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President Trump cannot pick the person to continue this critical investigation.

My impeachment by date is March 14 or something.

I think we're on track.

... breathless hyperbole...ridiculous but so treasured by liberals...

Liberals have been conducting a slow motion "coup d'etat" over the past 30 years. Racial quotas. LGBT "rights". Gay "marriage". Voter fraud. Judges legislating from the bench. Propaganda programs to misinform and confuse large swaths of the voting public about the climate, nutrition, and the right of corporate free speech. Obama's firing of Lt.Gen. Flynn in the midst of unprecedented terrorist hostilities carried out by radical Islamists sends precisely the wrong message to the jihadists and demonstrates the weakness and perversion leading to the ultimate destruction of democracy in the US with the election of Hillary Clinton and permanent liberal control of the country. This will not end well.

Over the past year, however, the FBI's reputation and credibility have suffered substantial damage, and it has affected the entire Department of Justice. That is deeply troubling to many Department employees and veterans, legislators and citizens.

I cannot defend the Director's handling of the conclusion of the investigation of Secretary Clinton's emails, and I do not understand his refusal to accept the nearly universal judgment that he was mistaken. Almost everyone agrees that the Director made serious mistakes; it is one of the few issues that unites people of diverse perspectives.

The director was wrong to usurp the Attorney General's authority on July 5, 2016, and announce his conclusion that the case should be closed without prosecution. It is not the function of the Director to make such an announcement...On July 5, however, the Director announced his own conclusions about the nation's most sensitive criminal investigation, without the authorization of duly appointed Justice Department leaders.

Compounding the error, the Director ignored another longstanding principle: we do not hold press conferences to release derogatory information about the subject of a declined criminal investigation. Concerning his letter to the Congress on October 28, 2016, the Director cast his decision as a choice between whether he would "speak" about the FBI's decision to investigate the newly-discovered email messages or "conceal" it. "Conceal" is a loaded term that misstates the issue. When federal agents and prosecutors quietly open a criminal investigation, we are not concealing anything; we are simply following the longstanding policy that we refrain from publicizing non-public information. In that context, silence is not concealment.

My perspective on these issues is shared by former Attorneys General and Deputy Attorneys General from different eras and both political parties. Judge Laurence Silberman, who served as Deputy Attorneys General under President Ford, wrote that "it is not the bureau's responsibility to opine on whether a matter should be prosecuted." Silberman believes that the Director's "Performance was so inappropriate for an FBI director that [he] doubt[s] the bureau will ever completely recover." J

Jamie Gorelick, Deputy Attorney General under President George W. Bush, to opine that the Director had "chosen personally to restrike the balance between transparency and fairness, department from the department's traditions." They concluded that the Director violated his obligation to "preserve, protect and defend" the traditions of the Department and the FBI.

Former Attorney General Michael Mukasey, who served under President George W Bush, observed the Director "stepped way outside his job in disclosing the recommendation in that fashion" because the FBI director "doesn't make that decision".

Alberto Gonzales, who also served as Attorneys General under President George W Bush, called the decision "an error in judgement.

Eric Holder, who served as Deputy Attorneys General under President Clinton and Attorneys General under President Obama, said that the Director's decision "was incorrect. It violated long-standing Justice Department policies and traditions. And it ran counter to guidance that I put in place four years ago laying out the proper way to conduct investigations during an election season." Holder concluded that the Director "broke with these fundamental principles" and "negatively affected public trust in both the Justice Department and the FBI".

Former Deputy Attorneys General Gorelick and Thompson described the unusual event as "read-time, raw-take transparency taken to its illogical limit, a kind of reality TV of federal criminal investigation," that is "antithetical to the interests of justice".

Donald Ayer, who served as Deputy Attorneys General under President HW Bush, along with former Justice Department officials, was "astonished and perplexed" by the decision to "break[] with longstanding practices followed by officials of both parties during past elections." Ayer's letter noted, "Perhaps most troubling… is the precedent set by this departure from the Department's widely-respected, non-partisan traditions."

Does anybody truly think that Trump got an assurance from Comey?

It's a fact that methane and carbon dioxyde are greenhouse gases, in that they can trap heat much better than oxygen or nitrogen.

It's a fact that since the industrial revolution, the western way of life is based on the combustion of fossil fuels, which emits carbon dioxyde.

It's a fact that our atmosphere CO2 content has been steadilt rising since the industrial revolution.

It's a fact that mean temperatures have been rising since the industrial revolution, at a pace correlated with CO2 levels.

It's a fact that we won't stop using fossil fuels anytime soon.

Hence it's a fact that we are ******* up the climate like there's no tomorrow.

I've been reading some reports that Comey was assembling a grand jury. The authors state that they have no solid proof of this as yet.

I wish Trump would appoint me as the new FBI Director. I would follow J. Edgar's blueprint, compiling blackmail material on every son of a bitch in Washington, and then coast to a pension, while collecting a high salary in the interim, ya know?

They could NEVER fire my ass.

So, is anybody going to follow up on the Russia allegations?