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R.K. Locke Wrote:
So Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was guilty of corruption in 2009 because the Department of Justice failed to bust high level Swiss bankers?
Dude should have left that out and gone straight into Mena Ark gun/coke running operation.
Blaming Hillary for non-actions of the Justice Dept. saps the the Mena stuff of credibility, lets Bill Clinton off the hook.
Was B. Clinton an intel operative?
Good chance of that, but intel operatives operate on a "need to know" basis.
What did Hillary need to know about Mena? Nothing!
Blaming her for Mena is like blaming her for the Justice Dept. not busting bankers.
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Poor stupid Chris Cillizza thinks that Elliot Ness was in the FBI rather than the Treasury Dept, that a fictional character says something about the real-life FBI, and apparently has never heard of J. Edgar Hoover, COINTELPRO, their persecution of MLK, or the FBI lab scandals of recent decades. No, only recently has it all started to wrong.
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[FONT=&]The FBI has long been an iconic institution in American life. From Elliot Ness to Clarice Starling, the image of the FBI unflappable, smart and relentlessly fair has been sterling. After the last week's announcement by FBI Director James Comey that the investigation into Hillary Clinton's private email server continues, it's hard to see it staying that way.[/FONT]
[FONT=&]Wrote The Washington Post's Roz Helderman, Tom Hamburger and Sari Horwitz in a story headlined "After another release of documents, FBI finds itself caught in a partisan fray": "For the second time in five days, the FBI had moved exactly to the place the nation's chief law enforcement agency usually strives to avoid: smack in the middle of partisan fighting over a national election, just days before the vote."[/FONT]
[FONT=&]Clinton and her allies including President Barack Obama(!) are criticizing Comey for stepping into the fray so close to an election. Republicans, who spent the last several months castigating Comey for failing to indict Clinton over the email server when he initially wrapped the investigation in July, are now singing his praises.[/FONT]
[FONT=&]The result of the FBI-as-political-football narrative is nothing but bad for the bureau. Here's what the NBC political unit wrote of the impact on the FBI in all of this mishigas:[/FONT]
[FONT=&]"Another U.S. institution the FBI has taken a hit. (It's especially true after all of the obvious leaks coming from the FBI and Justice Department.) And that news isn't good for the country's democracy."[/FONT]
[FONT=&]No, it's not.[/FONT]
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Tracy Riddle Wrote:Poor stupid Chris Cillizza thinks that Elliot Ness was in the FBI rather than the Treasury Dept, that a fictional character says something about the real-life FBI, and apparently has never heard of J. Edgar Hoover, COINTELPRO, their persecution of MLK, or the FBI lab scandals of recent decades. No, only recently has it all started to wrong.
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[FONT=&]The FBI has long been an iconic institution in American life. From Elliot Ness to Clarice Starling, the image of the FBI unflappable, smart and relentlessly fair has been sterling. After the last week's announcement by FBI Director James Comey that the investigation into Hillary Clinton's private email server continues, it's hard to see it staying that way.[/FONT]
[FONT=&]Wrote The Washington Post's Roz Helderman, Tom Hamburger and Sari Horwitz in a story headlined "After another release of documents, FBI finds itself caught in a partisan fray": "For the second time in five days, the FBI had moved exactly to the place the nation's chief law enforcement agency usually strives to avoid: smack in the middle of partisan fighting over a national election, just days before the vote."[/FONT]
[FONT=&]Clinton and her allies including President Barack Obama(!) are criticizing Comey for stepping into the fray so close to an election. Republicans, who spent the last several months castigating Comey for failing to indict Clinton over the email server when he initially wrapped the investigation in July, are now singing his praises.[/FONT]
[FONT=&]The result of the FBI-as-political-football narrative is nothing but bad for the bureau. Here's what the NBC political unit wrote of the impact on the FBI in all of this mishigas:[/FONT]
[FONT=&]"Another U.S. institution the FBI has taken a hit. (It's especially true after all of the obvious leaks coming from the FBI and Justice Department.) And that news isn't good for the country's democracy."[/FONT]
[FONT=&]No, it's not.[/FONT]
Law enforcement and the military are bastions of the bible-thumping American Dominionist Proto-Autocracy.
These are the same people who make sure there is an "indefinite detention clause" in the National Defense Authorization Act when its re-approved every year.
The indefinite detention clause allows the military to pick up anyone they want and hold them incommunicado for as long as they want.
Obama signed an order exempting US citizens. The Dominionists wouldn't be so generous.
The Kaucasian Khristian Kaliphate is desperate, pulling out all the stops with Comey and his merry band of Leaking Trumpeters.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016...nald-trump
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016...nald-trump
'The FBI is Trumpland': anti-Clinton atmosphere spurred leaks, sources say
[FONT=&]Highly unfavorable view of Hillary Clinton intensified after James Comey's decision not to recommend an indictment over her use of a private email server
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[/URL] One agent called the bureau Trumplandia,' with some colleagues openly discussing voting for the Republican nominee. Photograph: Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty ImagesSpencer Ackerman in New York
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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.
