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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We don’t need an American version of “The Gestapo”.
Mitchell must be really desperate to deflect all the bad news coming out of the FBI, so she drags a 92 year old out of his house to tell laughable sappy stories about his long ago agency.
Does the article mention that Webster is 95 years old?
Can he pass a pop quiz on the recently released Inspector General Report?
When the DOJ goes against the law it is not , repeat NOT, American to pull them down. This is suppose to be a government by the people for the people. Not Gestapo NAZI totalitarian police state!
Keep voicing your opinion President Trump, just maybe if you push the issue enough someone might actually get off their asses in clean out that rats nest!
Yep boy when we all start reaching back and remembering just how incompetent the FBI really is Trump should break the entire department up transfer the agents throughout the country if they don’t want to move they can LEAVE!!!
I’d be surprised if they could find a hundred people on the street who think the FBI is competent after this fiasco has been exposed.
What did the chief FISA Court judge say about the FBI and whether anything it says to them can or should be taken seriously?
The problem is not Trump. The problem is what the FBI has been doing in the name of “getting Trump.”
I want the FBI headquarters and management team relocated to Fairbanks Alaska. If they don't want to move they can give up their jobs.
The FBI needs a near total leadership change at the mid-manager to senior department head level (except for recent Trump appointees).
“Former FBI director: Trump spreading distrust of agency is ‘not American’”
Do not ever put me on a jury where I have to consider evidence provided by the FBI.
I don’t trust them. Everyone knows the leadership at the top was corrupt. Emerging evidence indicates the cancer has spread in all directions.
Makes me wonder if Jack Webb’s depiction of a straight-arrow LAPD was even remotely based on reality. If so, the FBI isn’t the only force that has declined over the years.
Are these people really so obtuse that they can’t see that the FBI (and other agencies) have smeared themselves with their un-American behavior. Literally, SMH
I am still waiting to hear how they could possibly have missed 9/11 incompetent BASTARDS!!!
Because those 75 iq muztards were just to sharp for them....
“William Webster is 95 Years OLD! Who listens to anybody who’s 95 about anything?”
Unfortunately, some people and the media still pay attention to what Jimmy Carter says.
Webster has a twisted mind. The Democrat rogues who abused their power within FBI to interfere in US elections are to blame, not the victims for complaining.
Ted Kaczynski the Unibomber pursued for years by the FBI, was not caught by the FBI, but had his brother turn him in. - Tom
Apparently the president does...William Webster is the chairman of the president's "Homeland Security Advisory Council".
https://www.dhs.gov/homeland-security-advisory-council-members
After today, might not be the chair too much longer tho..
Uh.... between the already-mentioned very public betrayals of public trust by the FBI and the DOJ, Trump is not spreading distrust - he is illuminating the truth behind the dark curtains of corruption and political games the FBI has been playing. Any distrust is absolutely EARNED by the agency.
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