So it's politically inconvenient to fire Comey right now.

[okasha]

Bad optics.

So how about the President puts him on suspension, the Secret Service lock down his office and confiscate his communications devices, and Obama appoints an Iterim FBI Director who will get these damn emails on the front page of the NYT by Tuesday and initiate an investigation of Comey's malfeasance.

Seems like a good plan to me.

[Foggyhill]

1. To late for that too

Comey did the equivalent of tainting the jury pool, except it's the electorate he tainted

The voters will have to go to the poll with misleading insunations to reflect on instead of nothing (because it's not ascertained to be pertinent) or the actual facts

He's a walking sack if shit, a GOP maggot

[LAS14]

2. He's got a 10 year contract. I don't know...

... what that means in practice, but I'm sure it means the Pres or Attorney G can't just fire him without jumping through some hoops.

Does anyone know?

[spooky3]

4. He serves at the pleasure of the President.

He can be removed at any time. He can also be impeached by the House. The links to the citations are on DU.

It's a political decision rather than a legal one that has kept him in office.

[underthematrix]

3. President Obama referred to the current email drama

as NOISE and a DISTRACTION, which means he knows exactly what the real deal is on how Huma's emails got on her hubby's laptop. Once Hillary is elected I'm sure it will all come out.

[mwrguy]

5. firewall him off from actual control of the FBI.

Paid leave, or let him sit in his office and twiddle his thumbs.

Let him be a useless figurehead if he can't actually be fired.

[scheming daemons]

6. Obama will ask for his resignation November 9th.

or shortly after that.

[McCamy Taylor]

7. Naw, that makes him a political martyr. And he won't catch flack

for covering up Trump's treason with Russia. I say keep him on the job and later ask him why he did not tell the American public everything he knew about Trump before the election. That might well make him a conspirator to treason which is a much worse crime than a Hatch Act violation.

Indeed, if I were Comey right now I would be praying that my boss would fire me. It can't be easy having to protect a criminal at the cost of his own career.

[Blue Idaho]

8. Best thing to do?

Bury the asshole in paperwork. Have the Justice Department send him on a fool's quest that would take the rest of his appointment to accomplish. Put someone else in charge on a temporary basis and fill his life with meaningless, tedious, reports.