Here’s the post I was referring to. The link to the full CRS report is at the bottom.
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The Congressional Research Service noted in a 2014 report that “There are no statutory conditions on the President’s authority to remove the FBI Director.” More specifically, it stated the following:
“Accordingly, the principles discussed above establish that the President may remove the Director of the FBI at will, given that the “power of removal [is] incident to the power to remove.” Indeed, President Bill Clinton exercised this removal power on July 19, 1993, by firing FBI
Director William S. Sessions. In particular, upon receiving a recommendation from Attorney General Janet Reno that Sessions be removed, President Clinton informed Sessions: “I am hereby terminating your service as Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, effective immediately.”
It should also be noted that during Senate consideration of the 1976 measure, Senators Byrd and Hruska emphasized several times that “there is no limitation on the constitutional power of the President to remove the FBI Director from office within the 10-year term. The Director would be subject to dismissal by the President as are all purely executive officers.”
https://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R41850.pdf
Thanks for that.....