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We had three different political stories submitted. In the interest of trying to keep political discussions from spilling over into other stories, I have merged them all into this one story. If you are not interested in politics, you are free to ignore this story — another story will be along presently. --martyb
Tories Turned Over in UK General Election
FTFA:
Theresa May will visit Buckingham Palace at 12:30 BST to seek permission to form a new UK government, despite losing her Commons majority.
She is seeking to stay in office on the understanding that the Democratic Unionists of Northern Ireland will support her minority administration.
With one seat left to declare, the Tories are eight seats short of the 326 figure needed to command a majority.
BBC
The Guardian
Telegraph (beware awful ads, but it's a Tory broadsheet)
In other news:
* The UK stock market is up but the pound is down
* European leaders react with a mix of incredulity, conciliatory statements; Brexit plans in tatters
* Record number of female MPs returned; overall high turnout
Fired FBI Director James Comey Lays out the Case That President Trump Obstructed Justice
Former FBI director James B. Comey on Thursday essentially laid out an obstruction of justice case against President Trump and suggested senior leaders in the bureau might have actually contemplated the matter before Trump removed him as director.
Comey did not explicitly draw any legal conclusions. Whether justice was obstructed, he said, was a question for recently appointed special counsel Robert Mueller. But he said Trump’s request to terminate the FBI’s investigation into former national security adviser Michael Flynn left him “stunned,” and senior FBI officials considered it to be of “investigative interest.”
Of particular concern, Comey said, was that Trump asked other officials to leave him alone with his FBI director in the Oval Office before saying of Flynn: “He is a good guy. I hope you can let this go.”
“Why did he kick everybody out of the Oval Office?” Comey said. “That, to me as an investigator, is a very significant fact.”
President Donald J. Trump Announces Intent to Nominate Christopher A. Wray to be Director of FBI
June 7, 2017 at 7:05 PM ET by The White House
Today, President Donald J. Trump announced he will nominate Christopher Asher Wray as the new Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Wray graduated cum laude from Yale University in 1989, then continued on to receive his law degree from Yale Law School in 1992. He started his legal career as a clerk to Judge J. Michael Luttig of the United States Court of Appeals.
In 1997, Wray began his extensive public service career as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia. In May 2001, Wray became the Associate Deputy Attorney General of the Department of Justice and within five months he was appointed the Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General. He was a vital member of the DOJ’s operations during and following the 9/11 attacks.
Wray was appointed to serve as the Assistant Attorney General in charge of the U.S. DOJ’s Criminal Division by President George W. Bush and was confirmed unanimously by the Senate. He led federal criminal law investigations in areas, including: securities fraud, healthcare fraud, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and trade sanctions violations, bank secrecy and money laundering offenses, public corruption, and intellectual property piracy and cybercrime. While he was head of the Criminal Division from 2003 to 2005, Wray worked tirelessly to counteract the wave of corporate fraud scandals and to restore trust in the U.S. financial system. At the end of his term, Wray was given the Edmund J. Randolph Award, which is the DOJ’s most prestigious award for leadership and public service.
Since leaving the DOJ in 2005, Wray has worked as a litigation partner at King & Spalding. He chairs the King & Spalding Special Matters and Government Investigations Practice Group, which specializes in white-collar crimes and regulatory enforcement. He has represented Fortune 100 companies and ranked as a leading litigator by Chambers USA, Best Lawyers in America, and Legal 500. Wray has performed successful oral arguments in front of the U.S. Supreme Court, as well as the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.
His wealth of experience in government enforcement and jurisprudence makes Christopher A. Wray an outstanding choice as Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
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(Score: 2) by jmorris on Friday June 09 2017, @06:44PM (6 children)
Not true. At all. Make some of us overlook a lot of flaws and generally desire to build yuge statues of the guy. The media is utterly corrupt and one of the bases of the Cathedral's power. It must be destroyed. Pretty much all of it, FNC and WSJ included. Ok, eave Cavuto and the Idiotarian Libertarians at FBN alone, gotta leave a token survivor to propagate the warning.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 09 2017, @07:15PM (2 children)
I think Jmo is sliding into homegrown terrorist territory. Someone should probably report him.
(Score: 2) by NewNic on Friday June 09 2017, @09:37PM (1 child)
No so. I think that he has been a living embodiment of Poe's law and it is only now obvious that his posts are sarcasm, I think.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 09 2017, @11:21PM
Keep thinking...
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday June 09 2017, @08:55PM (2 children)
There has been yellow journalism since way back. Possibly even before the 21st century.
Now I agree that a lot of media has not done a good job. Because of ratings, money and political bias of their owners.
But what would be the alternative? A government run official news organization? Trump might actually love that idea, and if so it wouldn't surprise me one bit. But I suspect that would not work out so well for us.
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(Score: 2) by jmorris on Friday June 09 2017, @09:47PM (1 child)
I the days of old, we had honest media because it was openly partisan, every town having at least a Republican and a Democrat aligned paper. Our problem is mostly a result of the TV era's early days when three networks based in NYC and the NYT could, and did collude to set the Narrative for the whole country. And since now six companies own darned near everything you see on the boob tube it ain't any better now.
The solution is what is happening, destroy the credibility of the corrupt legacy media by exposure, allow new diverse media to gain influence. The big one is when they lose enough trust the current leak based model of journalism collapses. It only works because people still think that if Wolf Blitzer or some NYT hack says a 'senior government official' told them something that it is newsworthy based purely on their say so. When the NYT is reduced to "Carlos Slim's Blog" in enough minds that stops working. Who would take such an anonymous sourced claim by Drudge seriously?
Another step to dismantling the privileged media caste is ending the official pools. Let agencies use a staffer with a $1000 HD camera and post video under a public domain license. The day of broadcast quality video being an expensive thing that you needed to let the networks produce are long past. The current system where every public event is locked down where only members of the caste can buy the right to use the photos and video must end. Replace press conferences, that maintain the caste in special positions of being the ones who decide which questions may be asked and which must not be, with ask me anything style web affairs, websites that collect questions and answer the highest upvoted ones, etc.
The new media is open about its biases, which makes it honest. When you read Huffington Post you know exactly what you are reading, same for Breitbart.com. It is the NYT, WaPo, ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC, PBS, that is dishonest in their claims of being objective in the face of the obvious.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 09 2017, @11:35PM
No we used to have the Fairness Doctrine, but like so many good things:
God damn fucking Reagan and his goons. Such a massive piece of shit, but Republicans view him as the 2nd coming of Christ. I realize he is not directly responsible for this, but his tenure as president devastated this country and opened the gates to hell. Fuck that racist finger puppet douche who sold the US to a couple of rich pieces of crap so they could pursue even more ridiculous profits and concentrate power more easily. Nixon was like the midwife for Satan.