Leaks from inside the Secret FBI Revolution

[Tom Rinaldo]

The evidence is clear of FBI agents conspiring in secret to influence presidential politics along partisan lines. Those efforts left traces leading to agents associated with its New York Office. We have Rudi Giuliani to thank for uncovering and publicizing this conspiracy.

11.03.16 1:03 AM ET The Daily Beast
"Meet Donald Trump’s Top FBI Fanboy
Trump supporters with strong ties to the agency kept talking about surprises and leaks to come—and come they did."
https://www.thedailybeast.com/meet-donald-trumps-top-fbi-fanboy

"The man who now leads “lock-her-up” chants at Trump rallies spent decades of his life as a federal prosecutor and then mayor working closely with the FBI, and especially its New York office. One of Giuliani’s security firms employed a former head of the New York FBI office, and other alumni of it. It was agents of that office, probing Anthony Weiner’s alleged sexting of a minor, who pressed Comey to authorize the review of possible Hillary Clinton-related emails on a Weiner device that led to the explosive letter the director wrote Congress.

Hours after Comey’s letter about the renewed probe was leaked on Friday, Giuliani went on a radio show and attributed the director’s surprise action to “the pressure of a group of FBI agents who don’t look at it politically.”

“The other rumor that I get is that there’s a kind of revolution going on inside the FBI about the original conclusion [not to charge Clinton] being completely unjustified and almost a slap in the face to the FBI’s integrity,” said Giuliani. “I know that from former agents. I know that even from a few active agents.”

Along with Giuliani’s other connections to New York FBI agents, his former law firm, then called Bracewell Giuliani, has long been general counsel to the FBI Agents Association (FBIAA), which represents 13,000 former and current agents. The group, born in the New York FBI office in the early ’80s, was headed until Monday by Rey Tariche, an agent who just retired from the New York FBI office. In Tariche’s letter to the Association stepping down as president because he's retiring from the Bureau to take a job "within the Banking Industry," he wrote that “we find our work—our integrity questioned” because of it, adding “we will not be used for political gains.”

THEN THERE WAS THIS

Rudy Giuliani Confirms FBI Insiders Leaked Information To The Trump Campaign
“Did I hear about it? You’re darn right I heard about it.”
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/rudy-giuliani-fbi-clinton-emails_us_581c9e3fe4b0e80b02c93d6b

11/04/2016 11:49 am ET Updated Nov 04, 2016

"Rudy Giuliani said Friday that he knew the FBI planned to review more emails tied to Hillary Clinton before a public announcement about the investigation last week, confirming that the agency leaked information to Donald Trump’s presidential campaign...

...Giuliani has bragged about his close ties to the FBI for months, mentioning in interviews that “outraged FBI agents” have told him they’re frustrated by how the Clinton investigation was handled. And two days before FBI Director James Comey announced that the agency was reviewing the newly uncovered emails, Giuliani teased that Trump’s campaign had “a couple of surprises left.”

“You’ll see, and I think it will be enormously effective,” he said in an interview with Fox News.

All of this has led to suspicion that someone in the FBI is leaking information to Giuliani and the Trump campaign. The Daily Beast’s Wayne Barrett explored those suspicions on Thursday, detailing how Giuliani’s ties to the agency date back to his days as a U.S. attorney in the 1980s.

Giuliani confirmed that notion Friday during an appearance on “Fox & Friends.”

“I did nothing to get it out, I had no role in it,” he said. “Did I hear about it? You’re darn right I heard about it, and I can’t even repeat the language that I heard from the former FBI agents.”

But of course Guiliano was not only in contact with former FBI Agents. He is quoted admitting current contacts inside the FBI above, but there is also this:

From CNN Transcript Interview with Rudy Giuliani. Aired August 11, 2016 - 08:00 ET
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1608/11/nday.05.html

"CUOMO: That doesn't mean that his judgment was impaired. I'm saying, do you think Comey made a call that was influenced by somebody else? Yes or no?...

GIULIANI: I think his decision was an embarrassment to the FBI...


GIULIANI: I'll clarify it. I believe the decision was so wrong, I can't understand how he came to that conclusion. I don't believe he did it for bad reasons, because I think he is a good man.

[08:25:01] But the decision perplexes me. It perplexes Jim Kallstrom (ph), who worked for him. It perplexes numerous FBI agents who talk to me all the time. And it embarrasses some FBI agents.

So, I can tell you all that."

Of course all of the above evidence pales in comparison to the FBI conspiracy revealed a text joke exchanged between two lovers reacting to the election on Donald Trump on election night 2016

[SWBTATTReg]

1. Thanks for posting...nt

I still have the highest respect (and I suspect most Americans do to) for the FBI. Politicians, most of them, no way.

For some reason they (the politicians (most, not all of course) feel like they are above the law and have every right to dirty the integrity of the FBI when they should be really looking at themselves first.

Remember that old saying of he who throws the first rock?

[Tom Rinaldo]

2. The same Republicans who are behind the attack on the FBI

...would have jumped down the throat of anyone giving anything less than gushing praise for the FBI under virtually any other circumstances other than this - trying to provide cover for Trump.

[Hortensis]

3. WHY didn't the FBI inform the DNC Russians were in their computers?

They claim to have, but the DNC DID NOT KNOW all the while the FBI was surveilling the hacking.

I've been hoping the right wing's attacks on Comey and the FBI might break open something they do not intend. Rosenstein, tasked with coming up with a legitimate reason to fire Comey, suggested firing him for interference in the election, though he didn't put it so baldly. His memo quotes many high-ranking officials who condemned Comey's highly questionable actions in only somewhat veiled terms. Hillary herself barely veiled her belief that Comey used his power as head of the FBI to throw the presidency and other offices to the Republicans, but stated right out her belief that his actions did result in just that.

MEMORANDUM FOR THE ATTORNEY GENERAL

FROM: ROD J. ROSENSTEIN

... Donald Ayer, who served as Deputy Attorney General under President H.W. Bush, along with former Justice Department officials, was"astonished and perplexed" by the decision to "break[] with longstanding practices followed by officials of both parties during past elections." Ayer's letter noted, "Perhaps most troubling… is the precedent set by this departure from the Department's widely-respected, non-partisan traditions."

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/05/rosenstein-letter-annotated/526116/