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Former FBI director: Trump spreading distrust of agency is 'not American'
The Hill ^ | 12 17 2019 | Zack Budryk

Posted on 12/17/2019 2:28:35 PM PST by yesthatjallen

Retired judge Bill Webster, the only person to serve as director of both the FBI and the CIA, is blasting President Trump's ongoing criticism of the FBI, calling it "un-American."

In a Tuesday interview with MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell, Webster said Trump’s description of the bureau as a “broken system” was “not true” and “could adversely affect the confidence the American people have in one of the most important agencies in government.”

“I hate to use that term, I was shocked to hear him use — it’s so inappropriate,” said Webster when asked about Trump’s description of FBI personnel as “scum” at a recent Pennsylvania rally.

“This kind of talk, people think ‘well, they must know what they’re talking about,’ but they don’t. Take the FBI for a moment. I don’t know of any organization I have worked with… that tries harder to do the right thing in the right way,” he said.

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KEYWORDS: cia; fbi; trump
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To: newzjunkey
Trump didn’t force the FBI to LIE to the FISA court. Oh maybe he did because he WON election instead of losing to her highness like he was supposed to.

That's right !

101 posted on 12/17/2019 3:52:37 PM PST by timestax
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To: yesthatjallen

Hey Bill,

The FIB can shove it up your ass.


102 posted on 12/17/2019 3:53:35 PM PST by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west))
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To: yesthatjallen

Considering the criminal acts the FBI and its agents have performed against Americans during this coup, no American should ever feel safe speaking to a criminal of the FBI. There isn’t a single FBI employee who is not guilty of the crimes of the FBI.


103 posted on 12/17/2019 3:55:10 PM PST by CodeToad
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To: yesthatjallen; COUNTrecount; Nowhere Man; FightThePower!; C. Edmund Wright; jacob allen; ...

At no point in history has any government ever wanted its people to be defenseless for any good reason ~ nully's son

The biggest killer of mankind

Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping!

To get onto The Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping List you must threaten to report me to the Mods if I don't add you to the list...

Sorta reminds me of this:

I wonder why?

104 posted on 12/17/2019 3:57:43 PM PST by null and void (Nancy? As a Catholic, why do you vote pro-abortion? Do you hate babies more than you love God?)
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To: Trump Girl Kit Cat

I can believe that.


105 posted on 12/17/2019 4:05:35 PM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Hey; Billy; if the FEEBEE and CIA guys and gals had acted according to the CONSTITUTION, the LAW, and common decency perhaps we could still trust them.

As it stands right now, I would trust Ho Chi Minh a lot more than a bunch of anti-Constitutional, criminal, federal GANG BANGERS!


106 posted on 12/17/2019 4:15:13 PM PST by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: wildcard_redneck
"I pledge allegiance to my FBI and the Republic which it usurped, one tyranny, indivisible, with slavery and injustice for all.”

I agree with the following sentiment, but it does violate FR's posting rules.

107 posted on 12/17/2019 4:16:09 PM PST by null and void (Nancy? As a Catholic, why do you vote pro-abortion? Do you hate babies more than you love God?)
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To: yesthatjallen

I was saying that Comey, McCabe, and Wray need to do hard felony time in the federal pen. Add Webster to that group.


108 posted on 12/17/2019 4:18:38 PM PST by Cincinnatus.45-70 (What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them with a pitchfork!)
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To: yesthatjallen
Webster is a 95 year old fossil and has no idea whatsoever is going on around him.
109 posted on 12/17/2019 4:35:04 PM PST by hinckley buzzard (Power is more often surrendered than seized.)
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To: yesthatjallen
But committing perjury before a secret Kangaroo court, in order to take out a sitting President, is VERY American, is that what this Nimrod is saying?

...with a rusty, red-hot railroad spike. Sideways.

And the Donkey he rode in on.

110 posted on 12/17/2019 4:37:16 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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".... Former FBI director: Trump spreading distrust of agency is 'not American'...."

Of course, Webster doesn't mention the lying, cheating and dishonestly within the FBI itself.

Trump is not needed to spread distrust of the agency. They're perfectly capable of doing that on their own.

The FBI has a long history of politicizing their legitimate function themselves.

It is the height of hypocrisy to claim that Trump's legitimate complaints about the FBI's misdeeds are not American.

If anything is "not American", it is the FBI playing loose and free with the rules of surveillance in order to spy on the president of the US.

111 posted on 12/17/2019 4:45:23 PM PST by HotHunt (Been there. Done that.)
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To: yesthatjallen
Used the fraudulent Steele Dossier, knowing it was fraudulent, to get a illegal FISA warrant.

Concealed Carter Pages history as a CIA asset to get the fraudulent FISA warrant.

Suppressed exculpatory evidence to renew the warrant 3 times

Never briefed the candidate about suppose foreign attempts to infiltrate his campaign.

Trump did none of that FBI bozo, YOUR TEAM DID IT TO THEMSELVES

112 posted on 12/17/2019 4:51:53 PM PST by MNJohnnie (They would have to abandon leftism to achieve sanity. Freeper Olog-hai)
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To: yesthatjallen

HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT THE FBI, DIRECTOR WEBSTER??????


113 posted on 12/17/2019 5:03:19 PM PST by Maris Crane
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To: null and void

William Webster a useless pile of crap if ever there was one


114 posted on 12/17/2019 5:06:33 PM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: yesthatjallen
Waco.

Ruby Ridge.

Richard Jewell.

And thousands of unnamed victims of the corrupt agency known as the fbi.

115 posted on 12/17/2019 5:07:02 PM PST by USS Alaska (Nuke the terrorist mooselimb savages, today.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Hey Bill Webster, FBI, CIA and anyone else involved in Seditious conspiracy is un-American.


116 posted on 12/17/2019 5:30:53 PM PST by Gator113 ( ~~Trump 2020 and again in 2024. EPSTEIN WAS MURDERED. "Seditious conspiracy" is everywhere.)
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To: Pirate Ragnar

He’s 95, so he won’t be whining for long.


117 posted on 12/17/2019 5:32:25 PM PST by Gator113 ( ~~Trump 2020 and again in 2024. EPSTEIN WAS MURDERED. "Seditious conspiracy" is everywhere.)
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To: Williams

Coups and treason by loser deep state dwellers are not American.

In any other country, they would disappear in the middle of the night or be hanging in the streets for their treason.

They are lucky we have such an American President.

God Bless President Trump.


118 posted on 12/17/2019 5:43:30 PM PST by No Socialist
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To: Williams

Coups and treason by loser deep state dwellers are not American.

In any other country, they would disappear in the middle of the night or be hanging in the streets for their treason.

They are lucky we have such an American President.

God Bless President Trump.


119 posted on 12/17/2019 5:43:31 PM PST by No Socialist
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I Agree,
Trump is not
Even Human!
He is a shape
Shifter from Mars!
/$


120 posted on 12/17/2019 5:45:53 PM PST by Big Red Badger (Despised by the Despicable!)
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