Thursday, May 11, 2017

Details of the FBI Director Comey Firing

In the past two days the firing of FBI director Comey had dominated the news.  The network news did a pretty good job of reviewing the impressive number of facts last night.  As you know Comey was fired while he was in Westwood speaking at an FBI convention and was on his way to a recruitment thing for other FBI applicants.  But while in transit from one location to the other he learned from watching television that he had been fired.  He then received a phone call from a guy who read Trump's official dismissal letter saying that he no longer has confidence in his performance.  That's pretty vague.  FBI director Comey was scheduled to testify today before Congress and now that is canceled.  Now there are other people testifying. There was talk the "Justice Department" no longer had confidence in him, meaning AG Jeff Sessions, who is far right.  The letter made reference to three different times Trump allegedly contacted Comey saying he was not under investigation for any of the Russian hacking stuff.  There was talk about his handling of the Hillary exhonoration last July that he was 'unprofessional' in his remarks about her.  However ABC news learned that Comey was seeking more funding to bore on on the Trump and Russian connection.  Also there was a memo from the deputy FBI director that Comey was about to uncover the truth about Trump and Russia and for this reason Comey had to be fired now.  Apparently people at one of these late night shows applauded when they heard that Comey had been fired and Rush Limbaugh made a lot of this saying the democrats are so mixed up now they don't know the current proper political response to news events.  Many have compared this to the Saturday Night Masacre of October of 1973 when President Nixon fired Special Prosecutor Archabald Cox in Watergate.  Now Chuck Schummer and other democrats are saying that it's imperitive that we hire on a special prosecutor to handle the Russian connection.  But Majority Leader Mitch Mc Connell says that two investigations would only be confusing and interfere with each other.  This kind of reasoning is of course ludicris.  I realize this news summary is a day late and a dollar short but I've been busy with personal business in my own life and haven't had the time or the concentration to get my blogging act together.

ROCK COMPILATION UPDATE:  I turned on Stephanie Miller.  But then I got mentally distracted.  I wanted to know where the rock compilation of “One Person Plus the Truth” album.  It’s the follow up to “Nothing Left to Roll” but it turns out there was only one song changed.  Shell Silverstein was taken off and “Gloria” by the Doors had been added.  But the collection doesn’t appear till February 11th in the “Rocca Rolla” blog.  I had a heck of a time trying to find it.  It’s just one song different.   Inquiring Minds want to Know.   

■ Andrew G. McCabe, the acting director of the F.B.I., is testifying before the Senate Intelligence Committee.

■ The committee’s top Democrat asked Mr. McCabe to tell senators about any efforts by the White House to intervene with the Justice Department’s investigation of o Russia’s meddling in the presidential election.

■ President Trump had been talking openly about firing James B. Comey, the F.B.I. director, for at least a week, according to people close to the president.

■ Days before he was fired, Mr. Comey asked for a significant increase in resources for the inquiry into Russia’s election interference, according to four congressional officials.


Rather than start an investigation of "Voter Fraud", which statistics say are almost nil in national elections, they should open an investigation on voter surpression in places like Wisconsin and Pennsylvania and in Florida. Trump is clinging to the myth that he somehow won the popular vote last November.President 

Trump planned to order a voter fraud investigation Thursday, thrusting back into the spotlight an issue that few other Republican leaders want to tackle as he tries to divert attention from the controversy over his firing of FBI DirectorJames Comey.

A White House official said Trump would sign an executive order appointing a voter fraud commission that would examine “voter fraud and suppression” while reviewing “policies and practices that enhance or undermine the American people’s confidence in the integrity of federal elections — including improper registrations, improper voting, fraudulent registrations, fraudulent voting, and voting suppression.”

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