Woolsley on CNN Says Comey Should Resign

[superpatriotman]

-ex CIA, -ex Transition team member, on with Don Lemon and Nicolas Kristoff says Comey should probably resign over election shenanigans.

Even a broken clock....

[madaboutharry]

1. But a more horrible flack will take his place.

Better to leave Comey there to twist and turn.

[Hortensis]

13. Really? Who are you thinking of?

[hatrack]

20. Someone needs to swing for this - there needs to be some instance of accountability . . .

. . . at some point during my lifetime, and Comey's the guy who screwed the pooch.

Real estate bubble? No one.

Wall Street collapse? No one.

The Great Iraq Clusterfuck? No one.

Will there ever, EVER be anyone held accountable for ANYTHING?

And what difference does it make if someone's "worse than Comey"? DeVos, Perry, Tillerson, Price, Pruitt - at this point, what's one more turd in the bowl?

[Tatiana]

2. He knows something.

He knows Trump is dirty. His former CIA pals have probably got him up to speed.

Seems to know that Comey is dirty too.

Russians must have something on Comey...

[Chasstev365]

3. Comey is knee deep in Exxonmobile

He's not only dirty; he's oily!

[Hortensis]

15. Really? I've never noted a connection. What is it?

My working assumption has been that Comey may have been colluding with big money interests, which of course could include petroleum. Bet the Director of the FBI knows who Scalia was meeting at all those secretive "social" gatherings.

[Chasstev365]

18. There'a great DU post that explained it

Comey used to work for Lockeed Martin, which has strong business dealings with both Russia and ExxonMobil.

[NRaleighLiberal]

4. This has to go further. Comey should be gone. But that should invalidate the whole election.

if you remove one of the root causes but leave the illegitimate outcome....inconceivable.

[SaschaHM]

5. Ugh.. I despire Comey...but

Could you imagine Guiliani or some other Trump pick heading the FBI? We've seen the caliber of his cabinet picks. It's not going to get much better.

[pbmus]

6. Rudy, Rudy Rudy oh where art thou...ah gangstering you are...

[triron]

7. Wow!

That is a bombshell statement coming from Woolsley.

[triron]

8. kick for visibility

[doc03]

9. Woolsley came out of exile to make that statement

he knows where the bodies are buried.

[Tactical Peek]

10. "the Federal Bureau of Narrative Production"

Don Lemon: Should Comey resign, Ambassador?

James Woolsey: If it had been one slipup, I might say 'No', but it seems as if the FBI for a while there saw itself as the Federal Bureau of Narrative Production rather than the Federal Bureau of Investigation. I can't really account for all of their public interventions and descriptions of where the investigation was going and where it was not going. That's not the way they run investigations and it's not the way anybody would run investigations.

Lemon: Do you think he should resign?

Woolsey: Well, I think it's a very reasonable proposition, given the fact that it was a series of, I think, very fundamental errors and not just a slipup.

https://twitter.com/CNNTonight/status/820110667495735296

[Cha]

11. Well, we were wondering why he took a quick exit

from the transition team.

Maybe he did know something before?

[JI7]

14. i don't think he heard exactly what. but he could feel and notice things

like how they would react to what he might say and how he was kept out of some discussions.

[Cha]

16. Yeah, when you've achieved a post like Woolsley

you pick up on situations better than most I would imagine. And, now here we are.

That makes sense.. thank you JI7

[Skittles]

12. TRANSLATION

we'd like Trump to pick the next partisan hack

[Maru Kitteh]

17. That was stunning to hear from him.

[Vinca]

19. He should resign because he apparently ignored the "dossier" last summer.

Comey himself should be investigated as a possible Russian operative.