Some good patriot leaked this to the media. I would like to think that is was one of the FBI Agents on Lynch’s detail. There is a huge paper trail. Email/blackberry traffic between all of these agencies (including Director Comey’s Office). Flight manifests/logs, published orders, etc. Not to mention all the pilots, ground crew, agents and upper level management who coordinated this meeting. FOIA requests need to be filed, people need to be deposed. It wouldn’t be that to hard ascertain exactly what went on and who knew what.
Senator Grassley…where are you?
I posted this yesterday:
In spite of all of my cynicism I had some hopes for the FBI. I always lecture my civilian friends and family about “normalcy bias.” Seems I suffer from it as much as anyone.
There is a much deeper and unfortunate story here. The AG detail is not Secret Service, it is composed of the same FBI Agent detail that protects FBI Director James Comey. The AG’s detail and the Director’s detail all work out of the same staging area in the basement of FBIHQ in DC. An Agent that protects AG Lynch one day can be protecting Comey the next. They constantly cross-pollinate. It is essentially the same detail.
The AG’s Office does not have it’s own aircraft. When the AG needs to travel somewhere the AG’s office contacts the FBI and requests use of the FBI G-5. This request is de-conflicted at Comey’s level to make sure that Comey or other FBI entities aren’t using it on those dates. Lynch flew to Phoenix on the FBI G-5, which was flown by FBI Agent pilots and was accompanied by Comey’s FBI Agent detail.
Protective detail work is extremely meticulous. At least one week prior to the AG’s visit to Phoenix, FBI Agents from Lynch’s assigned detail would have travelled to Phoenix to conduct a site-survey. The entire FBI SWAT Team of the Phoenix FBI field office would have been dispatched to assist, as per the orders of the Phoenix SAC, who would have been read-in on every detail of the visit and would have been in constant contact with FBIHQ in order to coordinate the operation.
Tasks completed would have included:
de-conflict with TSA/local airport security/airport control tower at the airport for a remote/secure location to park the AG’s plane where the FBI suburbans with detail could establish an appropriate perimeter in order to secure AG Lynch’s arrival.
Coordinate with Phoenix PD for motorcycle police escort to/from airport to hotel in order to bypass traffic jams etc. (hotel rooms reserved for AG/staff/fbi detail, etc.). Reconnoiter and finalize primary/alt routes to and from airport/hotel with planned hard-points along each route in case of attack, etc. Literally everything is planned down to the minute.
Same planning process would have occurred with routes to and from hotel to Phoenix FBI Field Office, USAO’s office and any other planned locations for the AG to visit.
The FBI G-5 doesn’t just taxi down the tarmac and “bump into” a Secret Service-protected jet carrying Bill Clinton. This meeting necessarily involved extensive coordination between the two Agencies.
Imagine two private jets, two fleets of black Suburbans. Both protected by a small army of men in suits, wearing earpieces, carrying MP-7s and 416s. Meeting at random on the tarmac of the Phoenix Airport. Unaware of each other’s presence until the jets pull side by side and the doors open and the men in suits appear on both sides. Scenario for an epic friendly-fire incident.
In other words, absolutely no way this meeting happened without extensive coordination between the FBI protective detail and Secret Service. Absolutely no way Comey didn’t know Lynch was meeting with Clinton. Comey and FBI Executive Management’s fingerprints are all over this.
Pretty damn depressing. Seems Obama has corrupted even our (formerly) most noble institutions. Sad day USA.
THAT needs repeating!
Excellent summation of the required coordination, thank you.