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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWere any FBI agents anti-Hillary and did they send any emails bad-mouthing her?
To listen to Lindsey Graham and the Republicans, the only FBI agents to send embarrassing emails were Page and Stzrok?
If I were a betting man, I would bet that there were several FBI agents that said stuff during the campaign that was biased against Hillary Clinton?
Are we to assume that no FBI agent can be unbiased unless they are pro-Trump?
They are talking out of their asses.
Prosper
(761 posts)I have followed Hillary's life and career from the time that I became aware of Bill ruining her life. I have watched her testify and have been blown away by her talent. I have been equally blown away by the number of unfortunate events that have handicapped her.
IADEMO2004
(5,554 posts)Deep antipathy to Hillary Clinton exists within the FBI, multiple bureau sources have told the Guardian, spurring a rapid series of leaks damaging to her campaign just days before the election.
Current and former FBI officials, none of whom were willing or cleared to speak on the record, have described a chaotic internal climate that resulted from outrage over director James Comeys July decision not to recommend an indictment over Clintons maintenance of a private email server on which classified information transited.
The FBI is Trumpland, said one current agent.
This atmosphere raises major questions about how Comey and the bureau he is slated to run for the next seven years can work with Clinton should she win the White House.
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,413 posts)I apologize for the shouting, but the upper case was their choice.
I just threw out the magazine, so I recalled the article well.
When F.B.I. director James Comey reopened the investigation into Hillary Clintons e-mails in the final days of the campaign, many saw it as a political move that cost Clinton the presidency. But some insiders suspect Comey had a more personal concern: his own legacy.
BY BETHANY MCLEAN
MARCH 2017
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F.B.I. agents still tend to be white males. In a way, this situation is systemic: to be promoted, you have to be willing to relocate, which can be difficult for women with children. A current agent also says that theres a strong conservative bent: if a TV is on in an F.B.I. building, its likely to be Fox News. ... But even within the F.B.I., there are tensions. There are three F.B.I.s, this agent tells me. There are the [56] field offices, theres [headquarters in] Washington, and then theres [the field office in] New York.
Often, a retired agent says, those in the field are suspicious of Washington. Dreamland, they called it in his day, because they believed those who werent on the ground investigating cases were clueless. [Agents] out in the field never want to give a case to D.C., because they believe headquarters is a hindrance to their investigations, says the agent, who also notes there is a paranoia that politics might interfere at headquarters. New York has an especially dim view of Washington and a reputation for fierce independence. There is a renegade quality to the New York F.B.I., says a former prosecutor, which, he claims, can take the form of agents leaking to the press to advance their own interests or to influence an investigation. New York leaks like a sieve, concurs another former prosecutor.
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On January 14, 2016, the inspector general notified the Senate that Clintons private servers had been flagged for classified information. Comey made the decision to run the investigation out of D.C., not New York, despite the fact that Clinton and her server were in New York. A core group of investigators and analysts were vetted and given security clearance, meaning that only those who were working on the case knew what they were doing.
Comey chose Washington because he wanted to be close enough to get daily updates, according to CNN, but he may also have been worried about leaks from New York. A former D.O.J. official says that, as early as 2015, a rumor was floating around that the F.B.I. agents in New York were cracking jokes about seeing Hillary Clinton in handcuffs. It was widely understood that there was a faction in that office that couldnt stand her and was out to get her, this person says.
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There is another piece to the internal issues at the F.B.I. Agents, primarily in New York, had been trying over the last few years to put together a case involving financial crimes or influence peddling against the Clinton Foundation. One knowledgeable source says that agents went to several U.S. Attorneys offices, trying to get prosecutors to open a case, before finally going to the Justice Departments public-integrity office. This person says that the agents did not have any facts that would support prosecutors taking further steps. But angry agents leaked to The Wall Street Journal.
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