You're the president, and you've decided to fire the head of an agency investigating whether your presidential campaign colluded with the Russians to help tilt the election your way.
How do you handle that?
Do you confer with senior White House advisers who have experience in these matters, asking them about the propriety of meddling in a high-profile probe overshadowing your administration?
Do you confer with a few trusted members of Congress, soliciting their perspectives about how the U.S. government functions, the need for checks and balances, and longstanding traditions around the separation of powers?
Or do you huddle with a couple of law enforcement officials who may or may not be interested for their own reasons in dumping the same guy you want to dump and see what they say? And then, after deciding to go ahead, tell hardly anyone on your team what you're up to, stick your former bodyguard into a car at the White House and give him an envelope containing the letter firing the guy you've targeted, and then have him deliver the pink slip instead of you -- but without checking whether the guy you're firing is actually going to be in the office when your former bodyguard gets there?
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles ... ired-comey
James Comey better hope that there are no "tapes" of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press!
https://newrepublic.com/minutes/142675/ ... ames-comey
Firing Comey may have accelerated the fire, not extinguished it. It’s easy to compare Trump to Richard Nixon, but another apt comparison lies in the path that brought Bill Clinton to impeachment. The lesson: one investigation leads to another.
http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/how-comeys-firing-accelerates-the-russia-investigations
By Tuesday night, aides were using TV appearances to spin the firing as a simple bureaucratic matter and call for an end to the investigation. “It’s time to move on,” Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the deputy press secretary, said on Fox News.
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/10/comey-firing-trump-russia-238192