Napolitano Pours Cold Water on Brewing FBI and Mueller Credibility Conspiracies
by Colby Hall | 8:22 am, December 5th, 2017
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Fox & Friends have been derided by critics as “state-run tv” for their consistent defense of the Trump administration, so it’s not unusual for their amplification of narratives that benefit President Trump. But Napolitano is a well-regarded legal mind and independent thinker, so for every softball pitched by the hosts – designed to undermine investigations and ostensibly exonerate the White House – Napolitano pretty much knocked it out of the park and not in a manner that wholly benefited the White House.
First up was the FBI agent Peter Strzok, who has been in the news recently for being dismissed by Mueller team after news of “anti-Trump” texts to an alleged paramour came to light. He is also alleged to have had language in Comey’s “narrative” about Clinton’s private server changed from “grossly negligent” to “extreme carelessness.” Steve Doocy suggested that the change was made because the phrase “grossly negligent” implies criminality, which parrots a point made by Tucker Carlson the night before.
Napolitano was having none of this, saying “if you ask a first-year law student what is the definition of ‘gross negligence,’ the answer is ‘extreme carelessness.’ There really, in the law, it’s no different there. ”
Next up? Brian Kilmeade asked about Strzok’s alleged bias evidenced by reported texts, and Napolitano defended not just Strzok but the FBI itself and Robert Mueller’s quick action in addressing the issue, saying:
I have never met an FBI agent that did not have a political opinion. They’re smart, intelligent people, they have the same feelings the rest of us do. But if those opinions cloud your judgment or animate your judgment, you should be off the case. So when Jim Comey utilized the services of Peter Strzok, he stayed on the case. When Bob Mueller recognized what an advocate this guy was more one of the two sides, he got off the case.
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