Posted on 05/22/2018 9:57:38 PM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
“...DiGenova — ... agreed ...I have no idea how to read Chris Wray, who is not a leader and who has disappeared from the public eye during this entire crisis....”
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DiGenova is right. Wray does not appear to be a leader. And, in this lack of leadership, he is much like Sessions.
Declassify everything.
“Non-risk takers?” I don’t think the risk is zero even if congress pays for legal representation. IMO the deep state is disgracefully vindictive. Remember the Lynch-Clinton tarmac meeting? When it was reported, the FBI wanted to punish the leaker and ignore the meeting itself.
""The subpoena is preferred, he said, “because when you are subpoenaed, Congress then pays…for your legal counsel and the subpoena protects [the agent] from any organizational retaliation""
Agreed.
I guess you don’t mind the corruption as much as you think you do.
That’s the way it’s supposed to work. Yes a subpoena certainly helps, but I don’t know if whistle blowing is really 100% safe under those conditions.
Maybe they’ll offer them additional protections and financial incentives to ensure they’re double protected. Don’t want anyone to taking any risks!
But they’ll still want them to stonewall it, plead the Fifth Amendment...
You just can’t expect everyone to be that courageous. They would be risking everything - their jobs, their families, their homes, their social circles... maybe their lives. We’d want everyone to be a patriot but we’ve allowed a system that is corrupt and vindictive and virtually unaccountable. They would be Don Quixotes.
"They?" "Them?"
Oh, ya mean like the patriotic founders of this country did? Of course, that was a long time ago, when people had no issues taking deadly risks and laying it all on the line for what they believed.
“Easy for you to say. How many people would be willing to suffer being wiped out financially causing great harm to your family in the name of patriotism? In the real world, not many. Look at General Flynn who had to sell his home to pay his legal bills and was forced to plead guilty to a manufactured crime.”
And, if a subpoena is issued I would imagine that the “witness” would have a right to ask for protection from assassins that the DNC would undoubtedly hire. They would also after the deposition is over be eligible for the Witness Protection Program to make sure their spouses and kids were not whacked by disgruntled staff members of imprisoned democratic members of Congress and Senators.
It is easy for me to say:
As a member of a church staff, I once swore an oath of pacifism while in a particular denomination. I maintained that oath even when assaulted and injured, and seriously threatened by a male in an apparent ‘roid rage. I stood my ground but did not respond with violence. (I have since left that denomination, and no longer abide by that oath.)
These agents want the badge and gun and status and power. They take a sacred Oath to uphold the Constitution. These are not mall cops!
I have no respect for them.
You do know that only about 30% of the colonists supported the American Revolution. They succeeded in part because no more than that number supported King George. The rest were ambivalent. Not much has changed in 250 years, the electorate is split 30-40-30 too. The difference here is, you are asking people who work for King George to revolt. They are not patriots. They suckle at the teat of government and you expect they would bite it?
That is one of the ways to keep good people silent.
“The difference here is, you are asking people who work for King George to revolt.”
So what you’re saying is that it isn’t cowardice on the part of the rank and file of the fbi that keeps them silent. They are silent because they are on board with the Deep State.
In any case, they should be shamed and scorned rather than coddled.
Fey Wray
If Trump wanted to end this entire fuster-cluck and prosecute the deep state players, he’d fire Sessions and appoint Mark Levin as AG.
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