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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 sjames on Friday May 12 2017, @08:24PM (3 children)
Trump won by a slim margin. Before the DNC sandbagging, Sanders was ahead of Clinton. That suggests that sanders did have a majority for the country, though possibly by a slim margin.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 12 2017, @11:04PM (2 children)
Furthermore, Sanders never faced serious political opposition.
For all the hysteria over the DNC being in the bag for killary, it was at most inconvenient debate scheduling and shit-talking between DNC employees.
She deliberately pulled her punches with sanders for fear of alienating his voters in the primary.
She never mentioned his wife's fraud problems.
News coverage for sanders was much more positive than for any other candidate. [politicalwire.com]
Who knows what a serious oppo research effort would have dug up to smear him with?
Its easy to be #1 when nobody is trying to take you down.
(Score: 2) by hemocyanin on Saturday May 13 2017, @01:57AM (1 child)
That's such bullshit. The DNC's entire opposition research file was released at some point -- either Guccifer or Wikileaks. They had nothing -- other than the racist ploy of pointing he's Jewish to good Christians.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 13 2017, @04:07AM
> That's such bullshit. The DNC's entire opposition research file was released at some point
No. AN oppo research file was released. You have no idea as to what else was not released, or even hacked out.
You fail boolean logic.