FBI nominee Comey: The man who told Bush his eavesdropping was illegal

[Cali_Democrat]

As word spread Wednesday that James Comey is President Obama’s pick to lead the FBI into the next decade, the potential nominee was meeting with a group of law professors.

Over lunch, Comey–who served as deputy attorney general under former President George W. Bush–was asked about oversight of government surveillance programs in the wake of a recent Supreme Court ruling related to the issue. Lawyers, Inspectors-General, and Congress all have oversight roles, he said.

No one knows that better than Comey, who nearly resigned after discovering that Bush’s own surveillance program had operated outside the law. Comey stayed after Bush agreed to fix the program.

The 52-year-old registered Republican is expected to replace Robert S. Mueller III, a 12-year veteran who has overseen the FBI’s transformation from chasing bank robbers to overseeing counterterrorism in a post-Sept. 11, 2001 world.

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http://tv.msnbc.com/2013/05/30/fbi-nominee-comey-the-man-who-told-bush-his-eavesdropping-was-illegal/

[OnyxCollie]

1. Comey should feel relaxed in the Obama administration,

since Obama and the Dems voted to make what was illegal, legal, freeing up the telecoms, and "looking forward" while expanding the domestic surveillance started under Bush.

According to the ACLU, Comey's a fan of torture, so he's got that going for him, too.

[grasswire]

2. Dr. Dean supported this appointment tonight on MSNBC.

I admire Dr. Dean a great deal. I hope he's right.

[calimary]

3. So do I. If Howard Dean thinks it's a good idea, I tend to want to give it another look.

Him I trust. STILL wish he'd been President.

[Pragdem]

4. Me too. We better keep him away from buses today.

There are right-wing groups paying a lot of good money to left-wing posers to oppose any appointments this President makes, since it would look bad for them to do it themselves.

[Cali_Democrat]

5. I think Dean is right on this guy

He seems like a good guy.