Despite Recusal Pledge, Sessions Interviewing Candidates For Interim FBI Director

[DonViejo]

Source: NPR


May 10, 2017 1:29 PM ET

TAMARA KEITH

Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein are interviewing four candidates Wednesday to serve as interim FBI director, following the firing of James Comey.

Through the normal line of succession, Comey's deputy Andrew McCabe became acting director after President Trump fired Comey, but now, according to a Justice Department official, the attorney general is considering other people to do that job until President Trump names and the Senate confirms a new FBI director.

According to the official, Sessions spoke with McCabe last night and he is "also under consideration." But statute allows the president to choose an interim FBI director outside of the standard order of succession and that process is underway.

Trump was hotly critical of McCabe during the campaign. On Oct. 23, Trump tweeted out an article in the Wall Street Journal about McCabe's wife, Jill, who in 2015 ran for state Senate in Virginia. She received a large campaign contribution from the political action committee overseen Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe, a longtime Clinton supporter. Trump falsely asserted that McCabe was "in charge" of the investigation.

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[bettyellen]

1. Who is Pistole? Just saw his name floated.

[bettyellen]

4. Just saw named as "friend of Pence" oooh boy.

[NewRedDawn]

8. The FBI Agent in the Movie Donny Brasco?

[WilmywoodNCparalegal]

2. Disgusting...

then again, what's more disgusting is that no one has the spine (or cojones) to stop this from happening. In other words, no one overrules King Trump and no one in the GOP has yet to stand up to him in a significant manner.

Trump is trampling on everything the U.S. has held dear for the past 200 years. No one in the GOP cares enough to stand up to this - as long as they get what they want out of King Trump no one will.

Utterly disgusting and revolting...

[dixiegrrrrl]

14. "and the Senate confirms a new FBI director. "

I don't see that as a sure thing, because:

It’s worth noting that Collins, Graham, and McCain are the three Republican Senators who have voice the most concern about Trump’s Russia scandal over the past months.
It’s equally notable that their three votes alone can serve to shift the entire balance of power in the Senate,
as it leaves the GOP with just forty-nine other votes, which is not a majority. So the three of them can effectively take control of the Senate.

http://www.palmerreport.com/politics/graham-mccain-bill/2720/

[Honeycombe8]

3. Seems like McCabe may be toast, too. Sessions is going to find someone w/Russia ties?

That would solve everything. Find someone with Russian ties to investigate Russian ties, so he would make sure the investigation doesn't reveal anything.

Better yet, he'd report back to the W.H. every detail in the investigation record so far, so the W H can plan to defend itself against the "fake" investigation. And he'd tell Putin.

This is so corrupt, it smells.

Can't Congress DO something about Sessions obeying his recusal promise? Isn't this against the rules or unethical? Sessions should have been prosecuted for lying under oath.

[BumRushDaShow]

5. Congress is supposed to carry out oversight of the Executive Branch

since they provide funding for it. But as long as the GOP is in power there, nothing will be done. We must take the House back to bring order and rule of law back to the forefront.

[Honeycombe8]

6. +1 nt

[Still In Wisconsin]

7. My money would be on Giuliani...

but I am not a betting man any more

[Honeycombe8]

12. That makes me want to barf. That would be a signal to the country...

that there would definitely NOT be any investigation.

God help us all and the country. This is seeming more and more like Germany in the 1930s, as Trump little by little takes away freedoms, puts himself outside the law, and owns the other branches of govt. How long until the military is called out on his behalf?

[DeminPennswoods]

9. They must fear McCabe

won't be a pushover, yes man if he stays as interim director.

[Javaman]

10. The new head of the FBI is...

Yuri Ripuoff.

[Achilleaze]

11. So he lied again. How republican is that?

Republicans: stop lying to Americans.

[Blue Idaho]

13. I think that little pea brain Jefferson Beauregard Sessions is confused by big words

Like recusal... I think he thinks it's like Kings X...