Posted on 10/07/2016 7:20:28 PM PDT by WENDLE
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.
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Comey also agreed to have Mills’ laptop destroyed after the restricted search, denying Congress the chance to look at it and making the FBI an accomplice to the destruction of evidence.
Comey’s immunized witnesses nonetheless suffered chronic lapses in memory, made unsubstantiated claims of attorney-client privilege upon tougher questioning and at least two gave demonstrably false statements. And yet Comey indulged it all.
What’s more, Comey cut a deal to give Clinton a “voluntary” witness interview on a major holiday, and even let her ex-chief of staff sit in on the interview as a lawyer, even though she, too, was under investigation.
Clinton’s interview, the culmination of a yearlong investigation, lasted just 3½ hours. Despite some 40 bouts of amnesia, she wasn’t called back for questioning; and three days later, Comey cleared her of criminal wrongdoing.
“The FBI has politicized itself, and its reputation will suffer for a long time,” Hughes said. “I hold Director Comey responsible.”
Agreed retired FBI agent Michael M. Biasello: “Comey has singlehandedly ruined the reputation of the organization.”
The accommodations afforded Clinton and her aides are “unprecedented,” Biasello added, “which is another way of saying this outcome was by design.” He called Comey’s decision not to seek charges “cowardly.”
“Each month for 27 years, I received oral and computer admonishments concerning the proper protocol for handling top secret and other classified material, and was informed of the harsh penalties, to include prosecution and incarceration,” for mishandling such material, he pointed out. “Had myself or my colleagues engaged in behavior of the magnitude of Hillary Clinton, as described by Comey, we would be serving time in Leavenworth.”
Former FBI official I.C. Smith knows a thing or two about Clinton corruption. After working at FBI headquarters as a section chief in the National Security
“The FBI agents are revolting!”
“You’re not kidding!”
They stink on ice.
I’ll believe it when I see it.
We will see a full scale FBI revolt very soon. This is the darkest hour is American Justice. FBI agents fear only for their retirements. We will restore their retirements plus whistle blower bonuses. Go TRUMP!! hellary is a CRIMINAL LIAR!!
Weasels can revolt?
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Bunch of crooked weasels.
And they're darned mad about it and will be frowning all week long.
Next week, all will be back to normal.
Pfft...
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Atlanta Olympics, 1996:
An overweight security guard Richard Jewell finds a bomb in a crowded Atlanta park, an act of terror. He alerts the cops, but the bomb goes off and a desperate Bill Clinton facing a reelection bid ORDERS the FBI to simplify things by making Richard Jewell the perp.
Knowing Richard Jewell revers “real cops” the FBI brings him in for questioning, finally pretending to relent and accept his story of innocence. They then flattered him and lowered his guard by chatting him up in grand style like A Law Enforcement Colleague.
The FBI then claimed to Jewell that they were making a Training Videotape simulation in which a perp under questioning breaks down and confresses to a bombing, “Ah shucks, our actor crapped out, got sick, say Richard, would ya help us FBI guys out..?” A micrometer away from consenting to help them with their “training video”, Jewell suddenly realizes if he cooperated with “his friends”, they might turn around use the tape against him in the world famous bombing that just transpired.
He calls his ex-roomate, a lawyer, who admonishes Jewell that he’s in very grave danger. He leaves the FBI questioning and AVOIDS LIFE IN PRISON BY A WHISKER.
YOUR FBI IS **FINE** ACTING AS AN INSTRUMENT OF POLITICAL TERROR.
It started at least 20 years ago.
Complete and utter total horse shit. It will never happen. I used to get excited about stuff like this but after years of hoping it never..NEVER plays out. And if it does nobody will cover it and even if they do nobody will care. It’s really bad at this point. It seems that nothing that is demonstrably true matters ONE F*cking bit!
Same here. Seems like everybody is in it only for themselves, keeping their resumes and pensions intact. I see no acts of patriotic heroism or falling upon any swords just yet.
At the same time, I can only hope I would do the right thing in such an environment. I won’t pretend to be so lofty.
When you see your Boss (Comey) covering for a known crimminal enterprise (Clinton Foundation Inc.) it’s bound to effect your priorities.
Comey has millions of dollars. He didn’t need to sell out the republic for money.
Comey has done many favors for the Clintons. He didn’t need to sell out the republic to gain favors with the Clintons.
Comey is the chief federal law officer. He didn’t need to sell out the republic because he was scared.
Comey sold us, you and me, out because he doesn’t care about this country or its citizens.
He didn’t have to do it.
He wanted to do it.
Screw him and the FBI.
Wendle I agree, but who in the House and Senate have enough spine to do something like this? No body, that’s why we are in this mess... their ‘money and power’ are far greater than the ‘right thing to do’ is...
What are they waiting for? If nothing happens before the election, it is all in vain, nonsense filtered through the leftist channels.
exactly. fbi is as bad as batfe and dea, ice, irs, et al
all alphabet agenices dismantled completely. all of them.
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In 1993, 80 people and 22 kids died in this FBI fire with ambulances and fire crews kept away. While filming, they then raised the flag of the ATF on the still-smoking embers.
No one from the FBI faced any punishment.
None have resigned.
Until they do, they are complicit
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