NYT's New Duplicitious Attack on Trump's 'Unparalled War on Law Enforcement'

Newsbusters.org ^ | February 4, 2018 | Clay Waters

[Kaslin]

The media meltdown continues, in the wake of the release of the House Intelligence Committee memo detailing alleged misconduct by the FBI and the DOJ. In “Trump’s Unparalleled War,” a "news analysis" on the front of Sunday’s New York Times, reporters Sharon LaFraniere, Katie Benner, and Peter Baker fancy they’ve uncovered a conspiracist in the White House who has launched “an unparalleled war on law enforcement," while condoning the acts of their new favorite domestic surveillance organization, the FBI.

In the days before the 2016 election, Donald J. Trump expressed “great respect” for the “courage” of the F.B.I. and Justice Department for reopening the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private email server. Sixteen months later, he has changed his mind.

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The war between the president and the nation’s law enforcement apparatus is unlike anything America has seen in modern times. With a special counsel investigating whether his campaign collaborated with Russia in 2016 and whether Mr. Trump obstructed justice in 2017, the president has engaged in a scorched-earth assault on the pillars of the criminal justice system in a way that no other occupant of the White House has done.

The president’s focus on a memo drafted by Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee and released on Friday reflected years of conspiracy-minded thinking by Mr. Trump....

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In his telling, that bureaucracy, now run by his own appointees, is a nest of political saboteurs out to undermine him -- an accusation that raised fears that he was tearing at the credibility of some of the most important institutions in American life to save himself.

It’s quite odd and hypocritical for the liberal New York Times, which giddily leaks sensitive information to wreck terror-fighting programs, and published the name of a covert CIA official, to suddenly hallow the nation’s domestic surveillance organization as a vital and sacred institution.

The attacks are having an impact....In interviews, more than a dozen officials who work at or recently left the Justice Department and the F.B.I. said they feared that the president was mortgaging the credibility of those agencies for his own short-term political gain as he seeks to undercut the Russia inquiry led by the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III.

The reporters gave short shrift to Trump’s defenders.

Mr. Trump’s critics, his advisers argue, are turning a blind eye to government misconduct out of their own partisan animus toward the president. Neither the F.B.I. nor the Justice Department should be above questioning, they say, and Mr. Trump’s willingness to do so should not be taken as a slight against the vast majority of people who work there.

No more balanced was Mark Mazzetti’s Saturday front-page “news analysis” on the memo, “A Battle by Proxy in a Wider War.” Text box: “A push to discredit the law enforcement community.” The online headline: “How Trump’s Allies Fanned an Ember of Controversy Into Flames of Outrage.” His take was summed up in the dismissive line: “It didn’t live up to the hype.”

[Mr. K]

I think its the FBI’s “war on Trump”

[marron]

Trump’s unparalleled war on Obama moles.

[Pollster1]

Demanding that the FBI follow the law is not being “anti-FBI” or “anti-Law-and-order”. Decent people objecting to the abuse of FISA are exactly like decent people objecting to bad police shootings - the foundation of law and order.

[TigersEye]

Not nearly as bad as the NYTimes' war on western civilization!

[bigbob]

And Trump’s War on the Deep State

[timestax]

[Chengdu54]

The 2nd Civil War - the media will be legit miltary targets.

[John S Mosby]

Right-— let’s ask “law enforcement” what they think of crooked FBI offices around the country— the fraudulent taking over of State cases, the arbitrary overrulling of solid cases against criminals who feed a different narrative to the home fbi office.

Can one say— Fast & Furious.

Then, let’s ask local and state law enforcement what they think/thought about the obamaumao/holder/lynch support of Black (Lies) Matter and the federalizing of police jurisdiction to support a radical violent group of anti-American thugs.

Then ask how Trump has changed all this.

The NYTimes so full of crap— but they believe what their navels tell them. Kum bye yah.

[Noumenon]

Yes they will be. I’ll take a grim satisfaction in it.

[chief lee runamok]

The new york times: literal opoid for the fanatical left wing nuts.

[John S Mosby]

Very easy and soft targets, the re-broadcasting affiliates— some would say- and if the alignments are cooperative would have local and state police to help do it, against all enemies foreign and domestic.

[skimbell]

Boy, this is rich!

The left/democrats just spent the eight years that 0 was running the country into the ground in non-stop attacks on law enforcement.

BLM, I Can't Breath, St. Skittles, Occupy _______(whatever), "the police acted stupidly", Ferguson, Freddie Gray, Baton Rouge on and on were NOT fund raisers for the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association.

Now the NYT is worried about a "War on Law Enforcement"?

GMAFB!

[timestax]

[Brilliant]

I thought that was Obama.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

This is going to be a very traumatic year for the Democrat/presstitute industrial complex.

[Lysandru]

“The FBI Acted Stupidly.”

[ml/nj]

This is rich! The NYT is criticizing Trump for being critical of Law Enforcement!

ML/NJ

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Against law enforcement? No. Against lawlessness under cover of “legality.”

It was not Trump but Obama who attacked the independence of local law enforcement.

[HiTech RedNeck]

PLUS... even the FBI has a public service union now. The perfect cover for a piece of Deep State.