The FBI Tragedy: Elites above the Law

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The FBI Tragedy: Elites above the Law



FBI Tragedy: Elites above the Law | National Review
June 11, 2019 ~ By VICTOR DAVIS HANSON
After decades in the FBI, the top brass came to believe they could flout the law and pursue their own political agendas. One of the media and beltway orthodoxies we constantly hear is that just a few bad apples under James Comey at the FBI explain why so many FBI elites have been fired, resigned, reassigned, demoted, or retired — or just left for unexplained reasons. The list is long and includes director James Comey himself, deputy director Andrew McCabe, counterintelligence agent Peter Strzok, attorney Lisa Page, chief of staff James Rybicki, general counsel James Baker, assistant director for public affairs Mike Kortan, Comey’s special assistant Josh Campbell, executive assistant director James Turgal, assistant director for office of congressional affairs Greg Bower, executive assistant director Michael Steinbach, and executive assistant director John Giacalone. In short, in about every growing scandal of the past two years — FISA, illegal leaking, spying on a presidential candidate, lying under oath, obstructing justice — someone in the FBI is involved.
In sum, why did so many top FBI officials, some with long experience in the FBI, exhibit such bad judgment and display such unethical behavior, characterized by arrogance, a sense of entitlement, and a belief that they were above both the law and the Constitution itself? Were they really just rogue agents, lawyers, and administrators, or are they emblematic of an FBI culture sorely gone wrong? Fairly or not, the current FBI tragedy is that an American citizen should be duly worried about his constitutional rights any time he is approached by such senior FBI officials. That is not a slur on the rank and file, but the legacy of the supposed best and brightest of the agency and their distortions of the bureau’s once professional creed.

~~~~~~
Victor Hanson is truly an erudite thinker and again hits the head of the nail directly.
It's truly a tragedy that career agents would and could believe that they have the power to change the results of elections by spying on their political foes.
If the people who make the laws don’t have to abide by them, you’re not being governed, you’re being ruled.

 

[georgephillip]

The FBI Tragedy: Elites above the Law



FBI Tragedy: Elites above the Law | National Review
June 11, 2019 ~ By VICTOR DAVIS HANSON
After decades in the FBI, the top brass came to believe they could flout the law and pursue their own political agendas. One of the media and beltway orthodoxies we constantly hear is that just a few bad apples under James Comey at the FBI explain why so many FBI elites have been fired, resigned, reassigned, demoted, or retired — or just left for unexplained reasons. The list is long and includes director James Comey himself, deputy director Andrew McCabe, counterintelligence agent Peter Strzok, attorney Lisa Page, chief of staff James Rybicki, general counsel James Baker, assistant director for public affairs Mike Kortan, Comey’s special assistant Josh Campbell, executive assistant director James Turgal, assistant director for office of congressional affairs Greg Bower, executive assistant director Michael Steinbach, and executive assistant director John Giacalone. In short, in about every growing scandal of the past two years — FISA, illegal leaking, spying on a presidential candidate, lying under oath, obstructing justice — someone in the FBI is involved.
In sum, why did so many top FBI officials, some with long experience in the FBI, exhibit such bad judgment and display such unethical behavior, characterized by arrogance, a sense of entitlement, and a belief that they were above both the law and the Constitution itself? Were they really just rogue agents, lawyers, and administrators, or are they emblematic of an FBI culture sorely gone wrong? Fairly or not, the current FBI tragedy is that an American citizen should be duly worried about his constitutional rights any time he is approached by such senior FBI officials. That is not a slur on the rank and file, but the legacy of the supposed best and brightest of the agency and their distortions of the bureau’s once professional creed.

~~~~~~
Victor Hanson is truly an erudite thinker and again hits the head of the nail directly.
It's truly a tragedy that career agents would and could believe that they have the power to change the results of elections by spying on their political foes.
If the people who make the laws don’t have to abide by them, you’re not being governed, you’re being ruled.

t's truly a tragedy that career agents would and could believe that they have the power to change the results of elections by spying on their political foes.

Yet most career law enforcement officers are Republicans.
Why would they prefer Clinton to Trump?

Opinion | The Real F.B.I. Election Culprit

"The F.B.I. agent corps today overwhelmingly fits the demographic profile of a Trump voter. During the 2016 campaign, in The Guardian, one agent said, 'The F.B.I. is Trumpland.' In his testimony, Mr. Strzok all but laughed out loud when committee members pressed him Thursday on whether the whole F.B.I. was made up of Democrats."

 

[Dale Smith]

