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Most predictable thing ever. This guy has what qualifications for the job, by the way?
Also: anyone see that interview he did with Dan Bingobongo or whatever the fuck his name is?
Apparently he somehow has a law degree .. and worked in a government position (DOJ) for 10 years or something, not sure that qualifies him for FBI director though, I seem to remember the director role being more political and it's the deputy directors that need more actual expertise ..
Why should the FBI director be a lawyer at all? Why should lawyers make up over 96 percent of all lawmakers and appointees or whatever it is? Obviously what we have been doing isn't working, so let's try getting non lawyers, that aren't pieces of shit in these positions.
"What makes people who've spent years studying and practicing law so qualified for and interested in writing and executing federal law? Golly, it's just such a mystery why one might value a law degree for the person tasked with directing the principal law enforcement agency of the United States."
The fact that @Lodespawn@aussie.zone had to defend "law degree" as a qualification to lead the FBI (not sufficient unto itself, but just a qualification) shows how insular places like Lemmy are. Just staggeringly asinine. You would be laughed out of the room if you asked this anywhere else.
Well they are corrupt and dishonest and clearly not a great choice. I think defending the captured bureaucracy and the politicians that appoint them, as the proper people to be running the country, marks you as a sheep, not us as misguided.
Most countries would laugh you out of the room if you said being a jurist was a requirement to be the head of police.
It is a good background for such a position, but it is also true that the US government is overweighted with jurists and that there are a lot of shitty right-wing law schools in the US. See JD Vance for an example of how good Yale is.
I'm not saying being a lawyer is appropriate for the role, just that he does surprisingly have a reasonably professional qualification. He seems like an idiot but he must be some degree of competent if he can pass a law degree. His ridiculous children's books and evidence of his corruption would suggest he is not suitable for the current role.
Snort enough adderall and anyone can cram/rote learn enough temporarily to scrape through a degree. Did he pass the bar anywhere? I assume it’s a case of that old joke - what do you call a guy who partied all through med school, stole the answers to exams and scraped through by the skin of his teeth? “Doctor”.
Apparently he did pass the bar, but holy hell there's some real corkers in his Wikipedia page. He's a Ugandan Asylum Seeker and his senior year yearbook quote is "Racism is man's gravest threat—the maximum of hatred for a minimum reason" pretty rich for his current general attitude. He also claimed to be lead prosecutor on the Benghazi case but barely worked on it.
Good grief - that’s wild, but somehow wholly unsurprising. Asylum seeker from Uganda to FBI Director. It’s the American Dream™️. I can’t imagine his mother could be proud of this version of her son. I hope she’s disappointed as hell, not because she deserves it, but so he has to at least face that reality, because whatever bug-eye inducing, drug-fuelled, taxpayer-funded fever dream he’s living isn’t anyone else’s reality (no one with a soul anyway)
He does have an Israeli girlfriend though. That covers the qualification part.