Allegations mount against FBI, possible campaign intervention

[G_j]

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/allegations-mount-against-fbi-possible-campaign-intervention

By Steve Benen
For much of 2016, the fear was that Russian President Vladimir Putin and officials from his government would interfere in the American presidential election, taking wildly improper steps to boost Donald Trump. More recently, however, related concerns came to the fore – about domestic officials doing the same thing.

A week ago, FBI Director James Comey intervened in the presidential campaign in a highly provocative way, releasing a vague letter to Congress about Hillary Clinton emails that seemed almost designed to generate innuendo. Reuters reported yesterday Comey “was driven in part by a fear of leaks from within his agency” when he decided to release the document.

The same Reuters report added that “a faction of investigators” based in the FBI’s New York Field Office is “known to be hostile to Hillary Clinton.”

As Rachel reported last night, the effects of such anti-Clinton hostility within the bureau are raising the kind of questions the FBI hoped to leave behind in the J. Edgar Hoover era. Consider the report from the Guardian’s Spencer Ackerman, who discussed his reporting on the show.
Deep antipathy to Hillary Clinton exists within the FBI, multiple bureau sources have told the Guardian, spurring a rapid series of leaks damaging to her campaign just days before the election.

Current and former FBI officials, none of whom were willing or cleared to speak on the record, have described a chaotic internal climate that resulted from outrage over director James Comey’s July decision not to recommend an indictment over Clinton’s maintenance of a private email server on which classified information transited.

“The FBI is Trumpland,” said one current agent.

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[Stinky The Clown]

1. Talk about swamps needing draining, this one is a festering cesspool.

[Coyotl]

14. The FBI conspiracy is pretty big news, developing now:

[center]from: Watch this & tell me Giuliani didn't know. Comey political conspiracy evidenced!!!

[LisaM]

2. Why would they be hostile to her in the first place?

Bro culture? Just don't like the Clintons (again, I don't recall Bill Clinton ever doing anything to hinder the FBI in its work).

[rock]

3. "Bro culture"

Or as I like to call it "Misogyny".

[RKP5637]

6. Exactly! Probably some of them couldn't tolerate a black guy in the WH, but the thought of

a woman in the WH has pushed some over the edge IMO.

[Bobcat]

10. Christian Dominionists

Based on some the references to Clinton attributed to the NY FBI office, one has to wonder if there isn't a cabal of Christian Dominionists operating in that office.

[RKP5637]

4. Sure sounds like the FBI needs some real house cleaning yet again. n/t

[MADem]

5. I think this has become a NATIONAL SECURITY ISSUE.

The NYC FBI is obviously the New York office of the KGB that Vlad wants to reconstitute along with his Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The people who are engaging in this leaking and gaming of evidence have destroyed the agency's reputation and have behaved in traitorous/treasonous fashion.

The expression "Heads Will Roll" is often overused, but that is exactly what needs to happen. And as heads go, the fish rots from the head--start with Comey and work on down. Get those bastards to turn on one another, and implicate "America's Treasonous Mayor" while we're at it.

The FBI can't investigate themselves--the Director of National Intelligence should put together a strike team consisting of specialists from other intel agencies with the DOJ and go for it.

[RKP5637]

8. Yep!!!!!!!!!!!! n/t

[world wide wally]

7. What on Earth makes anyone think that there is no difference between Hillary and Republicans?

Get a fucking clue!

Did you hear that, Susan Sarandan?

[longship]

11. And Keith Olbermann is mighty pissed about this.

He is sputteringly pissed! Literally!

Here:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1017409647

[warrprayer]

12. One or more russian moles

Currently active in the F.B.I..

[GnosticCyn]

13. Perhaps the CIA needs to investigate the FBI?

for Russian spies