Posted on 05/11/2017 2:40:52 PM PDT by lowbridge
These are not happy times at the F.B.I.
Morale at the countrys premier law enforcement agency plummeted months ago, after James B. Comey, its director, revived the investigation into Hillary Clintons use of a private email server in October and plunged the bureau back into the political maelstrom just before the election.
Then President Trump fired Mr. Comey on Tuesday, saying he had mishandled the Clinton investigation, and the mood darkened again.
Agents said they were stunned that Mr. Trump would fire Mr. Comey in the midst of an F.B.I. investigation into whether any of the presidents associates had conspired with Russia to swing the election in favor of Mr. Trump. Some said in interviews that news of the firing felt like a gut punch. Others wondered whether they would be able to continue the inquiry.
One senior F.B.I. official said that the president had severely damaged his standing among agents, many of whom are conservative and supported Mr. Trump as a candidate. Agents were angered by the way Mr. Trump fired Mr. Comey, who learned of his dismissal from television reports while he was in Los Angeles. They called it disrespectful.
And agents flatly rejected the assertion Wednesday by a White House spokeswoman, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, during a briefing with reporters that the F.B.I.s rank-and-file supported the sudden firing of Mr. Comey.
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What’s the Over / Under on the number of minutes until this is disproved as Fake News?
Notice that somehow the “stunned” agents are not identified. Perhaps they are so stunned, they can’t remember their names.
Fake news. Firing of political frontman Comey has no effect on workings of investigation. All agents realize this, and hence this is NYTFake.
And by “Inside the FBI” rest assured the NYT means, “Inside our own Newsroom.”
Does anyone believe that they talked to ONE, SINGLE person from the FBI for this piece of crapola opinion piece masked as news?
Here is my take on this. Leavenworth is filled with military and government employees who are incarcerated with infractions compared to what Hillary did with classified material. So I would say this alone would demoralize the FBI. Agents could clearly see the investigations they perfumed were just wasted time and energy
Why do we keep posting nyt and wapo articles? I swear I just look at the headline and think the opposte
Fake news
There is nothing to investigate
Wet dreams don’t require investigation
This opinion piece masquerading as a news story is complete and utter bullshit.
America stunned that the FBI can’t find its ass with both hands.
As in the old saw about monkeys and typewriters tapping out the collected works of Shakespeare, any FBI investigation seems to require an infinite number of agents and an infinite amount of time.
Imagine if these Bureau-crats were re-tasked and managed so as to perform useful work efficiently — they could lay off half the force and still run out of things to do.
Unnamed “agents.”
Like “sources close to” and “individuals in key positions.”
Name one NYT or just admit you are publishing, once again, FAKE NEWS!
ROFL!!
If CWII ever breaks out, I want in on stringing up Times owners and workers :)
I’m already in NYC :)
The FBI has cashed all its goodwill checks built up since the 1950s. Now it’s nothing more than another leftist, goosestepping bureaucracy that needs to be cleaned out. We can start by declaring the FBI in insurrection and sending in a locked and loaded 101st Airborne to restore constitutional order.
New York Slimes “some say ... “ BS.
The election was in early November. If there was anything to this sliming beyond slime it would be in 3” letters on the front page of the Old Gray Whore every day.
The left has beaten this drum for over six months. Enough of this BS. Start indicting Democrats.
What complete horses**t. If there is an investigation, it is not Comey who is seeking out documents, interviewing witnesses, and writing reports. When those agents finish writing their report, they give it to the Director, and the Director relays the results of the report. Comey’s removal does utterly zero in terms of affecting the investigation.
The mere fact that “senior agents” are spewing partisan stories to the NYT shows that the FBI remains a Democratic Party Swampland. The new FBI Director should make it a priority to discover which agents are: 1) upset by Comey’s letter about the Weiner Laptop, 2) upset by Comey’s dismissal, and 3) whining to the NYT. Then return them to civilian employment.
The “Russia inquiry” goes straight to John (the Pedo) Podesta.
It is clear that there is national movement underway to impeach Trump by any means available. The POTUS seems to be surrounded by enemies and the Pubbies are not protecting him.
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