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Greeson: Hey, FBI, let’s protect freedom more than feelings

FBI Director James Comey answers questions during a news conference at the FBI office in Nashville on Friday, Nov. 13, 2015.
FBI Director James Comey answers questions during a news conference at the FBI office in Nashville on Friday, Nov. 13, 2015. FBI Director James Comey answers questions during a news conference at the FBI office in Nashville on Friday, Nov. 13, 2015.

Two lead stories in Saturday’s Times Free Press were sad. And startling.

Rightly, in the middle of the front page, was the cowardly and horrific terrorist attacks in Paris.

To the right was a story about the investigation into the July 16 killings of five military personnel in Chattanooga. In that story, the FBI director James Comey said the public may never know what motivated a 24-year-old homegrown extremist to gun down the five men.

photo Jay Greeson

“Sometimes the way we investigate requires us to keep information secret. That’s a good thing. We don’t want to smear people,” Comey said Friday while in Nashville.

Say what?