Under no circumstances must a Democrat run the FBI or the Dept of Defense. Unthinkable to the Centrist President, must be GOP or Obama would pass out cold.

From the May 30, 2013 NYT's article on the background of the appointment:

"Mr. Comey, 52, was chosen for the position over the other finalist, Lisa O. Monaco, who has served as the White House’s top counterterrorism adviser since January. Some Democrats had feared that if the president nominated Ms. Monaco — who oversaw national security issues at the Justice Department during the attacks in Benghazi, Libya, last September — Republicans would use the confirmation process as a forum for criticism of the administration’s handling of the attack."

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/30/us/politics/obama-to-pick-james-b-comey-to-lead-fbi.html?pagewanted=all

There was a Democratic candidate for the job, who had the confidence of the President. It really seems to me that the President was intimidated by the fascist Republicans in the Senate who want, at all costs, to preserve and protect Karl Rove's election stealing/political assassination empire.

Let's Check James Comey's Bush Years Record Before He Becomes FBI Director

James Comey's Indefensible Defense of Indefinite Detention

Is the Spying Comey Approved More Important Than the Spying He Opposed?

James Comey: Two Thumbs-Up on Waterboarding?

He must be right.

and I urge the Senate to do the same

...continued Bush policies and appointments. Who knew?

I think it would be a real interesting gig.

had the time to research him, you might notice he's persona non grata around Bush gop circles. Seeing Comey's actions I wonder how Republican he is. I wonder if he's Republican mainly due to the abortion issue (he's Catholic and has 5 kids). I also hope that Obama is looking at him because he has tremendous experience prosecuting financial crimes. Adelphia and it's managers, he led the indictment of Frank Quattrone. They alleged that in 2000, he urged subordinates to destroy evidence sought by investigators looking into his investment banking practices at Credit Suisse First Boston.[10] In November 2003, he led the "Operation Wooden Nickel", which resulted in complaints and indictments against 47 people involved in foreign exchange trading scams. He also prosecuted ImClone, Martha Stewart, the Gambino crime family. He appointed his former co-prosecutor and good friend as special counsel on the Valarie Plame leak. (We all know how that turned out)

He led a large gun control campaign when he was in Virginia.

He revealed and fired a Federal prosecutor who had been targeting democrats for prosecution.

He signed an amicus brief for the Supreme Court supporting gay marriage.

He testified against Bush for firing the prosecutors during that scandal. He did state that one deserved to be fired but that the others "appear to be motivated by something other than their performance as their performance was good to excellent."

What I find so lovely is that if he does have the opportunity to prosecute bankers or repubs, they can't claim any type of bias or political motivation. LOL. They picked him once, too.

Thanks for your research.

Am I correct that Comey supported McCain in 2008 and Romney in 2012? If so, given that each of them was Karl Rove's candidate, doesn't that make Comey a supporter of fascism, i.e. a government controlled by, and working for, monopolistic global corporations and the billionaire bandits?

Doesn't that mean that Comey as FBI Director would turn a blind eye to, and suppress, the open and notorious theft of inheritance from the New Deal, rampant political assassinations, and systemic red shifting of votes necessary for Fascist Republicans to have a chance of winning any elections?

seems to have a friend in this one!

I would love it if that happened.

types said that both of his Obama's choices were extremely experienced in litigating. Both I guess had roles as prosecutors. There is still the issue of whether we could charge bank officials without closing the bank. I know the d o j found a way to criminally charge a UBS subsidiary in Taiwan. The subsidiary was a separate bank so the American branches could stay open and we could still get criminal charges.
Maybe, maybe. There have been some pretty decent prosecutions of banker-like folks. They just haven't been tied to "the big one".

itself should immediately and permanently disqualify him from holding any high office in a reality-based government.

Oh, yeah, Comey also reluctantly approved the Bush torture regime. Wonder if anyone on the Senate Judiciary Commitee will have the courage to nail him on that?

Comey is an insult to any thinking person's intelligence.

But what the fuck: we've also got Brennan at CIA, Alexander at NSA and Clapper as DNI. What's one more torture-enabling fuckwad?

It matters a lot.

Truth about election stealing and political assassinations is out! ABC's Scandal series has popularized this news.

The obvious assassination of Michael Hastings strikes me as an act of desperation on the part of those who want to block and suppress this news. Hastings was working on a story on the same subject that is reported in current issue nation magazine concerning the prosecution of Barrett Brown, another journalist, further exposing the crimes of our century.

take to the streets, in spite of the consequences and engage in a national strike.

Otherwise, it is part of the scenery.

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I am not sure if taking to the streets is necessary to turn the tide.

When their innocence myth becomes the favorite joke of the comedians and a plain truth-teller like Elizabeth Warren becomes the favorite for President in 2016, their hay days are over.

Have you seen Scandal? It shows Karl Rove admitting to stealing the Presidential election and arranging for political assassinations. It's the most popular series on television.

In more subtle fashion Scandal portrays the U.S. Supreme Court as having destroyed itself.

The covert fascists cannot continue to get away with super grand theft and political assassinations once the general public is on to them.

But history tells me it takes concerted popular action. What you are describing are the old jokes of soviet Russia, a way to talk about it and release steam, my personal favorite and it applies today, involves blind newborn kittens.

Should comedy direct the FBI..

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The Keystone cops for comedy would be better than having a counsellor for the Mafioso directing the FBI. Anyone who supports fascism in the United States is a treasonous criminal in my book.