The office of the FBI Director needs to be clear of political entanglements, and Director Comey was up to his eyeballs on them. He had to go. The timing was awful, but with everything going on, there was no guarantee that there would be a better time down the road.
An FBI director who doesn’t follow the chain of command is among the most dangerous people in federal government, because of the power of his agency. He may not be able to order nuclear missiles to be launched, but his was the power to order investigations of national security issues on all levels of government, and out in public too. Counter-terrorism, counter-intelligence, and criminal investigations are just the tip of the FBI spear.
The FBI director also needs to be an independent observer and do his/her part to protect the public and to stay out of politics, which he didn’t do. He was badly damaged from his foray into the political realm.
I had said on this blog back in October that I felt that the FBI Director had been overthrown because President Obama wouldn’t order an investigation of his preferred Presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton, and that the Department of Justice was probably involved.
It’s a reality now.
The hypocrisy of the Democrats who were screaming for Comey’s head eleven days before the election was on full display MINUTES after news broke, of course, but that label also extended to Republicans as well. Senators and Congresspeople alike from both parties who wanted Comey gone were screaming bloody murder about his dismissal.
This firing has created another circus for the Administration to deal with, and it’s self-inflicted. I’ve never seen an Administration stab itself in the leg as often as this one does. Trump should have appointed an independent prosecutor at the same time…this would have given Trump some credibility that he so badly needs.
This is going to get seriously ugly.
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