1.媒體來源:
New York Times
2.完整新聞標題:
F.B.I. Director James Comey Is Fired by Trump
3.完整新聞內文:
WASHINGTON — President Trump has fired the director of the F.B.I., James B.
Comey, over his handling of the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails,
the White House said on Tuesday.
Mr. Comey was leading an investigation into whether members of the Trump
campaign colluded with Russia to influence the 2016 election.
“While I greatly appreciate you informing me, on three separate occasions,
that I am not under investigation, I nevertheless concur with the judgment of
the Department of Justice that you are not able to effectively lead the
bureau,” Mr. Trump said in a letter to Mr. Comey dated Tuesday.
“It is essential that we find new leadership for the F.B.I. that restores
public trust and confidence in its vital law enforcement mission,” Mr. Trump
wrote.
Officials at the F.B.I. said they were not immediately aware of Mr. Comey’s
dismissal, which Mr. Trump described as effective immediately.
In a separate letter released at the White House, spokesman Sean Spicer said
that the president informed the director that he has been “terminated and
removed from office.”
Memos released by the White House show that Rod J. Rosenstein, the newly
sworn-in deputy attorney general, recommended that Mr. Comey be fired over
how he disclosed the investigation into Mrs. Clinton.
Mr. Comey broke with longstanding tradition and policies by discussing the
case and chastising the Democratic presidential nominee’s “careless”
handling of classified information. Then, in the campaign’s final days, Mr.
Comey announced that the F.B.I. was reopening the case, a move that earned
him widespread criticism.
“The F.B.I. is one of our nation’s most cherished and respected
institutions and today will mark a new beginning for our crown jewel of law
enforcement,” Mr. Trump said in the statement.
A longtime prosecutor who served as the deputy attorney general during the
George W. Bush administration, Mr. Comey came into office with widespread
bipartisan support.
Senator Ron Wyden, Democrat of Oregon and a member of the Senate Intelligence
Committee, said in a post on Twitter that Mr. Comey “should be immediately
called to testify in an open hearing about the status of Russia/Trump
investigation at the time he was fired.”
4.完整新聞連結 (或短網址):
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/09/us/politics/james-comey-fired-fbi.html
5.備註:
白宮用的理由是選舉期間透漏希拉蕊調查進度這件事處置不當
才上台三個月就砍功臣這樣好嗎?