The FBI Tragedy: Elites above the Law



FBI Tragedy: Elites above the Law | National Review
June 11, 2019 ~ By VICTOR DAVIS HANSON
After decades in the FBI, the top brass came to believe they could flout the law and pursue their own political agendas. One of the media and beltway orthodoxies we constantly hear is that just a few bad apples under James Comey at the FBI explain why so many FBI elites have been fired, resigned, reassigned, demoted, or retired — or just left for unexplained reasons. The list is long and includes director James Comey himself, deputy director Andrew McCabe, counterintelligence agent Peter Strzok, attorney Lisa Page, chief of staff James Rybicki, general counsel James Baker, assistant director for public affairs Mike Kortan, Comey’s special assistant Josh Campbell, executive assistant director James Turgal, assistant director for office of congressional affairs Greg Bower, executive assistant director Michael Steinbach, and executive assistant director John Giacalone. In short, in about every growing scandal of the past two years — FISA, illegal leaking, spying on a presidential candidate, lying under oath, obstructing justice — someone in the FBI is involved.
In sum, why did so many top FBI officials, some with long experience in the FBI, exhibit such bad judgment and display such unethical behavior, characterized by arrogance, a sense of entitlement, and a belief that they were above both the law and the Constitution itself? Were they really just rogue agents, lawyers, and administrators, or are they emblematic of an FBI culture sorely gone wrong? Fairly or not, the current FBI tragedy is that an American citizen should be duly worried about his constitutional rights any time he is approached by such senior FBI officials. That is not a slur on the rank and file, but the legacy of the supposed best and brightest of the agency and their distortions of the bureau’s once professional creed.

~~~~~~
Victor Hanson is truly an erudite thinker and again hits the head of the nail directly.
It's truly a tragedy that career agents would and could believe that they have the power to change the results of elections by spying on their political foes.
If the people who make the laws don’t have to abide by them, you’re not being governed, you’re being ruled.

t's truly a tragedy that career agents would and could believe that they have the power to change the results of elections by spying on their political foes.

Yet most career law enforcement officers are Republicans.
Why would they prefer Clinton to Trump?

Opinion | The Real F.B.I. Election Culprit

"The F.B.I. agent corps today overwhelmingly fits the demographic profile of a Trump voter. During the 2016 campaign, in The Guardian, one agent said, 'The F.B.I. is Trumpland.' In his testimony, Mr. Strzok all but laughed out loud when committee members pressed him Thursday on whether the whole F.B.I. was made up of Democrats."

Strozk and Page are "republican"? The rank and file might be constitutionalists but those at the top are either commies/globalists.

 

[georgephillip]

The FBI Tragedy: Elites above the Law



FBI Tragedy: Elites above the Law | National Review
June 11, 2019 ~ By VICTOR DAVIS HANSON
After decades in the FBI, the top brass came to believe they could flout the law and pursue their own political agendas. One of the media and beltway orthodoxies we constantly hear is that just a few bad apples under James Comey at the FBI explain why so many FBI elites have been fired, resigned, reassigned, demoted, or retired — or just left for unexplained reasons. The list is long and includes director James Comey himself, deputy director Andrew McCabe, counterintelligence agent Peter Strzok, attorney Lisa Page, chief of staff James Rybicki, general counsel James Baker, assistant director for public affairs Mike Kortan, Comey’s special assistant Josh Campbell, executive assistant director James Turgal, assistant director for office of congressional affairs Greg Bower, executive assistant director Michael Steinbach, and executive assistant director John Giacalone. In short, in about every growing scandal of the past two years — FISA, illegal leaking, spying on a presidential candidate, lying under oath, obstructing justice — someone in the FBI is involved.
In sum, why did so many top FBI officials, some with long experience in the FBI, exhibit such bad judgment and display such unethical behavior, characterized by arrogance, a sense of entitlement, and a belief that they were above both the law and the Constitution itself? Were they really just rogue agents, lawyers, and administrators, or are they emblematic of an FBI culture sorely gone wrong? Fairly or not, the current FBI tragedy is that an American citizen should be duly worried about his constitutional rights any time he is approached by such senior FBI officials. That is not a slur on the rank and file, but the legacy of the supposed best and brightest of the agency and their distortions of the bureau’s once professional creed.

~~~~~~
Victor Hanson is truly an erudite thinker and again hits the head of the nail directly.
It's truly a tragedy that career agents would and could believe that they have the power to change the results of elections by spying on their political foes.
If the people who make the laws don’t have to abide by them, you’re not being governed, you’re being ruled.

t's truly a tragedy that career agents would and could believe that they have the power to change the results of elections by spying on their political foes.

Yet most career law enforcement officers are Republicans.
Why would they prefer Clinton to Trump?

Opinion | The Real F.B.I. Election Culprit

"The F.B.I. agent corps today overwhelmingly fits the demographic profile of a Trump voter. During the 2016 campaign, in The Guardian, one agent said, 'The F.B.I. is Trumpland.' In his testimony, Mr. Strzok all but laughed out loud when committee members pressed him Thursday on whether the whole F.B.I. was made up of Democrats."

Strozk and Page are "republican"? The rank and file might be constitutionalists but those at the top are either commies/globalists.

Strozk and Page are "republican"? The rank and file might be constitutionalists but those at the top are either commies/globalists.

Who said Strozk and Page are Republicans?
Most law enforcement officials are Republicans, including those in the FBI.

Opinion | The Real F.B.I. Election Culprit

"In his testimony before two House committees on Thursday, the F.B.I. agent Peter Strzok testified that he could have altered the 2016 election — but didn’t. The information about Russian election interference, he said, 'had the potential to derail, and quite possibly, defeat Mr. Trump. But the thought of exposing that information never crossed my mind.'"

Why do you suppose "commies/globalists" at the top of the FBI released information damaging to the 2016 Clinton campaign, yet said nothing about Russia's sweeping and systematic efforts to help Trump?

