FBI Dir­ect­or James Comey was fired in a let­ter from Pres­id­ent Trump, who said the FBI needed new lead­er­ship – and also said that Comey had, “on three sep­ar­ate oc­ca­sions,” in­formed the pres­id­ent that he was not un­der in­vest­ig­a­tion. In dis­miss­ing Comey, Trump said he was act­ing on the re­com­mend­a­tion of At­tor­ney Gen­er­al Jeff Ses­sions and Deputy At­tor­ney Gen­er­al Rod J. Ro­sen­stein. Ro­sen­stein, in a three-page let­ter to Ses­sions cited Comey’s con­tro­ver­sial pub­lic state­ments about the FBI’s in­vest­ig­a­tion in­to Hil­lary Clin­ton’s emails. Dur­ing that news con­fer­ence, Comey said Clin­ton and her aides were“ex­tremely care­less” in hand­ling clas­si­fied in­form­a­tion. Hav­ing re­fused to ad­mit his er­rors, the Dir­ect­or can­not be ex­pec­ted to im­ple­ment the ne­ces­sary cor­rect­ive ac­tions.

Source: Los Angeles Times May 09, 2017 22:27 UTC