2016 Postmortem

madaboutharry

(40,190 posts) Thu Nov 3, 2016, 09:12 PM Nov 2016

Is the FBI Field Office going to be the next story?

The "Clinton Cash"/FBI/Giuliani nexus and all this leaking crap?

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Is the FBI Field Office going to be the next story? (Original Post) madaboutharry Nov 2016 OP

if only .. JHan Nov 2016 #1

If you lived through the '60s like I did, you wouldn't either… regnaD kciN Nov 2016 #2

MLK was at the top of Hoover's enemies list. The FBI under Hoover was a very ugly still_one Nov 2016 #4

Excellent summary, RegaD. rgbecker Nov 2016 #5

Message auto-removed Name removed Nov 2016 #7

Something is rotten in Denmark. HassleCat Nov 2016 #3

Newsweek coming out with a story on Russia and Trump tomorrow emulatorloo Nov 2016 #6

JHan

(10,173 posts)

1. if only ..

Reply to madaboutharry (Original post)

Thu Nov 3, 2016, 09:14 PM

Nov 2016

Sure sounds like there are rogue agents high on Trumpism in there.

I've never held FBI in high esteem--- notwithstanding the good and honest agents out there.

regnaD kciN

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2. If you lived through the '60s like I did, you wouldn't either…

Reply to JHan (Reply #1)

Thu Nov 3, 2016, 09:19 PM

Nov 2016

The FBI basically veered from its original anti-organized crime mission, and conceived of its job as more fighting "Communist subversion" (i.e. the civil rights and anti-war movement) and the counterculture. What we're seeing here is just an echo of that time -- the FBI being a political-suppression agency rather than a crime-fighting force.