I’ve heard JD|FB is flat short of [dependable] personnel.
And then Kash made an odd statement.. while criticizing the previous FBI for what had left hidden, he then said, “I ‘HOPE’ *this* FBI will release it.”
WTHeck?
He IS the FBI!
What?
Naturally it made you wonder if he’s only a title, still powerless as a director, and just a grunt gumshoe working a case.
Comey & Wray swung from the top branch when speaking for their own department.
I became too used to that practice, I guess. AG’S were around only to back up FBI, not the other way around.
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Harry Truman explained the Slow Walk shortly after the 1952 election. “Eisenhower is used to the Army where orders are received and orders are followed up. But when Ike sits behind this desk and gives an order, not one single goddam thing is going to happen.”
The Raincoat occurs when an agency doesn’t like the presidential choice of who heads it. The political appointee receives just enough information to go before Congress to guarantee its annual appropriation. The people within the agency instead report to the top career person in the agency. I’ll give you two examples within CIA.
When Jack Kennedy allowed Allan Dulles to retire gracefully after the Bay of Pigs disaster, he appointed Orange County businessman John McCone to head CIA. McCone got the Raincoat. Company people actually reported to James Jesus Angleton (Counterintelligence) and Richard Helms (Operations).
When Ronald Reagan appointed William Casey to head CIA, he got the Raincoat. Casey had been fired, along with a lot of other Cold Warriors, by Stansfield Turner, Jimmy Carter’s CIA chief, in the infamous Halloween Massacre of 1977 due to their “outdated thinking.” Casey landed on his feet, got the Head of Security job at TRW in Torrance, CA, and became the Reagan campaign’s National Security Advisor. Upon returning to CIA as the boss, Casey discovered that his people were constantly on the phone leaking to the Washington Post. He wasn’t getting the information he needed to run the Company. So Casey started his own private CIA within the White House run by Oliver North and Fawn Hall. That led to disaster.
Kash has to find a way to throw off the Slow Walk and the Raincoat if he’s going to really run the FBI.