Posted on 11/06/2019 6:02:09 AM PST by libstripper
As a self-proclaimed adherent to Hanlon’s Razor, I once cynically viewed the frenzied focus on FBI actions during the 2016 Russian election-meddling investigation as partisan and overwrought. Hanlon’s Razor suggests that we never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity or incompetence. Having proudly served in the FBI for 25 years, I bristled at insulting accusations of an onerous deep state conspiracy. Some obvious mistakes made during the investigation of the Trump campaign were quite possibly the result of two ham-handedly overzealous FBI headquarters denizens, Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, clumsily seeking to impress each other with ever-increasing levels of loathing for then-candidate Donald Trump.
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Here’s me, acknowledging my mistake. I was dead wrong. It now seems there was a concerted effort, though isolated, within the upper-echelons of the FBI to influence the outcome of the Flynn investigation. By “dirtying up” Flynn, Comey’s FBI headquarters team of callow sycophants shortcut the investigative process. Arm-twisting Flynn through the “tweaked” version of his interview afforded him criminal exposure. The cocksure Comey team felt supremely confident that would inspire him “flipping” and give them the desperately sought-after evidence of Trump-Russia collusion that the wholly unverified Steele dossier was never remotely capable of providing.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
"James A. Gagliano . . . worked in the FBI for 25 years. He is a law enforcement analyst for CNN and an adjunct assistant professor in homeland security and criminal justice at St. John's University."
After writing this article he may not have much of a future at CNN.
if one lies to the FBI it is a crime.
If they lie, or alter Evidence, or withhold
Evidence, or jail innocents, or transfer U to Russia
to allow the Comeys to transfer $$$$ to Clintons,
it is a “good thing” — to be protected at all costs.
It shouldn’t be illegal to lie to the FBI anyway.
Only a fool thinks that this is “isolated”.
Have you ever heard about the FBI Crime Lab fiasco?
302s are fine when you are canvasing potential witnesses during an investigation, but to prosecute for lying to the FIB, there should be hard evidence beyond a written summary of the conversation.
“...It shouldn’t be illegal to lie to the FBI anyway....”
I don’t think a lot of people realized this for quite awhile...but many of them do now. The solution: plead the 5th even if an agent says: “Good morning”.
I had one for a neighbor for awhile. He was one arrogant a$$hole. I was out in my fenced backyard with my dog early one morning, and he walked up to the fence and said: “Beautiful morning. I wonder what the poor people are doing this morning?” I immediately grabbed my dog to keep her from being shot, pled the 5th Amendment as I quickly headed to the house. He didn’t think it was funny.....neither did I.
This goes on from to bottom.
fbi and other police state agencies need to be stripped of domestic police power, with the States taking over theses responsibilities.
The people can’t police the federal police state because it is effectively secret and unaccountable. We at least have a better chance of oversight at the State level. Sure, we have some very bad states; but those that care about liberty don’t have to live there. When this type of corruption is at the federal level, there is no where to move.
“Only a fool thinks that this is “isolated”.”
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No confidence in anything federal gub mint except The Donald.
Lie to the FBI?
Hell no. I’d just refuse to talk to them or any federal anything,
302s should be illegal.
Make a recording and make it public.
When will we see the arrests of these lawbreakers? Are they above the law, as Hillary Clinton is? Until we see some justice being meted out by those “investigating the investigators, we have no confidence in our justice system for those in government.
It now seems there was a concerted effort, though isolated............
Dead-ass wrong. Why do I know that? Because Mueller had how many FBI Agents gleefully working for him?
This coup attempt may not have been agency, an agency that has worn out its usefullness, wide, but it wasn’t isolated.
One thing I never hear being talked about, maybe because there might be some bigger fish to fry is, all the ‘youngsters’ in the FBI that were raised by Comey, Page, McCabe, Baker, Strzok. None of their “jedi masters” are in any kind of trouble. They’re learning how to better cover their tracks. Not use agency issued cell phones. How to destroy evidence. And, they’re learning that they can get away with it, as long as they do the bidding of a certain party and certain politicians/powerful people.
Much as I wish the President would go through the DOD and find every ‘Flag Officer’ that was promoted under the last President and fire ALL of them, pending a very, very, very, very, very, very, very thorough vetting, I wish he would find everyone that worked for these people. If they’re still working in the FBI/DOJ or wherever, FIRE THEM. TODAY.
Maybe someone who wants to keep his job at CNN
This guy is the real deal. Also a West Point grad. He was involved in the case with the Blind Shiek and the Holland Tunnel in NYC.
I’m not sure just what this amounts to. Flynn’s lawyer earlier pointed out improbable edit to docs as originally provided. The FBI explains it by saying the labeling was mixed up.
What exactly is being held against the FBI other than a clerical error that was inconvenient for Flynn’s legal team when they were trying to reconcile the information? ?
Perhaps because they wanted to pre-empt any outrage that may otherwise have followed on revelations that
<><> Obama’s National Security Advisor, Susan Rice, hid important facts from Gen Flynn, who was tapped as Rice's successor.
<><> during the transition, Obama probably ordered Rice to lie to Flynn......to coverup evidence of bigger more dangerous security breeches.
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When we look back, these Obamanoids always seemed overconfident and sloppy...
always smirking about one crime or another, never ever fearing retribution.
Clearly, the dirty-doers did not plan on any follow-up nor did they expect Americans to challenge them.
Keep in mind, those were the heady days of "anything goes'...when Saint Obama was untouchable and Hillary was a "shoo-in."
I can hear them all now: "Don't worry, Hillary will sweep all of this under the Oval Office rug."
This as they chose their bailiwicks and sinecures and signed up for 3-4 eternal Federal pensions.
Only a fool thinks that this is “isolated”.
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Exactly right. The apparent silence of many inside the Bureau is very disturbing. Many had to know at least part of what was going on, or they were sympathetic with it.
Look at how bad Flynn is STILL being treated. The rot inside the FBI/DOJ remains largely in place.
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