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Senate Confirms Christopher Wray as New F.B.I. Director
New York Slimes ^ | 8/1/2017 | Adam Goldman

Posted on 08/01/2017 2:22:22 PM PDT by grayboots

WASHINGTON — The Senate overwhelmingly confirmed Christopher A. Wray as the next F.B.I. director on Tuesday to steer the United States’ premier law enforcement agency through a politically fraught period as it investigates whether any of President Trump’s associates colluded with the Russian government during last year’s election.

The confirmation of Mr. Wray, a former federal prosecutor, is likely to be a relief to many agents at the F.B.I. who want a strong director to stave off any attempts by the White House to meddle in its investigations. The deteriorating relationship between Mr. Trump and the previous F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, was widely viewed as harmful to the bureau.

Mr. Trump summarily fired Mr. Comey in May, infuriating many F.B.I. agents who saw it as disrespectful.

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


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: christopherwray; fbi; fbidirector; mueller; trumprussia; wray
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1 posted on 08/01/2017 2:22:23 PM PDT by grayboots
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To: grayboots

LOL


2 posted on 08/01/2017 2:23:37 PM PDT by McGavin999 ("The press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood."Thomas Jefferson)
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To: grayboots

When will McCabe be shown the door?


3 posted on 08/01/2017 2:24:10 PM PDT by Paladin2 (No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition on mobile dev. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
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To: grayboots

Good I want to see hillary in cuffs frog marched into the federal office by the end of bidness friday


4 posted on 08/01/2017 2:24:20 PM PDT by al baby (May the Forceps be with you Hi Mom Its a Joke friends)
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To: grayboots

Do agents usually silently applaud the firing of someone when they feel it is disrespectful . . . or do they applaud when a disrespectful boss is shown the door.

It is soooooo hard to keep up with liberal spin!


5 posted on 08/01/2017 2:24:23 PM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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To: grayboots

Gildebrand or whatever her name is from New York said no again. She had voted no on every vote. I bet she runs in 2020 if not definitely 2024. She making a statement that she’s the only one voting no on everything. Thankfully I think she’s too weak to win a presidency.


6 posted on 08/01/2017 2:25:41 PM PDT by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016)
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To: grayboots; hoosiermama

Yes!!

Finally!

On with the Hillary/DNC investigations.


7 posted on 08/01/2017 2:25:54 PM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: Paladin2

Yep, he needs to fire McCabe as his first official act.


8 posted on 08/01/2017 2:26:21 PM PDT by sevlex
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To: McGavin999

“summarily”

yes he did, LOL


9 posted on 08/01/2017 2:29:21 PM PDT by Eddie01
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To: napscoordinator

She’s a bitch


10 posted on 08/01/2017 2:29:23 PM PDT by bigbob (People say believe half of what you see son and none of what you hear - M. Gaye)
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To: napscoordinator

She’s also a supporter of Single Payer Health care..that’s fine, she can sign up first Id love to see the look on her face if she and her family were forced on Govt run health care..let her wait 6 months for a CT Scan


11 posted on 08/01/2017 2:31:51 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: grayboots

Now Sessions has the FBI tool to go forward


12 posted on 08/01/2017 2:33:41 PM PDT by Thibodeaux (Democrat calls for kumbaya must be met with their blood on the ground)
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To: al baby

How does one “frog march.”


13 posted on 08/01/2017 2:33:56 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common any more.)
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To: sevlex

Acting Director McCabe is not likely to be fired, unless he now does something altogether excessive and wholly egregious, but now he recedes into the ranks of the “anonymous” agents.

Go track down some MS-13 gang leaders, Agent McCabe. I understand they are pretty high on the “wanted” list right now.


14 posted on 08/01/2017 2:36:58 PM PDT by alloysteel (The difference between Illinois and Venezuela, is that toilet tissue is still available in Illinois.)
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To: Cobra64

“How does one “frog march.”?”

In an orange jumpsuit, I should think.


15 posted on 08/01/2017 2:38:25 PM PDT by stanne
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To: Sarah Barracuda

Yeah if only. She’s special and would never have to wait. Oh and if we get single payer someday, the first 10-15 years will be joyous. They will throw so much money at it so people love it....then the boom!!!


16 posted on 08/01/2017 2:38:35 PM PDT by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016)
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To: grayboots

” is likely to be a relief to many agents at the F.B.I. who want a strong director to stave off any attempts by the White House to meddle in its investigations.”

Awful choice. One, he is a lawyer, not in law enforcement.
Two, we needed a Director that would kill the wrong idea that the President may not “meddle” in their investigations.
He IS the Chief federal law enforcement officer in the USA, just as he is THE commander in chief of the military. A general may not over rule him in a military manner. And an FBI man may not over rule him.

The FBI is not an independent agency, set as a watchdog over the executive branch. The mentality at the FBI today is utterly against the Constitution.
No surprise, that ratty branch is a pure distilled product of the Wilson progressive era.


17 posted on 08/01/2017 2:38:55 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up.)
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To: Cobra64

Definition of frog–march
transitive verb
: to seize from behind roughly and forcefully propel forward *frog–marched him out the door


18 posted on 08/01/2017 2:38:59 PM PDT by SVTCobra03 (You can never have enough friends, horsepower or ammunition.)
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19 posted on 08/01/2017 2:39:18 PM PDT by NorthMountain (The Democrats ... have lost their grip on reality -DJT)
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To: DesertRhino

Thanks to the Senate, we can only get certain types of people confirmed.


20 posted on 08/01/2017 2:45:38 PM PDT by cmj328 (We live here.)
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