CNN hack Jeffery Toobin....

bornaneer

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blasted President Donald’s Trump’s decision to fire FBI Director James Comey on Tuesday, calling it a "grotesque" abuse of power and questioning what kind of country the United States is.

I bet the dumb-*** had a different opinion back in 1993. When this happened:

By Michael Isikoff and Ruth Marcus July 20, 1993
President Clinton fired FBI Director William S. Sessions yesterday after Attorney General Janet Reno "reported to me in no uncertain terms that he {Sessions} can no longer effectively lead the bureau and law enforcement community" and that he agreed with that assessment.
Nearly six years through his 10-year term, Sessions becomes the first director in the 70-year history of the bureau to be fired.
 

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blasted President Donald’s Trump’s decision to fire FBI Director James Comey on Tuesday, calling it a "grotesque" abuse of power and questioning what kind of country the United States is.

I bet the dumb-*** had a different opinion back in 1993. When this happened:

By Michael Isikoff and Ruth Marcus July 20, 1993
President Clinton fired FBI Director William S. Sessions yesterday after Attorney General Janet Reno "reported to me in no uncertain terms that he {Sessions} can no longer effectively lead the bureau and law enforcement community" and that he agreed with that assessment.
Nearly six years through his 10-year term, Sessions becomes the first director in the 70-year history of the bureau to be fired.
Was Sessions investigating the White House then?
 

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http://heavy.com/news/2017/05/willi...d-wife-jeff-pete-related-clinton-james-comey/

In modern times, FBI directors serve 10-year terms, and only Clinton – and now Donald Trump – have chosen to fire one. Here’s what’s sort of interesting in juxtaposition: Clinton was perceived as firing Sessions in part because he was a Republican holdover who dated to the Reagan administration, whereas Comey has identified as a Republican himself in the past and was now serving a Republican president, Trump.

According to The Daily Kos, a liberal site, “When Bill Clinton took office in January, 1993, his FBI Director was William S. Sessions, serving an appointment made by Ronald Reagan at the time of the Iran-Contra affair. Making it clear that the new President did not want the Republican FBI Director in his Administration, Clinton’s newly appointed Attorney General, Janet Reno, quietly pressured Mr. Sessions to resign.”

It wasn’t only a matter of politics though. The New York Times reported at the time that Sessions “had stubbornly rejected an Administration ultimatum to resign six months after a harsh internal ethics report on his conduct.”

On October 15, 1976, in reaction to the extraordinary 48-year term of J. Edgar Hoover, Congress passed Public Law 94-503, limiting the FBI Director to a single term of no longer than 10 years,” the FBI says.




 

bornaneer

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Was Sessions investigating the White House then?
Comey was investigating the White House? I thought he was looking into Russian attempts to influence the election. Clapper and others as recently as a few days ago said there was NO evidence of collusion on Trumps part.
Was Sessions investigating the White House then?
I have no idea who he was investigating. Anyway....you know as well as I do that the FBI investigation will still proceed. I also think you know who Andrew McCabe is.