Note: This morning, June 7, 2017, President Trump announced his pick to replace Mr Comey.
The following article by Philip Bump was posted on the Washington Post website June 6, 2017:
It’s been almost a month since President Trump fired James B. Comey on May 9, leaving the FBI without a director. Under normal circumstances, a president planning to fire the head of the nation’s top law-enforcement agency might do so only once he had a successor lined up. (The only other time an FBI director was fired, President Bill Clinton announced his replacement the next day.) Trump didn’t do that, pledging instead that a new director would be identified quickly. Shortly before he left on his overseas trip last month, he promised that he was “very close” to picking a new director. That was almost three weeks ago.
There have been a number of people who were identified as being in the running to get the job. And of that group, most have publicly withdrawn their names from contention. Continue reading “The Trump administration has a recruiting problem”