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As I watched the congressional hearing with stzrok today, I noticed the one word that kept being repeated - bias. Bias bias bias. Stzrok was biased against Trump. Everybody is biased. With the polarization in politics today, you had a man sitting there being accused of bias. The question that they should have been getting at is conduct; did Stzroks bias against Trump cause misconduct in the Russia investigation. There is no proof of that, and they were not going to get any information on the conduct of the investigation from Stzrok because it is an ongoing investigation. Therefore the whole hearing was pointless.
Midnight Writer
(21,795 posts)0rganism
(23,970 posts)imho, unmistakable. the visuals, the imagery of outraged GOP congresspeople facing off against an FBI official accused implicitly of professional misconduct and procedurally unable to properly answer the charges. turning an institution as durable as the FBI into an "enemy of the people" is a complex objective, and holding this hearing was one of many smaller steps necessary to achieve it.
Reagan was right about the B-reel. nothing hurts them quite like having that stock footage dominated by the obvious assholes who used to work for Agent Orange getting marched into court to drop their pathetic meeping guilty pleas. likewise, nothing helps them more than images suitable for seeding a preconception that the investigators and prosecutors are on some sort of mysterious deep state take to behave unethically.
so they don't need an orderly hearing in which important things are discovered and useful conclusions are reached in a collaborative bipartisan manner. in fact, that's the worst possible means of advancing their cause. the more vulgar and circus-like they can make it, the worse the flavor left in memory by the stock footage from this news cycle, and the more tainted the FBI by proxy.
Squinch
(51,004 posts)pnwmom
(108,994 posts)had any business investigating Hillary Clinton.
Because bias.
bucolic_frolic
(43,281 posts)you have to fight them with visuals, demeanor, dominance, and votes
Peter Strzok really hit home runs with outrage, facts, and relentless assertiveness
This hearing may have turned the tables on Gowdy and the Investigative Gang of Four
Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)...due to comments he made regarding Trump's candidacy. Should he resign?