Midknight Review -- new and revised: President Trump's shortlist for Director of the FBI includes three congressional figures with legal career histories.

President Trump's shortlist for Director of the FBI includes three congressional figures with legal career histories.

FBI Short List:

Kelly Ayotte, former New Hampshire senator, Representative Trey Gowdy and Senator John Cornyn.

The problem that some see with these names is found in the ridiculous claim that, "for the first time," the FBI is about to be overly influenced by politics.

I say "ridiculous claim" because the politicization of the FBI has already happened. We just did not know it until the Comey/Hillary Clinton partnership was exposed in the days before the election.

While I allow for the politicization of the FBI, I do not mean to imply that Ayotte, Gowdy or Cornyn would be "political" appointments. They would not   . . . . . "political" only in the fact they come from political careers in addition to their former lives: Ayotte came to the Senate after serving as Attorney General of New Hampshire, Cornyn was Attorney General in Texas and served on the Texas Supreme Court, and Trey Gowdy solicitor (district attorney) for the state's Seventh Judicial Circuit, comprising Spartanburg and Cherokee Counties. From 1994 to 2000, he was a federal prosecutor for the U.S. Attorney for the District of South Carolina. In 2014, Gowdy became chairman of a House Select Committee to investigate the 2012 Benghazi attack.

Any of the three would be great for the FBI. It is amazing to me, the depth of serious and qualified talent within the GOP - and none of them "lie" as a matter of party policy.

Refreshing.

6 comments:

AnonymousMay 13, 2017 at 5:16 AM

Breaking WSJ: New York authorities are going after Paul Manafort’s financial records to get to Donald Trump
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AnonymousMay 13, 2017 at 5:19 AM
Comey turned down the request to testify partly because he wants to be subpoena’d instead, which would legally compel him to testify, thus freeing him up legally to discuss more sensitive aspects of the Trump-Russia investigation. But it turns out there’s more to it. A New York Times article indicates Comey wants a PUBLIC hearing.
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AnonymousMay 14, 2017 at 12:30 AM
Clarification: Trump indictment issued by a grand jury under the auspices of a FISA court,
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