Black People Politics : 'Something is wrong' with presidential election, says civil rights leader Diane Nash

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The FBI and the Russia investigation, key fact

... Democrats say the firing had nothing to do with what Comey’s done, but what he was about to do: close in on the president’s Russia connection.

Hillary Clinton’s former senior campaign spokesperson Karen Finney told Yahoo News, “Trump clearly wants to put someone in the FBI that he can control” ...

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https://www.yahoo.com/katiecouric/fbi-russia-investigation-180318930.html



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Bianna Golodryga 22 hours ago


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James Comey will not testify next week but Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein to brief Senate on firing

... Comey will "share his side of the story" at the appropriate place and time, Warner said, adding that he hopes it is before the Intelligence Committee, which he and Chairman Richard Burr, R-N.C., lead.

Meanwhile, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein will brief the full U.S. Senate next week on Comey's firing, according to a spokesman for Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. ...

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https://www.yahoo.com/gma/james-com...deputy-ag-215405650--abc-news-topstories.html





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Good Morning AmericaMay 12, 2017


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Complaint filed: Watchdog group alleges Sessions violated recusal rule in firing of Comey

An ethics watchdog group filed a complaint against Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Friday alleging that his participation in the firing of FBI Director James B. Comey violated Justice Department rules and Sessions’s promise to recuse himself from matters involving Russia.

“Firing the lead investigator is the most extreme form of interfering with an investigation,” wrote Fred Wertheimer, who signed the six-page complaint on behalf of his organization, Democracy 21 ...


https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...2beef8121f7_story.html?utm_term=.76693985b73f

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Attorney General Jeff Sessions at Justice Department headquarters on May 12. (Michael Reynolds/European Pressphoto Agency)




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James Comey agrees to testify in public Senate hearing

James Comey has agreed to testify in a public Senate hearing regarding the investigation into alleged ties between Russia and Donald Trump’s campaign team.
Mr Comey had initially declined to testify in front of the Senate Intelligence Committee in a closed-door hearing. The announcement comes the same day Mr Trump said he could name a new FBI Director as early as next week ...

https://www.yahoo.com/news/james-comey-agrees-testify-public-165000463.html

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Mythili Sampathkumar
The IndependentMay 13, 2017


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6 Sarah Huckabee Sanders tweets about the FBI that are very awkward now
“When you’re attacking FBI agents because you’re under criminal investigation, you’re losing

... On Wednesday and Thursday, Deputy Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders was responsible for sharing the administration’s elusive official line of reasoning during the White House news conferences. She characterized Trump’s decision to fire Comey amid an active investigation into his campaign as somehow consistent with the “drain the swamp” message Trump used in the last weeks of the campaign ...

https://thinkprogress.org/6-sarah-h...he-fbi-that-are-very-awkward-now-9dbbdad5a145

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