Posted on 06/16/2018 7:53:15 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
CNN and MSNBC buried the inspector general report’s revelation that a number of FBI agents were receiving unauthorized free handouts, such as dinners and tickets, from reporters.
Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz noted in his report on the Clinton investigation, which was released Thursday, that his department found numerous instances in which FBI agents were improperly in contact with reporters and were receiving a number of free perks from their relationships. (RELATED: IG Report: FBI Agents Regularly Received Free Handouts From Journalists)
The department “identified numerous FBI employees, at all levels of the organization and with no official reason to be in contact with the media, who were nevertheless in frequent contact with reporters.”
FBI agents’ relationships with the media extended to “improperly receiving benefits from reporters, including tickets to sporting events, golfing outings, drinks and meals, and admittance to nonpublic social events” and could have encouraged some agents to leak information to the press, Horowitz implied in the report.
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You forgot the GOP
Reports, committees and sternly-worded letters aren’t getting the job done. More Kabuki for the masses. Eat you cake and shut up!
The swamp is not partisan; it is metastatic and corrupts all who associate with its denizens.
At this point how does anyone believe anything an a FBI agent or DOJ prosecutor says? And I really don’t believe anything they say in a courtroom. Unless the FBI and DOJ fire, prosecute and jail a gang of their own criminals they will never have any credibility with the people again. An hour of ethics training is their answer to all this corruption? WTH!
bump
Freebies = bribes
Ding, ding, ding - we have a thread winnah!
That's odd, others on this thread indicated it was all A-OK as long as the bribes/gifts are not, "Substantial".☺
I'd take a wild guess these agencies have two sets of standards, like they have when it comes to criminal law. One set for you and me, and one set for the insulated elite in government.
If a Russian were to pay an FBI agent or other high government offical for classified information that would constitute espionage. Offer, acceptance and information for a payment. That is illegal, that is espionage. If a reporter pays for the same information and publishes instead of sending it to the Kremlin for analysis, how is that any less espionage?
I know that the reporter will wrap themselves in the 1st amendment, but that is just misdirection. They call it a “Bribe’ which is a mischaracterization, its not Barratry, changing policy for money, its espionage. (I know that in order to prosecute you need someone with a will to act. that is another matter.)
Any thoughts?
Less than $25 in value. When I was a contractor for a government agency, acceptable gifts were trinkets, pens, pads of paper with the company logo, etc.
Basically, it was nothing that wouldn’t be handed out at a trade show. They don’t hand out tickets to a major league baseball game at trade shows.
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