WSJ edit calls for comeys resignation

[kpete]

The new AG should ask the director to resign for the good of the FBI.

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There may be a temptation among some in the Trump Administration to want Mr. Comey to remain in office, on the theory that they benefitted politically from his October letter. But if the FBI director has demonstrated anything in the last year, it’s that he has lost the trust of nearly everyone in Washington, along with every American who believes the FBI must maintain its reputation as a politically impartial federal agency.

The Justice Department’s Inspector General said Thursday that he plans to investigate how Mr. Comey and his deputy, Andrew McCabe, handled the Clinton probe, which means the 2016 election melodrama will continue into the new Administration.

The best service Mr. Comey can render his country now is to resign. Failing that, Jeff Sessions should invite him for a meeting after he is confirmed as Attorney General and ask him to resign. If Mr. Comey declines, Donald Trump can and should fire him in the best interests of the nation’s most important law enforcement agency.

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[Achilleaze]

1. As if an FBI appointment by Comrade Casino will make us all feel more secure...

[boston bean]

2. Can someone explain if Trump can appoint a new JD IG?

[LeftInTX]

13. He can fire him, but he has to go through Congress

I think Sessions may have the power to stop the investigation too.

[Sherman A1]

3. President Obama could

still fire him, but as stated any pick that Trump would offer us, would likely be much worse.

[DonCoquixote]

4. When even the Wall Street Journal

can see the right, or should I say left side of the issue, you know the right has made a royal botch.

[Vogon_Glory]

5. This might be an aberrant editorial

And the usual Newscorp praise for partisan politicking by the FBI will resume.

[wishstar]

6. They are worried Comey could turn on Trump or a Repub doing what he did to Clinton

Conservatives like Greta Van Susteren are finally speaking out criticizing long drawn out FBI investigations against politicians going into campaign cycles. (But still putting most of blame on Clinton for her server)

[uponit7771]

7. +1, allowing Comey to stay in office gives the green light to FURTHER turn us into a banana republic

[Gothmog]

8. Comey is pond scum

[oasis]

10. +1

[Johnny2X2X]

9. This writer is totally delusional

"Failing that, Jeff Sessions should invite him for a meeting after he is confirmed as Attorney General and ask him to resign" LOL!!! The only conversation Sessions will have with Comey is to present him with a long list of enemies of Donald Trump that need to start being investigated immediately by the full force of the FBI. Need to start fabricating evidence if Donald is going to achieve his goal of public executions by firing squad for anyone who every spoke ill of him.

People are still treating this situation as if we're going to have a government that's remotely sane, transparent, or just.

[Baitball Blogger]

11. About time!

[Takket]

12. Resign? Not enough

He should be arrested for violating the Hatch Act and offered immunity to roll whoever in Trump's camp wrote the letter that he signed.

[BSdetect]

14. Exactly