This morning Comrade Trump had this to say on Twitter:
The top Leadership and Investigators of the FBI and the Justice Department have politicized the sacred investigative process in favor of Democrats and against Republicans – something which would have been unthinkable just a short time ago. Rank & File are great people!
In favor of Democrats. Against Republicans. What absolute bullshit. The FBI was established in 1935 and…well, wait. Okay, it was first established in 1908, but back then it was just the Bureau of Investigation and basically what it did was investigate the Mann Act, which made it a federal crime to transport a woman or a girl across state lines for the purpose of “prostitution or debauchery, or for any other immoral purpose.” This was also called — and I’m seriously not making this up — the White-Slave Traffic Act. because apparently nobody cared if women of color were transported across state lines for any damned reason at all. But I digress.
This fucking guy…
In 1935, the BI was formally renamed the FBI. Its first director was J. Edgar Hoover. A Republican. Here’s a list of the political affiliation of every single FBI director:
- J. Edgar Hoover — 1935-1972, Republican
- Clarence Kelley — 1973-1978, Republican
- William Webster — 1978-1987, Republican
- William Sessions — 1987-1993, Republican
- Louis Freeh — 1993-2001, Republican
- Robert Mueller — 2001-2013, Republican
- James Comey — 2013-2017, Republican
- Christopher Wray — 2017-present, Republican
You may have noticed a distinct absence of Democrats appointed to head the FBI. What does that tell you? It tells you the three Democratic presidents who appointed FBI directors (Carter, Clinton, and Obama) all deliberately chose a person (okay, a white man) who was in the opposition party.
You think that was an accident? Nope. They each chose an FBI director who was more certain to be independent of the president’s political agenda. Because that’s the fucking job — to be independent of ANY political agenda.
This other fucking guy…
And Comrade Trump? Fired Comey when Comey refused to promise allegiance to him personally. Hounded Deputy Director Andrew McCabe out of office after he refused to promise allegiance to Trump personally. Now Trump and Republicans in Congress are claiming the leadership of the FBI comprises some sort of pro-Democratic cabal secretly determined to undermine his presidency.
You think that is an accident? Nope. It’s a poorly disguised attempt to immunize a president who was elected in part because of Russian ratfucking with the election, a president who has financial ties with some seriously shady Russian oligarchs, a president who has attempted to obstruct the investigation into the interactions between his campaign and Russian intelligence agencies.
Assuming Comrade Trump and the Republicans in the House Intelligence Committee release the Nunes Memo to the public today (and I can’t see anything stopping that), then they’re basically shitting on that ‘sacred investigative process’.
It’s really hard for me to understand how anybody can be that despicable so consistently.
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So you are already making excuses for potential illegal behavior by the FBI? You make a great party hack.
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I’m sure the author of this had you in mind:
“What if Clinton Had Done All This?”
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Billy, you mention potential illegal behavior by the FBI. The memo has now been released, so we can see Nunes’ assessment of the FBI’s alleged illegality. It basically boils down to a critique of the application for a FISA warrant against Carter Page. The heart of the critique is the assertion that the application for a FISA warrant “should include information potentially favorable to the target of the FISA application.”
In other words, the Nunes memo claims the FBI, when asking for a warrant, should also include information for why the warrant shouldn’t be given. Nunes then suggests that failing to give that information to the FISA court MIGHT be illegal. Or unethical.
No law enforcement agency in the known universe has ever applied for any sort of warrant from any sort of court and included reasons for the court NOT to grant the warrant. It’s ridiculous.
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I am totally convinced that right next to his golden “throne” in his personal shit house is a roll of pages from the constitution that he uses to wipe his ass with every day.
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