Yeah seems like a bunch of the short-sighted left are celebrating this; wtf? Obviously Comey is partly a villain in this tale but Trump is simply going to put a 6 Pointed Sheriff Star on Kishner and make him the new FBI Director, or something like that, and that's going to be the end of relatively apolitical federal policing.

Noted perjurer Sessions recommended noted perjurer Comey be fired?

Interesting

Also I feel like the specter of the FBI re-opening the investigation into Clinton emails and whatever the **** else has to be high now, right? No way Trump/Bannon et al are going to let that one slip, they're going to be chanting LOCK HER UP for the next 7 years.

It's a winning message.

What is the statute of limitations on having emails?

Alright, so what's going to happen? At this point it should be clear Trump is covering his tracks. So how do we stop this? How do we demand an investigation that is not partial towards Trump?

Elect democrats in 2018

Given that's a huge dog, what are the chances Dems can take all govt in 2020 and still charge trump for all his crimes?

I'm sure Comey prepared for this day to happen. Especially after seeing Yates fired.

Given the substance of the dismissal memo, I tend to doubt it. There's a lot of value in being able to fire the guy investigating you for being unfair to Hillary, but that story is less persuasive if the replacement starts hounding Hillary.

Trump fired Comey on the recommendation of Justice Dept. With Yates gone, he now has complete confidence in their advice. I wonder what happens to that FBI investigation of President Orange? Congress should relieve him of any thoughts he has of scuttling it and create an independent commission.

I have nothing to add on the legal merits but to sit in stunned awe that the Trump Admin is seemingly arguing they are firing Comey for his unethical treatment of Hillary Clinton. I stand in awe.

Yeah I hear ya, but man that would be so Orwellian and ridiculous I feel like we should just expect it now: fire Comey for malfeasance in Clinton case, appoint replacement to do REAL investigation into why Obama wiretapped Trump and how much treason HRC did with emails would be pretty much non-surprising now, right?

Everyone in the administration is going to be walking around for the rest of their lives with their face contorted into a trollface, like they were exposed to some variant of the Joker's poison gas from the Michael Keaton Batman movie.

I think they're basically saying Comey shouldn't have declared they wouldn't prosecute. He should have said "here's the evidence, it's up to Loretta Lynch" - who Republicans would then blow a gasket pillorying until the election. He stole their thunder.

In more lol Comey news, but also lol gingrich:

http://gizmodo.com/heres-how-easy-it...-on-1794963635

Having read the letters a few times now, and getting back to my point that re-litigating Hillary Clinton and emails and Obama wiretapping for the next 7 years would be the ultimate right-wing reality TV show kangaroo court event television sure to distract everyone, I think it's well within the range of plausible that what the Trump Admin is actually arguing here is that Comey's principle failure isn't unfair treatment of HRC but dereliction of duty in failing to prosecute.

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That's exactly how I read it, but I didn't want to say it first in case I didn't read it right.

first fire the federal prosecutor for SDNY, the guy with jurisdiction over the trump corporation, offer no replacement.

next fire comey, and say you'll start looking for a replacement pretty soon.

meanwhile the criminals in the white house get a chance to let the trail go colder.

What's the left's opinion du jour regarding Comey? They can't seem to make up their minds of whether or not he's this detestable villain that was actively working in cahoots with the Trump campaign or if he is some sort of valiant warrior of justice that will at last bring Trump down.

Now that Trump's fired him he's a hero again right?

It looks like they faulted him for saying negative things about Clinton during the investigation as well

Isn't this the key part?:



On first blush I read that as finger-pointing at Comey for how he handled the HRC email case, as in, he ****ed up by engaging in the charade they were re-opening the case only to say a few days later butnahhh not really. It's true the last paragraph does sound sympathetic to the poor treatment of HRC by the FBI.

But that's way, way too favorable and assumes too much. This seems like a giant ****ing troll written by Trump himself: oh, everyone agrees you made mistakes, just huge mistakes, what a mess, a disaster. Everyone agrees you did bad. What bad thing, exactly? Well, actually, it was your decision NOT to prosecute.

There's nothing in here really suggesting Comey was too hard on HRC. It's the opposite.

Start taking bets on HRC emailzzzzz Benghazi gates re-entering the 24h cable news cycle daily. Confident this is happening.

I thought you guys were screaming for Comey's head in October?

TRUMP has delivered.

https://twitter.com/KeithOlbermann/s...66467474477060

Most likely he simply really sucked and really ****ed up with the e-mail. Could not know this at the time.

Still, it's pretty simple, now all investigations into his illegal activities except maybe New York's are effectively dead.