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President Trump Dismisses FBI Director Comey

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Re: President Trump Dismisses FBI Director Comey

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Post by rwnspace »

enknamel wrote: post #268
rwnspace wrote: post #187

381 points, 171 comments, 1 hour ago; as of writing. Why is this on the second page of HN, and not pole position? I assume/hope that there is some mechanism that stops new content from dominating other content too rapidly.

Because this does not need to be posted on HN or even should be. However you stand on this issue doesn't matter. HN is not a site for political discussions. Go to Reddit if you want that.

Being a Philosophy grad, I feel compelled to argue that everything is political.

Being a regular lurker, I completely see and agree with your points.

Re: President Trump Dismisses FBI Director Comey

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Post by cymatic »

skygazer wrote: post #243
defined wrote: post #196

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Every single person reading this knows that ... I am reading this and I disagree, therefore your statement is false. Gen. Flynn was fired - by Trump - for not disclosing his discussions with Russians. So it's not a total fabrication.

I also think your (now flagged) parent comment is mistaken, in that, I, personally, don't know it's a witch hunt and total fabrication. Is it possible that there's no there there? Well, yes. But, is it certain? Of course not. Is it even unlikely? I'd give it 50/50 odds. Can I imagine that if approached via some tangential proxy for Russia or Wikileaks, that Trump, or someone in his campaign might have agreed that hac…

Is an email account considered hacked if the password is "password" ?

Re: President Trump Dismisses FBI Director Comey

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Post by hendersoon »

tannhauser23 wrote: post #229
hendersoon wrote: post #183

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree with every word of that latter. He deserved to be fired. However, the idea that Trump fired the FBI director for causing Clinton to bleed is just a teensy bit hard to swallow. And if they're going to fire him for going after Clinton, why wait until May? Why not January?

I think he was waiting for the right reason to fire him. This letter plus the assist from Comey's recent screwup in front of the Senate gives Trump the perfect excuse to fire him. Comey should have just shut up and did his investigation.

If that was the case, why didn't any of the three letters mention Comey screwing up in front of that committee? They only mentioned his severe misjudgment in Hillary's emails 10 days before the election. Nah. Doesn't pass the smell test.

Now don't get me wrong, he WAS fired because those investigations upset Trump. And that very likely WAS the reason. But it wasn't the reason they stated.

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Post by yeukhon »

Animats wrote: post #61

The FBI director is supposed to have a 10 year term. That went in after J. Edgar Hoover died. Nobody wanted another J. Edgar Hoover FBI Director for Life situation, but having the FBI director be a "pleasure of the President" appointment made it too political. This makes Andrew G. McCabe acting FBI director. He's in the civil service, not a Presidential appointment. He was an FBI agent and worked his way up. From wha…

Oh trust me, given the current track of records, the Administration can grt confirmation easily. Hearing is just for show for the Adminstration.

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Post by [deleted] »

Animats wrote: post #61

The FBI director is supposed to have a 10 year term. That went in after J. Edgar Hoover died. Nobody wanted another J. Edgar Hoover FBI Director for Life situation, but having the FBI director be a "pleasure of the President" appointment made it too political. This makes Andrew G. McCabe acting FBI director. He's in the civil service, not a Presidential appointment. He was an FBI agent and worked his way up. From wha…

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Post by tzs »

pm90 wrote: post #224
anigbrowl wrote: post #217

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Minus the intelligence and a number of other factors. I seem to be the only leftie in America that rather admires Nixon despite his numerous flaws and considers him a bit of a tragic figure. In an earlier and scrappier era he'd have been considered a great statesman.

Like another comment pointed out, Nixon created the EPA for chissake....unthinkable thing for a Republican today.

...and Ronald Reagan instituted the first cap and trade system in the US for the phase out of leaded gasoline, and then a few years later used cap and trade again to reduce the chemicals that damaged the ozone layer. Also unthinkable in today's GOP.

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Post by rascul »

ak4g wrote: post #266
tannhauser23 wrote: post #263

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's when Comey publicly confirmed it, but news about the investigation has been leaking since the moment Trump was elected.

That's just not true. The first credible reporting on the existence of the investigation came from CNN, 10 days prior to Comey's testimony in March.

CNN is credible for anything relating to Trump? What was the actual source?

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Post by Mandatum »

rwnspace wrote: post #187

381 points, 171 comments, 1 hour ago; as of writing. Why is this on the second page of HN, and not pole position? I assume/hope that there is some mechanism that stops new content from dominating other content too rapidly.

I'm sure the mod team will respond to this eventually - but flags and downvotes are taken into account quite a bit to combat rampant upvote-rings.

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Post by gloverkcn »

buckbova wrote: post #59
cloudwalking wrote: post #51

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This is not true. Rolling back regulations on green house gas emissions, removing regulations on clean water, denying healthcare to millions of people... Those deaths cannot be undone, the aquifers cannot be cleaned, and the carbon can't be removed from the atmosphere.

Let's tone down the hyperbole. Edit: I don't like having a political argument in this forum. I don't want hn to turn into r/politics. I'm not swayed by emotional pleas from celebrities or others crying about a bill they haven't read. Who are these folks dying by the millions? From what I see mortality rates rose since obamacare came about: "We know that the same year Obamacare’s insurance expansion provisions took ef…

Do you have health insurance? Have you rejected it because it increases your chance of mortality? Would you refuse health coverage for your children because it would increase their mortality rate?

Your assertion is as callous as it is absurd.

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