{"id":21589,"date":"2017-05-12T03:14:36","date_gmt":"2017-05-12T03:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=21589"},"modified":"2017-05-12T03:14:36","modified_gmt":"2017-05-12T03:14:36","slug":"no-rep-thornberry-it-wont-go-away-easily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=21589","title":{"rendered":"No, Rep. Thornberry, it won&#8217;t go away easily"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Comey_Trump_jpg_800x1000_q100.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-21590\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Comey_Trump_jpg_800x1000_q100-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Comey_Trump_jpg_800x1000_q100-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Comey_Trump_jpg_800x1000_q100-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Comey_Trump_jpg_800x1000_q100.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is what U.S. Rep. Mac Thornberry told a TV station about the upcoming selection of a new FBI director: <span class=\"subtext person-quote\"><span style=\"color: #777777;\">&#8220;It needs to be somebody with impeccable credentials,&#8221; Thornberry told <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.myhighplains.com\/news\/congressman-mac-thornberry-reacts-to-comey-firing\/711196714\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">local affiliate KCIT<\/a><span style=\"color: #777777;\"> about his ideal FBI replacement. &#8220;It needs to be somebody who has trust across the aisle, widespread trust who is a professional and with that I think largely this controversy will die down.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Hmm. Well, I believe I&#8217;ll disagree with the Republican lawmaker, who happens also to represent yours truly in the U.S. House of Representatives.<\/p>\n<p>The selection of an FBI director to succeed James Comey won&#8217;t by itself allow &#8220;this controversy&#8221; to wither away and die.<\/p>\n<p>There needs to be a lot of investigating completed before we start to put this matter in our rearview mirror. The president cannot appoint a yes man, a lackey, a hack. He needs a tough prosecutor, someone who is independent and fearless.<\/p>\n<p>Thornberry is right about the need for someone with &#8220;trust across the aisle.&#8221; How does an FBI director gain that trust? By demonstrating resistance against the White House and from the president.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2017\/05\/11\/republicans-congress-mostly-quiet-amid-russian-investigation-chaos\/\">Texans in Congress mostly silent<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The FBI boss needs to continue the search for the whole truth into whether Donald Trump&#8217;s campaign colluded with Russian hackers who every intelligence expert in American has concluded tried to influence the 2016 election.<\/p>\n<p>If a vigorous and thorough search clears the president, only <em>then<\/em>\u00a0will it\u00a0&#8220;die down.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is what U.S. Rep. Mac Thornberry told a TV station about the upcoming selection of a new FBI director: &#8220;It needs to be somebody with impeccable credentials,&#8221; Thornberry told local affiliate KCIT about his ideal FBI replacement. &#8220;It needs to be somebody who has trust across the aisle, widespread trust who is a professional &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=21589\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">No, Rep. Thornberry, it won&#8217;t go away easily<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[1424,6386,6242,2849],"class_list":["post-21589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-fbi-probe","tag-james-comey","tag-mac-thornberry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21589"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21591,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21589\/revisions\/21591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}