It's time to clean house at the FBI

[swordfish]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11166103/The-politically-rotten-FBI-riddled-anti-Trump-pro-Biden-hooligans.html

A picture is worth a thousand words and, late Tuesday, the Department of Justice released a court filing of an Instagram-worthy one: classified documents strewn across the floor at former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence.

Trump was quick to assert, however, that Federal Bureau of Investigation agents staged the photo to 'make [him] look bad.'

'Terrible the way the FBI, during the raid of Mar-a-Lago, threw documents haphazardly all over the floor (perhaps pretending it was me that did it!), and then started taking pictures of them for the public to see…' he tweeted.

Sadly, it's not outside the realm of possibility.

Tuesday's filing -- in which the DOJ argued there's no need to honor Trump's request for a 'special master,' aka a third-party to inspect the items seized from his home last month -- offered little context for the controversial image.

And once again, it seems the FBI and the DOJ may be trying to convict the former president in the court of cable news, rather than an actual courtroom.

It's a shameful state of affairs.

There is every reason to believe that Trump is right about this photo being staged.

The FBI has given reasonable people little choice but to doubt just about everything it says or does these days, especially when it involves the former commander-in-chief.

This is a man who the FBI has spent years harassing without bringing a single charge.

Enough is enough.

If it's not clear by now, it should be: It's time to clean house at the FBI.

Look at the myriad messes it has found itself embroiled in.

A new report published Tuesday alleges FBI Director Christopher Wray has lost the faith of those under his command.

'I'm hearing from [FBI personnel] that they feel like the director has lost control of the bureau,' Kurt Siuzdak, a lawyer representing FBI whistleblowers, told the Washington Times Tuesday. 'They're saying, 'How does this guy survive? He's leaving. He's got to leave.'

The powerful Republican ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Sen. Chuck Grassley, has demanded Wray help him investigate a 'deeply-rooted political infection' in the bureau that has allegedly taken hold of investigations into not just Trump, but also probes into the grifter First Son, Hunter Biden.

The call for Wray's ouster follows the bureau exit of Timothy Thibault, the top agent in Washington's FBI field office, last Friday, amid whistleblower claims he prevented a criminal investigation into Hunter's laptop.

Thibault was escorted out of the office by 'headquarters-looking types,' the Times reported.

We're told that was standard operating procedure and the timing entirely coincidental, but if you believe that, I have a dossier to sell you.

In fact, it all started with the infamous Christopher Steele dossier, that Clinton-camp fabrication the FBI took at face value, without question.

They then used the obvious fake to get a warrant to spy on Trump's campaign, and an FBI lawyer was convicted of lying to a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to make it happen.

And let's not forget G-Man Peter Strzok and G-Woman Lisa Page's steamy text messages in which the star-crossed lovers assured themselves there would be a 'Plan B' to keep Trump out of office.

Then, for a few more years, we had Robert Mueller's Special Counsel investigation into the trumped-up Russia-collusion case, which fizzled out like a wet sparkler, complete with leaks that kept liberal pundits salivating over the notion that the walls were closing in on Trump.

Until, suddenly, they weren't.

Hopes and dreams, dashed.

Then there was Andrew McCabe, the disgraced former FBI deputy director who even the DOJ's own Inspector General insisted lied multiple times, violating FBI codes and policies.

He wasn't prosecuted, of course, and look where that got him: Contributor status at CNN!

Over on Joe Rogan's podcast last week, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerburg dropped another bombshell blowing further holes in the FBI's credibility.

It seems that a few days before the New York Post ran its story on the Hunter Biden laptop in October 2020, agents warned Zuck they feared a Russian disinformation campaign was about to be launched.

The feds say they never mentioned the laptop, but, curiously, just after the release of the Post's laptop story, which, by the way, everyone now agrees was 100 percent accurate, 51 former intelligence officials signed a letter calling the story, you guessed it, Russian disinformation.

You see the bow they put on that neat little package?

Or we can talk about disgraced former FBI director James Comey, who briefed then president-elect Trump on the phony dossier – and then rushed to his waiting car to record the incoming presidential reaction – with plans to divulge them later.

Or the plan to trap then-incoming National Security Adviser Michael Flynn with an obscure hundreds of years old law that has never in the history of the country resulted in a prosecution.

They are nearly too many examples to mention.

Put simply, anything that involved (involves) the name of Donald J. Trump was (is) pursued to the ends of the earth by an eager FBI.

Again, even the FBI itself knows it has a problem.

This week, it took the ridiculously weak step of banning agents from attending overtly political functions to 'avoid' the appearance of bias.

But we are way past the appearance of bias.

The constant disparate treatment of Trump and Biden by our top law enforcement agency is so clear, so incredibly obvious, that these little fixes around the margins or greater oversight are woefully insufficient.

There needs to be a total sweep from top to bottom at the FBI right now.

And it probably has to include the firing or resignation of Director Wray, who has utterly failed in his attempts --- if he's made any that is --- to bring the anti-Trump, pro-Biden hooligans in his organization to account.

America was rescuing the FBI before it destroyed itself.

Forty-six percent of the country, according to polls, now have an unfavorable view of the FBI. You can guess which 46 percent that is.

It's bad and unsustainable enough for half the country to distrust federal law enforcement, but when that divide breaks down on such partisan lines, it's not just untenable, it's dangerous.

Now Biden, the leader of a Democratic Party that has turned America's cities into havens of violent crime with their anti-police policies, has the nerve to suggest that criticism of the obviously partisan FBI proves it's really Republicans who are anti-law enforcement.

It's an absurd joke that Americans aren't going to buy. The rot at the FBI has reached the core.

To regain the trust of the American people it, and the DOJ, must make real and substantive changes.

No more leaks, no more staged photos, no more hiding Biden family crimes.

We need an honest and transparent FBI. And we need it now.

Seriously - do you think the germaphobe Trump would actually leave "classified material" or anything like the FBI picture showed strewn around an office?  The FBI wants to be the 4th branch of the US Government.  These episodes are just growing worse everyday.  You have to think the reason nothing gets done from the legislative branch is because the FBI holds plenty of evidence of potentially criminal activities on nearly everyone in both houses of congress and is blackmailing them.  The swamp dwellers (from both parties) really don't want Trump anywhere near the White House ever again and are willing to do everything possible to stop him.

Edited September 1, 2022 by swordfish