Pub. L. 94-503, quoted in the notes follow 28 U.S.C.A. § 532 — says that the Director of the FBI shall be appointed by the President, with the advice and consent of the Senate, for 10 years, and “A Director may not serve more than one ten-year term.”
Sorry about that.
Anything more?
The point is that Trump can fire him at any time. Clinton made that precedent with Sessions. Agree?
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.