Posted on 05/05/2017 8:52:56 PM PDT by Beowulf9
and who would be a strong and knowledgeable replacement?
Do you now agree that the Director of the FBI can be fired by the President?
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.
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.
He is quite literally “at-will”. He can be fired within that 10 years for no reason at all.
The last year I have read “smoking gun” hundreds of times. I won’t be fooled again.
Let me know when she is convicted.
The last year I have read “smoking gun” hundreds of times. I won’t be fooled again.
Let me know when she is convicted.
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]
They just push papers around....so many big salaries and not a darned thing is accomplished.
It looks like the troll has left the building.
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
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.
i thought the same thing...and, btw, Trump can fire him anytime he wants.
“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.
> 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.
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.
All of this has been gone over at least a 100 times here. Only a delusional troll would think his lies would overcome that.
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.
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