This atmosphere raises major questions about how Comey and the bureau he is slated to run for the next seven years can work with Clinton should she win the White House.
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The currently serving FBI agent said Clinton is "the antichrist personified to a large swath of FBI personnel," and that "the reason why they're leaking is they're pro-Trump."
The agent called the bureau "Trumplandia", with some colleagues openly discussing voting for a GOP nominee who has garnered unprecedented condemnation from the party's national security wing and who has pledged to jail Clinton if elected.
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At the same time, other sources dispute the depth of support for Trump within the bureau, though they uniformly stated that Clinton is viewed highly unfavorably.
"There are lots of people who don't think Trump is qualified, but also believe Clinton is corrupt. What you hear a lot is that it's a bad choice, between an incompetent and a corrupt politician," said a former FBI official.
Sources who disputed the depth of Trump's internal support agreed that the FBI is now in parlous political territory. Justice department officials another current target of FBI dissatisfaction have said the bureau disregarded longstanding rulesagainst perceived or actual electoral interferencewhen Comey wrote to Congress to say it was reviewing newly discovered emails relating to Clinton's personal server.
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The FBI director, James Comey, testifies during the Senate committee hearing in September. Photograph: Shawn Thew/EPAComey's vague letter to Congress, promptly leaked by Republican congressman Jason Chaffetz, said the bureau would evaluate communications subsequently identified as coming from a device used by disgraced ex-congressman Anthony Weiner, whose estranged wife Huma Abedin is a Clinton aide for connections to the Clinton server. Comey's allies say he was placed in an impossible position after previously testifying to Congress it would take an extraordinary development for him to revisit the Clinton issue. Throughout the summer and fall, Trump has attacked the FBI as corrupt for not effectively ending Clinton's political career.
A political firestorm erupted, with Comey and the bureau coming under withering criticism, including a rebuke on Wednesday from Barack Obama. Even some congressional Republicans, no friends to Clinton, have expressed discomfort with Comey's last-minute insertion of the bureau into the election.
The relevance of the communications to the Clinton inquiry has yet to be established, as Comey issued his letter before obtaining a warrant to evaluate them. Clinton surrogates contend that Comey has issued innuendo rather than evidence, preventing them from mounting a public defense.
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[/URL]Some feel Comey needs to address the criticism and provide reassurance that the bureau, with its wide-ranging investigative and surveillance powers, will comport itself in an apolitical manner. Yet since Friday, Comey has maintained his silence, even as both Clinton and Trump have called for the bureau to disclose more of what it knows.
Leaks, however, have continued. Fox News reported on Wednesday that the FBI is intensifying an investigation into the Clinton Foundation over allegations which both the foundation and the Clinton camp deny it traded donations for access to Hillary Clinton when she was secretary of state. The Wall Street Journal reportedthat justice department officials considered the allegations flimsy.
The leaks have not exclusively cast aspersions on Clinton. Paul Manafort, Trump's former campaign manager, is the subject of what is said to be a preliminary FBI inquiry into his business dealings in Russia. Manafort has denied any wrongdoing.
The Daily Beast reported on Thursday on ties between Trump surrogate Rudy Giuliani, the former New York mayor, and the FBI's New York field office, which reportedly pressed the FBI to revisit the Clinton server investigation after beginning an inquiry into Weiner's alleged sexual texting with a minor. The website reported that a former New York field office chief, highly critical of the non-indictment, runs a military charity that has received significant financial donations from Trump.
Comey's decision to tell the public in July that he was effectively dropping the Clinton server issue angered some within the bureau, particularly given the background of tensions with the justice department over the Clinton issue. A significant complication is the appearance of a conflict of interest regarding Loretta Lynch, the attorney general, who met with Bill Clinton this summer ahead of Comey's announcement, which she acknowledged had "cast a shadow" over the inquiry.
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"Many FBI agents were upset at the director, not because he didn't [recommend to] indict, but they believe he threw the FBI under the bus by taking the heat away from DoJ [Department of Justice]," the former bureau official said.
All this has compounded pressure on Comey, with little end in sight.
Jim Wedick, who retired from the bureau in 2004 after 35 years, said that if Clinton is elected, she and Comey would probably find a way to work together out of a sense of pragmatism. He recalled both his own occasional clashes with federal prosecutors and Bill Clinton's uneasy relationship with his choice for FBI director, Louis Freeh.
"Each one will find a way to pick at the other. It's not going to be good and it's not going to be pretty. But they'll both have to work with each other," he said.
Senator RonWyden, an Oregon Democrat on the intelligence committee, said: "The continued leadership failures at the FBI are another reminder we can't let intelligence agencies say trust us' and then give them a blank check to probe into Americans' lives.
"While I've argued for years that Congress must create ironclad protections for Americans' security and privacy, we also need vigilant oversight of agencies that have the power to deprive citizens of their liberty or change the course of an election."
The FBI would not comment for this story.
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