From Powerline:
The reason the Trump administration is giving for the firing of James Comey is that the newly confirmed Deputy Attorney General, Rod Rosenstein recommended it. Upon taking office, Rosenstein reviewed the matter of Comey’s fitness and concluded that he needed to go.
Rosenstein states his reasoning for this conclusion in a memo to Attorney General Jeff Sessions. You can read the memo here, along with Sessions’ letter to President Trump and Trump’s letter of discharge to Comey.
Rosenstein says Comey needed to go because he mishandled the email investigation of Hillary Clinton and then continued to defend his conduct, most notably in recent congressional testimony.
Rosenstein says Comey was wrong to “usurp” the Attorney General’s authority and announce that Clinton wouldn’t be prosecuted and wrong to hold a press conference in which he released derogatory information about Clinton.
1 comment:
The fact Comey had to send a letter to Congress to edit his presentation in front of the committee should have been reason enough for his firing. How can the common folk trust the law or authorities if the highest police official in the land presents false testimony to congress? Comey is in the Clinton's pocket for whatever reason, and he had to be fired. Of course the Russia investigation is a very big problem in the firing.
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