 

[Oddball]

The FBI Tragedy: Elites above the Law



FBI Tragedy: Elites above the Law | National Review
June 11, 2019 ~ By VICTOR DAVIS HANSON
After decades in the FBI, the top brass came to believe they could flout the law and pursue their own political agendas. One of the media and beltway orthodoxies we constantly hear is that just a few bad apples under James Comey at the FBI explain why so many FBI elites have been fired, resigned, reassigned, demoted, or retired — or just left for unexplained reasons. The list is long and includes director James Comey himself, deputy director Andrew McCabe, counterintelligence agent Peter Strzok, attorney Lisa Page, chief of staff James Rybicki, general counsel James Baker, assistant director for public affairs Mike Kortan, Comey’s special assistant Josh Campbell, executive assistant director James Turgal, assistant director for office of congressional affairs Greg Bower, executive assistant director Michael Steinbach, and executive assistant director John Giacalone. In short, in about every growing scandal of the past two years — FISA, illegal leaking, spying on a presidential candidate, lying under oath, obstructing justice — someone in the FBI is involved.
In sum, why did so many top FBI officials, some with long experience in the FBI, exhibit such bad judgment and display such unethical behavior, characterized by arrogance, a sense of entitlement, and a belief that they were above both the law and the Constitution itself? Were they really just rogue agents, lawyers, and administrators, or are they emblematic of an FBI culture sorely gone wrong? Fairly or not, the current FBI tragedy is that an American citizen should be duly worried about his constitutional rights any time he is approached by such senior FBI officials. That is not a slur on the rank and file, but the legacy of the supposed best and brightest of the agency and their distortions of the bureau’s once professional creed.

~~~~~~
Victor Hanson is truly an erudite thinker and again hits the head of the nail directly.
It's truly a tragedy that career agents would and could believe that they have the power to change the results of elections by spying on their political foes.
If the people who make the laws don’t have to abide by them, you’re not being governed, you’re being ruled.

t's truly a tragedy that career agents would and could believe that they have the power to change the results of elections by spying on their political foes.

Yet most career law enforcement officers are Republicans.
Why would they prefer Clinton to Trump?

Opinion | The Real F.B.I. Election Culprit

"The F.B.I. agent corps today overwhelmingly fits the demographic profile of a Trump voter. During the 2016 campaign, in The Guardian, one agent said, 'The F.B.I. is Trumpland.' In his testimony, Mr. Strzok all but laughed out loud when committee members pressed him Thursday on whether the whole F.B.I. was made up of Democrats."

So party affiliation is relevant to a police state that is entirely out of control in what way, Poindexter?

 

[georgephillip]

The FBI Tragedy: Elites above the Law



FBI Tragedy: Elites above the Law | National Review
June 11, 2019 ~ By VICTOR DAVIS HANSON
After decades in the FBI, the top brass came to believe they could flout the law and pursue their own political agendas. One of the media and beltway orthodoxies we constantly hear is that just a few bad apples under James Comey at the FBI explain why so many FBI elites have been fired, resigned, reassigned, demoted, or retired — or just left for unexplained reasons. The list is long and includes director James Comey himself, deputy director Andrew McCabe, counterintelligence agent Peter Strzok, attorney Lisa Page, chief of staff James Rybicki, general counsel James Baker, assistant director for public affairs Mike Kortan, Comey’s special assistant Josh Campbell, executive assistant director James Turgal, assistant director for office of congressional affairs Greg Bower, executive assistant director Michael Steinbach, and executive assistant director John Giacalone. In short, in about every growing scandal of the past two years — FISA, illegal leaking, spying on a presidential candidate, lying under oath, obstructing justice — someone in the FBI is involved.
In sum, why did so many top FBI officials, some with long experience in the FBI, exhibit such bad judgment and display such unethical behavior, characterized by arrogance, a sense of entitlement, and a belief that they were above both the law and the Constitution itself? Were they really just rogue agents, lawyers, and administrators, or are they emblematic of an FBI culture sorely gone wrong? Fairly or not, the current FBI tragedy is that an American citizen should be duly worried about his constitutional rights any time he is approached by such senior FBI officials. That is not a slur on the rank and file, but the legacy of the supposed best and brightest of the agency and their distortions of the bureau’s once professional creed.

~~~~~~
Victor Hanson is truly an erudite thinker and again hits the head of the nail directly.
It's truly a tragedy that career agents would and could believe that they have the power to change the results of elections by spying on their political foes.
If the people who make the laws don’t have to abide by them, you’re not being governed, you’re being ruled.

t's truly a tragedy that career agents would and could believe that they have the power to change the results of elections by spying on their political foes.

Yet most career law enforcement officers are Republicans.
Why would they prefer Clinton to Trump?

Opinion | The Real F.B.I. Election Culprit

"The F.B.I. agent corps today overwhelmingly fits the demographic profile of a Trump voter. During the 2016 campaign, in The Guardian, one agent said, 'The F.B.I. is Trumpland.' In his testimony, Mr. Strzok all but laughed out loud when committee members pressed him Thursday on whether the whole F.B.I. was made up of Democrats."

So party affiliation is relevant to a police state that is entirely out of control in what way, Poindexter?

So party affiliation is relevant to a police state that is entirely out of control in what way, Poindexter?

In the same way "free markets" promote individual freedom, Loon.

