WSJ edit calls for comeys resignation [View all]

[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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