Meet Donald Trump’s Top FBI Fanboy

[AmericanMan1958]

Trump supporters with strong ties to the agency kept talking about surprises and leaks to come—and come they did.

Two days before FBI director James Comey rocked the world last week, Rudy Giuliani was on Fox, where he volunteered, un-prodded by any question: “I think he’s [Donald Trump] got a surprise or two that you’re going to hear about in the next few days. I mean, I’m talking about some pretty big surprises.”
Pressed for specifics, he said: “We’ve got a couple of things up our sleeve that should turn this thing around.”

Things are looking bad for the FBI's Violation of the Hatch Act!

Joy Reid ‏@JoyAnnReid 28m28 minutes ago Manhattan, NY
Joy Reid Retweeted Adam Servianski
Wow wow wow. This amounts to an allegation of a political fifth column inside the NY FBI, with Giuliani as the umbilical cord...


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[sarae]

3. So basically

there's a terrorist cell inside our own FBI. This is nuts.

[AmericanMan1958]

5. This story is being covered on Chris Hayes... Right now!

[sarae]

6. Yes! I'm watching it right now...:)

It's terrifying.

Joy Reid summed it up well. She essentially said they're telling Democrats – fine, vote Hillary in if you want, but we'll never allow her to function as a real president because we're the ones who run this country.

[AmericanMan1958]

7. Joy always has a way of simplifying complex matters!

[Coyotl]

4. Obama on Comey:

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

8. Does our president have to power to clean house at the FBI?

If so, do it now. And don't appoint any more Rs there, ferchrissakes!

[DeminPennswoods]

9. The NY FBI agents were all taken off the Garner case by DoJ

The first clue should have come when DoJ abruptly removed all the NY FBI agents investigating the Eric Garner case and replaced them with other unbiased agents from outside NY.

In my office, this kind of behavior was referred to as "going native". In other words, outsiders being co-opted by the people they were sent to supervise or work with and taking the side of the group they were sent into rather than remaining objective and loyal to their boss' interests. Because of the ongoing terrorist threat in NYC, it doesn't really surprise me that FBI agents, especially ones who may have worked with Giuliani, have been co-opted into his orbit.