President Trump Dismisses FBI Director Comey

Post by Sevii » Tue, May 09, 2017, 10:36 PM UTC

pizza wrote: post #31

mtgx wrote: post #9

Hopefully there's a silver lining and that this means the encryption backdoor push (led by Comey) will slow to a crawl or be forgotten. He was already preparing a push for FISA Amendments renewal together with Dianne Feinstein (who is apparently having a change of heart about her own retirement).

When I watched the hearing I think I heard Comey say that he + the intelligence community did not want encryption backdoors, but instead wanted to look for 'alternatives' (w/e that would mean). However, I would imagine Trump would be the opposite, and be calling for backdoors. I wouldn't be surprised if he compared encryption to suspicion of terrorism..

Post by castratikron » Tue, May 09, 2017, 10:37 PM UTC

mtgx wrote: post #9

Hopefully there's a silver lining and that this means the encryption backdoor push (led by Comey) will slow to a crawl or be forgotten. He was already preparing a push for FISA Amendments renewal together with Dianne Feinstein (who is apparently having a change of heart about her own retirement).

Post by evan_ » Tue, May 09, 2017, 10:37 PM UTC

abalashov wrote: post #13

I'm pretty sure the customary reply from the MAGA camp will be that these are all political appointees, and serve at the President's pleasure. All that is formally true. But it doesn't make it any less uncanny that such a person would be fired at the very moment he ramps up an investigation into Trump's business activities.

Post by hprotagonist » Tue, May 09, 2017, 10:38 PM UTC

curiousgal wrote: post #35

Flashbacks to Nixon's downfall.

Post by evan_ » Tue, May 09, 2017, 10:39 PM UTC

stanleydrew wrote: post #72

dekhn wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

that's not what he did. there already was an investigation. What comey announced right before the elections was that they had found more of clinton's emails in another, unrelated case. That invesigation was into Anthony Weiner, who was married to Clinton's advisor Huma Abedin. Weiner was sexting a 15-year-old, Abedin was forwarding some emails to weiner's computer to be printed out. In investigating weiner's computer…

Just in order to keep the record straight, I find it necessary to point out that Comey's specific testimony (last week) on the forwarding of emails was false, and that false testimony may be directly related to his being dismissed today. https://www.propublica.org/article/comeys-testimony-on-huma-...