The Myth and Reality of Trickle-Down Economics

 

[Oddball]

The FBI Tragedy: Elites above the Law



FBI Tragedy: Elites above the Law | National Review
June 11, 2019 ~ By VICTOR DAVIS HANSON
After decades in the FBI, the top brass came to believe they could flout the law and pursue their own political agendas. One of the media and beltway orthodoxies we constantly hear is that just a few bad apples under James Comey at the FBI explain why so many FBI elites have been fired, resigned, reassigned, demoted, or retired — or just left for unexplained reasons. The list is long and includes director James Comey himself, deputy director Andrew McCabe, counterintelligence agent Peter Strzok, attorney Lisa Page, chief of staff James Rybicki, general counsel James Baker, assistant director for public affairs Mike Kortan, Comey’s special assistant Josh Campbell, executive assistant director James Turgal, assistant director for office of congressional affairs Greg Bower, executive assistant director Michael Steinbach, and executive assistant director John Giacalone. In short, in about every growing scandal of the past two years — FISA, illegal leaking, spying on a presidential candidate, lying under oath, obstructing justice — someone in the FBI is involved.
In sum, why did so many top FBI officials, some with long experience in the FBI, exhibit such bad judgment and display such unethical behavior, characterized by arrogance, a sense of entitlement, and a belief that they were above both the law and the Constitution itself? Were they really just rogue agents, lawyers, and administrators, or are they emblematic of an FBI culture sorely gone wrong? Fairly or not, the current FBI tragedy is that an American citizen should be duly worried about his constitutional rights any time he is approached by such senior FBI officials. That is not a slur on the rank and file, but the legacy of the supposed best and brightest of the agency and their distortions of the bureau’s once professional creed.

~~~~~~
Victor Hanson is truly an erudite thinker and again hits the head of the nail directly.
It's truly a tragedy that career agents would and could believe that they have the power to change the results of elections by spying on their political foes.
If the people who make the laws don’t have to abide by them, you’re not being governed, you’re being ruled.

t's truly a tragedy that career agents would and could believe that they have the power to change the results of elections by spying on their political foes.

Yet most career law enforcement officers are Republicans.
Why would they prefer Clinton to Trump?

Opinion | The Real F.B.I. Election Culprit

"The F.B.I. agent corps today overwhelmingly fits the demographic profile of a Trump voter. During the 2016 campaign, in The Guardian, one agent said, 'The F.B.I. is Trumpland.' In his testimony, Mr. Strzok all but laughed out loud when committee members pressed him Thursday on whether the whole F.B.I. was made up of Democrats."

So party affiliation is relevant to a police state that is entirely out of control in what way, Poindexter?

So party affiliation is relevant to a police state that is entirely out of control in what way, Poindexter?

In the same way "free markets" promote individual freedom, Loon.

The Myth and Reality of Trickle-Down Economics

That's so far beyond moving the goalposts that it vastly exceeds your normal level of moronic brain droppings.

 

[whitehall]

It's interesting that another Hanson spelled Hanssen is the most notorious traitor in FBI history who caused the torture and deaths of foreign agents working for the U.S. intell service. Typically the FBI seemed more interested in burying the case than punishing the agent. Amazingly Hanssen's family was awarded a pension as if he retired honorably in a deal to keep the agent from testifying.

 

[Dale Smith]

The FBI Tragedy: Elites above the Law



FBI Tragedy: Elites above the Law | National Review
June 11, 2019 ~ By VICTOR DAVIS HANSON
After decades in the FBI, the top brass came to believe they could flout the law and pursue their own political agendas. One of the media and beltway orthodoxies we constantly hear is that just a few bad apples under James Comey at the FBI explain why so many FBI elites have been fired, resigned, reassigned, demoted, or retired — or just left for unexplained reasons. The list is long and includes director James Comey himself, deputy director Andrew McCabe, counterintelligence agent Peter Strzok, attorney Lisa Page, chief of staff James Rybicki, general counsel James Baker, assistant director for public affairs Mike Kortan, Comey’s special assistant Josh Campbell, executive assistant director James Turgal, assistant director for office of congressional affairs Greg Bower, executive assistant director Michael Steinbach, and executive assistant director John Giacalone. In short, in about every growing scandal of the past two years — FISA, illegal leaking, spying on a presidential candidate, lying under oath, obstructing justice — someone in the FBI is involved.
In sum, why did so many top FBI officials, some with long experience in the FBI, exhibit such bad judgment and display such unethical behavior, characterized by arrogance, a sense of entitlement, and a belief that they were above both the law and the Constitution itself? Were they really just rogue agents, lawyers, and administrators, or are they emblematic of an FBI culture sorely gone wrong? Fairly or not, the current FBI tragedy is that an American citizen should be duly worried about his constitutional rights any time he is approached by such senior FBI officials. That is not a slur on the rank and file, but the legacy of the supposed best and brightest of the agency and their distortions of the bureau’s once professional creed.

~~~~~~
Victor Hanson is truly an erudite thinker and again hits the head of the nail directly.
It's truly a tragedy that career agents would and could believe that they have the power to change the results of elections by spying on their political foes.
If the people who make the laws don’t have to abide by them, you’re not being governed, you’re being ruled.

t's truly a tragedy that career agents would and could believe that they have the power to change the results of elections by spying on their political foes.

Yet most career law enforcement officers are Republicans.
Why would they prefer Clinton to Trump?

Opinion | The Real F.B.I. Election Culprit

"The F.B.I. agent corps today overwhelmingly fits the demographic profile of a Trump voter. During the 2016 campaign, in The Guardian, one agent said, 'The F.B.I. is Trumpland.' In his testimony, Mr. Strzok all but laughed out loud when committee members pressed him Thursday on whether the whole F.B.I. was made up of Democrats."

Strozk and Page are "republican"? The rank and file might be constitutionalists but those at the top are either commies/globalists.

Strozk and Page are "republican"? The rank and file might be constitutionalists but those at the top are either commies/globalists.

Who said Strozk and Page are Republicans?
Most law enforcement officials are Republicans, including those in the FBI.

