dead man walking wrote:because of this:
The recent series of FBI leaks are particularly worrisome because they raise the prospect of a state security agency equipped with the full resources and investigative might of the federal government working to interfere in the elections. The FBI is so powerful — it can, with court approval, issue subpoenas, tap phones, intercept emails and conduct round-the-clock surveillance — that even a small coterie of its agents can find ways of influencing the political process.
Imagine if an agency like the IRS and a small coterie of Agents in Cincinnati started doing the bidding of a President to to influence and block the political process?
Or if another Agency provided guns to Mexican Cartels to present a narrative that the Cartels get their guns in the US?
Or if a group of consultants packaged a presentation of mistruths and outright lies, and bragged about it at conferences, to convince the public that you could keep your doctor AND get a reduced health care premium?
Or that a Video made the Jawas attack and kill Americans in Benghazi?
And that a compliant and supportive media defended and condoned all of these examples. People might tend to become a tad disillusioned or pissed off.
Sadly, i agree with your premise that bureaucrats, consultants, and agents of various law enforcement agencies take way too many liberties with my Freedoms and the Truth. Either way this turns out, Comey has to go. He royally fucked up when he made up an intent requirement for prosecuting improper handling of Classified info. That is a not an element of that Felony. My rough guess is he knew DOJ was not going to convene a Grand Jury no matter what he forwarded, and he had way more than he needed to indict let alone convict. Just look at the cases discussed in the past two months. She broke the law. No question. But he is a DC dweller politician/bureaucrat and those folks don't fight fights they can't win or gain something from. So he did what he could and thought he could survive with the help of the media and thanks of the future Clinton Administration.
But he didn't weigh the effect of Wikileaks, the weight of the majority of his staff and agents who knew his pronouncement was bullshit and being unwilling to allow this felony to go away, and the Trump surge. Comey should also not have promised congress to keep them informed if anything else arose. DC Rule #64: Do not promise anything that puts you at risk for nothing. I do not doubt he has considered his acts in hedging his bets to keep his job, but also i can't discount the impact of a staff mutiny over his refusal to forward a recommendation to pursue the case. In the end the scales have balanced out, but in no way should it have gotten to this.
This comes down to DC politics and culture, and a Womyn who is so tarnished buy her own choices, actions, decisions, and staff choices, that she brought this on herself. We will see how it plays out tuesday.
As for the FBI, for anybody to suddenly be shocked, shocked you say, at the FBI and politics. Do a little reading on their involvement with MLK and at Waco and Ruby Ridge. Check out the political communications with DC, and the acts of one Lon Horiguchi. I don't trust them, or any other Fed. And here is a magic formula i use to avoid them: I answer no questions. Lay low and don't break the law. And if i did it would be with no witnesses and never spoken of again. For somebody in government for 30 years but who didn't know what was classified or that EVERYTHING you put in writing can bite you, well she might be a slow learner.
"Start slowly, then ease off". Tortuga Golden Striders Running Club, Pensacola 1984.
"But even snake wrestling beats life in the cube, for me at least. In measured doses."-Lex
