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The conclusion I come to is that Germany, Japan, and Russia have never been natural enemies or adversaries of the United States and that something weird has to happen for us to be at war (hot or cold) with one of those states.

You don't have a clue what has happened.

You are the rankest partisan of all and there are some blind blind blind partisan people.

If the order obstructs justice , thats an impeachable offense. Firing the director merely compounds obstruction of justice.

Trump's not coming out clean here, the investigation continues.

It's not like this is a complicated point. Sheesh.

The FBI is by law an independent body to investigate wrongdoing. The president cannot order it around, even though it's in the executive branch. Trump clearly overstepped the legal bunds. Repeatedly.

More oralloy denial of oralloy denying reality.

You might have a case if you had anything besides oralloy uninformed opinion to back your nonsense up.

The Constitution says otherwise.

No it's not but there's a very big IF at the start.

As much as you would like to think Comey nailed Trump, he didn't.

Well I missed that FM was giving us civic lessons then.

‘We now have what we did not have before: reliable public sworn testimony’
David Cole is the national legal director of the ACLU and the Honorable George J. Mitchell professor in law and public policy at the Georgetown University Law Center.

It should change things. Comey’s testimony provided what has thus far been lacking with respect to this controversy: direct public testimony, under oath. Comey testified at length and in detail about Trump’s efforts to end a criminal investigation of Flynn, Trump’s former national security adviser. The testimony was frank, direct and, at least to this viewer, highly credible. So we now have what we did not have before: reliable public sworn testimony that the president of the United States actively sought to halt a criminal investigation into his own adviser’s potential ties to Russia. In addition, it is undisputed on the public record that when Comey declined to end the investigation Trump fired him, that the Trump administration initially lied about the reasons for the firing and that Trump later admitted that he fired Comey because of the Russia investigation. These are serious allegations of grave misconduct.

In one sense, however, the testimony does not seem to have changed one thing: What was perhaps most disturbing was that given these allegations, the response from most of the Republican senators was not to try to get to the bottom of the issue, but to cast aspersions, obfuscate and misdirect. The facts described by Comey warrant the most serious nonpartisan attention. They should concern Americans of all political leanings. They involve the possibility of obstruction of justice, a threat to the rule of law itself, and of collusion with Russia in its attempts to interfere with our democratic process. The workings of the democratic process and the rule of law are foundational values to our republic, and deserve defending whatever one’s political inclinations are. Thus far, the Republicans have not shown an inclination to get to the bottom of this, and that is a sad commentary on the partisan divide that so permeates Washington, and our country.