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struggle4progress

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Wed May 10, 2017, 07:04 AM May 2017

Playing with fire

By Paul Callan
Updated 4:22 AM ET, Wed May 10, 2017

... In a three-page memorandum, the best Rosenstein could do was to invoke what is now ancient political history -- Comey's alleged violation of Department of Justice policies in the handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation. The alleged transgressions related to this investigation occurred months before Trump's Inauguration.

Of course, all of this was widely known and publicly discussed well before Trump made the decision to keep Comey in the position of FBI director.

The FBI director was obviously fired yesterday for something other than being too nice to Hillary Clinton by ignoring Department of Justice regulations.

Hints as to the real reason for the director's shocking termination can be found in a series of answers Comey gave when Senator Richard Blumenthal, D-Connecticut, interrogated him during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on May 3 ...


http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/09/opinions/trump-comey-huge-trouble-opinion-callan/

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