Opinion | The Real F.B.I. Election Culprit

"In his testimony before two House committees on Thursday, the F.B.I. agent Peter Strzok testified that he could have altered the 2016 election — but didn’t. The information about Russian election interference, he said, 'had the potential to derail, and quite possibly, defeat Mr. Trump. But the thought of exposing that information never crossed my mind.'"

Why do you suppose "commies/globalists" at the top of the FBI released information damaging to the 2016 Clinton campaign, yet said nothing about Russia's sweeping and systematic efforts to help Trump?

You totally missed my point.....typical of leftards and now trying to change the topic? Strozk is a blowhard, a soft-headed commie but he had no power to do diddly squat. Besides, the election was already rigged for the Hildebeast.

 

[georgephillip]

The FBI Tragedy: Elites above the Law



FBI Tragedy: Elites above the Law | National Review
June 11, 2019 ~ By VICTOR DAVIS HANSON
After decades in the FBI, the top brass came to believe they could flout the law and pursue their own political agendas. One of the media and beltway orthodoxies we constantly hear is that just a few bad apples under James Comey at the FBI explain why so many FBI elites have been fired, resigned, reassigned, demoted, or retired — or just left for unexplained reasons. The list is long and includes director James Comey himself, deputy director Andrew McCabe, counterintelligence agent Peter Strzok, attorney Lisa Page, chief of staff James Rybicki, general counsel James Baker, assistant director for public affairs Mike Kortan, Comey’s special assistant Josh Campbell, executive assistant director James Turgal, assistant director for office of congressional affairs Greg Bower, executive assistant director Michael Steinbach, and executive assistant director John Giacalone. In short, in about every growing scandal of the past two years — FISA, illegal leaking, spying on a presidential candidate, lying under oath, obstructing justice — someone in the FBI is involved.
In sum, why did so many top FBI officials, some with long experience in the FBI, exhibit such bad judgment and display such unethical behavior, characterized by arrogance, a sense of entitlement, and a belief that they were above both the law and the Constitution itself? Were they really just rogue agents, lawyers, and administrators, or are they emblematic of an FBI culture sorely gone wrong? Fairly or not, the current FBI tragedy is that an American citizen should be duly worried about his constitutional rights any time he is approached by such senior FBI officials. That is not a slur on the rank and file, but the legacy of the supposed best and brightest of the agency and their distortions of the bureau’s once professional creed.

~~~~~~
Victor Hanson is truly an erudite thinker and again hits the head of the nail directly.
It's truly a tragedy that career agents would and could believe that they have the power to change the results of elections by spying on their political foes.
If the people who make the laws don’t have to abide by them, you’re not being governed, you’re being ruled.

t's truly a tragedy that career agents would and could believe that they have the power to change the results of elections by spying on their political foes.

Yet most career law enforcement officers are Republicans.
Why would they prefer Clinton to Trump?

Opinion | The Real F.B.I. Election Culprit

"The F.B.I. agent corps today overwhelmingly fits the demographic profile of a Trump voter. During the 2016 campaign, in The Guardian, one agent said, 'The F.B.I. is Trumpland.' In his testimony, Mr. Strzok all but laughed out loud when committee members pressed him Thursday on whether the whole F.B.I. was made up of Democrats."

Strozk and Page are "republican"? The rank and file might be constitutionalists but those at the top are either commies/globalists.

Strozk and Page are "republican"? The rank and file might be constitutionalists but those at the top are either commies/globalists.

Who said Strozk and Page are Republicans?
Most law enforcement officials are Republicans, including those in the FBI.

Opinion | The Real F.B.I. Election Culprit

"In his testimony before two House committees on Thursday, the F.B.I. agent Peter Strzok testified that he could have altered the 2016 election — but didn’t. The information about Russian election interference, he said, 'had the potential to derail, and quite possibly, defeat Mr. Trump. But the thought of exposing that information never crossed my mind.'"

Why do you suppose "commies/globalists" at the top of the FBI released information damaging to the 2016 Clinton campaign, yet said nothing about Russia's sweeping and systematic efforts to help Trump?

You totally missed my point.....typical of leftards and now trying to change the topic? Strozk is a blowhard, a soft-headed commie but he had no power to do diddly squat. Besides, the election was already rigged for the Hildebeast.

You totally missed my point.....typical of leftards and now trying to change the topic? Strozk is a blowhard, a soft-headed commie but he had no power to do diddly squat. Besides, the election was already rigged for the Hildebeast.

Did you forget my question, Comrade?

Statement by FBI Director James B. Comey on the Investigation of Secretary Hillary Clinton’s Use of a Personal E-Mail System — FBI

"Statement by FBI Director James B. Comey on the Investigation of Secretary Hillary Clinton’s Use of a Personal E-Mail System
Remarks prepared for delivery at press briefing.

"Good morning. I’m here to give you an update on the FBI’s investigation of Secretary Clinton’s use of a personal e-mail system during her time as Secretary of State.

"After a tremendous amount of work over the last year, the FBI is completing its investigation and referring the case to the Department of Justice for a prosecutive decision. What I would like to do today is tell you three things: what we did; what we found; and what we are recommending to the Department of Justice.

"This will be an unusual statement in at least a couple ways. First, I am going to include more detail about our process than I ordinarily would, because I think the American people deserve those details in a case of intense public interest. Second, I have not coordinated or reviewed this statement in any way with the Department of Justice or any other part of the government. They do not know what I am about to say."

Why didn't lifelong Republican Comey mention the counterintelligence investigation it was conducting against the Red Don at the same time he criticized Clinton?

Deep state dementia?

 

[Dale Smith]

The FBI Tragedy: Elites above the Law



FBI Tragedy: Elites above the Law | National Review
June 11, 2019 ~ By VICTOR DAVIS HANSON
After decades in the FBI, the top brass came to believe they could flout the law and pursue their own political agendas. One of the media and beltway orthodoxies we constantly hear is that just a few bad apples under James Comey at the FBI explain why so many FBI elites have been fired, resigned, reassigned, demoted, or retired — or just left for unexplained reasons. The list is long and includes director James Comey himself, deputy director Andrew McCabe, counterintelligence agent Peter Strzok, attorney Lisa Page, chief of staff James Rybicki, general counsel James Baker, assistant director for public affairs Mike Kortan, Comey’s special assistant Josh Campbell, executive assistant director James Turgal, assistant director for office of congressional affairs Greg Bower, executive assistant director Michael Steinbach, and executive assistant director John Giacalone. In short, in about every growing scandal of the past two years — FISA, illegal leaking, spying on a presidential candidate, lying under oath, obstructing justice — someone in the FBI is involved.
In sum, why did so many top FBI officials, some with long experience in the FBI, exhibit such bad judgment and display such unethical behavior, characterized by arrogance, a sense of entitlement, and a belief that they were above both the law and the Constitution itself? Were they really just rogue agents, lawyers, and administrators, or are they emblematic of an FBI culture sorely gone wrong? Fairly or not, the current FBI tragedy is that an American citizen should be duly worried about his constitutional rights any time he is approached by such senior FBI officials. That is not a slur on the rank and file, but the legacy of the supposed best and brightest of the agency and their distortions of the bureau’s once professional creed.

