Internal Anger at the FBI Over Clinton Investigation Continues to Grow

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This is a story that refuses to go away. Recall the post from earlier this month, Backlash Grows Months After the FBI’s Sham Investigation Into Hillary Clinton, in which we learned:

Feeling the heat from congressional critics, Comey last week argued that the case was investigated by career FBI agents, “So if I blew it, they blew it, too.”

But agents say Comey tied investigators’ hands by agreeing to unheard-of ground rules and other demands by the lawyers for Clinton and her aides that limited their investigation.

“In my 25 years with the bureau, I never had any ground rules in my interviews,” said retired agent Dennis V. Hughes, the first chief of the FBI’s computer investigations unit.

Instead of going to prosecutors and insisting on using grand jury leverage to compel testimony and seize evidence, Comey allowed immunity for several key witnesses, including potential targets.

What’s more, Comey cut a deal to give Clinton a “voluntary” witness interview on a major holiday, and even let her ex-chief of staff sit in on the interview as a lawyer, even though she, too, was under investigation.

Agreed retired FBI agent Michael M. Biasello: “Comey has singlehandedly ruined the reputation of the organization.”

Comey made the 25 agents who worked on the case sign nondisclosure agreements. But others say morale has sunk inside the bureau.

“The director is giving the bureau a bad rap with all the gaps in the investigation,” one agent in the Washington field office said. “There’s a perception that the FBI has been politicized and let down the country.”

While the above article focused on the opinions of retired agents, today’s article zeros in on the growing frustrations of current agency employees.

The Daily Caller reports:

FBI agents say the bureau is alarmed over Director James Comey deciding not to suggest that the Justice Department prosecute Hillary Clinton over her mishandling of classified information.

According to an interview transcript given to The Daily Caller, provided by an intermediary who spoke to two federal agents with the bureau last Friday, agents are frustrated by Comey’s leadership.

 “This is a textbook case where a grand jury should have convened but was not. That is appalling,” an FBI special agent who has worked public corruption and criminal cases said of the decision. “We talk about it in the office and don’t know how Comey can keep going.”

Another special agent for the bureau that worked counter-terrorism and criminal cases said he is offended by Comey’s saying: “we” and “I’ve been an investigator.”

After graduating from law school, Comey became a law clerk to a U.S. District Judge in Manhattan and later became an associate in a law firm in the city. After becoming a U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of New York, Comey’s career moved through the U.S. Attorney’s Office until he became Deputy Attorney General during the George W. Bush administration.

After Bush left office, Comey entered the private sector and became general counsel and Senior Vice President for Lockheed Martin, among other private sector posts. President Barack Obama appointed him to FBI director in 2013 replacing out going-director Robert Mueller.

“Comey was never an investigator or special agent. The special agents are trained investigators and they are insulted that Comey included them in ‘collective we’ statements in his testimony to imply that the SAs agreed that there was nothing there to prosecute,” the second agent said. “All the trained investigators agree that there is a lot to prosecuted but he stood in the way.”

Indeed, there were many red flags surrounding Comey from the beginning. So much so that I wrote an article in 2013 titled, So Who is James Comey, Obama’s Nominee to Head the FBI?

In light of the latest revelations that the NSA is spying on the communications of millions of Verizon customers courtesy of information provided by the FBI, it probably makes sense to know a little more about Obama’s nominee to head that Bureau.  That man is James Comey, and he was a top Department of Justice attorney under John Ashcroft during the George W. Bush Administration (since then he has worked at Lockheed Martin and at the enormous Connecticut hedge fund Bridgewater Associates).  This guy defines the revolving door cancer ruining these United States.

Now back to The Daily Caller.

According to Washington D.C. attorney Joe DiGenova, more FBI agents will be talking about the problems at bureau and specifically the handling of the Clinton case by Comey when Congress comes back into session and decides to force them to testify by subpoena.

