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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Trump Firing FBI Director Comey Won’t Slow Down the Russia Investigation—Yet
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...“The Russia investigation will continue,” says a former FBI cybercrimes investigator, who spoke with WIRED under the condition of anonymity. “The director doesn’t run the investigation, the assistant director doesn’t run it, the unit chiefs don’t run it. There’s a case agent or a series of case agents assigned to run it all the way through.”
That means that at least until Congress approves Comey’s replacement, the investigation should continue undaunted. “If you want to stop this investigation, someone in management could hinder it, reassign the agents, block requests for investigative techniques, but there’s always a different way to get the information,” says the former agent. “There are ways to circumvent bad supervisors.”
It's a race to the truth.
I'm done trying to sound smart. "Clear" is the new smart.“There are ways to circumvent bad supervisors.”
This is why appointing a random Trump stooge won't work, at least not for Trump. The FBI is absurdly complicated and it has a ton of black projects under weird code names, and as far as I know, the standard procedure is for a case to continue either to its conclusion or until when the people in charge specifically order it's closing. And to order the closing they need to A) know the case exists and B) know what the case is even called. Just saying "cancel all investigations into Trump" won't work because it's not precise enough.
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Basically means "Good guy". Derived from Westerns, in which the heroes often wore white hats while the villains wore black. More commonly seen in the hacker subculture these days, with "white hat hacker" meaning "law-abiding hacker that works to close holes and stop malware" (with "black hat hacker" being what you generally think of when you hear "hacker").
edited 9th May '17 7:16:54 PM by TrashJack
"Cynic, n. — A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be." - The Devil's Dictionary
No, Comey isn't a white hat. He's the reason Trump is in office in the first place. At best he's an Enemy Mine with the Democrats in office.
edited 9th May '17 7:28:12 PM by Kostya
From our (or at least the) President's twitter, ladies and gentlemen:
Besides everything else, what I find particularly despicable is that the crying "meme"- if you want to call it that- was started by Mike Huckabee, when he laughed at Schumer for crying when he denounced the Muslim Ban, and spoke about how most of his family was murdered in the Holocaust.
edited 9th May '17 7:58:21 PM by Hodor2

@True Facts Stated has been busy.
Comey is still going to testify. In closed session. No holds barred. You may have heard me say this. Comey. Is. A. White Hat.
And just 12 minutes ago, he posted this:
Just in: Senate Intel Com sent lengthy letter to Treasury requesting detailed financial info on transactions of Trump, family, & assoc.
Looks like someone is finally trying to investigate Trump's finances.
If my post doesn't mention a giant flying sperm whale with oversized teeth and lionfish fins for flippers, it just isn't worth reading.