Merrick Garland being floated as FBI Dir. Any non-slate thoughts by this forum?

PriddyBoy

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Don't know if being a Federal Judge and former prosecutor qualifies him to sit atop thousands of employees. Might he be too political as a Democrat? Shouldn't be if he was nominated for the SC. He could always be removed, I suppose. Ugh, would he even consider the position?
 

Boomboom521

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Don't know if being a Federal Judge and former prosecutor qualifies him to sit atop thousands of employees. Might he be too political as a Democrat? Shouldn't be if he was nominated for the SC. He could always be removed, I suppose. Ugh, would he even consider the position?
I'd like someone with experience with investigations, what did he do prior to being a prosecutor?
 

WVUCOOPER

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Don't know if being a Federal Judge and former prosecutor qualifies him to sit atop thousands of employees. Might he be too political as a Democrat? Shouldn't be if he was nominated for the SC. He could always be removed, I suppose. Ugh, would he even consider the position?
Think it's a good idea. Is it really floating around, or is it just some the Senator from Utah tweeted?
 

PriddyBoy

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Think it's a good idea. Is it really floating around, or is it just some the Senator from Utah tweeted?
This is the first I saw of it. Summers' profile: Charles W. Eliot Professor and President Emeritus at Harvard. Secretary of the Treasury for President Clinton and the Director of the NEC for President Obama. A google search for Merrick Garland fills in with FBI director because many pieces have been written. Slate's headline hates the idea, so it's probably good.
Laura Ingraham retweeted this.
 

Boomboom521

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he's not qualified, he's never been a real investigator before....DOJ is just a political wing, but I guess the FBI is.....wait.....is it all politics? We know the courts are. We need someone outside the swamp like....Kevin Bacon! Mystic River? He knows investigations.