READER POLL: Who should be the new FBI Director?
Familiar name like Rudy, or career prosecutor/agent?
Yesterday, Trump turned the beltway on end when he abruptly fired FBI Director Comey. In Comey’s absence, Andrew McCabe is acting as the interim director.
But we want to hear from you.
Who do you think should replace Comey as FBI Director?
I’m voting for Burt Macklin:
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Andrew McCarthy.
Not on your list, Kemberlee, but most assuredly my choice, and the best choice.
Does Gen. Mattis have a bullheaded brother with law degree?
If General Mattis has a brother you can count on him being bullheaded…
I wonder if there isn’t a sheriff of a large enough city who is experienced at managing police and willing to follow the orders of his bosses.
The interim FBI director is a Clinton super-loyalist and has to be watched closely and replaced quickly.
Whatsisname in Milwaukee? Sherriff…. ugh – black man, wears a cowboy hat…. It may not even be Milwaukee, but somewhere in that great white frozen part of the country.
Clarke. David Clarke.
FBI Director likely needs to be an attorney. Sheriff Clarke, a Great American, did not attend law school.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Clarke_(sheriff)
With respect (as always) to the lawyers on this blog, I think part of our problem in this country is there are too many lawyers in .gov and not enough common sense.
Chuck Norris?
Chuck doesn’t have time. He is very cleverly disguised as a North Korean general and is waiting for the perfect time to kick some fat boy butt. When the time is right, the attack will be so fast that it will seem to have happened yesterday. Ahhhh Ching!
Google: Giuliani Freedom is About Authority speech. I vote no on him.
Hillary Clinton!
Andy McCarthy was also the first name to come to my mind.
WE agree.
Note the disparity between your down-thumbs and mine.
A matter of aspholes who just hate, and their knee JERKS.
d’accord.
It couldn’t possibly be anything you did.
It must be a great right wing conspiracy.
LMAO!
Oh, we all know it IS something I did.
I and a few others here committed the heresy of preventing you and a few others from turning this site into a church of the living T-rump.
Asphole.
Professor Jacobson
Great idea. He could run LI from a server in his bathroom and give us all the inside scoop in a bunch of non classified emails.
I keep hearing RINOs calling for Rudy or Christy but either would be a yuuuuuge mistake. Rudy’s ego is as big a problem as Comey’s as is his narcissism. Christy just has too much corruption baggage. We need someone new and younger.
The Dems are going to try to block anyone Trump nominates anyway so he should just pick the one he wants and lean on the GOP-controlled Senate to grow a pair. I expect McCain and his girl friend Lesley will again be a problem as well as Collins so McConnell may have to do some serious badassery on those three to get the nominee through. Will he?
I like the Andrew McCarthy suggestion too.
Does this position require U.S. citizenship ????? I think it should be someone from within the organization. There has to be a “golden” carrot to strive for. Outsiders can possibly damage morale and the public’s perception of the FBI at present does not appear well.
I don’t know about the US citizenship part but I’m thinking the same way about promoting someone from within. The FBI is demoralized right now and needs a reason to not be cynical about the political system. The last thing they need is to have to answer to a “Brownie” as in “You’re doing a great job Brownie!”. Trump needs to refrain from picking someone from his inner circle just because Trump trusts him.
I think PDT ought to troll the Demorats further and float Trey Gowdie as his pick. OMG can you hear the screaming? Lol.
I wouldn’t be surprised if Trump nominates Rosenstein who is now the Deputy DoJ who wrote the long list of reasons why Comey should be fired. He was recently confirmed by a vote of 94 to 6. The Dems would have a real hard time now saying he is unworthy of that job after confirming him for the DoJ job.
In addition Rosenstein has been at the FBI for 30 years. He knows what’s going on in the organization.
I think that appointing him Director would be a great move.
Seeing as how the FBI Director works for the Asst. AG it would be a demotion for Rosenstein and he wouldn’t accept.
The FBI Director reports to the Asst. AG, but he is the head of the entire FBI organization and runs it. The Asst. AG is not and does not. Name a bunch of Asst. AGs. Now name a bunch of FBI Directors.
Ted Nugent!!!!!!
Or, anyone willing to place Cuomo and Christie in a special jail cell together.
Ted would probably just take’em down with a flaming arrow. I have no idea where he will obtain those homosexual arrows.
From my point of view [retired Peace Officer] I come down on the “outsider” side of the insider -v- outsider debate.
