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Cummings wants ‘emergency hearings’ over Comey firing
The Hill ^ | 9 May 17 | Mark Hensch

Posted on 05/09/2017 5:39:34 PM PDT by SkyPilot

Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) on Tuesday demanded “immediate emergency hearings” over President Trump’s firing of FBI Director James Comey.

“Congress needs to have immediate emergency hearings to obtain testimony directly from Attorney General [Jeff] Sessions, the deputy attorney general and FBI Director Comey,” Cummings said in a statement.

“The White House was already covering up for [former national security adviser] Michael Flynn by refusing to provide a single document to Congress, and now the President fired the one independent person who was doing the most to investigate President Trump and his [2016] campaign over allegations of coordination with Russia.”

Cummings added that Sessions’s involvement in Comey’s ouster is “mindboggling,” noting that Sessions stated that he would recuse himself from investigations into any ties between Trump and Russia. “There is now a crisis of confidence at the Justice Department, and President Trump is not being held accountable because House Republicans refuse to work with us to do our job,” the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee added.

The White House announced Tuesday afternoon that Trump had fired Comey following recommendations from Sessions and his deputy, Rod Rosenstein, over his handling of the investigation into Hillary Clinton

's handling of classified emails.

“While I greatly appreciate you informing me, on three separate occasions, that I am not under investigation, I nevertheless concur with the judgment of the Department of Justice that you are not able to lead the bureau,” he wrote in a letter to Comey dated Tuesday.

“It is essential that we find new leadership for the FBI that restores public trust and confidence in its vital law enforcement mission.”

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Maryland
KEYWORDS: comey; cummings; democrats; eecummings; fbi; lucille; maryland; trump
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To: SkyPilot

Let the Flop Sweat Flow.


41 posted on 05/09/2017 5:56:21 PM PDT by TADSLOS (Reset Underway!)
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To: Farmer Dean
Does Cummings wax the top of his head?


42 posted on 05/09/2017 5:56:37 PM PDT by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: SkyPilot

HA-HA!!!


43 posted on 05/09/2017 5:58:17 PM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: SkyPilot

“mindboggling”

In this case of this mental midget, this is a very low standard.


44 posted on 05/09/2017 5:58:53 PM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (Apoplectic is where we want them!)
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To: SkyPilot

He must be hiding something that comey is protecting


45 posted on 05/09/2017 5:59:15 PM PDT by ronnie raygun (Trump plays chess the rest are still playing checkers)
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To: SkyPilot

People in hell want ice water...


46 posted on 05/09/2017 5:59:42 PM PDT by Kozak (DIVERSITY+PROXIMITY=CONFLICT)
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To: hillarys cankles

Twitter is loaded with leftists going crazy over this.

To me, that says, ‘you fired our guy!’


47 posted on 05/09/2017 5:59:56 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: Mears

Voters are sick of partisan garbage over the past 25 years. That resulted in the election of a non-politician business man to remove the grid lock.

Now the Dems are 100% totally unhinged partisan irrational group. It is also obvious that the MSM has no credibility at all. This is so obvious to everyone.

Mainstream voters are still sick of partisan politics and the Dems have cranked that up 10X. How will this move voters and will more Trump like candidates emerge?


48 posted on 05/09/2017 6:00:22 PM PDT by Jimmy The Snake
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To: SkyPilot

The State Department needs to confiscate Hillary’s passport so that she doesn’t take a sudden trip to a country that has no extradition treaty with the U.S.


49 posted on 05/09/2017 6:00:29 PM PDT by Carl Vehse
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To: Grampa Dave

Bingo.

Trump just gave him more rope, and now he has called it in.


50 posted on 05/09/2017 6:00:32 PM PDT by mylife (the roar of the masses could be farts)
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To: butlerweave
butlerweaveyep, Cummings is also worried about Hillary


BINGO!


Give the man a cigar. The light of truth can come crashing down on Hillary, and in a hurry. 

51 posted on 05/09/2017 6:00:46 PM PDT by TheShaz
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To: SkyPilot

noting that Sessions stated that he would recuse himself from investigations into any ties between Trump and Russia
= = =

He said that?

I can’t recall.


52 posted on 05/09/2017 6:00:51 PM PDT by Scrambler Bob (Brought to you from Turtle Island, otherwise known as 'So-Called North America')
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To: SkyPilot

How about no. And cram it Cummings.


53 posted on 05/09/2017 6:01:02 PM PDT by Bullish (May as well just rename Hollywood---> Hypocrite city)
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To: SkyPilot

54 posted on 05/09/2017 6:01:30 PM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: dwg2

We can only hope that this Cummings jack@ss is on the record somewhere calling for Comey’s firing. LOL.


55 posted on 05/09/2017 6:01:43 PM PDT by Alberta's Child
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To: heterosupremacist

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSkM-MUwvXs ?


56 posted on 05/09/2017 6:02:04 PM PDT by heterosupremacist (Domine Iesu Christe, Filius Dei, miserere me peccatorem!)
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To: chris37

TWINS!!!

57 posted on 05/09/2017 6:04:06 PM PDT by Tonytitan
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To: SkyPilot
Comey is a political foot ball.

Whatever occurs, one side cheers and the other side complains. The politisization of the Bureau beginning of the end for them.

58 posted on 05/09/2017 6:04:26 PM PDT by oldbrowser (What next shall we allow people to buy insurance coverage for their car after they wreck it?)
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To: Tucker39

If appointed Clarke would be the first Black FBI Director.


59 posted on 05/09/2017 6:04:56 PM PDT by PJBankard
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To: SkyPilot

Someone got a pin? Cummings would pop.


60 posted on 05/09/2017 6:05:04 PM PDT by Red Steel
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