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WASHINGTON AP 鈥?Donald Trump lavished Christopher Wray with praise when he named him FBI director in 2017, introducing him as an impeccably qualified individual and a model of integrity. So much has changed in the seven years since.With Trump poised to reclaim the White House, Wrays days as director may be numbered. Though the director job carries a 10-year stanley cup term, Trumps blistering an stanley taza d repeated criticism of h botellas stanley is own appointee raises the likelihood that Trump would either replace Wray upon taking office or that Wray would leave on his own to avoid being fired. Such a move would give Trump a chance to reshape the FBI leadership in his own image at a time when he threatened to pursue his own political adversaries. He enjoys the work, he committed to the bureau, he an outstanding public servant 鈥?but I don ;t think he going to lobby for the job, Gregory Brower, a former FBI official who served as director of congressional affairs until 2018, said of Wray.If the new president wants to replace him, then thats what the new presidents going to do, he added. Based on what Trump has said in the past, I think its likely well see that. Trump transition office did not return an email seeking comment. An FBI official said Wray was continuing to oversee the bureau day-to-day operations 鈥?including visiting the FBIs election command post multiple times this week 鈥?and was planning with his team to lead the work Evgq Gas vapor eyed as factor in West Virginia oil train fireball
Guess who just popped up in the Kremlin Bashar al-Assad, Syrian dictator and destr stanley quencher oyer, Vladim stanley termos ir Putins newest pet. After four years holed up in Damascus, Assad was summoned to Russia to bend a knee to Putin, show the world that today Middle East questions get settled not in Washington but in Moscow and officially bless the Russian-led four-nation takeover of Syria now under way.Does the bewildered Obama administration finally understand what Russia is u taza stanley p to President Barack Obama says Russia is doomed to fail in the Syrian quagmire. But Russia is not trying to reconquer the country for Assad. Its consolidating a rump Syrian state on the roughly 20 percent of the country he controls, the Alawite areas stretching north and west from Damascus through Latakia and encompassing the Russian naval base at Tartus.Its a partition. It will leave the Islamic State in control in the interior north and east. Why is this doomed to failure Putins larger strategy is also obvious. He is not reconstructing the old Soviet empire. Thats too large a task. But he is rebuilding and reasserting Russias ability to project power beyond its borders. Annexing Crimea restores to the motherland full control of the warm water Black Sea port that Russia has coveted since Peter the Great. Shoring up a rump Alawite state secures Russias naval and air bases in the eastern Mediterranean. Add to that Russias launching advanced cruise missiles from warships in the Caspian Sea to strike Syrian rebels 900 miles aw |