I am proud of the FBI

Don Surber blog ^ | February 03, 2018 | Don Surber

[mairdie]

As this case against the misuse of the FBI and the intelligence community develops, I realize that with good, honest agents in the FBI, we would have never known, because Hillary would be president.

The top Leadership and Investigators of the FBI and the Justice Department have politicized the sacred investigative process in favor of Democrats and against Republicans - something which would have been unthinkable just a short time ago. Rank & File are great people!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 2, 2018

The system is working.

Or shall I say, dedicated and patriotic Americans are?

As your resident Trump-ologist, I had to decipher this tweet from Friday: "The top Leadership and Investigators of the FBI and the Justice Department have politicized the sacred investigative process in favor of Democrats and against Republicans - something which would have been unthinkable just a short time ago. Rank and File are great people!"

Trump's tweets are carefully measured and executed.

Remember his response to Eminem's taunts?

That's right. Trump didn't respond. Eminem is a relic of the 1990s. He thought he could kickstart his career by feuding with the president. Eminem thought it was easy because Trump had so many feuds with so many other people.

Trump ignored him -- and Eminem was dumb enough to complain about being ignored. Without doing a thing, Trump showed the world that Eminem is impotent.

Jay-Z said something, and Trump was on it like that.

Why? Because a feud with Jay-Z served Trump's purpose. Feuding with Eminem would not.

Trump is disciplined. And patient. And thick skinned. The key to Trump-ology is to realize what most people think about him is a media facade he built.

It serves his purpose to be misunderstood. His success is built in part upon it.

His tweet about the FBI rank-and-file was more than just a pat on the back. His wanted to show the people in the bureau (and the world) that his dispute is with the people at the top in the previous administration.

Not only does he brook no quarrel with the rank-and-file, but Trump may owe them his presidency.

Here is why.

On July 5, Jim Comey openly politicized the bureau. The director always played politics in Washington.

J. Edgar Hoover kept his job by having the dirt on people, and the smarts to keep it to himself. He also had the goods on enemies of the state. He had an informant in the Communist Party USA (a front for the USSR) who told him Moscow and Peking (as it was then spelled) were feuding.

Nixon learned that, and decided to go to China to widen the gap between the Soviet Union and Red China.

Thank you, J. Edgar.

People in the bureau (and every federal agency) understand bosses will pay political favors.

But letting Hillary skate went beyond the pale. This was historically bad and it must have shook honest agents to the marrow.

I base that on a report by Paul Sperry in the New York Post on October 6, 2016.

"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," Sperry wrote.

"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."

The rebellion was real and by October 28, Comey felt the only way to quell the rebellion was to re-open the case. That lasted a few days.

And it may have cost Clinton the election.

Comey thought re-opening the case and clearing her again would help her, while appeasing the rebels. After all, her lead was Too Big to Fail. She even said that if the election were held on October 27, she would be queen, er, president.

However, the re-opened investigation lasted just long enough to give enough people pause to either stay home on Election Day or by golly, to vote for Trump.

After Trump's election, Obama and company foolishly tried to use the deep state to bring Trump down. Instead, they should be sweating things out. You see, the good guys in the FBI (and elsewhere) are not letting this die.

Comey scorched the bureau's reputation. Some good people in the bureau are fighting back.

Democrats both in and out of the media want the public to ignore the politicization of the bureau. There is no conspiracy here. Just a little office romance.

But all those texts between agents Lisa Page and Peter Strzok -- the alleged lovebirds -- seemed to be about politics, and not about hanky-panky. Maybe the steamy texts are someplace else. Maybe they are among the 50,000 missing texts. Maybe "God Trump is loathsome human" is FBI code for:

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of being and ideal grace.
I love thee to the level of every day’s
Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.
I love thee freely, as men strive for right;
I love thee purely, as they turn from praise.
I love thee with the passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood’s faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints. I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life; and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.

Maybe not.

Meanwhile, Inspector General Michael Horowitz has gone about his business for the past year. He seems like a stand-up guy. He led the team that busted bad cops in New York City in the 1990s.

Twenty years later, he is doing the same thing at the FBI.

"Failing to get traction on their Russia 'collusion' front, Sen. Mark Warner and other top Democratic inquisitors now suggest President Trump is obstructing justice by forcing a shake-up at FBI headquarters. But FBI sources tell me the pressure to clean house is also coming from inside the bureau, and it’s based on real concerns over malfeasance by top brass there," Sperry wrote on Thursday.

