DT fires the goalie

Here are 10 of Comey's biggest embarrassments at the FBI:
1. Before he bombed the Boston Marathon, the FBI interviewed Tamerlan Tsarnaev but let him go. Russia sent the Obama Administration a second warning, but the FBI opted against investigating him again.

2. Shortly after the NSA scandal exploded in 2013, the FBI was exposed conducting its own data mining on innocent Americans; the agency, Bloomberg reported, retains that material for decades (even if no wrongdoing is found).

3. The FBI had possession of emails sent by Nidal Hasan saying he wanted to kill his fellow soldiers to protect the Taliban -- but didn't intervene, leading many critics to argue the tragedy that resulted in the death of 31 Americans at Fort Hood could have been prevented.

4. During the Obama Administration, the FBI claimed that two private jets were being used primarily for counterterrorism, when in fact they were mostly being used for Eric Holder and Robert Mueller's business and personal travel.

5. When the FBI demanded Apple create a "backdoor" that would allow law enforcement agencies to unlock the cell phones of various suspects, the company refused, sparking a battle between the feds and America's biggest tech company. What makes this incident indicative of Comey's questionable management of the agency is that a) The FBI jumped the gun, as they were indeed ultimately able to crack the San Bernardino terrorist's phone, and b) Almost every other major national security figure sided with Apple (from former CIA Director General Petraeus to former CIA Director James Woolsey to former director of the NSA, General Michael Hayden), warning that such a "crack" would inevitably wind up in the wrong hands.

6. In 2015, the FBI conducted a controversial raid on a Texas political meeting, finger printing, photographing, and seizing phones from attendees (some in the group believe in restoring Texas as an independent constitutional republic).

7. During its investigation into Hillary Clinton's mishandling of classified material, the FBI made an unusual deal in which Clinton aides were both given immunity and allowed to destroy their laptops.

8. The father of the radical Islamist who detonated a backpack bomb in New York City in 2016 alerted the FBI to his son's radicalization. The FBI, however, cleared Ahmad Khan Rahami after a brief interview.

9. The FBI also investigated the terrorist who killed 49 people and wounded 53 more at the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, Fla. Despite a more than 10-month investigation of Omar Mateen -- during which Mateen admitting lying to agents -- the FBI opted against pressing further and closed its case.

10. CBS recently reported that when two terrorists sought to kill Americans attending the "Draw Muhammad" event in Garland, Texas, the FBI not only had an understanding an attack was coming, but actually had an undercover agent traveling with the Islamists, Elton Simpson and Nadir Soofi. The FBI has refused to comment on why the agent on the scene did not intervene during the attack.

The pertinent fact in regard to a director's of the bureau position is that they have the authority to order investigations or nix them. That they are not directly involved in these investigations is irrelevant to that fact.

The hysteria over Comey's firing has convinced me that the culture of the Democratic Party has become pathological. The Democrats are becoming a culture that cannot tolerate another party in power. They want to be the only party and they, along with their allies in the media, are working everyday to destabilize the sitting administration and undermine the government. This is not just politics as usual.
There is nothing controversial about firing Director Comey. He already engaged in misconduct in his public statements about Hillary, accusing her of incompetence yet refusing to charge her with a crime. It's actually not his place to decide or to state such opinions in public. In making those statements he was usurping the role of the attorney general, whose rightful place it is to make such decisions and statements. Comey publicly smeared Hillary yet at the same time claimed she committed no crime. Is that fair? Next Comey influenced the election itself by making an announcement claiming a connection between Hillary's e-mails and Anthony Weiner's computer--which turned out to be an "oh never-mind". Even Hillary believes this bumbling behavior by Comey helped sink her campaign. He smeared her in a public statement by association and then had insufficient evidence to prove it; but the damage had been done.
Next comes the Trump administration and the endless efforts of Democrats and the media to sink his administration into endless, paralyzing controversy. Certain operators left over from Obama leaked the names of American citizens whose conversations with foreign nationals and diplomats were recorded via NSA surveillance. It is against the law to leak the names of these citizens to the public unless they have been charged with a crime. Michael Flynn and others had their names leaked by still unnamed parties, parties known to FBI Director Comey. Comey has refused to investigate these leaks in the same way he has refused to admit (obviously towing the line of AG Lynche) that Hillary committed a crime with her private server and unauthorized phones which were deliberately destroyed.
Now here's the Onion: Comey refuses to acknowledge crimes that have been committed, that are obvious to all honest people. Yet, Comey is willing to ask Trump for more resources to further investigate his administration for collusion with Russia, when no evidence of such collusion has ever found. Even the NSA transcript of Flynn's conversation reveals nothing wrong, no crime. Flynn's problem was that he lied, denying under oath that the conversation took place. But the actual conversation itself broke no laws. No evidence has ever been found of collusion with the Russians. These allegations are part of a tactic by the Democrats to divert attention away from themselves and from crimes that have been committed. Comey refuses to cooperate regarding crimes that have been committed and instead wants to chase accusations that have every mark of being politically motivated and libelous. What honest person can blame the president and his attorney general and deputy (Comey's former boss) for wanting Comey fired? He deserved it. Even Democrats wanted him fired back in November.
The present hysteria shows just how deranged and threatened the Democrats are. The comparisons to Nixon are absolutely hysterical. The Democrats want to focus on a narrative of a crime--a rumor with no evidence--while real evidence of real crimes go ignored and laws go unenforced. I think this is all going to back-fire. Let's hope the majority of the American people are smart enough to see through all this. The scary part is that the culture of the Democratic Party is sinking into a state of hysterical delusion. It's dangerous.

The hysteria over Comey's firing has convinced me that the culture of the Democratic Party has become pathological.

I agree with you that the director of the bureau isn't involved in particular investigations. But that is not the issue. The issue is that the director has the authority to order, green-light or nix investigations. In light of Comey's firing, the concern is that Trump is going to hire someone that will nix the bureau's investigation into the Trump administration's ties with the Russians in regard to the latter's interference with the US presidential elections.

Wouldn't you think there might be a whistle blower or two that would notify everyone in the world about that if it happens?

InfraBlue wrote:

I agree with you that the director of the bureau isn't involved in particular investigations. But that is not the issue. The issue is that the director has the authority to order, green-light or nix investigations. In light of Comey's firing, the concern is that Trump is going to hire someone that will nix the bureau's investigation into the Trump administration's ties with the Russians in regard to the latter's interference with the US presidential elections.

Bakari Sellers, a former Democratic state representative and current CNN commentator, threw political caution to the wind Wednesday when he tweeted that Gowdy would be the best person for the now-vacant job.

"Dems are going to hate me for this. I don't care. The best replacement for Comey is Trey Gowdy," Sellers tweeted. "He's as honest as day is long."