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The FBI Tragedy: Elites above the Law
National Review ^ | June 11, 2019 6:30 AM | By VICTOR DAVIS HANSON

Posted on 06/11/2019 9:32:15 AM PDT by US Navy Vet

After decades in the FBI, the top brass came to believe they could flout the law and pursue their own political agendas. One of the media and beltway orthodoxies we constantly hear is that just a few bad apples under James Comey at the FBI explain why so many FBI elites have been fired, resigned, reassigned, demoted, or retired — or just left for unexplained reasons. The list is long and includes director James Comey himself, deputy director Andrew McCabe, counterintelligence agent Peter Strzok, attorney Lisa Page, chief of staff James Rybicki, general counsel James Baker, assistant director for public affairs Mike Kortan, Comey’s special assistant Josh Campbell, executive assistant director James Turgal, assistant director for office of congressional affairs Greg Bower, executive assistant director Michael Steinbach, and executive assistant director John Giacalone. In short, in about every growing scandal of the past two years — FISA, illegal leaking, spying on a presidential candidate, lying under oath, obstructing justice — someone in the FBI is involved.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Editorial; Government; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: abovethelaw; andrewmccabe; christopherwray; declassification; elites; fbi; fisa; impeachment; jamescomey; lisapage; muellerbad; muellerhoax; perjury; peterstrzok; robertmueller; spygate; steeledossier; tds; vdh; victordavishanson; witchhunt
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To: itsahoot
Don't be silly all the good ones resigned in outrage when Hillary was not indicted, just like some freepers said they would, all 0 of them.

So many of those 100% honest American FBI agents have resigned in disgust over the goings on of Comey, McCabe and other top FBI agents , the mass resignations are being kept from us and our countries enemies because the FBI has been so weakened. - Tom /S

121 posted on 06/11/2019 4:33:41 PM PDT by Capt. Tom
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To: be-baw

Preach it, be-baw!


122 posted on 06/11/2019 4:41:08 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it. --Douglas MacArthur)
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To: SENTINEL
"I’m going to have to call out BS on that. Name even one."

Lon Horiuchi.

You mean the guy that murdered a woman and her newborn child?

123 posted on 06/11/2019 4:49:32 PM PDT by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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To: wastedyears

That was meant as sarcasm.


124 posted on 06/11/2019 5:00:30 PM PDT by SENTINEL (Kneel down to God. Stand up to tyrants. STICK TO YOUR GUNS !)
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To: Albion Wilde

Thanks for the ping!


125 posted on 06/11/2019 5:12:53 PM PDT by djstex (The REAL News of The Day ... Trump Is Our President EVERYDAY!)
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To: US Navy Vet

The FBI budget is around 9 billion with 35,000 or so employees they deign to let us to know about. Nothing is going to happen to it. It was probably too late 50+ years ago to do anything about changing the culture of the FBI.

Freegards


126 posted on 06/11/2019 5:33:04 PM PDT by Ransomed
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To: Capt. Tom
the FBI has been so weakened.

{:-)

127 posted on 06/11/2019 6:28:07 PM PDT by itsahoot (Welcome to the New USA where Islam is a religion of peace and Christianity is a mental disorder.)
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To: a little elbow grease
"Ecc 8:11 (NIV) "When the sentence for a crime is not quickly carried out, people’s hearts are filled with schemes to do wrong.""

Excellent.

128 posted on 06/11/2019 9:53:00 PM PDT by GOPJ (Send Ebola illegals from Congo to Martha's Vineyard - let them kill liberals elites first...)
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To: SENTINEL

Those going after these criminals, especially Obama and Clintons, have to have an airtight case. If the evidence isn’t overwhelming, media will spin it as a conspiracy. I trust they know what they’re doing, pray it works.


129 posted on 06/11/2019 10:16:50 PM PDT by Kenny
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To: Lagmeister

The SWAT units & armed personnel are just a symptom of a much bigger problem. I can assure you, at some point, if we continue to allow uncontrolled immigration into this country from Africa and the Middle East we’re going to need those SWAT units, Bearcats, MRAPs and armed personnel.

