{"id":21679,"date":"2017-05-16T18:09:47","date_gmt":"2017-05-16T18:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=21679"},"modified":"2017-05-16T18:09:47","modified_gmt":"2017-05-16T18:09:47","slug":"cornyn-pulls-out-of-fbi-search-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=21679","title":{"rendered":"Cornyn pulls out of FBI search … good!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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John Cornyn issued a statement today that says this: \u201cNow more than ever the country needs a well-credentialed, independent FBI director. I\u2019ve informed the administration that I\u2019m committed to helping them find such an individual, and that the best way I can serve is continuing to fight for a conservative agenda in the U.S. Senate.”<\/p>\n

The Republican U.S. senator from Texas had been considered a prime candidate for the FBI directorship. After all, he had served as a trial judge in Bexar County, a justice on the Texas Supreme Court and\u00a0Texas attorney general before being elected to the Senate.<\/p>\n

He would have been a terrible pick for Donald Trump to make to replace the fired FBI boss James Comey. Cornyn is too partisan, too political, too friendly — I only can assume — with the president to be the kind of “well-credentialed, independent FBI director” the agency needs in this critical time.<\/p>\n

He has pulled his name out of the running for the FBI job. Good deal.<\/p>\n

Many Americans’ hope now is that the president will find someone who fits the description of a tough-minded independent law enforcement official to lead the FBI.<\/p>\n

Let’s get busy, Mr. President.<\/p>\n\n

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John Cornyn issued a statement today that says this: \u201cNow more than ever the country needs a well-credentialed, independent FBI director. I\u2019ve informed the administration that I\u2019m committed to helping them find such an individual, and that the best way I can serve is continuing to fight for a conservative agenda in the U.S. Senate.” … Continue reading Cornyn pulls out of FBI search … good!<\/span> →<\/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":[8],"tags":[1424,1693,1941,2526,5051],"class_list":["post-21679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-fbi","tag-gop","tag-john-cornyn","tag-us-senate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21679","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=21679"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21680,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21679\/revisions\/21680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}