This is to thank you for your years of service to the country and to accept your resignation to take effect immediately in order to appoint forthwith a new Director who will serve a full 10-year term as designated by law and to ensure some semblance of independence (at least for the time being) at the agency.
Merry Christmas,
Joe
should such last minute action be taken by the lame duck POTUS and an uproar erupts from the current minority, remind the Senators of the last-minute confirmation of RPG’s replacement….. a much higher-level job and one that was for life, not just 10 years.
Attribution:Â Trump FBI Pick Shows Enemies List to Santa by R.J. Matson, CQ Roll Call
Former FBI Director James Comey has tried to reassure his former colleagues at the Bureau ahead of President-elect Donald Trump’s second term.
In a statement posted to Instagram a day before FBI Director Christopher Wray announced he’d be stepping down, Comey wrote: “I realize there is a great deal of anxiety in the Bureau now — produced by the rhetoric of those who have reason to fear honest investigators.
“But please know you will be ok in the long run.”
[…]
“The special burden of being in the FBI is that you lack friends in high places — by design,” Comey’s statement continued. “America has wanted you to be lonely since the searing lessons of Watergate. Once upon a time, the FBI director was a pal of presidents, sharing late-night drinks and using the Bureau to do favors for the powerful.
“But the country learned 50 years ago that it is not in the national interest for the FBI to be loyal to anything except the constitution and the law.”
Comey noted how, in recent years, federal investigators have investigated both Republicans and Democrats, including Trump and former New Jersey Democratic senator Bob Menendez in 2022.
“Those investigations predictably led the politicians and their followers to decry the alleged partisan bias of the FBI,” Comey wrote. “An organization devoted only to finding out what is true will have few fans among politicians who have done something they shouldn’t have.”
“But when the liars leave the stage, you will still be at work, trying to find facts in a careful and honest way,” he added.
[…]
Comey encouraged Bureau employees to continue doing the job they’ve been trained to do by opening cases when evidence warrants it and launching investigations as regulations require.
“Your job is hard, the hours crushing, the pay mediocre. You get threatened and lied about. People try to hurt you constantly,” his statement read. “The water is rough right now and the sea is likely to rage over the next four years, but your children and grandchildren will be proud that you stayed true to the values of your great institution.”
He added: “There is always accountability even if it seems years away.”
Looks like we’re back to the Hoover days of a politicized FBI
Yep
today’s meme…
Ugh
Double ughÂ
I see Time’s Person of the Year to be an acknowledgement of … something … rather than an endorsement. I’d love to know what criteria were considered in coming to that decision. Of course since FDR it is perfunctory for the Pres of the US. Has made for some strange bedfellows – Reagan and Andropov in 1983, Nelson Mandela and F. W. de Klerk; Yasser Arafat and Yitzhak Rabin in 1993, Bill Clinton and Ken Starr in 1998. Like I said, not an endorsement.
 This science fiction short story by Cory Doctorow was passed on to me the other day. The title is Radicalized. It is about an online support group that channels its member’s anger at the health insurance toward violence. I’m not sure if it was predictive or or if it inspire the killer, given the connection that both Doctorow and the killer had to tech. But it is disturbing.
After reading it I was listening to NPR story about health insurance workers and their current fears of violence. My thoughts as I listened is they should be scared. The healthcare industry is quickly surpassing the cable company as the most hated corporate entity in America. The difference is a cable company only screws with your programing, not your life.
Crunch the numbers, there are 127 million households, 40% of them are unhappy with their healthcare. That is 50 million unhappy people and close to half of them have an access to a gun. If only one half of a percent of them decide to take the law into their own hands that is over 100,000 armed angry people.
Jack
Pogo
It is a rather obvious choice and Time needs the clicks these days. Does anybody read Time anymore?
Jack
Jack, I hear you on that. I haven’t read a Time magazine in the past umpty-ump years – and haven’t even seen one in any of the doctors/dentists’ waiting rooms I’ve been in for years. With Hitler, Stalin, Deng Xiaoping, Andropov and Putin (among others) he’s got lots of company in his authoritarian club.
Jack.Â
Cory seems to be interesting if only for naming his daughter Poesy Emma line Fibonacci Nautilus Taylor Doctorow.
That and being a third cousin to E. L. .
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Dear Chris,
This is to thank you for your years of service to the country and to accept your resignation to take effect immediately in order to appoint forthwith a new Director who will serve a full 10-year term as designated by law and to ensure some semblance of independence (at least for the time being) at the agency.
Merry Christmas,
Joe
should such last minute action be taken by the lame duck POTUS and an uproar erupts from the current minority, remind the Senators of the last-minute confirmation of RPG’s replacement….. a much higher-level job and one that was for life, not just 10 years.
Attribution:Â Trump FBI Pick Shows Enemies List to Santa by R.J. Matson, CQ Roll Call
wishful thinking
Ex-FBI Director James Comey issues warning to former colleagues ahead of Trump second term
Looks like we’re back to the Hoover days of a politicized FBI
Yep
today’s meme…
Ugh
Double ughÂ
I see Time’s Person of the Year to be an acknowledgement of … something … rather than an endorsement. I’d love to know what criteria were considered in coming to that decision. Of course since FDR it is perfunctory for the Pres of the US. Has made for some strange bedfellows – Reagan and Andropov in 1983, Nelson Mandela and F. W. de Klerk; Yasser Arafat and Yitzhak Rabin in 1993, Bill Clinton and Ken Starr in 1998. Like I said, not an endorsement.
 This science fiction short story by Cory Doctorow was passed on to me the other day. The title is Radicalized. It is about an online support group that channels its member’s anger at the health insurance toward violence. I’m not sure if it was predictive or or if it inspire the killer, given the connection that both Doctorow and the killer had to tech. But it is disturbing.
After reading it I was listening to NPR story about health insurance workers and their current fears of violence. My thoughts as I listened is they should be scared. The healthcare industry is quickly surpassing the cable company as the most hated corporate entity in America. The difference is a cable company only screws with your programing, not your life.
Crunch the numbers, there are 127 million households, 40% of them are unhappy with their healthcare. That is 50 million unhappy people and close to half of them have an access to a gun. If only one half of a percent of them decide to take the law into their own hands that is over 100,000 armed angry people.
Jack
Pogo
It is a rather obvious choice and Time needs the clicks these days. Does anybody read Time anymore?
Jack
SFB did make the Wanker of the Year front page too.
Jack, I hear you on that. I haven’t read a Time magazine in the past umpty-ump years – and haven’t even seen one in any of the doctors/dentists’ waiting rooms I’ve been in for years. With Hitler, Stalin, Deng Xiaoping, Andropov and Putin (among others) he’s got lots of company in his authoritarian club.
Jack.Â
Cory seems to be interesting if only for naming his daughter Poesy Emma line Fibonacci Nautilus Taylor Doctorow.
That and being a third cousin to E. L. .
NEW THREAD