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BREAKING: Smoking Email FOUND- Lynch Is TOAST!
http://joeforamerica.com ^ | MAY 4, 2017 | SNOW WHITE

Posted on 05/05/2017 8:52:56 PM PDT by Beowulf9

Folks, it’s being said that this is the BIGGEST news to hit America coming out of the hearing with FBI director James Comey since…forever. An email has been obtained…and this email is the absolute smoking gun email against the intentions of LYNCH!

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To: Lakeshark
He serves at the pleasure of the President. He is not at-will, but he cannot refuse an Executive demand to step down.
61 posted on 05/05/2017 9:32:54 PM PDT by FredZarguna (And what Rough Beast, its hour come round at last, slouches toward Fifth Avenue to be born?)
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To: Williams
The FBI does not have one single ounce of credibility left after what Obie did to it and to the rest of the country. This is what TRANSFORMATION looks like "We are the ones we have been waiting for - the seas will no longer rise, blah blah blah" and more blather comeing out of the nation destroyers pie hole.




62 posted on 05/05/2017 9:33:42 PM PDT by Cheerio (#44, The unknown President)
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To: Bob434
why is comey still on the job?...let alone McCabe right under him?...

and who would be a strong and knowledgeable replacement?

63 posted on 05/05/2017 9:33:43 PM PDT by cherry
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To: Lakeshark

Do you now agree that the Director of the FBI can be fired by the President?


64 posted on 05/05/2017 9:34:46 PM PDT by laplata (Liberals/Progressives.have diseased minds.)
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To: Lakeshark

https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/how-independent-is-the-fbis-director

The congressional research service 2 years ago said there are no legal roadblocks for a president to fire an FBI director and that he is an at will employee.

“It is sometimes assumed that the President can oust an FBI director only “for cause” – that is, for some misconduct in office. But, as a Congressional Research Service study of the director’s office pointed out two years ago, “there are no statutory conditions on the President’s authority to remove the FBI director.”

The constitutional reality is that, if a government official is clearly placed within the Executive Branch, that official serves at the pleasure of the President, and can be fired “at will.” That history has had a recent illustration: earlier this month, the federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., struck down part of a law by which Congress created a single director to lead the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau – a law that specified that the director could be removed by the President only “for cause.”

The appeals court simply deleted that phrase from the law, thus making the agency’s head subject to being fired by the President for any reason, or no reason at all. (The government has not yet indicated whether it will challenge that ruling in further appeals, perhaps to the Supreme Court.)

That is very much in line with what the Supreme Court has ruled over the years, to preserve the power of the President to be fully in charge of the Executive Branch. Since 1968, a federal law has provided that the head of the FBI will have a 10-year term in office. But the situation legally is that the chance to serve a full term depends upon retaining the confidence of the President”

You are confusing a 10 year max, with a term like a congressman has. It is only a max time, not a time he is assured of short of impeachment. He can be fired just to put someone he likes better in office. No reason need by given. Trump can fire him at will.


65 posted on 05/05/2017 9:36:40 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up.)
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To: dp0622; Lakeshark

dp0622 said: Trump kept Comey on. Any ideas why?

dp0622, I think that is a fair question after all.

While FBI directors are appointed for 10-year terms, they can be fired earlier. In 1993 Bill Clinton dismissed FBI Director William Sessions. Sessions had been the FBI Director for a little more than 5 years.

The trick - as far as the President is concerned - is to come up with a plausible reason for the firing.


66 posted on 05/05/2017 9:38:19 PM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: FredZarguna

He is quite literally “at-will”. He can be fired within that 10 years for no reason at all.


67 posted on 05/05/2017 9:38:29 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up.)
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To: Beowulf9

The last year I have read “smoking gun” hundreds of times. I won’t be fooled again.

Let me know when she is convicted.


68 posted on 05/05/2017 9:40:09 PM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (Trump: What to do now I can't repeal Obamacare? I know, lets start a war with Russia!)
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To: Beowulf9

The last year I have read “smoking gun” hundreds of times. I won’t be fooled again.

Let me know when she is convicted.


69 posted on 05/05/2017 9:40:10 PM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (Trump: What to do now I can't repeal Obamacare? I know, lets start a war with Russia!)
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To: DesertRhino

Thanks for posting that.

From WikiLeaks regarding Sessions dismissal by Clinton:

Although Sessions denied that he had acted improperly, he was pressured to resign in early July, with some suggesting that President Clinton was giving Sessions the chance to step down in a dignified manner. Sessions refused, saying that he had done nothing wrong, and insisted on staying in office until his successor was confirmed. As a result, President Clinton dismissed Sessions on July 19, 1993. Sessions was five and a half years into a ten-year term as FBI director; however, the holder of this post serves at the pleasure of the President.[7]


70 posted on 05/05/2017 9:41:02 PM PDT by laplata (Liberals/Progressives.have diseased minds.)
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To: Paladin2

They just push papers around....so many big salaries and not a darned thing is accomplished.


71 posted on 05/05/2017 9:41:28 PM PDT by hsmomx3
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To: laplata; Lakeshark

It looks like the troll has left the building.


72 posted on 05/05/2017 9:43:16 PM PDT by Karl Spooner
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To: Leaning Right

failure to do his duty is plausible enough reason- as is overstepping his authority by declaring that there was ‘no intent’ t commit the felonies that hillary and huma committed- not only was that an asinine conclusion by comey- but it wasn’t his conclusion to make as FBI director

When an FBI director refuses to do their job, and takes a biased stand to protect someone in a partisan matter when it is clear that that person committed a felony- that is certainly plausible enough reason to fire


73 posted on 05/05/2017 9:43:32 PM PDT by Bob434
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To: Leaning Right

There is a mentality out there that the FBI and its director is a sort of internal affairs department that is tasked with watching the Presidents actions and making sure he’s kosher. The fact is that he is the presidents at-will employee.

The main constitutional watchdog over a president is a Congress that can impeach him. The FBI is way down on the constitutional food chain.


74 posted on 05/05/2017 9:43:55 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up.)
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To: dp0622

i thought the same thing...and, btw, Trump can fire him anytime he wants.


75 posted on 05/05/2017 9:45:02 PM PDT by basalt
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To: Karl Spooner

“It looks like the troll has left the building”.

Lol, yes it does appear so.

I was about to ping you with basically the same thing but you beat me to the draw.


76 posted on 05/05/2017 9:46:16 PM PDT by laplata (Liberals/Progressives.have diseased minds.)
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To: Bob434

> When an FBI director refuses to do their job, and takes a biased stand to protect someone in a partisan matter when it is clear that that person committed a felony- that is certainly plausible enough reason to fire <

Agreed! But my point (perhaps not made very well) is that the President can fire the FBI director. All the President needs to do - for PR sake - is to come up with a decent reason for the firing.


77 posted on 05/05/2017 9:47:12 PM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: dp0622

Because Comey is keeping the Russia investigation going as cover and it will look bad firing Comey. But what’s really happened here is Comey and the whole Obama team are caught spying on their American political opponents.


78 posted on 05/05/2017 9:47:38 PM PDT by Williams (Stop tolerating the intolerant.)
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To: laplata

All of this has been gone over at least a 100 times here. Only a delusional troll would think his lies would overcome that.


79 posted on 05/05/2017 9:51:42 PM PDT by Karl Spooner
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To: dp0622
"Any ideas why?"

So he can hang himself? Catherine Herridge of Fox News reported that Comey is being investigated by the IG's Office for the way the FBI handled the Clinton Email investigation. She said Comey has admitted to having been interviewed by the IG's Office. Time will tell.

80 posted on 05/05/2017 9:51:42 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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