~~~~~~
Victor Hanson is truly an erudite thinker and again hits the head of the nail directly.
It's truly a tragedy that career agents would and could believe that they have the power to change the results of elections by spying on their political foes.
If the people who make the laws don’t have to abide by them, you’re not being governed, you’re being ruled.

t's truly a tragedy that career agents would and could believe that they have the power to change the results of elections by spying on their political foes.

Yet most career law enforcement officers are Republicans.
Why would they prefer Clinton to Trump?

Opinion | The Real F.B.I. Election Culprit

"The F.B.I. agent corps today overwhelmingly fits the demographic profile of a Trump voter. During the 2016 campaign, in The Guardian, one agent said, 'The F.B.I. is Trumpland.' In his testimony, Mr. Strzok all but laughed out loud when committee members pressed him Thursday on whether the whole F.B.I. was made up of Democrats."

Strozk and Page are "republican"? The rank and file might be constitutionalists but those at the top are either commies/globalists.

Strozk and Page are "republican"? The rank and file might be constitutionalists but those at the top are either commies/globalists.

Who said Strozk and Page are Republicans?
Most law enforcement officials are Republicans, including those in the FBI.

Opinion | The Real F.B.I. Election Culprit

"In his testimony before two House committees on Thursday, the F.B.I. agent Peter Strzok testified that he could have altered the 2016 election — but didn’t. The information about Russian election interference, he said, 'had the potential to derail, and quite possibly, defeat Mr. Trump. But the thought of exposing that information never crossed my mind.'"

Why do you suppose "commies/globalists" at the top of the FBI released information damaging to the 2016 Clinton campaign, yet said nothing about Russia's sweeping and systematic efforts to help Trump?

You totally missed my point.....typical of leftards and now trying to change the topic? Strozk is a blowhard, a soft-headed commie but he had no power to do diddly squat. Besides, the election was already rigged for the Hildebeast.

You totally missed my point.....typical of leftards and now trying to change the topic? Strozk is a blowhard, a soft-headed commie but he had no power to do diddly squat. Besides, the election was already rigged for the Hildebeast.

Did you forget my question, Comrade?

Statement by FBI Director James B. Comey on the Investigation of Secretary Hillary Clinton’s Use of a Personal E-Mail System — FBI

"Statement by FBI Director James B. Comey on the Investigation of Secretary Hillary Clinton’s Use of a Personal E-Mail System
Remarks prepared for delivery at press briefing.

"Good morning. I’m here to give you an update on the FBI’s investigation of Secretary Clinton’s use of a personal e-mail system during her time as Secretary of State.

"After a tremendous amount of work over the last year, the FBI is completing its investigation and referring the case to the Department of Justice for a prosecutive decision. What I would like to do today is tell you three things: what we did; what we found; and what we are recommending to the Department of Justice.

"This will be an unusual statement in at least a couple ways. First, I am going to include more detail about our process than I ordinarily would, because I think the American people deserve those details in a case of intense public interest. Second, I have not coordinated or reviewed this statement in any way with the Department of Justice or any other part of the government. They do not know what I am about to say."

Why didn't lifelong Republican Comey mention the counterintelligence investigation it was conducting against the Red Don at the same time he criticized Clinton?

Deep state dementia?

LMAO! Comey and the Clintons are pals. The exoneration letter was written as this "dog and pony show" of an investigation was taking place. You believe the innocence of the Clinton and Lynch meeting on the tarmac? Yeah, you strike me as being that stupid. Laptops were allowed to have their hard-drives "scrubbed", cellphones allowed to be crushed and Clinton aides given complete immunity? Spare me, leftard.....I have been following this from the start.

