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To: Brumar89 who wrote (1015605)	5/12/2017 7:55:20 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1579417

.. In interviews with POLITICO, the heads of the two associations representing current and retired FBI agents, analysts and other personnel said Wednesday that by all available measures, Comey enjoys enormous support among the 35,000 people who worked for him, and the many thousands of others who have retired or left the bureau. “His support within the rank and file of the FBI is overwhelming,” said Thomas O'Connor, a working FBI special agent who is president of the FBI Agents Association. Comey’s firing “was described to me today by at least three agents as a gut punch to the organization,” said O’Connor, a counterterrorism agent in the FBI’s Washington, D.C., field office. He said neither agents nor the association "saw this coming" and that few thought Comey did anything to deserve such treatment. ........ Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe also directly contradicted the White House explanation on Thursday, telling the Senate Intelligence Committee that his fired predecessor had not lost the confidence of rank-and-file agents. “Director Comey enjoyed broad support within the FBI and still does to this day,” McCabe said. ............ But the two associations representing current and former FBI agents have been getting a steady flow of calls, emails and texts since Monday evening, virtually all of them lamenting Comey’s firing and seeking answers as to why. The FBI Agents Association, which O’Connor said has 13,000 members, issued a statement Tuesday night urging caution in the naming of a new FBI director, given the job’s importance, and praising Comey for his “service, leadership, and support for Special Agents during his tenure.” “He understood the centrality of the Agent to the Bureau's mission, recognizing that Agents put their lives on the line every day,” the statement said. .......... “Most agents can’t talk to the press,” he said, but many were growing ever more agitated as Comey withstood withering criticism. “They overwhelmingly want us to come out even stronger for Director Comey than we have, saying the association should do more,” O’Connor said. “Now they want to know the reason this happened. And what’s going to happen to the FBI now that Comey is gone?” ....... While agents and other FBI personnel clearly have divergent viewpoints on Comey’s handling of particular investigations, most believed the director always acted in the best interests of the FBI, especially in trying to make sure politics didn’t interfere with the bureau’s investigations, O’Connor said. “They believe in the guy, they follow his leadership,” he said, “and they knew that when Director Comey told them something, that it was accurate, Constitutional and apolitical.” Nancy Savage, executive director of the Society of Former Special Agents of the FBI, said many current and retired agents were hopping mad — not only about Comey’s firing, but also over how it was handled, with the FBI director finding out via a TV monitor while delivering a speech to agents in Los Angeles. “My friends who are on duty have been texting me and they are appalled,” said Savage, a former FBI special agent who retired in 2011 after a long career in the criminal division. “People were upset about losing him, and how he was informed. That’s appalling to our membership. He was a well-respected, well-liked director.” ........ Current and former agents are especially upset that the Trump administration cited Comey’s handling of the Clinton email probe as a top reason for firing him but didn’t wait for the results of a formal review of his decisions by the Justice Department’s inspector general, Savage said. “It just makes sense to wait for the IG report before doing something like this,” she said. ..... politico.com

To: Brumar89 who wrote (1015605)	5/12/2017 11:35:20 PM
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"Because he said he fired Comey over the Russia investigations. Lester Holt didn't make that up, Trump volunteered it." Oh really? I had not read that. Where did you get it?