Honestly, it looks like the person most impacted by this whole kerfuffle is…Comey.
Accept the consequences of your actions, dude. Either get your ass to a press conference (which we know you love) or step down.
Comey: I will step down after I help impeach Hillary, probably in first quarter of 2017.Before that , I must do all it takes to make Putin our POTUS.
It sounds like the FBI, like much of law enforcement, has caught Trumpian over-reach fever.
Another major screw up by the highly naive Obama! He picked the Republican Comey to head the FBI and now the Democrats are paying the price.
If Obama had any balls, he’d fire Comey right now for dereliction of duty and he’d instruct the Justice Department to release an update on the FBI’s investigation of Trump on two major crimes;
- Trump raped at least 2 teenage girls and was never prosecuted because he paid off the families
- Steve Bannon and other Trump fugitives accepted money from the KGB in return for services and support. The FBI has enough evidence to charge Trump…and to throw Bannon in prison for a long-long time.
I’m really curious to see what comes of Reid’s incendiary charge about the FBI having knowledge of Trump and Russia.
Reid unfortunately doesn’t have the best credibility when it comes to throwing around charges near election time.
IF the FBI actually does have knowledge of Russian colluding with Trump, that would rise to the standard that Painter gives for requiring disclosure to the public.
he really doesn’t deserve the privilege of being allowed to resign… he should have his ass loudly and publicly fired…
This is lose-lose for the democrats. Lose if he stays, and lose because congress might not confirm a replacement. Even if the democrats take the senate, will republicans refuse to accept any of Hillary’s cabinet? McCain and Cruz have already said they won’t appoint any Supreme Court nominees. Where does it end?
Comey needs to call a press conference updating the public on the Trump ties to Putin and the Russian KGB…as well as we know Steve Bannon is involved as well.
Then Comey can resign and face charges of dereliction of duty and breaking the law by using the FBI to rig an election.
Obama has been a huge disappointment…so much more of a Republican than a Democrat in his actions. His words ring hollow across the land…Obama is a DINO if there ever was one besides the Clinton’s.
Bernie was the right answer along for what the nation’s needs.
How could we have missed it all along?
You know, Hillary is a lot more like Bernie than Obama.
Obama is a right-leaning centrist Dem. Hillary has a lot of very liberal positions.
I think it minght be more productive, certainly more democratic (small c) to follow existing policy–no comments by FBI on ongoing investigations. If there’s evidence to charge them for crimes, let our justice system do what it’s supposed to do. When they go low, we go high!
If we take the Senate, the nuclear option; do away with the filibuster–ridiculous anachronism anyway. If we don’t take the Senate, nothing changes and things probably get worse.
But if Comey resigns, there will never be another Director of the FBI until a Republican is elected President.
All this whole, never-ending email tempest in a teapot does is harden positions, and not change anyone’s vote (other than a scattering of hopelessly wishy-washy).
HRC is still going to be elected, the DNC needs to go full-bore on making sure we take the Senate.
I doubt that a moron like Chaffetz is very careful in his conspiracies.
I think the answer which might work is investigative reporting.
Good reporters could get a lot out. Will they try?
Suits me fine. As someone who worked in a large bureacracy, the need for some “accountable” super duper big Czar person to serve as agency head is vastly over rated. It’s not like SCOTUS. The FBI will do just fine with an acting head.
How do you know it wasn’t Martin O’Malley, or for that matter, maybe my nice next door neighbor Lorraine, that is what the country REALLY needs. Lorraine 2024?
Yes, large bureaucracies do fine without a head. Much like chickens.
Yeah, that wouldn’t appear even remotely partisan… I’m glad Obama doesn’t have the kind of “balls” of stupidity that you’d like him to have.