Furthermore, I didn't vote for Trump or anyone else. I don't believe in the election process of this banana republic because I know how it all really works. Are we clear on this???

 

[georgephillip]

Yet most career law enforcement officers are Republicans.
Why would they prefer Clinton to Trump?

Opinion | The Real F.B.I. Election Culprit

"The F.B.I. agent corps today overwhelmingly fits the demographic profile of a Trump voter. During the 2016 campaign, in The Guardian, one agent said, 'The F.B.I. is Trumpland.' In his testimony, Mr. Strzok all but laughed out loud when committee members pressed him Thursday on whether the whole F.B.I. was made up of Democrats."

Strozk and Page are "republican"? The rank and file might be constitutionalists but those at the top are either commies/globalists.

Strozk and Page are "republican"? The rank and file might be constitutionalists but those at the top are either commies/globalists.

Who said Strozk and Page are Republicans?
Most law enforcement officials are Republicans, including those in the FBI.

Opinion | The Real F.B.I. Election Culprit

"In his testimony before two House committees on Thursday, the F.B.I. agent Peter Strzok testified that he could have altered the 2016 election — but didn’t. The information about Russian election interference, he said, 'had the potential to derail, and quite possibly, defeat Mr. Trump. But the thought of exposing that information never crossed my mind.'"

Why do you suppose "commies/globalists" at the top of the FBI released information damaging to the 2016 Clinton campaign, yet said nothing about Russia's sweeping and systematic efforts to help Trump?

You totally missed my point.....typical of leftards and now trying to change the topic? Strozk is a blowhard, a soft-headed commie but he had no power to do diddly squat. Besides, the election was already rigged for the Hildebeast.

You totally missed my point.....typical of leftards and now trying to change the topic? Strozk is a blowhard, a soft-headed commie but he had no power to do diddly squat. Besides, the election was already rigged for the Hildebeast.

Did you forget my question, Comrade?

Statement by FBI Director James B. Comey on the Investigation of Secretary Hillary Clinton’s Use of a Personal E-Mail System — FBI

"Statement by FBI Director James B. Comey on the Investigation of Secretary Hillary Clinton’s Use of a Personal E-Mail System
Remarks prepared for delivery at press briefing.

"Good morning. I’m here to give you an update on the FBI’s investigation of Secretary Clinton’s use of a personal e-mail system during her time as Secretary of State.

"After a tremendous amount of work over the last year, the FBI is completing its investigation and referring the case to the Department of Justice for a prosecutive decision. What I would like to do today is tell you three things: what we did; what we found; and what we are recommending to the Department of Justice.

"This will be an unusual statement in at least a couple ways. First, I am going to include more detail about our process than I ordinarily would, because I think the American people deserve those details in a case of intense public interest. Second, I have not coordinated or reviewed this statement in any way with the Department of Justice or any other part of the government. They do not know what I am about to say."

Why didn't lifelong Republican Comey mention the counterintelligence investigation it was conducting against the Red Don at the same time he criticized Clinton?

Deep state dementia?

LMAO! Comey and the Clintons are pals. The exoneration letter was written as this "dog and pony show" of an investigation was taking place. You believe the innocence of the Clinton and Lynch meeting on the tarmac? Yeah, you strike me as being that stupid. Laptops were allowed to have their hard-drives "scrubbed", cellphones allowed to be crushed and Clinton aides given complete immunity? Spare me, leftard.....I have been following this from the start.

Furthermore, I didn't vote for Trump or anyone else. I don't believe in the election process of this banana republic because I know how it all really works. Are we clear on this???

Furthermore, I didn't vote for Trump or anyone else. I don't believe in the election process of this banana republic because I know how it all really works. Are we clear on this???

I didn't vote for Trump or Clinton either, so I'm pretty clear about the political partisan dynamics at the FBI's New York field office in 2016:

Opinion | The Real F.B.I. Election Culprit

"But looking at available public evidence, the New York bureau’s actions actually did influence the campaign and helped hand the presidency to Donald Trump.

"In the Horowitz report, Loretta Lynch, the former attorney general, recalled a conversation with James Comey in which he said, 'it’s clear to me that there is a cadre of senior people in New York who have a deep and visceral hatred of Secretary Clinton.'

"F.B.I. agents in that office had a demonstrated propensity for leaks and arguably forced the bureau’s leadership’s hand in the final weeks of the election."

 

[Dale Smith]

Strozk and Page are "republican"? The rank and file might be constitutionalists but those at the top are either commies/globalists.

Strozk and Page are "republican"? The rank and file might be constitutionalists but those at the top are either commies/globalists.

Who said Strozk and Page are Republicans?
Most law enforcement officials are Republicans, including those in the FBI.

Opinion | The Real F.B.I. Election Culprit

"In his testimony before two House committees on Thursday, the F.B.I. agent Peter Strzok testified that he could have altered the 2016 election — but didn’t. The information about Russian election interference, he said, 'had the potential to derail, and quite possibly, defeat Mr. Trump. But the thought of exposing that information never crossed my mind.'"

Why do you suppose "commies/globalists" at the top of the FBI released information damaging to the 2016 Clinton campaign, yet said nothing about Russia's sweeping and systematic efforts to help Trump?

The New York Times? The mouthpiece of the Council on Foreign Relations? Is that the best you have? The FBI released nothing hurtful to he Clinton cabal and they exonerated her. The ONLY reason that they had to re-open the case was because of what was found on the Weiner laptop and even then they STILL refused to do anything about it. Blaming the FBI that actually gave her a free pass is ludicrous.

