Comey blasts Giuliani for comparing New York FBI to Nazi 'stormtroopers'
Source: The Hill
Former FBI Director James Comey slammed Rudy Giuliani on Thursday after the former New York mayor and current White House lawyer compared the New York FBI to Nazi "stormtroopers."
Comey in a tweet said the U.S. would be better off if its nations tried to emulate the agents "rather than comparing them to Nazis."
Giuliani made the comments late Wednesday during an interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity in which he targeted the FBI agents who raided the office and hotel room of President Trump's personal lawyer, Michael Cohen. Authorities seized emails, tax documents and records related to Cohen's payment to adult-film star Stormy Daniels.
"The settlement payment which is a very regular thing for lawyers to do the question there was, the only possible violation there would be was it a campaign finance violation? Which usually results in a fine, by the way, not this big stormtroopers coming in and breaking down his apartment and breaking down his office," Giuliani told Hannity.
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Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/386057-comey-blasts-giuliani-for-comparing-new-york-fbi-to-nazi
Comey's tweet, posted about an hour ago:
Link to tweet
Ferrets are Cool
(21,110 posts)dameatball
(7,400 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,935 posts)InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,123 posts)marble falls
(57,260 posts)trivializing Nazis seem to be as close to a defense these simple asses get. Comparing themselves to Holocaust victims is highly repugnant in view of their dangerous and anti semite followers.
What a real SS storm trooper raids really looked like:
elmac
(4,642 posts)thinking about his stupid decision of re-opening the HRC email BS just before the election. And the FBI agents feeding mobster Giuliani inside info about the investigation so he could brag about it on GOP TV. The FBI helped create this monster in chief, I hope they have learned a lesson, but I doubt it.
LisaM
(27,839 posts)I thought nothing would ever be worse than the 2000 election, but the 2016 election proved me wrong.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,045 posts)bluedigger
(17,087 posts)Like rats in a bag.
LisaM
(27,839 posts)Between the two of them (and with Giuliani it goes back longer), they deprived this country of one of the finest Presidents we ever could have had in our lifetime or any other. They can both rot in hell together as far as I'm concerned. They fully deserve each other.
Nitram
(22,890 posts)NewJeffCT
(56,829 posts)onto the FBI
Initech
(100,104 posts)duforsure
(11,885 posts)After he took control didn't putin go after the KGB so he to could reorganized and replace it with a new group (FSB) but only allow complete loyalists to him into it. Sound familiar? Trump now wants to do the same thing with first the FBI, and has suggested it a few times, or like Putin make it only pure loyalists to trump to run it as trump wants for complete control. Scary . That's why they have been attacking the FBI so much , trying to undermine their investigation towards him, and to destroy it the way it is with rhetoric that'll damage its reputation, and an excuse to replace people only the most loyal to trump. He's destroying each institution needed for a Democracy ought to make everyone very concerned.
Amimnoch
(4,558 posts)Long before 45 rode into office on the back of an electoral college that failed to operate in the manner in which it was installed into the Constitution, there was a list by Dr. Lawrence Britt, esteemed political scientist that identified the 14 traits common to fascism.
Here's one of many links to be found on it:
http://rense.com/general37/fascism.htm
1. Powerful and Continuing Nationalism - Fascist regimes tend to make constant use of patriotic mottos, slogans, symbols, songs, and other paraphernalia. Flags are seen everywhere, as are flag symbols on clothing and in public displays.
2. Disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights - Because of fear of enemies and the need for security, the people in fascist regimes are persuaded that human rights can be ignored in certain cases because of "need." The people tend to look the other way or even approve of torture, summary executions, assassinations, long incarcerations of prisoners, etc.
3. Identification of Enemies/Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause - The people are rallied into a unifying patriotic frenzy over the need to eliminate a perceived common threat or foe: racial , ethnic or religious minorities; liberals; communists; socialists, terrorists, etc.
4. Supremacy of the Military - Even when there are widespread domestic problems, the military is given a disproportionate amount of government funding, and the domestic agenda is neglected. Soldiers and military service are glamorized.
5. Rampant Sexism - The governments of fascist nations tend to be almost exclusively male-dominated. Under fascist regimes, traditional gender roles are made more rigid. Divorce, abortion and homosexuality are suppressed and the state is represented as the ultimate guardian of the family institution.
6. Controlled Mass Media - Sometimes to media is directly controlled by the government, but in other cases, the media is indirectly controlled by government regulation, or sympathetic media spokespeople and executives. Censorship, especially in war time, is very common.
7. Obsession with National Security - Fear is used as a motivational tool by the government over the masses.
8. Religion and Government are Intertwined - Governments in fascist nations tend to use the most common religion in the nation as a tool to manipulate public opinion. Religious rhetoric and terminology is common from government leaders, even when the major tenets of the religion are diametrically opposed
to the government's policies or actions.
9. Corporate Power is Protected - The industrial and business aristocracy of a fascist nation often are the ones who put the government leaders into power, creating a mutually beneficial business/government relationship and power elite.
10. Labor Power is Suppressed - Because the organizing power of labor is the only real threat to a fascist government, labor unions are either eliminated entirely, or are severely suppressed.
11. Disdain for Intellectuals and the Arts - Fascist nations tend to promote and tolerate open hostility to higher education, and academia. It is not uncommon for professors and other academics to be censored or even arrested. Free expression in the arts and letters is openly attacked.
12. Obsession with Crime and Punishment - Under fascist regimes, the police are given almost limitless power to enforce laws. The people are often willing to overlook police abuses and even forego civil liberties in the name of patriotism. There is often a national police force with virtually unlimited power in fascist nations.
13. Rampant Cronyism and Corruption - Fascist regimes almost always are governed by groups of friends and associates who appoint each other to government positions and use governmental power and authority to protect their friends from accountability. It is not uncommon in fascist regimes for national resources and even treasures to be appropriated or even outright stolen by government leaders.
14. Fraudulent Elections - Sometimes elections in fascist nations are a complete sham. Other times elections are manipulated by smear campaigns against or even assassination of opposition candidates, use of legislation to control voting numbers or political district boundaries, and manipulation of the media. Fascist nations also typically use their judiciaries to manipulate or control elections.
Now.. who exactly does this sound like? The FBI, or our current President and his administration?
Wake up everyone, we ARE dealing with a Fascist, by every single measure, in the Whitehouse. Worse, our Fascist leadership is not being checked by Congress.
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,595 posts)and his medical records stolen in violation of state law.