TPM - "Top Candidates To Replace Comey At FBI Are Deeply Compromised"

[NRaleighLiberal]

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/top-candidates-to-replace-comey-at-fbi-are-deeply-compromised

By ALICE OLLSTEIN and ALLEGRA KIRKLAND Published MAY 15, 2017 12:24 PM

This weekend, the Attorney General began interviewing candidates to replace FBI Director James Comey—who was fired last week by President Donald Trump.

Because whomever replaces Comey at the agency will inherit the investigation into Russian interference in 2016 election, which includes allegations of possible coordination between Trump associates and Russian interests, lawmakers in both parties have called for the nomination of a non-partisan, independent figure to lead the FBI.

Yet some top candidates for the job are anything but. Of the nearly dozen people under serious consideration for the job, at least two have taken numerous public stands about the investigations at the heart of Comey’s ouster: Russian interference in American democracy, and the Justice Department’s handling of Hillary Clinton’s e-mails. While some of the candidates have repeatedly criticized Trump and called for a robust Russia probe, others have downplayed the documented foreign interference and rallied to the defense of the man they would be charged with investigating.


John Cornyn
Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) is perhaps the most partisan figure on the FBI director shortlist.

The Senate’s Republican majority whip endorsed Trump back in May, and never publicly broke from him, even during the wave of defections following the release of the infamous Access Hollywood tape.


snip - LOTS more to read at the link.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

1. No on Cornyn

and NO on Garland as well (if that continues to be brought up)

[NRaleighLiberal]

2. kicking

[pansypoo53219]

3. no TEXAN period.