Seriously you are saying firing the person in charge of an investigation does not affect the
Roland00 Send a noteboard - 11/05/2017 09:23:38 PM
Seriously you are saying firing the person in charge of an investigation does not affect the investigation. Even if he is not involved with the day to day work, he is still the guy who has to request the money and so on. He is involved even if he is not involved, and removing said person is possibly going to jetison the whole thing either with the temporary deputy who is now acting FBI director or with whoever Trump replaces him with once the Senate eventually confirms the new FBI director or Trump recess appoints one.
And while we can't see the future, we can use the past to guide us, we can look at other democracies and what happens when a president fires the investigators into the federal branch...and let's just say it is not good for how many times this was smooth sailing and conductive towards a better functioning democracy.
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Sure Congress has its own investigation, but that investigation is not going anywhere due to congress not wanting to hire people and not wanting to spend money and thus it appears it was not serious as of last week.
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/04/27/russia-investigations-joke-donna-brazile-215080
Part of the problem is that the panel doesn't have enough staffers to do anything. The Daily Beast pointed out that there are currently only seven staffers working on the Senate investigation—all of them part-time! One of them even has to balance investigative duties with attending law school part-time. It was heartening that the committee this week—after the Yahoo and Daily Beast stories—announced the hiring of April Doss, a respected former lawyer for the National Security Agency, as a special counsel. But to put things into perspective, Politics USA points out that the House Benghazi Committee had 46 staffers and 8 interns. The special commission looking into Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction had 88 staffers, and a joint House-Senate probe of Iran-Contra had 181 staffers. In short, if the Senate Intelligence Committee is our last, best hope, then we have very little hope. And we desperately need hope.
7 Staffers, all part time.
Read the whole article I just did one of the most damning quotes but there were several more in the article.
Edit 1 and 2 I forgot how RAFO does its markup and html for Quote boxes.
This message last edited by Roland00 on 11/05/2017 at 09:24:23 PM
Comey was fired today..
- 10/05/2017 05:41:17 AM
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It's hard to make this look good. And I'm dubious of their reasons. *NM*
- 10/05/2017 06:19:12 AM
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With the media emotionally tied to selling Trump chatted it will be a hard sell. *NM*
- 10/05/2017 05:20:27 PM
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The firing as such is one thing, but the timing raises major question marks.
- 10/05/2017 07:29:57 AM
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Especially since there are allegations that Trump didn't have reasons but ordered them to be found.
- 10/05/2017 08:20:05 AM
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What question marks? I know that is the talking point but they stop there
- 10/05/2017 05:24:59 PM
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It doesn't necessarily have to be about Trump personally.
- 10/05/2017 08:13:12 PM
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There is zero evidence that Flynn colluded with the Russians on the campaign
- 10/05/2017 09:36:20 PM
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Aren't you confusing several things?
- 11/05/2017 07:16:21 PM
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How many of those people telling there is something there despite any evidence are political enemies *NM*
- 13/05/2017 01:22:59 AM
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I read he found out by seeing it on the news.
- 10/05/2017 08:42:28 AM
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I heard he found out because he's one of Trump's twitter followers *NM*
- 10/05/2017 01:58:10 PM
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Mitch McConnell isn't worried, so I'm sure it's fine. *NM*
- 10/05/2017 03:53:58 PM
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Sarcasm aside, have you seen even a shred of evidence that it was improper?
- 10/05/2017 04:01:46 PM
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Are these like the "shreds of evidence" people threw up all over me about how corrupt Clinton is?
- 10/05/2017 04:35:29 PM
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When did we start investigating a sitting president when there is zero recurrence her was involved?
- 10/05/2017 05:34:50 PM
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When which now?
- 10/05/2017 06:10:11 PM
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Can you point to single piece of evidence tying Trump campaign worker's to the email hacks?
- 10/05/2017 09:47:00 PM
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Can *I*? No. But then I'm a landscape designer living in the UK.
- 10/05/2017 11:03:56 PM
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Let's just take that one extra step
- 11/05/2017 02:51:49 PM
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Heh, well that must be terrible for you. 
- 11/05/2017 03:40:16 PM
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- 11/05/2017 03:40:16 PM
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Not even the president is required to prove his innocence
- 11/05/2017 04:06:30 PM
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But firing the person leading an investigation isn't how to determine one's innocence, hence
- 11/05/2017 04:19:13 PM
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If the same people claiming it was suspicious weren't the same ones calling for him to be fired
- 11/05/2017 05:50:12 PM
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But the firing doesn't affect the investigation
- 11/05/2017 07:04:01 PM
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Seriously you are saying firing the person in charge of an investigation does not affect the
- 11/05/2017 09:23:38 PM
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I can't point to a single piece of evidence that you can see, but I can point to evidence that is in
- 11/05/2017 05:33:32 AM
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I can't prove that the NSA isn't using brain control waves but I still don't wear a tin foil hat *NM*
- 11/05/2017 04:09:57 PM
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I'm only surprised it didn't happen earlier
- 10/05/2017 03:56:10 PM
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Indeed it does. And a lot of people rather doubt Trump would nominate someone like that.
- 10/05/2017 08:00:53 PM
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That op-ed was a complete waste of time to read
- 11/05/2017 07:21:15 PM
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You should be glad I didn't go with the Guardian's take then. 
- 11/05/2017 08:00:32 PM
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- 11/05/2017 08:00:32 PM
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I think you're full of shit, too.
- 12/05/2017 06:25:59 AM
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The funny thing with Trump is...
- 17/05/2017 06:13:54 PM
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The drama isn't coming from the White House, though
- 17/05/2017 07:48:34 PM
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The drama is coming from two sources. Both of them located, at least in part, in the White House.
- 17/05/2017 09:02:15 PM
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Sorry that wss nothing but partisan babble *NM*
- 12/05/2017 02:30:36 AM
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Hint: when a good amount of Republicans are saying the same thing, the word is 'bipartisan'. *NM*
- 12/05/2017 07:26:16 AM
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You'd think some of the HRC diehard types would be cheering. *NM*
- 10/05/2017 10:24:28 PM
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A normal president would ask for a resignation instead of firing
- 11/05/2017 04:25:11 AM
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Sorry l all heard was two legs good four legs bad baaa baa baa *NM*
- 11/05/2017 05:53:21 PM
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"The river tells no lies, though standing on the shore the dishonest man still hears them." *NM*
- 11/05/2017 09:14:00 PM
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I'm sick to death of all this shit.
- 11/05/2017 05:10:26 PM
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Mookie do not be sick, and do not call upon the spectre of death onto yourself
- 12/05/2017 03:30:06 PM
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damned double post - ironic considering the subject line 
*NM*
- 12/05/2017 04:09:54 PM
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*NM*
- 12/05/2017 04:09:54 PM
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Says the guy who doubles post
- 12/05/2017 04:13:16 PM
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So Trump admits 48 hours later, Comey was fired due to Russia, yet he claimed earlier it was due to
- 12/05/2017 03:25:23 PM
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Hint call it what you well but when it the bias leads that hard it is nothing but agenda given propa *NM*
- 13/05/2017 01:28:12 AM
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