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Home Front: Politix
The FBI Wants You to Believe They Are Just Morons
2019-12-16
Red State
With the release of the Inspector General report on the Trump-Russia investigation, an amazing thing happened.

Prior to the release, the self-described smartest among us assured the country for the last three years that the FBI are the best and brightest available. In fact, you were never allowed to question their ability and integrity. To do so was to question the very core of our being as a nation or something.

But when the avalanche of "mistakes" laid out in the IG report became known, things suddenly changed. Now, the clear bias and extensive misconduct was just the work of incompetence that just so happened to always only go in one direction. The FBI and those who lauded them now want you to believe they are just morons.

...The FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane team turned over every rock to find out whether members of the Trump campaign were working with Russians in 2016, but failed to discover that Christopher Steele, the FBI’s primary source for claims of a Trump-Russia conspiracy, was himself working for a Russian oligarch, according to the Justice Department inspector general’s report.

...Further, the FBI knew that Carter Page wasn’t a Russian agent, yet they targeted him anyway. This wasn’t a case of morons going wild. It was a case of blatant abuse of power in order to try to provide an insurance policy in case Donald Trump got elected. They did so knowing there would be no consequences and so far they’ve been correct.

...These people aren’t stupid, they are malicious and entitled. They may want to play dumb now that it’s convenient, but the political targeting of Trump and the lengths to which they were willing to go to do so, are crystal clear. Enough with the clown nose on, clown nose off routine.
Posted by:g(r)omgoru

#8  And many, steeped in our Culture of Cynicism, "accept" Mr. Comeys excuses and stated intentions.
Posted by: Anomalous Sources   2019-12-16 21:50  

#7  The bureaucratic equivalent of "Clown Nose On / Clown Nose Off" that pundits and commentators hide behind in the MSM?
Posted by: magpie   2019-12-16 11:53  

#6  17 significant errors in the FISA process, 6 of them egregious

what are the odds they would all go in the direction of justifying the FISA application?
Posted by: lord garth   2019-12-16 11:45  

#5  As the saying goes, "most of the evil in the world isn'd done by bad people, it's done by stupid people." But the power of and certainly applies to the deep state.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2019-12-16 08:49  

#4  Ah'm convinced.
Posted by: Skidmark   2019-12-16 08:20  

#3  Corrupt and mendacious morons.

"The Steele dossier has been corroborated" ... what lying sacks o' shit.
Posted by: Lex   2019-12-16 06:55  

#2  The FBI Wants You to Believe They Are Just corrupt Morons

FIFY.
Posted by: gorb   2019-12-16 03:34  

#1  The FBI has nearly unlimited intelligence resources.

Add the interagency partners and the resources become unparalleled.
Posted by: Besoeker   2019-12-16 03:04  

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