On 12-13-24, an Opinion piece by Journalist Jackie Calmes was published on the internet. A portion of that opinion piece is added to the Enlighted Prisoner's site to show the absurdity of President Elect Trump's corrupted attempts to usurp our Constituted government.
Trump isn’t president yet and for the second time he’s starting by sacking an FBI director expressly because Wray, like James B. Comey before him in 2017, would not profess loyalty and drop well-deserved criminal investigations of Trump and his allies. And in an especially egregious example of the projection for which Trump is so well known, in each case he accused the FBI directors, both Republicans, of being the ones who politically weaponized the bureau — against him.
Every FBI director since
Hoover has been a Republican, and Democratic Presidents Carter, Clinton, Obama
and Biden either chose them or kept them on to symbolize that the job is above
politics. Before Trump’s two defenestrations, (banishment), the only dumping of an FBI chief
was Clinton’s firing of William Sessions after taking office in
1993. But Clinton acted on findings of Sessions’ ethical infractions after a
probe begun under Republican President George H.W. Bush.
The 1974 Senate report
justifying a mandated 10-year term acknowledged that a president’s power to
remove a director within that time “is formally unlimited.” But it suggested
that the Senate, given its power to confirm a successor, would act as a check on
that removal power — “and will tolerate its exercise for good reason only” and
“not merely for the reason that a new President desires his ‘own man’ in the
position.”
Alas, the authors didn’t
anticipate today’s Senate Republicans, whose servility to the wrathful Trump
exceeds their respect for the Senate’s prerogatives and independence. Not one
has publicly opposed Patel’s confirmation. Never mind that when Trump, in his
first term, tried to make Patel the FBI deputy director, then-Atty. Gen.
William Barr said “over my dead body,” according to his memoir.
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