[quote]WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama has chosen a former George W. Bush administration official [B]best known for a dramatic hospital bedside standoff against a warrantless wiretapping program[/B] to head the FBI for the next decade.
White House officials are hoping that James Comey's bipartisan background and two decades of law enforcement experience will help him win Senate approval to replace outgoing FBI Director Robert Mueller. Mueller took over the agency the week before the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, and will have served longer than any director besides J. Edgar Hoover when he steps down Sept. 4.
Mueller transformed the agency into one the country's chief weapons against terrorism, leading Obama to ask him in 2011 to stay on two years beyond his initial 10-year term. The new director would take over as the agency grapples with a privacy debates surrounding a host of recently exposed investigative tactics, and the White House said Obama would announce Comey as the man for the job Friday afternoon in the Rose Garden.
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In dramatic testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee in 2007, Comey said he thought the [B]no-warrant wiretapping program was so questionable that he refused to reauthorize it while serving as acting attorney general during Ashcroft's hospitalization.[/B] Comey said when he learned that the White House chief of staff and counsel were heading to Ashcroft's room despite his wife's instructions that there be no visitors, Comey beat them there and watched as Ashcroft turned them away.
"That night was probably the most difficult night of my professional life," Comey testified. He said he and Ashcroft had reservations about the program's legality, but he would not discuss details since the program was classified.
Comey was deputy attorney general in 2005 when he unsuccessfully tried to limit tough interrogation tactics against suspected terrorists. He told then-Attorney General Alberto Gonzales that some of the practices were wrong and would damage the department's reputation.[/quote]
[url]http://www.policeone.com/federal-law-enforcement/articles/6286887-Obama-nominating-Comey-as-FBI-director/[/url]
We'll see. Never hurts to be suspicious of these folk.
Probably won't change much.
The fact that he's a former Bush-era official makes me glad: it shows that Obama at least doesn't care about the party line as long as they get the job done.
"Shit guys, the public found out about PRISM and they are all pissed!"
"It's alright gentlemen, I have a plan."
"Do tell!"
"We fire the old Chief, then we pretend like the Old Chief stopped PRISM!"
"Genius! They won't suspect a thing, sir!"
Read that first line as Obama has chosen George W. Bush
I was slightly confused
[QUOTE=Zenreon117;41129402]"Shit guys, the public found out about PRISM and they are all pissed!"
"It's alright gentlemen, I have a plan."
"Do tell!"
"We fire the old Chief, then we pretend like the Old Chief stopped PRISM!"
"Genius! They won't suspect a thing, sir!"[/QUOTE]
but he actually did......
[url]http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/01/politics/01spy.html?_r=0[/url]
[QUOTE=Zenreon117;41129402]"Shit guys, the public found out about PRISM and they are all pissed!"
"It's alright gentlemen, I have a plan."
"Do tell!"
"We fire the old Chief, then we pretend like the Old Chief stopped PRISM!"
"Genius! They won't suspect a thing, sir!"[/QUOTE]
Cue it ending in typical Scooby Doo fashion.
[I]"I would've gotten away with it, if it wasn't for those meddling kids and their dog"[/I]
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