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To: Godebert

Why do you have to be such a douche?

You think that Trump can just go in and fire whomever he wants. Congress can impeach him. Trump cannot fire him.

As much as you like to think John Wayne runs things, he doesn’t. And he never did. So go back to the trailer and keep an eye on your wife, the mailman is in the park.


49 posted on 03/08/2017 6:35:32 PM PST by Vermont Lt (Brace. Brace. Brace. Heads down. Do not look up.)
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To: Vermont Lt

The AG serves at the pleasure of the President.


50 posted on 03/08/2017 6:37:46 PM PST by anton
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To: Vermont Lt

You’ve been demoted to Private No-Class.


52 posted on 03/08/2017 6:40:13 PM PST by Godebert (CRUZ: Born in a foreign land to a foreign father.)
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To: Vermont Lt

The FBI is a subset of the DOJ, which is an executive department, and they do answer to the President, who can certainly dismiss its chief; as several other posters have pointed out, this is not without precedent. It is not like the Supreme Court, which is a separate branch of government to the executive (the judicial branch).


53 posted on 03/08/2017 6:43:52 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Vermont Lt

You should do some research before spouting off.


55 posted on 03/08/2017 6:51:15 PM PST by New Jersey Realist (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. Edmund Burke)
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To: Vermont Lt

You were treated disrespectfully but you are still incorrect. The director of the FBI is not an impeachable position. The Director serves a ten year term but the FBI Director can be fired by the president.
In 1992 Bill Clinton fired William Sessions as FBI Director after Sessions refused to resign.
“Nearly six years through his 10-year term, Sessions becomes the first director in the 70-year history of the bureau to be fired. Calling a news conference moments after he got the word, Sessions maintained his defiant and proud posture to the end, saying he had led the bureau to “astounding accomplishments” and had refused to submit to pressures to resign because he wanted to preserve the “independence” of the FBI.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1993/07/20/clinton-fires-sessions-as-fbi-director/1c1b437e-a695-48d0-bc9e-afa5f0f69b79/?utm_term=.392985ca6486


56 posted on 03/08/2017 6:52:50 PM PST by Nero Germanicus
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