However, the US Dept of Education using an Entry Team for unpaid student loans? Nope ... http://www.truthistreason.net/dept-of-education-swat-team-kicks-in-door-for-outstanding-student-loans-haydens-note-attached

The larger problem for me is, when were they granted so much power and why does the government feel it necessary to bully the people like this?


130 posted on 06/11/2019 10:30:49 PM PDT by qaz123
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Discredit, and eventually dismantle, the FBI.

— Communist goal #35
Almost achieved, and from within too.
131 posted on 06/11/2019 11:41:26 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Signalman

Truth.

Those line agents also despised Comey. They’re the ones who anointed him “Cardinal”. It’s not a compliment.


132 posted on 06/12/2019 1:50:50 AM PDT by jazminerose (Adorable Deplorable)
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To: SENTINEL

Imagine the reaction if all 535 members of congress and senate were sent that verse by thousands of people all in a week....


133 posted on 06/12/2019 1:54:50 AM PDT by mdmathis6
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To: TakebackGOP

Democrats are LAW-LESS because Republicans are BALL-LESS!


134 posted on 06/12/2019 4:03:12 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: semantic

Keep in mind: Brennan voted for Gus Hall, a radical USA-hating Communist, in 1976. He admitted doing so in 1980 on his CIA polygraph, and he was hired anyway. That was 1980.

College output is fedgov input. Imagine how much worse it is today, after generations of embedded SJW feds hiring and promoting more of their kind.

If there is a CW, the FLEAs are going to be solidly on the side of team tyranny.


135 posted on 06/12/2019 5:13:21 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Whenifhow; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; 2ndDivisionVet; azishot; ...

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136 posted on 06/12/2019 8:55:37 AM PDT by bitt (I donate all my chips to erecting electric bleachers in Gitmo!)
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To: US Navy Vet
After decades in the FBI, the top brass came to believe they could flout the law and pursue their own political agendas.

A 'must read'...

137 posted on 06/12/2019 9:22:56 AM PDT by GOPJ (Send Ebola illegals from Congo to Martha's Vineyard - let them kill liberals elites first...)
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To: US Navy Vet
Hanson has got to be kidding us with this article.
Surely he knows that this was a small clique of people.
They heard things. They knew things.
Everybody does no matter where they work.
20 years of things learned at 'water cooler conversations'.
Eavesdropping on conversations of coworkers at lunch or at functions.
A complaint about someone and then a meeting to 'feel them out',
test their loyalty and possibly bring them on board.
They knew who to, and not to, let into their inner circle.

Whether it's called the good ol' boys club, the friends and family plan, the country club, the jocks, the pom poms, the nerds, the geeks...whatever the euphemism...there is always a group of like minded people who congregate together. This particular group could be called the 'Bad Boys In Black Suits' (BBIBS).

It just so happens in this instance that all of the bad actors were gathered in one place and fortunately so. Rooting them out became so much easier.

The topmost people were probably offered cushy jobs with the presumed incoming administration where they would have continued doing the very things they were doing before, but with even greater latitude and complete immunity for wrongdoing.

They would then have continued rewarding the others with better jobs as they moved higher up the food chain while looking for more people of suspect character to fill their previous role.

And then came the election and it all came crashing down around them as 'their guy' didn't win.

JMO, JMMV

138 posted on 06/12/2019 9:41:39 AM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: US Navy Vet

Well, if the National Review isn’t pro-Trump, at least they’re becoming anti-anti-Trump.


139 posted on 06/12/2019 9:48:48 AM PDT by AZLiberty (218 House seats or bust! Bust. But the Dems will be busted for election fraud.)
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To: US Navy Vet
The "FBI" SHOULD Be ABOLISHED and it's "Assets" BURNED to the ground. AND it's "People" tried for TREASON and SHOT!

WORTH REPEATING. Thanks.

140 posted on 06/12/2019 10:32:17 AM PDT by PGalt
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