It is. Eight top FBI officials removed, resigned, or fired. So far. Those are the most visible ones. You might enjoy this: http://reason.com/blog/2018/02/05/trumps-opponents-worry-that-hes-undermin Trump's Critics Worry That He's Undermining Trust in the FBI, As If That's a Bad Thing More Republican skepticism of law enforcement agencies is a welcome development.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/democr...c8499ad9248a099a5&reflink=article_email_share Democrats and FBI Abuses In the 1970s, progressives stood up for civil liberties. Today they’ve reverted to the J. Edgar Hoover era. Yet anyone eager to embrace the belief that today’s FBI is a rigorously professional and politically unbiased agency is overlooking the facts. Consider an FBI intelligence assessment from last August, obtained by Foreign Policy’s Jana Winter and Sharon Weinberger. The report warns of a new and highly dangerous domestic terrorist threat: “Black Identity Extremists.” Notwithstanding that “BIE violence has been rare over the past 20 years,” the FBI proclaimed that it had “high confidence”—defined as “high quality information from multiple sources”—that “premeditated attacks upon law enforcement” by armed African-American activists were 80% to 95% likely to occur over the following year. Six months later no such attacks have taken place. But in a Dec. 12 raid on the Dallas home of a black activist, FBI agents did seize two firearms, along with a copy of Robert F. Williams’s well-known book “Negroes With Guns,” first published in 1962. According to a Jan. 30 report in Foreign Policy, the activist stands accused of unlawful possession of a firearm, given a previous misdemeanor conviction for domestic assault. Mr. Garrow’s books include “The FBI and Martin Luther King, Jr.,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning King biography “Bearing the Cross,” and “Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama. ”
a teaspoon of the swamp is gone. How many people did Trump appoint/nominate that came from the swamp?
It's not the rank and file that you have to worry about, but those at the top who can squash investigations or decide "no prosecutor would bring charges" (when there are dozens lined up to bring charges). Nunes' committee and the senate version has only begun. Next memo will be about the DoJ, to add to the malfeasance by the FBI.
Laughing that you are hitching your broken down wagon to Nunes. As for the rank-and-file, who do you think wrote that FISA application that you think is so incriminating? barfo
Yep, Schiff looks pretty stupid there. However, note a key point. Schiff's immediate reaction was 'I'll give this to the FBI'. Compare and contrast that with everyone on the Trump team's reaction to their contacts with Russians - none of them ever called the FBI, and at least two of them lied about it when the FBI contacted them. barfo
That doesn't make a whole lot of sense. It was a prank call, there was no 'it' that could be given to the FBI. The point is that he told the pranksters that it should be given to the FBI. Unlike Trump Jr. and all the other Trumpsters, who never once thought of going to the FBI, and lied when the FBI came to them. barfo
Me too. It clearly shows he lacks the basic qualifications (honesty and impartiality) for his position on the House Intelligence Committee.
