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geek tragedy

(68,868 posts)
Thu Nov 3, 2016, 01:28 PM Nov 2016

Meet Donald Trump’s Top FBI Fanboy (most FBI agents are fanatically partisan)

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http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/11/03/meet-donald-trump-s-top-fbi-fanboy.html



The man who now leads “lock-her-up” chants at Trump rallies spent decades of his life as a federal prosecutor and then mayor working closely with the FBI, and especially its New York office. One of Giuliani’s security firms employed a former head of the New York FBI office, and other alumni of it. It was agents of that office, probing Anthony Weiner’s alleged sexting of a minor, who pressed Comey to authorize the review of possible Hillary Clinton-related emails on a Weiner device that led to the explosive letter the director wrote Congress.


Hours after Comey’s letter about the renewed probe was leaked on Friday, Giuliani went on a radio show and attributed the director’s surprise action to “the pressure of a group of FBI agents who don’t look at it politically.”



Back in August, during a contentious CNN interview about Comey’s July announcement clearing Hillary Clinton of criminal charges, Giuliani advertised his illicit FBI sources, who circumvented bureau guidelines to discuss a case with a public partisan. “The decision perplexes me. It perplexes Jim Kallstrom, who worked for him. It perplexes numerous FBI agents who talk to me all the time. And it embarrasses some FBI agents.”


Kallstrom is a hardcore fascist and is in Donald Trump's pocket:

Kallstrom is the former head of the New York FBI office, installed in that post in the ’90s by then-FBI director Louis Freeh, one of Giuliani’s longtime friends. Kallstrom has, like Giuliani, been on an anti-Comey romp for months, most often on Fox, where he’s called the Clintons as a “crime family.” He has been invoking unnamed FBI agents who contact him to complain about Comey’s exoneration of Clinton in one interview after another, positioning himself as an apolitical champion of FBI values.



Honestly, they need to think about disbanding the FBI. It's maybe 50% law enforcement, and 50% oppo research for the Republican party.
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Dem2

(8,168 posts)
2. If we saw the national law enforcement agency in another country doing this
Thu Nov 3, 2016, 01:34 PM
Nov 2016

Wouldn't we call it something resembling a coup?

 

geek tragedy

(68,868 posts)
3. yes. the NY office is out of control and essentially a division of Fox News at this point
Thu Nov 3, 2016, 01:38 PM
Nov 2016

Obama was very wise in making absolutely sure there was nothing they could even try to persecute him for. An incoming Clinton administration would do very well to advise its employees that they should expect every document, every email they generate to be used by the FBI against them.

 

geek tragedy

(68,868 posts)
6. and he's more or less representative of the FBI's office in NYC
Thu Nov 3, 2016, 01:48 PM
Nov 2016

It's still the Chris Christie/Rudey Ghouliani group of rightwing dudebros who see the FBI's job as to tear down Democrats moreso than to go after organized crime and terrorists.

The entire office needs to be disbanded, and quite frankly the FBI's independence as a whole should be done away with. It can't be trusted, not now, not ever.

BeyondGeography

(39,374 posts)
7. I believe that
Thu Nov 3, 2016, 02:04 PM
Nov 2016

Out every night getting loaded and playing badass. It's all very NYC on some level. Massively unhealthy.

Jason1961

(413 posts)
8. Glad someone is saying it out loud
Thu Nov 3, 2016, 02:22 PM
Nov 2016
Honestly, they need to think about disbanding the FBI. It's maybe 50% law enforcement, and 50% oppo research for the Republican party.


It is past time to reel in these agencies and the WingNuts that have infiltrated them.

Obama should be working double time to get them under control.

yellowcanine

(35,699 posts)
9. The email investigation is tainted.
Thu Nov 3, 2016, 08:46 PM
Nov 2016

Comeyneeds to address this tomorrow. It appears that FBI agents are feeding Giuliani information. So the integrity of the investigation is in question and Comey owes us an explanation.

 

Rex

(65,616 posts)
10. So all this is Rudy's doing, it makes sense now. I forget his deep ties to the NYPD and FBI.
Thu Nov 3, 2016, 08:51 PM
Nov 2016

That scumbag set this all up. I would be good money on it.

Mc Mike

(9,114 posts)
11. Kick for Peter Schweizer, James Kallstrom, Robert Mercer, and Nosferatu Giuliani.
Sat Nov 5, 2016, 11:17 AM
Nov 2016

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Rudy really is a lipless mutant.

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