Comey firing prompts leading Dems to do 180-degree turn on Comey.
Just last week, Hillary Clinton blamed the FBI director for costing her the presidency by briefly reopening the investigation into her handling of classified emails. But after Trump sacked Comey Tuesday night, Clinton's former campaign manager pronounced the move "terrifying."

Just hours before Comey was canned, former Clinton cmpaign chairman John Podesta tweeted: "The American public is getting mildly nauseous listening to Jim Comey."

Then, after Comey was fired he tweetd: "@realDonaldTrump Didn't you know you're supposed to wait til Saturday night to massacre people investigating you?"
“I do not have confidence in him any longer,” Schumer said of the FBI director.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi told CNN last year that "Maybe [Comey's] not in the right job.”

“I think that we have to just get through this election and just see what the casualties are along the way,” she said.

After Trump sent Comey packing, the California Democrat took a decidedly different position.

“The President’s sudden and brazen firing of the FBI Director raises the ghosts of some of the worst Executive Branch abuses," Pelosi said in a statment.

Other Democrats acknowledged their past remarks about Comey and qualified their criticism of his firing as more about the timing than the substance. Comey recently acknowledged that the bureau is currently investigating Russian involvement in the election, and Democrats charged that firing him was done to short-circuit that probe.

Dems do whatever fits the narrative they want to push people to believe.
I think a lot of politicians do.
But IMO dems have taken it to an art form. e.g....pretty much everything that has come out of Hillary or Pelosi's mouth.

Of course Trump Claim he was the greatest when he interfere with the elections for him. Now that he is investigating Trump for rigging the election he has to go. Trump lied about that too. But then that is all Trump does is lie and you believe him.

The turn around once again is Trump and the republicans.

and did you see that on Saturday Night live or Maddow?

This thread is mischaracterizing this entire situation.

It's dishonest to pretend that the people who are concerned that the Trump administration, and Trump himself, PRAISED Comey for the very things they have now fired him for.

There are two completely unrelated problems here. Mixing them together as this thread does, is propaganda, not analysis.

Comey was criticized by Democrats and others, for mishandling the Clinton investigation as he clearly did. It is NOT part of normal investigatory procedure, to make huge public announcements that an investigation is incomplete, as Comey chose to do for the investigation of the Clinton emails.

Trump is now being criticized for firing Comey, at a time when another investigation is ongoing, which involves the people who have now fired him.

The two concerns are NOT RELATED, save that in one case, the Comey is the person who messed up, and in the other case, he is the victim of other people.

Your confused again? Maybe this video will help.
Focus on the word "hypocrisy"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=u4G2N25Jp88#t=0

swamp being drained....liberals crying and making s%#t up...rinse repeat

need more Drano!

Any of the Anti people here notice that Trump admitted that he actually fired Comey to try to stave off the ongoing investigation into Russian interference in our elections?

Or are you continuing to pretend that this is all about Democrats?

Oh no, it's the RUSSIANS! .......again!

quick hide from the russians

now james comey can get a job at mcdonalds

Per President Trump, yes, it is.

You can continue to lie to yourselves if you like.

But no, the reason why BOTH liberals and conservatives (most of us) are upset about Russia's meddling with our elections, regardless of how effective it was, is because we want AMERICANS to decide who runs the country, and for the people who we elect to do so, to be working only for US. Not to make extra money from "foreign investors."

Refusing to investigate and respond, and worse, being PROUD that you don't want to know what happened, is certainly not a sign of patriotism or wisdom.

yeah,those Dang Russians,brainwashed 80 Million People!

Consistently Inconsistent!

Yeah, you are still insisting on ignoring the facts in favor if your own biased narrative.

Carry on.

http://thefederalist.com/2017/05/17/former-attorney-general-on-comeys-integrity-jims-loyalty-was-more-to-chuck-schumer/

.......In fact, the current episode is not the first time Comey and his associates plotted to oust a sitting Republican official through highly orchestrated political theater and carefully crafted narratives in which Comey is the courageous hero bravely fighting to preserve the rule of law. To understand how Comey came to be FBI director in the first place, and how he operates in the political arena, it is important to review the last scandal in which Comey had a front-row seat: the 2007 U.S. attorney firings and the fight over the 2004 reauthorization of Stellar Wind, a mass National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance program designed to mitigate terrorist threats in the wake of the 9/11 attacks.

The pivotal scene in the Comey-crafted narrative, a drama that made Comey famous and likely paved the road to his 2013 appointment by President Barack Obama to run the FBI, occurred in a Beltway hospital room in early 2004. In Comey’s view, Comey was the last honest man in Washington, the only person standing between a White House that rejected any restraints on its power, and the rule of law protecting Americans from illegal mass surveillance.

A former White House counsel and attorney general with extensive first-hand experience dealing with Comey, however, paints a very different picture of what happened in that hospital room, and disputes numerous key details. In this account, Comey’s actions showcase a duplicitous, secretive schemer whose true loyalties were not to the officials to whom he reported, but to partisan Democrats like Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.). To fully understand and appreciate Jim Comey’s approach to politics, the writings and testimony of Alberto Gonzales, who served as both White House counsel and attorney general during the events in question and is intimately aware of Comey’s history of political maneuvering, is absolutely essential.

Gonzales’s descriptions of his interactions with Comey, included in his 2016 book “True Faith And Allegiance,” are detailed and extensive. While his tone is measured, the language he uses to describe Comey’s actions in 2004 and 2007 leaves little doubt about the former top Bush official’s views on Comey’s character. Gonzales’s opinion is clearly colored by the fact that Comey cravenly used him to jumpstart his own political career by going public with surprise (and questionable) testimony that Gonzales had attempted to take advantage of a deathly ill man in order to ram through authorization of an illegal surveillance program.

Bush’s Attorney General John Ashcroft had taken ill and was in the hospital at a pivotal time. The legal authorization of a surveillance program meant to find and root out terrorist threats was days from expiring. What happened in Ashcroft’s hospital room in March of 2004 later became political fodder for a hearing in which Senate Democrats used Comey to dredge up the 2004 hospital meeting to tar Gonzales’ credibility and suggest he was unfit to continue serving as attorney general. As the 2004 and 2007 sagas show, Comey is clearly no stranger to using the unarguably legal dismissal of government employees as the backdrop for casting himself as the story’s protaganist standing up to the forces of corruption.

“ told my security detail that I needed to get to George Washington Hospital immediately. They turned on the emergency equipment and drove very quickly to the hospital,” Comey testified. “I got out of the car and ran up — literally ran up the stairs with my security detail.”

“I was concerned that, given how ill I knew the attorney general was, that there might be an effort to ask him to overrule me when he was in no condition to do that,” Comey said.

Comey’s use of the phrase “overrule me” is especially noteworthy, given that the authority he referenced belongs not to the deputy attorney general, but to the attorney general himself. However, unbeknownst to anyone at the White House on that day, Comey had assumed for himself the authorities attendant to Ashcroft’s position. Rather than personally informing anyone at the White House, including the president, the vice president, the White House chief of staff, or the White House counsel, the Department of Justice sent a mere fax to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue noting the change in power. For some reason, the newly designated acting attorney general didn’t feel compelled to personally inform any of his superiors that he was now a cabinet official..............
much more at the Link!

Transcript of the Hearings!

http://gulcfac.typepad.com/georgetown_university_law/files/comey.transcript.pdf