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storrum schreef:En dan kom ik dit tegen http://www.prageru.com/courses/environm ... e-climate#
Waar maken we ons dan met zijn allen zo druk om?
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alex66 schreef:1 dag na de verkiezingen of 1 dag na de inauguratie? want ook al verliest Trump als hij een trap na kan geven zal hij het niet laten.
Citaat:In the end, it’s Donald Trump who will destroy Donald Trump.
Citaat:"I submitted my statement for the record, and I'm not gonna repeat it here this morning,
I thought I would just offer some very brief introductory remarks and then I would welcome your questions. When I was appointed FBI Director in 2013, I understood that I served at the pleasure of the president. Even though I was appointed to a ten year term, which congress created in order to underscore the importance of the FBI being outside of politics and independent, I understood that I could be fired by a president for any reason or for no reason at all.
On may the 9th, after I got fired, for that reason I came home immediately as a private citizen.
But then the explanations, the shifting explanations, confused me and increasingly concerned me.
They confused me because the President and I had had multiple conversations about my job, both before and after he took office. And he had repeatedly told me that I was doing a great job, and he hoped I would stay. And I had repeatedly insured him that I did intend to stay and serve out the remaining six years of my term. He told me repeatedly, that he had talked to lots of people about me, including out current attorney general and had learned that I was doing a great job, and that I was extremely well liked by the FBI workforce.
So it confused me when I saw on television, the president saying that he actually fired me because of the Russia investigation. And learned again, from the media, that he was telling privately other parties, that my firing had releaved great pressure on the Russia investigation.
I was also confused by the initial explanation that was offered publicly, that I was fired because of the decisions I had made during the election year. That didn't make sense to me for a whole bunch of reasons, including the time, and all the water that had gone under the bridge since those hard decisions had had to be made, that didn't make sense to me at all.
And although the law required no reason at all to fire an FBI Director, the administration then chose to defame me, and more importantly, the FBI, By saying that the organization was in disarray. That it was poorly led, that the workforce had lost confidence in it's leader. Those were lies, plain and simple. And I am so sorry that the FBI workforce had to hear them, and I'm so sorry that the American people were told them.
I worked every day at the FBI to help make that great organization better, and I say 'help', because I did nothing alone at the FBI. There are no indispensable people at the FBI, the organization's great strength is that its values and its abilities run deep and wide.
The FBI will be fine without me, the FBI's mission will be relentlessly pursued by it's people, and that mission is to protect the American people, and uphold the constitution of the United states. I will deeply miss being part of that mission, but this organization and it's mission will go on long beyond me, and long beyond any particular administration.
I have a message before I close for my former colleagues of the FBI, but first I want the American people to know this truth: The FBI is honest. The FBI is strong, and the FBI is and always will be independent. And now to my former colleagues if I may: I am so sorry that I didn't get the chance to say goodbye to you properly. It was the honor of my life to serve beside you, to be part of the FBI family, and I will miss it for the rest of my life. Thank you, for standing watch, thank you for doing so much good for this country. Do that good as long as ever you can.
Senators, I look forward to your questions.