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Sudden FBI departures indicate that the jig is up
The American Thinker ^ | 02/09/18 | Thomas Lifson

Posted on 02/09/2018 7:03:59 AM PST by pgkdan

Choose your metaphor: rats leaving a sinking ship, cockroaches scurrying away from the light, or maybe just people cutting deals to save their butts. Yesterday saw the FBI fan feculated.

The blandness of this Politico story, titled "Two more officials cited in FBI texts step down," conceals really, really big news. The jig is up. Each of the "officials" who is "stepping down" is leaving under duress and likely facing serious legal consequences for acts that have been disclosed – acts that go to the heart of the fraudulent application for the Page FISA warrant and the obstruction of justice in the Hillary email probe.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 201802; corruptdems; davidlaughman; fbi; fisaabuse; fisagate; laughman; obamagate; resignation
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To: stylin19a
Exactly.

Better to lose your job, lose your benefits, and lose your general way of life in order to stake out an aggressive defensive posture using the 5th.

The alternative is exposure, conviction and punishment. But, like an ship throwing out all ballast in a last ditch effort to stay afloat, in the end, they still lose everything anyway.

But at least their resignations put up a fighting effort. Still, who's to say the gun sitting in the bedside table is calling to them to take the easy way out?

21 posted on 02/09/2018 7:25:27 AM PST by semantic
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To: robroys woman

CTH gets a lot of things right, but not everything...they’re wrong about Carter Page, that’s for sure.


22 posted on 02/09/2018 7:26:04 AM PST by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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To: SERKIT

Aww, that’s much cuter than your average Democrat.


23 posted on 02/09/2018 7:26:35 AM PST by Pining_4_TX (For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. ~ Hosea 8:7)
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To: originalbuckeye

Agreed.


24 posted on 02/09/2018 7:27:01 AM PST by Rappini (Compromise has its place. It's called second.)
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To: Da Coyote

Ditto here. We keep getting set up for disappointment. Most of these people should have been arrested a long time ago, especially the Clintons and those surrounding them. The rich and powerful never have to pay for their crimes. Look at Sen. Menendez. That he is still walking free and in the senate shows how far down the road the US is towards being a banana republic.


25 posted on 02/09/2018 7:28:29 AM PST by Pining_4_TX (For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. ~ Hosea 8:7)
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To: pgkdan

I think it’s because the first to leave get the jobs at the fake media sewers.


26 posted on 02/09/2018 7:30:33 AM PST by New Jersey Realist ( (Be Nice To Your Kids. They Will Pick Out Your Nursing Home))
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To: Red Badger

There’s a New Sheriff in town


27 posted on 02/09/2018 7:33:28 AM PST by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country.)
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To: SandRat

Protecting their pensions.......................


28 posted on 02/09/2018 7:34:42 AM PST by Red Badger (Wanna surprise? Google your own name. Wanna have fun? Google your friends names......)
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To: semantic

I understand what you are saying. What do you do when your nuts are in a vice ?
Kortan announced his retirement, so I’m guessing he has a pension and benefits.
Laufman has been around since the 80’s and has been with DOJ since 2000, so I’m guessing he also has some kind of fed pensions & benefits.


29 posted on 02/09/2018 7:36:24 AM PST by stylin19a (Best.Election.of.All-Times.Ever.In.The.History.Of.Ever)
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To: pgkdan

The FBI fan “feculated”

lol...I am gonna have to remember that one...

work it into a sentence in my own situation at some point in the near future..


30 posted on 02/09/2018 7:38:10 AM PST by QualityMan (The Adults are back in town)
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To: Red Badger

Their pensions should be seized because they
supported treason and child trafficking.

Time to lock them in a room with the parents.


31 posted on 02/09/2018 7:38:59 AM PST by Diogenesis
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To: SERKIT

I’ll step out on a limb and predict that there will be whole bunch get early retirement, or get transferred to another agency with a pay grade increase, and that nobody loses a job or goes to jail.


32 posted on 02/09/2018 7:39:26 AM PST by nobamanomore
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To: stylin19a

“now they can take the 5th”

And they will be bankrupted having to pay for their own Lawyers. The IG may well have enough evidence already to send them away. These are minor league cockroaches hopefully they’ll be cutting a deal to drop a dime about the Big Leaguers.


33 posted on 02/09/2018 7:40:29 AM PST by DAC21
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To: pgkdan

EPA is also losing people. Progress! Or as LBJ said, progerse!


34 posted on 02/09/2018 7:41:38 AM PST by Dr. Wu
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Book them on Dancing With The Stars.

Dancing the Tyburn Jig.


35 posted on 02/09/2018 7:42:16 AM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: mac_truck

Conservative Treehouse. You think the former produce manager in a grocery store is writing that stuff? If so, his writing and his information sources have certainly changed over the past 5 years.


36 posted on 02/09/2018 7:43:30 AM PST by ladyjane
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To: pgkdan

God, I miss Communism. The Red threat. People were scared, the Agency had some respect, and I got laid every night.

We blow up space shuttles for breakfast. You and your friend Tommy are nothing more than... a late afternoon Triscuit. Ciao.

37 posted on 02/09/2018 7:49:35 AM PST by BlueLancer (Black Rifle Coffee - Freedom, guns, tits, bacon, and booze!)
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To: DuncanWaring

“Dancing the Tyburn Jig./”

Aha, one of my favorite Brit terms! Doing the devils dance on .the air.


38 posted on 02/09/2018 7:54:21 AM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneoHeÂ’s suddenly vocal after 8 years.)
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To: samadams2000

“following the President’s orders”


This would put the spotlight on Obama. If any action was done after Obama left office, it would bring to the light illegal actions by Obama while he is a private citizen. As a private citizen he can be prosecuted. Unfortunately to avoid widespread riots and accusations of racism, this will not happen.


39 posted on 02/09/2018 7:57:36 AM PST by Yulee
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To: semantic

It’s not a REAL scandal until 2 or 3 people blow their brains out... on a country road.


40 posted on 02/09/2018 7:58:33 AM PST by ichabod1 (People don't want to believe it be what it is but it do.)
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