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Do this recent post clearly indicate possibility of consensus about Comey, Rosenstein, & Mueller?

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Do this recent post clearly indicate possibility of consensus about Comey, Rosenstein, & Mueller?

How many people were fired, forced to resign, or demoted in the Obama FBI/DOJ?

And there are indictments coming. You can be sure of that.

Mycroft, quoted above, from another thread. I imagine it was not at all easy for Mycroft to point to the very revealing claims of
Trump, Pence, Sessions, Rosenstein, and others republicans of the executive and legislative branches...Comey and McCabe of "Obama's FBI" had to go because
they both openly communicated in such a way, contrary to DOJ guidelines, ...presidential elections free
from recent disclosure by FBI or DOJ of confidential details related to politically sensitive investigations.

Did Obama and Rod Rosenstein learn another truth, the hard way....that it is a fool's errand to appoint highly respected republicans, at least to important positions at FBI or DOJ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dismissal_of_James_Comey
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Trump dismissed Comey by way of a termination letter in which he stated that he was acting on the recommendation of Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. In the following days, he gave numerous explanations of the dismissal that contradicted his staff and also belied the initial impression that Sessions and Rosenstein had influenced his decision. Trump publicly stated that he had already decided to fire Comey; it later emerged that he had written his own early draft of the termination letter, and had solicited the Rosenstein memo the day before citing it...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_McCabe#Resignation_and_firing
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...FBI Director Comey appointed McCabe as Deputy Director of the FBI on January 29, 2016, and he assumed those duties on February 1, 2016.[SUP][26][/SUP]...

...The Wall Street Journal published on October 20, 2016, an account of Justice Department and FBI internal deliberations regarding an investigation of the Clinton Foundation that began in 2015. Four FBI field offices — New York, Los Angeles, Washington and Little Rock — were pursuing the investigation, with some field agents advocating that it be aggressively continued, while some supervisors and prosecutors believed there was insufficient evidence and that the investigation was too expansive. In July 2016, McCabe decided that the New York FBI office would continue investigating, with assistance from Little Rock. The Journal reported that a senior Justice Department official called McCabe to express his disagreement with this decision, with McCabe reportedly asking, "Are you telling me that I need to shut down a validly predicated investigation?," to which the unnamed official replied, “Of course not.”...

https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/2018-04-13 DOJ OIG to CEG - McCabe ROI.pdf
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Inspector general report faults Andrew McCabe for unauthorized disclosure of information, misleading investigators
https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...acd97698cef_story.html?utm_term=.ae173cbb00a8
By Matt Zaposky April 13

...on the eve of the election....

..McCabe now acknowledges he authorized his special counsel, Lisa Page, and Michael Kortan, the FBI’s then top spokesman, to talk to Barrett for the story. He has said he did so to push back against the notion that he was trying to stifle the Clinton Foundation investigation.
The story, importantly, disclosed the existence of the Foundation probe and revealed a phone call, which became of keen interest to inspector general investigators, where McCabe pushed back against a Justice Department official he perceived to be asking him to shut it down, or at least warning against overt steps in the case close to an election.
The inspector general report alleges McCabe for months led officials to believe he had not authorized any disclosures for the story, starting with Comey, his own boss....
 
Re: Do this recent post clearly indicate possibility of consensus about Comey, Rosenstein, & Mueller

Request to a moderator:
I was unable to submit poll for this thread in the allotted time.

This is the poll question and answers I intended to set up in a poll with publicly displayed voting.:

Poll Question: Don't Trump's & his supporters' statements indicate Comey & McCabe fired for hurting Clinton Campaign?

Option 1:
Yes, Triump & his supporters have asserted Trump wanted Comey & McCabe fired because they improperly disadvantaged the Clinton campaign
Option 2:
Yes, as in above answer, and Obama & Rosenstein learned appointing highly respected republicans is not a slam dunk
Option 3:
I disagree with answer option one
Option 4:
I disagree with answer options on and two!

Make votes public
 
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