on Friday May 12 2017, @07:09PM (7 children)
What does translate into a majority of the US population are opinion polls consistently saying he has the support of the majority of the population [huffingtonpost.com]. OK, maybe the polls are flawed in some way, maybe they're only polling leftists or something, but that's what they're saying. You might not like him, of course, and that's your right to hold that view, but that's what the evidence says.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday May 13 2017, @01:11AM (6 children)
The polls also said that Hillary was going to win the election, remember?
(Score: 2) by butthurt on Saturday May 13 2017, @01:48AM (5 children)
You had written about "a majority of the US population" which is distinct from winning a presidential election. The November 2016 election that you're discussing is a good illustration of the difference:
[...] the Nation offered the latest theory in a never-ending string of them, this one focused on what was by some metrics the single biggest surprise of the election: Trump’s victory in Wisconsin, where he trailed in polls by an average of 6.5 points ahead of Nov. 8.
According to new research conducted by data science firm Civis Analytics for liberal super PAC Priorities USA, strict voter ID laws significantly depressed the turnout of black and Democratic-leaning voters in a number of states, chief among them [Wisconsin].
-- http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/05/10/the_problem_with_the_civis_study_blaming_clinton_s_wisconsin_loss_on_a_voter.html [slate.com]
Let's hope the new Presidential Commission on Election Integrity remedies the situation.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/05/11/trump-to-sign-order-launching-voter-fraud-commission.html [foxnews.com]
https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/05/11/president-announces-formation-bipartisan-presidential-commission [whitehouse.gov]
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday May 13 2017, @02:02AM (4 children)
Voter ID laws suppress voter turnout - yeah. Tell ya what. When the media can trot out hundreds and thousands of people who have no ID who claim that they wished to vote, but couldn't, I'll be concerned. But, my real concern won't be those potential voters. My real concern will be fake news.
The incidence of voter suppression is probably about equal with the incidents of voter fraud. Both are negligible.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Saturday May 13 2017, @02:40AM
I mostly agree with you on that, but voter suppression is a much bigger factor on the primary level than in the general election because the number of voters is so much smaller. In the general election it can also be a significant factor if you're targeting the right precinct in the right states. In the 2012 race there was a memorable scene on Fox News on election night [newsweek.com] when Karl Rove kept calling the election for Romney because he was certain key precincts in southern Ohio would flip the state red. It didn't turn out that way. (I read reports at the time that Anonymous had prevented the Diebold voting machines there from being rigged for Romney [salon.com], but who knows if that's true) But if you could pull off voter suppression in a key place like that you could swing an entire election, especially if the turnout is low because the voters don't care about the race or detest the candidates.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by butthurt on Saturday May 13 2017, @03:43AM (2 children)
Here's more fake news for you to be concerned about:
Michigan officials declared in late November that Trump won the state's count by 10,704 votes. But hold on – a record 75,355 ballots were not counted.
[...]
According to the machines that read their ballots, these voters waited in line, sometimes for hours, yet did not choose a president.
-- http://www.gregpalast.com/the-republican-sabotage-of-the-vote-recounts-in-michigan-and-wisconsin/ [gregpalast.com]
Another piece of fake news I'm sure you heard is that Ms. Clinton lost the election whilst receiving the most votes.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday May 13 2017, @02:07PM (1 child)
You're gonna hate me. But, I'm laughing, man.
Liberal run cities go bankrupt, and can't afford a new voting machine, so liberal votes aren't counted by the old broken voting machine.
Now, tell me: Doesn't that sound like poetic justice? I don't mean to imply that you're stupid or anything, but just in case, read this: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/poetic%20justice [merriam-webster.com]
(Score: 2) by butthurt on Saturday May 13 2017, @02:42PM
Thank you for reading that. The bankruptcies were indeed a factor. Did you get as far as these bits?
[...] Dr. Jill Stein, the Green Party candidate, paid millions of dollars for a human eyeball count of the uncounted votes. [...]
But Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette stymied Stein's human eye count. The Republican pol issued an order saying that no one could look at the ballots cast in precincts where the number of votes and voters did not match [...]
An eye-popping 449,092 Michiganders are on the [Interstate] Crosscheck suspect list.