President Obama Should Fire FBI Director James Comey
by Tommy Christopher | 4:40 pm, July 10th, 2016
It was an embattled week for FBI Director James Comey, who drew the ire of Republicans for announcing that his agency would not be recommending charges against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, then spent the better part of Thursday getting grilled by Republicans over it on Capitol Hill. There were a few people angry at Comey for smearing Hillary Clinton as he was clearing her, but for the most part, Democrats tripped all over themselves praising Comey because they agreed with his conclusion.
But as the week drew to a close, and the Comey spectacle dominated the news, it became clear to me that the FBI director needs to be fired, and not for anything he did with regard to Hillary Clinton. President Obama should fire Director Comey because he’s on the wrong side of the problem that killed Alton Sterling and Philando Castile this week. While Comey shared the media spotlight with those two most recent martyrs to police violence, no one in the media thought to connect the dots between those tragedies, and Comey’s role in enabling them:
That was Comey in October speaking at the University of Chicago Law School, regaling the audience with the theory that cops would only tell him about, that police are too afraid of video cameras to do their jobs. The White House pointed out, at the time, that there was absolutely no evidence to substantiate Comey’s claim, and in fact, some fairly vocal law enforcement officials refuting it. They made excuses for Comey, whom they claimed cast this as a “complicated” issue, but Comey was definitive that this “viral video effect” was ” the one explanation” that “makes the most sense to me.”
He went on to say that we need to be “careful” that aggressive policing “doesn’t drift away from us in the age of viral videos.” That’s not complicated. That is James Comey looking at things like what happened to Alton Sterling and deciding that the thing that’s a problem is the fact that it was caught on video.
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I agree with Christopher, for this and
other reasons.
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