Russia "sweeping and systematic efforts helped Trump? You mean that they hacked into voting systems? They colluded with the mainstream media to carry him over the finish line (oh, wait, that was the Hildebeast) How much money did the Hildebeast get in foreign money? Barrypuppet telling illegals that they can vote? Project Veritas was a Russian sponsored campaign? Do I need to post videos of what the DNC was going to do and how the leaders of these organizations had to resign? Hildebeast getting the debate questions in advance? Dude, you have got NOTHING.....zero, zilch, nada.



You totally missed my point.....typical of leftards and now trying to change the topic? Strozk is a blowhard, a soft-headed commie but he had no power to do diddly squat. Besides, the election was already rigged for the Hildebeast.

You totally missed my point.....typical of leftards and now trying to change the topic? Strozk is a blowhard, a soft-headed commie but he had no power to do diddly squat. Besides, the election was already rigged for the Hildebeast.

Did you forget my question, Comrade?

Statement by FBI Director James B. Comey on the Investigation of Secretary Hillary Clinton’s Use of a Personal E-Mail System — FBI

"Statement by FBI Director James B. Comey on the Investigation of Secretary Hillary Clinton’s Use of a Personal E-Mail System
Remarks prepared for delivery at press briefing.

"Good morning. I’m here to give you an update on the FBI’s investigation of Secretary Clinton’s use of a personal e-mail system during her time as Secretary of State.

"After a tremendous amount of work over the last year, the FBI is completing its investigation and referring the case to the Department of Justice for a prosecutive decision. What I would like to do today is tell you three things: what we did; what we found; and what we are recommending to the Department of Justice.

"This will be an unusual statement in at least a couple ways. First, I am going to include more detail about our process than I ordinarily would, because I think the American people deserve those details in a case of intense public interest. Second, I have not coordinated or reviewed this statement in any way with the Department of Justice or any other part of the government. They do not know what I am about to say."

Why didn't lifelong Republican Comey mention the counterintelligence investigation it was conducting against the Red Don at the same time he criticized Clinton?

Deep state dementia?

LMAO! Comey and the Clintons are pals. The exoneration letter was written as this "dog and pony show" of an investigation was taking place. You believe the innocence of the Clinton and Lynch meeting on the tarmac? Yeah, you strike me as being that stupid. Laptops were allowed to have their hard-drives "scrubbed", cellphones allowed to be crushed and Clinton aides given complete immunity? Spare me, leftard.....I have been following this from the start.

Furthermore, I didn't vote for Trump or anyone else. I don't believe in the election process of this banana republic because I know how it all really works. Are we clear on this???

Furthermore, I didn't vote for Trump or anyone else. I don't believe in the election process of this banana republic because I know how it all really works. Are we clear on this???

I didn't vote for Trump or Clinton either, so I'm pretty clear about the political partisan dynamics at the FBI's New York field office in 2016:

Opinion | The Real F.B.I. Election Culprit

"But looking at available public evidence, the New York bureau’s actions actually did influence the campaign and helped hand the presidency to Donald Trump.

"In the Horowitz report, Loretta Lynch, the former attorney general, recalled a conversation with James Comey in which he said, 'it’s clear to me that there is a cadre of senior people in New York who have a deep and visceral hatred of Secretary Clinton.'

"F.B.I. agents in that office had a demonstrated propensity for leaks and arguably forced the bureau’s leadership’s hand in the final weeks of the election."

 

[whitehall]

Thanks to a series of traitors connected to the intelligence services there are no secrets left. The CIA with it's secret budget couldn't even find out who outed socialite Valerie Plame as a CIA agent. They blamed republican George Bush but it was reporter Leonard Novak. The CIA hasn't been on top of any important event since JFK used the Agency to raise an illegal army to invade Cuba. It became clear that the FBI has become the private little 3rd world Stazi arm of the democrat party when the ranking FBI leadership tried to overthrow the administration of the President of the United States. Someone needs to get a handle on the situation.

 

[Dale Smith]

Thanks to a series of traitors connected to the intelligence services there are no secrets left. The CIA with it's secret budget couldn't even find out who outed socialite Valerie Plame as a CIA agent. They blamed republican George Bush but it was reporter Leonard Novak. The CIA hasn't been on top of any important event since JFK used the Agency to raise an illegal army to invade Cuba. It became clear that the FBI has become the private little 3rd world Stazi arm of the democrat party when the ranking FBI leadership tried to overthrow the administration of the President of the United States. Someone needs to get a handle on the situation.

Leftards will never research COINTELPRO......they are not that "smart".

 

[gipper]

Thanks to a series of traitors connected to the intelligence services there are no secrets left. The CIA with it's secret budget couldn't even find out who outed socialite Valerie Plame as a CIA agent. They blamed republican George Bush but it was reporter Leonard Novak. The CIA hasn't been on top of any important event since JFK used the Agency to raise an illegal army to invade Cuba. It became clear that the FBI has become the private little 3rd world Stazi arm of the democrat party when the ranking FBI leadership tried to overthrow the administration of the President of the United States. Someone needs to get a handle on the situation.

Not going to happen. Nothing will be done about this blatant criminality, that just might be treason. Where is the independent counsel? Where are the congressional investigations or hearings? Is there anyone in the MSM demanding investigation?

Proof our government is now much like a banana republic, if you needed more proof.

 

[percysunshine]

Meh....all it is going to take is for one person facing jail time to start unraveling stuff.