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‘Comey Effect’: Where Does the FBI Director Stand as Election Dust Settles?

November 21, 2016 / Comments Off on ‘Comey Effect’: Where Does the FBI Director Stand as Election Dust Settles? / Posted in: 2016 Presidential Election, Hot Button Issues, U.S. Politics

Douglas Charles, associate professor of history at Penn State Greater Allegheny, was quoted recently in an NBC News article about FBI Director James Comey and the 2016 presidential elections. Here’s an excerpt:

“In many ways FBI Director James Comey came out the loser after Tuesday’s presidential election — someone political experts say stands on shaky ground with both political parties after his handling of the probe into former secretary of state Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server.

” ‘I think there could be a lot of focus being directed towards Comey. That’s where the national narrative will now go,’ said Douglas Charles, who has written three books on the FBI and is a professor of history at Pennsylvania State University.

 “And, in that national narrative, Comey is being cast by some as the person who helped upend an election.”
Read more at NBCNews.com.

Leaks about Clinton, Trump signal dissension within FBI against Comey, DOJ

November 2, 2016 / Comments Off on Leaks about Clinton, Trump signal dissension within FBI against Comey, DOJ / Posted in: 2016 Presidential Election, Hot Button Issues, In the Media
A tweet from Penn State Greater Allegheny history Professor Douglas Charles.

A tweet by Penn State Greater Allegheny history Professor Douglas Charles.

Douglas Charles, an associate professor of history at Penn State Greater Allegheny, was quoted in a KOMO News article about the FBI leaking investigation information shortly before Election Day. Here is an excerpt:

“Douglas Charles, author of ‘The FBI’s Obscene File: J. Edgar Hoover and the Bureau’s Crusade Against Smut,’ said Hoover’s FBI played politics and exerted influence on lawmakers when it suited his interests, but it did so quietly.

“ ‘Hoover did it all obsequiously and carefully, always certain to protect is FBI’s carefully crafted public image,’ he said.

“The very public leaking of information is ‘deeply concerning,’ said Charles, a professor of history at Penn State Greater Allegheny, and it suggests internal divisions at the bureau. The leaks leave the impression of an FBI in crisis, with warring partisan factions pressuring and contradicting the director from behind the curtain.”

Read the full article on KOMOnews.com.

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