DiGenova told WMAL radio’s Drive at Five last week, “People are starting to talk. They’re calling their former friends outside the bureau asking for help. We were asked to day to provide legal representation to people inside the bureau and agreed to do so and to former agents who want to come forward and talk. Comey thought this was going to go away.”

He explained, “It’s not. People inside the bureau are furious. They are embarrassed. They feel like they are being led by a hack but more than that that they think he’s a crook. They think he’s fundamentally dishonest. They have no confidence in him. The bureau inside right now is a mess.”

He added, “The most important thing of all is that the agents have decided that they are going to talk.”

Corruption in the USA has now reached the level where it starts destroying the entire fabric of society itself. This is a very dangerous moment.

In Liberty,
Michael Krieger

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16 thoughts on “Internal Anger at the FBI Over Clinton Investigation Continues to Grow”

  1. It is entirely possible that we have passed the tipping point for the cesspool of corruption that has been festering in Washington DC. Despite the drumbeat of polls and media assertions that it’s a lock for Clinton, there are more and more reports that indicate something of seismic proportions has shifted in the body politic, at least among those 99% who aren’t co-opted by the System’s largess.

    While the election is of paramount importance, I really think it is time to start thinking about the post-election climate. Most of that speculation tends towards the “Trump locking ’em up/ Hillary cracking down” meme.

    But the real interest to me concerns what will happen among those whose candidate LOSES? To be honest, I can’t imagine the lukewarm support for Clinton transferring over to mass unrest except by SJWs and those paid to foment chaos.

    With Trump, a different story. I think Trump has given voice to many millions of Americans who feel permanently disenfranchised. If they believe the election has been stolen–a very likely perception–they are not going to just go back to life as before. How that manifests, who can tell? But we are in the midst of a very dangerous period in American social cohesion. This could go off the rails in ways we can’t imagine.

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    • Did you give any thought to what you’re saying before saying it? One or two agents quitting can probably find employment elsewhere. But agents quitting en masse?

  2. The poles and the Clinton machine with their expansion into campaigning in what are considered red states to me is just to create public perception that she is winning. I don’t believe any of the poles and am not sure they are even conducting them when they determine what results they want prior to supposedly completing the pole.
    The goal is to maintain the perception she is winning so they can assure she wins on election day no matter what the vote count is

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  3. Andrew Napolitano said a while back that many agents were pissed that General Petraeus got a light wrist slap, and that they will be far more pissed if Hillary gets away with what she did, and would likely go public.

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  4. Interesting article. They are deciding to come forward. I commend them highly for their courage. Let’s see how Obama and his above-the-law goon squad tries to put this PR fire out. I think this problem is not just with the FBI but across the entire Washington ecosystem. I hope they win and Clinton gets her day in court. Long overdue!

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  5. Did anyone really believe Slick Willie and Loretta Lynch were talking about golf games and grandkids in 110degree heat?
    President Hopenchange was emailing HillyBilly’s server under an alias and that is why nothing will ever happen to Granny Cankles regarding her off the books bathroom server.
    Banana Republic? Yes we can!

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  6. Money may not buy as Lennon and McCartney put it years ago, but it buys just about everything else. En quote from another Lennon song, my question to Mr. Director is ” How do you sleep?”

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  7. Remember when both sides of the isle gushed and cajoled over Comey? … that he was above reproach? … a prosecutor without political ambitions or persuasions? Whenever you see both political parties agree on something, look out and don’t pick up the soap off the floor! “The word bipartisan usually means some larger-than-usual deception is being carried out.” George Carlin – Brain Droppings (p.82)

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  8. obama and the clintons are the most corrupt politicians in the history of our country! the democrats and the msm and cnn and msnbc and some republicans thought the pathological liar was going to get elected and all the corruption was going to be covered up. pres trump was elected, thank god, and now all the corruption by the above mentioned will be uncovered and the law breakers will go to jail. law and order must prevail!

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