Quote:Black Aeronaut wrote:Since I blocked out Khagler, so I had no idea what he replied, but him stating that since Clinton fired Sessions, it's okay for Trump to fire Comey. Well, I'll be blunt. It's dumb. Firing the head of the FBI conducting an investigation into collusion between Russia and members of the administration is bad optics to say the least. Following on the heels of Sally Yates testimony. The most damming things about the testimony are:
At the time, it was no big surprise that Clinton fired Sessions. This from the article you linked, khagler:
Quote:This wasn’t a matter of mere partisanship. William Sessions was an awful FBI Director. According to the New York Times’ account of the matter, the Director loved the trappings and pomp of his high office, but took little interest in the actual job of running the FBI, leaving the critically important agency leaderless and adrift just as the mission was shifting, from counterintelligence against the newly fallen USSR, to defending against the specter of domestic and international terrorism. The FBI was devolving into warring internal factions.Quote:Undercurrents of unrest surfaced last year when several complaints led to an internal inquiry by the Office of Professional Responsibility, an internal watchdog unit of the Justice Department.Having been, thus, excoriated by the outgoing Republican Administration of George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton’s incoming Democratic Administration surprised no one in its ardor to see the last of Mr. Sessions. But the stubborn Republican FBI Director refused to go voluntarily, finally provoking Bill Clinton to telephone Mr. Sessions on July 20, 1993. The President called twice. The first call was to tell the Director he was fired. The second was to tell the Director it was effective immediately.
The report found that Mr. Sessions had taken numerous free trips aboard F.B.I. aircraft to visits friends and relatives, often taking along his wife, Alice. The report, which was endorsed officially by Attorney General William P. Barr on his last day in office, detailed a litany of abuses. It is a lacerating portrayal of the Director as an official who was in charge of enforcing the law but who seemed blase about perceptions of his own conduct.
So yeah. Clinton had legitimate reasons for it. Making it sound like Trump is doing it just because Clinton did it and so it's okay.... yeah.
1. It took 18 days to remove Flynn from his post from the time Ms. Yates warned the White House counsel about Flynn's possibility of being blackmailed by the Russians. I suspect that was done only when the story broke in the Post.2. The White House counsel response to being told about Flynn was this: What does it matter that Flynn lied? So are you then telling me that it's not just Flynn who is coordinating with Russia prior to the inauguration and perhaps prior to the election? And also can Flynn be prosecuted for crimes? So if anyone else in the White House is doing what Flynn did, can they also be prosecuted was my takeaway of the response.
So far this administration has been engaged in denial, misdirection and deflection about the whole thing. Yates testimony threw this administration under the bus. Firing Comey has echoes of Watergate. If Trump thinks this is bad, wait until the midterms elections because this will be a referendum on Trump. Prominent GOP congressmen like Chaffetz of Utah and Labrador of Iowa had decided not to run for their seats again. I wonder why. If the Democrats win control of the House again, do you really think they won't launch a full throated investigation that will make Benghazi look like a picnic?
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