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This looks to be part of a broader campaign, both covert and overt, to expose Soros. A major protest against him was carried out in FYROM. And Hungary is cracking down on Soros-funded NGOs.

“Sanctions”? “Democrats are the enemy”? There’s maybe one or two degrees of separation between thinking like this and the kind of thinking Rosie O’Donnell put on display when she was retweeting a call for martial law to prevent Trump’s inauguration.

The left aggravates me too, but there’s no sense matching the dialed up rhetoric of the far left.

Let’s just make sure the perpetrator is caught.

I’m reading mixed reports. There are reports that they had been fired rather than having had resigned. Reports even suggest that Patrick Kennedy was looking to stay on.

I’m also under the impression that if Trump’s intention was to keep them on, then it was in the capacity of warm bodies for the sake of a smooth transition.

Comey’s body language when he greeted Trump in the Oval office was less than impressive. He struck me as being shy and subservient, possibly embarrassed.

With respect to the emails and the mishandling therein of classified information, I agree his handling of the investigation was purposely bundled and my feeling is that he was basically covering his own ass. Frankly, I would not have envied his place given the intense political pressure he was under. I don't know his exact reasons for more or less botching the investigation and the best I can do is speculate on why he failed to produce a recommendation for indictment, even though the evidence amounted to as much.

That said, he always left the possibility of “reopening” the investigation and the truth is that he could have done more to have foiled the investigation, ensuring Hillary was “untainted” politically by the scandal. The Democrats could have had more to bat us on the head with if not for Comey’s dressing down of Clinton's “carelessness.” The basic truth of the matter is Comey put the ball into the court of public opinion. It may not be the federal court, but he left it to the public to determine if she was guilty.

And let's not forget he served under Attorney General John Ashcroft, one of the more principled figures of the Bush administration. He didn't immediately go along with the legally questionable (truth be told, illegal) mass surveillance program Dick Cheney and David Addington quarterbacked. In fact, Comey, among others, threatened to resign.

Trump wants to wait and see with Comey. Let's wait and see.