1) The FBI is at the moment an intensely corrupt organization that has been able to get away with being above the law AND an arm of the Democrat Party and the Left for between one and two decades. This is the most important thing to address, to get the FBI being a real law enforcement organization again.
2) The American people recognize #1 as being the situation.
3) If I believed that the poor morale in the FBI was because of disgust at what they had become, it would be one thing. It seems just as likely that it is more a case that they fear for losing their position of privilege based on politics.
4) Therefore, an outsider with law enforcement experience, a lawyer too, maybe; but primarily an honest cop. And especially one who will kick a** and not even bother with taking names. And who will appoint subordinates who will do the same.
5) It also needs to be someone who will take on the street thugs attacking people in Leftist parts of the country, prosecute them when they break the law or violate peoples’ civil rights, and use RICO to take down those funding them.
I cannot see anyone in the FBI now being willing to do what must be done. The best of them were willing to be silent and allow the years of corruption to go on unchallenged.
+1 to Subotai. This is why David Clarke is the best choice.
I love the idea of David Clarke just because it would make CNN’s heads explode even worse then they have been doing the last couple of days.
“The FBI is at the moment an intensely corrupt organization…”
There no evidence of that. In fact, I would strongly argue otherwise. When Comey laid out his “closing argument” for convicting Hillary and then recommended no charges (which is not his job), the investigating team were near mutiny.
Comey was a narcissistic drama queen who went his own way desperate to be a “player”. I have read several times that he wanted the building that will replace the J Edgar Hoover FBI HQ to be named after him. Comey being corrupt does not indict the entire FBI.
“Near mutiny” isn’t enough to do the job. It has to be the real thing or nothing’s accomplished.
I fail to see any difference between today’s FBI and the bunch that was at Waco.
Judge Napolitano
Oh, that would be good for months of craven Demorat screaming.
Shirley you could come up with a better television personality than an ex-lower New Jersey court judge.
You know perfectly well what happens when the public makes suggestions about such things. We’ll end up with a new FBI director named something like Boaty McBoatface.
No offense to those who commented here, but for all these comments to be incapable of coming up with at least 10 names might mean we’re not too confident anyone can clean this mess
I am in fact not confident anyone can clean up that mess.
The FBI has been too corrupt for too long.
There gas to be someone in the FBI who gives a ____ and would clean up this mess. An outsider will just make things worse.
Wheres the “Anyone as long as its not Hillary” option? 🙂
I normally don’t support hiring choices made on the calculated basis of gender, ethnicity, etc., but, in this case, I’ll say that, given the ceaseless and irrational histrionics and obstruction that Trump and his agenda face from the Left with each passing day, he should make a shrewd choice and pick a deserving and competent woman as the first female head of the FBI — take the Left’s identity politics shtick and throw it back in their faces, as in, “Two can play at this game.” Hell, a black woman would be my ideal pick.
Maxine already has a well paying gig.
Condi Rice
Gulliani was not well liked by the LE who worked with him in NY way back. He was in the media during 9/11 and working and being there that day, he came off great. but as far as during that agency, no. ANYUONE but Christie. He’s a anti-gun blowhard. You can’t trust a thing he says and he has a ton of skeletons in his closet.
Trey Gowdy
It’s got to be a former federal prosecutor who will be given free reign to reshape the FBI by firing people like Acting Director McCabe who is a fervent Demorat and whose wife is absolutely corrupt simply by her association with Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe.
Joseph diGenova
If you really want to watch liberal heads explode, find a one eyed Jewish black woman named Gonzales.
I know of one Jewish woman named Gonzales, who’s conservative enough and feisty enough to kick the necessary ass. I think she’d be perfect for the job.
Unfortunately, she’s not black, nor do I think she’s willing to give up an eye for her country.
Aside from being fictional (surely not a disqualifier in DC), l’inspecteur Javert would be ideal. ;^))
Me me. Pick me. I’ll take the job. I hope they call me.
Merrick Garland. (Just to watch the Dems spin around on their eyebrows.)
Gowdy.
I’m tired of being fair.
I started out wanting to be honest and fair, and look what it got us.
I want somebody to kick political butt, to be lenient to the political right and over-prosecute the left.
We had to put up with that cr@p for 8 years of the Obama administration. Now it’s our turn.
Pay backs.
Sure I’m bitter.
Macklin or Giuliani.
Milwaukee County Sheriff David A. Clarke, Jr.
ME!! I’ll light a fire under their butts and get the job done.
I think it’d be fun for Trump to put Judge Jeanine and Mark Levin on the list.