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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 12 2017, @07:56PM (3 children)
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)
> [...] 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
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
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.