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Here is the irony. Trump loudly attacks the FBI as being biased and unfair. Which is true, except that the bias has been in his favor! Trump's official explanation for firing Comey, which was prepared by Rosenstein, was that Comey was unfair to Hillary Clinton! Likewise, Andrew McCabe authored a leak...of the investigation into the Clinton foundation!
Of course, you will not here any talk of this, particularly on Fox News. Instead, the narrative will be that the FBI is biased against Trump and in favor of Democrats despite all evidence to the contrary.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/the-fbi-is-in-crisis-and-america-is-paying-the-price/ar-AAwG1Vt?li=BBnbcA1
In normal times, the televisions are humming at the FBIs 56 field offices nationwide, piping in the latest news as agents work their investigations. But these days, some agents say, the TVs are often off to avoid the crush of bad stories about the FBI itself. The bureau, which is used to making headlines for nabbing crooks, has been grabbing the spotlight for unwanted reasons: fired leaders, texts between lovers and, most of all, attacks by President Trump. I dont care what channel its on, says Tom OConnor, a veteran investigator in Washington who leads the FBI Agents Association. All you hear is negative stuff about the FBI It gets depressing.
Many view Trumps attacks as self-serving: he has called the renowned agency an embarrassment to our country and its investigations of his business and political dealings a witch hunt. But as much as the bureaus roughly 14,000 special agents might like to tune out the news, internal and external reports have found lapses throughout the agency, and longtime observers, looking past the partisan haze, see a troubling picture: something really is wrong at the FBI.
The Justice Departments Inspector General, Michael Horowitz, will soon release a much-anticipated assessment of Democratic and Republican charges that officials at the FBI interfered in the 2016 presidential campaign. That year-long probe, sources familiar with it tell TIME, is expected to come down particularly hard on former FBI director James Comey, who is currently on a high-profile book tour. It will likely find that Comey breached Justice Department protocols in a July 5, 2016, press conference when he criticized Hillary Clinton for using a private email server as Secretary of State even as he cleared her of any crimes, the sources say. The report is expected to also hit Comey for the way he reopened the Clinton email probe less than two weeks before the election, the sources say.
The report closely follows an earlier one in April by Horowitz, which showed that the ousted deputy director of the FBI, Andrew McCabe, had lied to the bureaus internal investigations branch to cover up a leak he orchestrated about Clintons family foundation less than two weeks before the election. (The case has since been referred to the U.S. Attorneys office in Washington, D.C., for potential prosecution.) Another IG report in March found that FBI retaliation against internal whistle-blowers was continuing despite years of bureau pledges to fix the problem. Last fall, Horowitz found that the FBI wasnt adequately investigating high-risk employees who failed polygraph tests.
Cha
(297,026 posts)I agree with that 100%!
Corgigal
(9,291 posts)But in the late 1970 and during most of the 1980s, law enforcement was democratic. Then the republicans branded themselves the law and order party, stronger military for our country and lots of men fell for it. I never understood electing someone from the Republican Party, because they claimed to hate government, but want to be my boss. My government boss.
Law enforcement and the military need to stop being conned and start using some critical thinking.
This pretend tough guys vote republican is embarrassing. Lots of FBI agents need to think. We need to reach military young people because republicans will kill them without losing any sleep.
If we get our country back, but republicans get a smarter criminal , we can be rolled back a 100 years. Not everyone, except the wealthy will be happy and we will have to fight again to get back our rights. Not all white guys will be safe, including pretend tough military and LEO's.
Thekaspervote
(32,750 posts)lunasun
(21,646 posts)11/2017 U.S. media company Meredith said on Sunday it will buy Time Inc, the publisher of People, Sports Illustrated and Fortune magazines, in a $1.84 billion all-cash deal backed by conservative billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch.
It will give news, business and sports brands to the Des Moines, Iowa-based publisher and broadcaster, which owns lifestyle magazines such as Better Homes & Gardens and Family Circle.
Analysts have said that bulking up on publishing assets could give Meredith the scale required to spin off its broadcasting arm into a standalone company
Initech
(100,054 posts)janx
(24,128 posts)In fact, I'm proud of the way our government is structured. I'm so proud!
DURHAM D
(32,607 posts)He thought he was so smart to go after Hillary and now look.