FBI Director Christopher Wray is the reason for the cleanup on Aisle Comey.

Sperry quoted former assistant FBI Director Ron Hosko as saying, "Wray is a smart, experienced attorney. He’s not gonna fold to BS pressure with no facts, so he saw something solid, something from the agency’s inspector general, who has been investigating political conflicts and irregularities involving McCabe for more than a year."

And Wray fired his deputy, Andrew McCabe, because of that evidence.

Perry quoted Michael Biasello, a 25-year veteran of the FBI who spent 10 years in counter-intelligence, as saying, "The FBI hierarchy, the management, has been poisoned by politics. This is Comey’s legacy."

The media (Democratic Party) spin is the Nunes Memo is an attempt to discredit the Mueller investigation. That is nonsense. The memo may discredit the investigation, but the purpose is to cleanse the FBI.

Comey has shown that the FBI is too big and too powerful. It needs to be reined in, not because the agents are running roughshod over the Constitution but because Comey and his cronies did.

The best way to fight corruption is to reduce the power that invites it.

Horowitz and the others are the good guys. I would guess only a dozen or so are bad agents like Page and Strzok.

President Trump in one tweet told the public that he has the backs of the good guy (and gal) agents.

When he said in that debate to Hillary "you'd be in jail," Trump was not threatening her.

It was a statement of fact.

And while she won't go to jail now, some of those who protected her may.

Thanks to the FBI that they tried to corrupt.

[mairdie]

I excerpt, rather than quote full blogs, because the original, long article is well formatted and MUCH easier to read there than it would be here.

Yet another great Don Surber article.

[SoConPubbie]

No need to excerpt. Simply view the source of the blog you want to post, grab the html, do some minor cleanup, and it should post rather nicely.

I have done it all the time here at FreeRepublic.

[fruser1]

In general, the FBI is ok.

The problem is the KGB office hiding within it.

[Eddie01]

blog excerpts are bad form.

if you post the whole thing, I’ll visit the page.

weird huh?

[riverrunner]

The FBI is one of the many extra constitutional government agencies that should be done away with.

There is no authorizing authority in the constitution for them.

[JBW1949]

I, myself, have no problem with excerpts...

[Arm_Bears]

Waco.

Ruby Ridge.

Lavoy Finicum.

Sorry—No sale.

[AMDG&BVMH]

Yes.

The FBI is too big, and has demonstrated that it will not be held accountable. Not to the duly elected President of the United States. Not to We the People nor our elected representatives who have lawful oversight. Not to the Rule of Law. Not to the Constitution and their oaths to it.

Time to tear it down. We can use the bricks to build the Wall!

[NEWwoman]

I have no problem with excerpts.

But it seems an over-zealous humblegunner gets his panties in a wad and makes snarky comments about it when someone excerpts a blog.

Surprised he hasn’t shown up yet. Must be busy policing FR and the rest of the internet. ;)

[mairdie]

Thank you for the suggestion.

[mairdie]

Weird definitely. I’ve always thought full blogs to be bad form, but I like the suggestion about picking up the hmtl. Still don’t like full blogs without it.

I think this blog section is too weird since it combines people’s personal blogs with better articles than found in News.

[trisham]

If you’re going to mention another FReeper in your post, he or she should be pinged.

[JimRed]

if you post the whole thing, I’ll visit the page.

If the content is good, I will click as well. But I seldom click on an excerpt, especially if bias is apparent in the lead in.

[mairdie]

He’s so rude I’ve grown to ignore him. Good objections with reasoning I ALWAYS listen to and often change my opinion because of. His, never.

[JimRed]

Surprised he hasn’t shown up yet. Must be busy policing FR and the rest of the internet. ;)

Just guessing, but I think HG objects mostly to excerpting one's own blog for hits.

[mairdie]

I guess I like bias, because I want to read full throated Trumpers. And Don Surber always makes me feel good.

I used to only post initial, but learned that it’s better to post the heart of the article from the middle. I’m liking that better as saying what the article is really about.

[Nifster]

meh

More blog stuff

All sorts of people have opinions

[onona]

The FBI has proven itself complicit in criminal activity. The organization is a joke and a blight on America.

[FreedBird]

All the time the Dems. will blaming the Russians for interference in an election. Now we find some in the FBI were motivated to push the Hillary campaign. All the wasted time watching the media chase their tails around the Russian story, has taught us all a lesson. The media has a mission to stop Trump too.