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workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)
Sat Nov 5, 2016, 07:24 AM Nov 2016

It Sure Looks Like FBI Renegades Are Trying To Swing The Presidential Election

It Sure Looks Like FBI Renegades Are Trying To Swing The Presidential Election
One of the most unsettling developments yet in a campaign filled with them.
Whitney Snyder Editorial Director, The Huffington Post 11/05/2016 12:00 am ET

Three days before a historic election, a disturbing twist has emerged: the possibility that agents in the country’s preeminent investigative service are attempting to swing the outcome.

Reuters reported on Thursday that FBI Director James Comey wrote his unprecedented letter to Congress last week in part because he feared his own employees might leak word of the Hillary Clinton email investigation to the press.

Two sources told Reuters that investigators in the FBI’s New York field office are “known to be hostile” to Clinton. On Thursday, The Guardian reported its sources described the FBI as a “Trumpland,” where agents have “deep antipathy” toward Clinton.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/fbi-election_us_581d07c8e4b0e80b02ca27a7
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It Sure Looks Like FBI Renegades Are Trying To Swing The Presidential Election (Original Post) workinclasszero Nov 2016 OP
Un-fuckin-believable how the FBI has gone rogue... Why haven't Obama & Loretta Lynch already fired that a-hole Rethug Comey?!?! InAbLuEsTaTe Nov 2016 #1
President Clinton workinclasszero Nov 2016 #4
The FBI seems to be in the business of deciding who the next president will be. UCmeNdc Nov 2016 #2
Republicans are abusing power for political purposes up and own the line. Overthrow the Rs Coyotl Nov 2016 #3

InAbLuEsTaTe

(24,123 posts)
1. Un-fuckin-believable how the FBI has gone rogue... Why haven't Obama & Loretta Lynch already fired that a-hole Rethug Comey?!?!
Sat Nov 5, 2016, 07:34 AM
Nov 2016
 

workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)
4. President Clinton
Sat Nov 5, 2016, 09:39 AM
Nov 2016

will have to deal Comey and his reich wing leakers I guess.

I think it would not help Hillary if the Prez did something now. I agree Comey's ass should be on the pavement looking for work right now but the timing is wrong.

Comey's FBI is out of control and a political actor which is totally wrong and a threat to democracy.

UCmeNdc

(9,601 posts)
2. The FBI seems to be in the business of deciding who the next president will be.
Sat Nov 5, 2016, 07:40 AM
Nov 2016

Let's plant innuendo and false charges about a candidate we do not like. We can use the FBI's reputation to substantiate these false charges.

As the article says:
One of the most unsettling developments yet in a campaign filled with them.

 

Coyotl

(15,262 posts)
3. Republicans are abusing power for political purposes up and own the line. Overthrow the Rs
Sat Nov 5, 2016, 08:00 AM
Nov 2016

Last edited Sat Nov 5, 2016, 10:29 AM - Edit history (1)

in Congress too, they are the ones doing this under cover of oversight, when in fact it is purely political.





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