Acting FBI Director Contradicts White House

[Gardening Grandma]

Acting FBI director contradicts White House’s claim about Comey’s support within bureau
The acting director of the FBI said that ousted Director James Comey enjoyed widespread support among the bureau’s rank-and-file members — directly contradicting a White House claim to justify his firing.

When asked about the Trump administration’s assertion that Comey had lost the confidence of FBI staff, Andrew McCabe said, “No, sir, that is not accurate.”
www.yahoo.com/news/acting-fbi-director-contradicts-white-houses-claim-comeys-support-within-bureau-171528015.html

The Acting Director also said the investigation into Trump's Russian ties will continue
 www.newsweek.com/senate-intelligence-committee-fbi-andrew-mccabe-comey-607515




So, how long til HE is fired?

[NastyWoman]

are we taking bets?

[Gardening Grandma]

May 11, 2017 14:49:07 GMT -5 NastyWoman said:

are we taking bets?

We should start a pool

[ken a.k.a OMK]

IMO Trumps pathological lying and his administrations lying have made many people give up on hearing the truth. 

[NastyWoman]

to date he has trashed the judiciary, the intelligence community, the press, and the FBI. He is well underway to destroy the democracy as we know it by undermining the public trust in these institutions and we should be afraid, very afraid... He is barely in office so he has a long time to further poison the trust of the public in democracy. His presidency may be Medusa's box for the US democracy

[Tennesseer]

Lock him up!

[billisonboard]

May 11, 2017 15:22:32 GMT -5 NastyWoman said:

to date he has trashed the judiciary, the intelligence community, the press, and the FBI. He is well underway to destroy the demacracy as we know it by undermining the public trust in these institutions and we should be afraid, very afraid... He is barely in office so he has a long time to further poison the trust of the public in democracy. His presidency may be Medusa's box for the US democracy

If he is successful, it is on the American people.

AUTHOR: Benjamin Franklin (1706–90)
QUOTATION: “Well, Doctor, what have we got—a Republic or a Monarchy?”

“A Republic, if you can keep it.”

[Wisconsin Beth]

The Director for the Census Bureau resigned sometime this week, I heard.

[billisonboard]

May 11, 2017 16:09:41 GMT -5 Wisconsin Beth said:

The Director for the Census Bureau resigned sometime this week, I heard.

As I figure it, the man is around 65 years old with about 30 years governmental service. And

At an occasionally contentious hearing last week, Mr. Thompson informed lawmakers that the cost for a new program to collect and process data was more than $300 million higher than had been estimated in 2013. Representative John Culberson, the chairman of a House appropriations subcommittee that oversees the bureau responded that it was "just not acceptable" to see that the 2020 census looked as if it were "heading in the same direction as the 2010 census, with terrific cost overruns." digg.com/2017/census-director-resigns

I have no problem with the idea that it was simply thinking about it over the weekend and coming to the conclusion, "I don't need this shit. I am out of here."

[Rob Base 2.0]

You all know this acting FBI Directior has democratic ties, right?

[billisonboard]

May 11, 2017 16:31:07 GMT -5 Rob Base 2.0 said:

You all know this acting FBI Directior has democratic ties, right?

All don't because I am a part of all and I have no idea of any of his ties, ascots or bolos.

[b2r]

 FBI ACTING DIRECTOR ANDREW MCCABE ALSO BEING INVESTIGATED OVER CLINTON EMAILS

The U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of the Inspector General announced in January that in response to requests from members of Congress, organizations and the public, it was opening a review of the FBI’s handling of the Clinton matter. Among the aspects that the office said it would review were “allegations that the FBI deputy director should have been recused from participating in certain investigative matters.”
Those concerns came after revelations by media outlets, including The Wall Street Journal, that a political action committee affiliated with Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe, who has ties to Bill and Hillary Clinton, contributed almost $500,000 to the 2015 Virginia state Senate campaign of McCabe’s wife, Jill McCabe. (She lost the election.) She also received $207,788 from the Virginia Democratic Party, which is connected to McAuliffe, a Democrat.

Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa, chairman of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, wrote a letter to Comey on March 28 expressing concerns about McCabe’s involvement in the Clinton emails matter, given the donations that his wife received. “These circumstances undermine public confidence in the FBI’s impartiality,” Grassley wrote.

“FBI’s senior leadership should never have allowed that appearance of a conflict to undermine the bureau’s important work.... If Mr. McCabe failed to avoid the appearance of a partisan conflict of interest in favor of Mrs. Clinton during the presidential election, then any participation in this inquiry creates the exact same appearance of a partisan conflict of interest against Mr. Trump,” Grassley said.


www.newsweek.com/fbi-acting-director-andrew-mccabe-clinton-emails-606801

[Rob Base 2.0]

May 11, 2017 16:41:21 GMT -5 billisonboard said:

May 11, 2017 16:31:07 GMT -5 Rob Base 2.0 said:

You all know this acting FBI Directior has democratic ties, right?

All don't because I am a part of all and I have no idea of any of his ties, ascots or bolos.

McCabe's wife ran for Virginia senate seat as a democrat. www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2017/05/10/politics/grassley-mccabe-director/index.html

[billisonboard]

May 11, 2017 16:53:14 GMT -5 Rob Base 2.0 said:

May 11, 2017 16:41:21 GMT -5 billisonboard said:

All don't because I am a part of all and I have no idea of any of his ties, ascots or bolos.

McCabe's wife ran for Virginia senate seat as a democrat. www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2017/05/10/politics/grassley-mccabe-director/index.html

And I thank you for working to educate us.

[Gardening Grandma]

So the Acting Director gives SOME indication of independence from the Executive branch and the smearing begins: ....

[Wisconsin Beth]

May 11, 2017 16:53:14 GMT -5 Rob Base 2.0 said:

May 11, 2017 16:41:21 GMT -5 billisonboard said:

All don't because I am a part of all and I have no idea of any of his ties, ascots or bolos.

McCabe's wife ran for Virginia senate seat as a democrat. www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2017/05/10/politics/grassley-mccabe-director/index.html

If I ran for office, it would be as a Democrat or Independent. If my husband ran for office, it'd be as a Republican. Our votes generally cancel each other out. So I, personally, don't think much of that as a tie to a party. I'm not saying that's it's not pertinent, because it could be.

[Rob Base 2.0]

It's a smear to say the truth that his wife ran as a democrat?? And that she got money from people close to hillary??

ETA -but it's ok to go and run with the Trump Russian hooker urine story and that's not a smear at all, right GG?

[Rob Base 2.0]

And for argument sake let's assume morale in FBI ref Comey was bad, do you really think the incoming leader would openly talk bad about the outgoing leader? I'm not saying morale is or is not bad, but to trumpet this as - wow, he "contradicts" Trump on MORALE as a "big deal". Sorry I am not seeing it as a big deal. If he "contradicted" Trump on something more substantive than that would be something.