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FBI agents reportedly close to revolt over Comey’s friendly treatment of Clinton
Hot Air ^ | October 8, 2016 | Jazz Shaw

Posted on 10/08/2016 5:02:04 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

All through the FBI investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private bathroom email server and the exposure of classified information, I tended to take a wait and see attitude and gave FBI Director James Comey significant benefit of the doubt, if not outright praise at times. He was digging up a lot of information and, as I saw it, going out of his way to keep the public informed as to what was being found and the direction the case was taking. Even at the end, while highly dubious about his conclusion, I found myself having at least a bit of sympathy for him when considering the mountain he would have had to climb in bringing charges against a presidential candidate in the middle of a heated campaign, not to mention the potential backlash from the various allies of the Clintons.

Since that time however, we’ve learned more and more about all the maneuvers which took place, largely to the benefit of Hillary Clinton and her staff. Some were truly spectacular in their jaw dropping nature and now it sounds as if at least some of the agents in the Bureau are fed up with Comey’s handling of the case. The New York Post spoke to some of them and describes them as being nearly in open revolt.

Veteran FBI agents say FBI Director James Comey has permanently damaged the bureau’s reputation for uncompromising investigations with his “cowardly” whitewash of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s mishandling of classified information using an unauthorized private email server.

Feeling the heat from congressional critics, Comey last week argued that the case was investigated by career FBI agents, “So if I blew it, they blew it, too.”

But agents say Comey tied investigators’ hands by agreeing to unheard-of ground rules and other demands by the lawyers for Clinton and her aides that limited their investigation.

“In my 25 years with the bureau, I never had any ground rules in my interviews,” said retired agent Dennis V. Hughes, the first chief of the FBI’s computer investigations unit.

The list of perceived sins which have angered some of the agents is lengthy. One of the most recent (and perhaps worst) was Comey’s choice to agree to destroy Cheryl Mills’ laptop after an investigation into its contents was severely limited. The agents also cite the number of witnesses who were offered immunity in exchange for testimony, including some who might have wound up being targets of the investigation themselves. That’s understandable in many criminal cases because you’re willing to let some of the smaller fish walk if they help nail down the primary target. But as noted in the interviews, the agents were quick to point out that some of these immunized witnesses still suffered critical memory lapses when recounting the events surrounding the handling of the server.

I still find it difficult to believe that the fix was in and Comey intentionally let Clinton off the hook out of some loyalty or lack of objectivity. Perhaps I’m just naive, but the man stood on a long and distinguished record of service before this all began, spanning administrations from both parties. He simply doesn’t strike me as the sort of person who would sell out his integrity that cheaply. But that doesn’t mean that he didn’t turn tail and back off when the job looked too tough to drag across the finish line. And if some of his agents see this as damaging to the reputation of the Bureau, it’s hard to blame them.


TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Conspiracy; Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: comey; comeybrotherrico; comeyrico; corruptdems; emails; fbi; fbirico; hillary; hillarysemails; lawenforcement; petercomeyrico
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Close to revolt
Hahahahahahahahahahahaha


61 posted on 10/08/2016 7:13:02 PM PDT by zzwhale (no way)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Close to revolt
Hahahahahahahahahahahaha


62 posted on 10/08/2016 7:13:03 PM PDT by zzwhale (no way)
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To: Ol' Dan Tucker

LMAO!!!


63 posted on 10/08/2016 7:14:05 PM PDT by luv2ndamend (Same party, different letter. When the shtf, hug a politician.)
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To: Ken H

Yeah , you’re right. F— em


64 posted on 10/08/2016 7:14:06 PM PDT by WENDLE (Hillary gave ManPad missiles to our enemies in Libya-- that was TREASON)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

money talks and BS walks..FBI runs away, so much for their oath.


65 posted on 10/08/2016 7:16:46 PM PDT by rolling_stone
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To: Ryan Ruck

pping


66 posted on 10/08/2016 7:19:23 PM PDT by timestax (American Media = Domestic Enemy)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
And who was chairman of the House Oversight Committee investigating this?

JASON CHAFFETZ

And...nothing came of how many hours of playing footsie for the camera, Chaffetz building his career preening for the camera?

Today it all becomes clear why the Committee spend a TON of our money, and "failed."

It all came full circle today. An inside job on the part of Congress, too.

67 posted on 10/08/2016 7:21:44 PM PDT by gg188 (Americanism, not Globalism, will be our CREDO)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Sorry, we heard about he rock hard integrity of FBI Director Comey, that he would never go along with a coverup, etc. We heard of the mass resignations of FBI agents if they had a sham investigation. I don’t know of a single resignation, do you?? And it looks like Comey can go back to a fat multimillion dollar job at Goldman, Sachs after the election. So much for phony “integrity”.


68 posted on 10/08/2016 7:24:30 PM PDT by laconic
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Maybe some of these disgruntled agents can out Hillary before the election.

30 days away and NONE, as in ZERO, NO ONE, NADA has stepped forward to uphold their oath to the US Constitution. Not that they're alone in choosing silence and inertia over the worthy sacrifice of helping save their nation from irreversible tyranny.

"Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country" *tick...tick...tick*

69 posted on 10/08/2016 7:25:00 PM PDT by HangUpNow
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Their careers are worth more than the country

Their agency is worth more than their country

This is a big nothing, there is no honor in government anymore


70 posted on 10/08/2016 7:28:15 PM PDT by dila813 (Voting for Trump to Punish Trumpets!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

When they revolt publically, they willbe heroes.

Until then, they are slime.


71 posted on 10/08/2016 7:37:32 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: dila813

You’re right; they serve Caesar, and gladly cash his paychecks. “Public servants” (including public employees) serve themselves alone.


72 posted on 10/08/2016 8:07:16 PM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Comey is CORRUPT and so are his AGENTS!!! COWARDS....CORRUPT COWARDS!!!


73 posted on 10/09/2016 2:23:32 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion.S...... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Lurkinanloomin
No resignations yet, they are complicit.

Easy to say if it isn't your family that might go hungry - harder to do in practice unless one is already wealthy enough to not need a job.

74 posted on 10/09/2016 4:14:19 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If they are so enraged why haven’t any of them quit yet?


75 posted on 10/09/2016 4:48:13 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: trebb

FBI agents could easily find other employment.
Honest ones, anyway.


76 posted on 10/09/2016 6:24:29 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam , Know Peace)
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To: Lurkinanloomin
FBI agents could easily find other employment. Honest ones, anyway.

Perhaps - but in today's economy, one would be foolish to bank on their family's future by quitting a job w/o having something else already lined up.

77 posted on 10/09/2016 6:58:03 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: trebb

Another apologist for fedgov corruption weighs in.


78 posted on 10/09/2016 2:54:00 PM PDT by Ken H (Best election ever!)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

bttt


79 posted on 01/27/2019 1:59:30 PM PST by timestax (https://www.flickr.com/)
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To: timestax

see date of post !!!


80 posted on 01/27/2019 2:00:08 PM PST by timestax (https://www.flickr.com/)
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