The NYT is reporting that former FBI Director James Comey met with Deputy AG, Rod Rosenstein, days before being fired and asked for additional funding and staff to pursue his Russian hacking witch-hunt.
Days before he was fired, James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director, asked the Justice Department for a significant increase in money and personnel for the bureau’s investigation into Russia’s interference in the presidential election, according to three officials with knowledge of his request.
Mr. Comey asked for the resources during a meeting last week with Rod J. Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general who wrote the Justice Department’s memo that was used to justify the firing of the F.B.I. director this week.
Mr. Comey then briefed members of Congress on the meeting in recent days.
There are two diabolically different ways to look at this.
1. The main stream media and the left interpret the firing as evidence that Trump is trying to either disrupt or greatly damage the investigations into Russian election meddling. Moreover, the fact that Comey had just asked for more funding for the probe, just before being fired, is suspicious or ‘Nixonian’ to borrow some catch phrases from my Twitter feed. They coupled the firing of Yates and Comey and conclude Trump is a traitor.
2. The right view the firing as long overdue. Hardly anyone on the right believes that Russia had any involvement in hacking the election, nor connected to Wikileaks. They believe the democrat and media response, which is one and the same, is the result of being embarrassed by revelations in the Podesta leaks that proved DNC collusion against Sanders and widespread corruption amongst the parties elite. Moreover, the election loss of Hillary Clinton provoked this narrative to run into overdrive, also fueled by American meddling in Syria — which was negated by Russia’s support of the Assad regime. In other words, republicans believe that Comey was part of the problem, the swamp, and his dismissal was rightly justified, regardless of the timing.
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May 10, 2017 at 11:00PM
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