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Essentially our Attorney General today... stated in so many ways.. That you can't trust the FBI which is according to William Barr is part of the Deep State..Destined to take down our Prez.
Now I gotta tell ya: For the most part that I always thought that 85% of those who make up the Military, FBI, CIA, Secrete Service and all other law and order govt. jobs were
strongly Republican..
This Barr fuck-up today is gonna piss off a ton of Govt.law and order/FBI?CIA employees. Barr essentially called them liars and will continue to degrade them until Trump is convicted.
I think its essential for our side to praise the FBI from here to the end..
I feel a bit more relaxed today knowing that the FBI in its entirety has been denigrated
by a Conservative Republican.. Thank you Barr... You're an idiot!!
lame54
(35,287 posts)No guarantee it will
RKP5637
(67,107 posts)DENVERPOPS
(8,817 posts)complete a perfect "daisy chain" don't you think/???????
RKP5637
(67,107 posts)DENVERPOPS
(8,817 posts)we could make a ring the circumference of a football field.......
RKP5637
(67,107 posts)busterbrown
(8,515 posts)spanone
(135,830 posts)'attempted' my ass
Barr is so dangerous
busterbrown
(8,515 posts)Just a freaking disaster for him..
LastDemocratInSC
(3,647 posts)If he wasn't considered a made man before he certainly will be from here on out. A cushy job at the Federalist Society or another think tank will probably be endowed for him by some wealthy benefactors.
panader0
(25,816 posts)JohnnyRingo
(18,628 posts)holy shit.
WTF is in this for Barr. No normal person devotes himself to a man with such fealty unless there's an incredible pay off, something beyond a temporary AG position. It's not the kind of job that makes millionaires.
Perhaps Trump told Barr to keep his hopeful eye on Ruth B Ginsburg. Now there's a plum gig.
tblue37
(65,340 posts)He keeps them in line.
Nothing but kompromat really explains Lindsey's complete 180 after a single private golf game with Trump.
DENVERPOPS
(8,817 posts)the kompromat that Putin most assuredly has collected on Trump for a decade before the election.........
Putin's grooming of Trump started way before the election, and probably many other high ranking Republicans.....
stopbush
(24,396 posts)something effects them personally, they have no problem with others being shat upon.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,340 posts)Liberalhammer
(576 posts)When us lefties are on the side of the DOJ and FBI.
Hekate
(90,674 posts)Neither of us got on the wrong side of the Law during the '60s, but we were both anti-war and both vividly recall things like COINTELPRO.
I, especially, try to weigh things in the balance. I know there are good and honorable people working in our Intel services -- and also some real bastards who need a tighter leash.
So yeah, it feels odd.
enki23
(7,788 posts)The FBI is a large organization. It's not like fuckwit FBI wingers will have hard time imagining conspiracies embedded in it.
mgardener
(1,816 posts)He also cancelled his $30,000.00 holiday party for the Justice Dept at Trumps hotel.
I wonder why?
tblue37
(65,340 posts)JohnnyRingo
(18,628 posts)I don't know why he would, just sayin'.
Stonepounder
(4,033 posts)Over the course of my lifetime I had a couple of interactions with FBI Agents.
Don't freak, nothing criminal. One was when I needed a Top Secret Clearance to work for a Gov't Contractor as a System Manager for several computers that were doing Classified work. The other time was when it was discovered that one of the computers had been hacked and stolen software had been 'parked' on it.
Both encounters were with extremely professional individuals, who were doing their job in a professional manner. You will never hear me knock the FBI!
Kid Berwyn
(14,897 posts)FBI Director Wray said there was no evidence Ukraine interfered in 2016: It was Russia.
summer_in_TX
(2,738 posts)In his blog and video posted today, he says they are waging war against America because of their religious beliefs. Barr's a RW catholic.
https://frankschaefferblog.com/2019/12/trumps-evangelicals-and-ag-barr-launched-a-religious-war-against-america/
dhol82
(9,353 posts)Freaking Dominionists will get us all killed yet.
LastDemocratInSC
(3,647 posts)The group claims that they answer "only to God". Which means that any oath he has taken to protect and defend our Constitution is suspect.
SCVDem
(5,103 posts)These are career professionals, in their position through many presidents and parties.
They are really non-partisan. That does not make them brain dead to the realities of our current regime.
Strzok and Page come to mind These are professionals and could see what was happening.
They did the only ethical thing they could. Kept it among themselves and not leak to media.
I would send Barr to Devils Island! He's the top lawyer and has sold us out!
SayItLoud
(1,702 posts)before statue of limitations takes effect. WE MUST hold these scum accountable, someway some how, some day soon. Just sayin...
zentrum
(9,865 posts)They spied on MLK and all anti-war groups---so have always seemed very rightwing---protecting the powerful against the rest of us.
I'd have thought they would support Trump as a gun-supportng,militaristic, anti-LGBTQ, Republican.
So I don't know if they'll use what they know against him or not. After all, the alernative might be, horrors, some sort of Lefty Liberal.
dhol82
(9,353 posts)They worked with Giuliani to convince Comey to release that billet doux to Hillary.
SCVDem
(5,103 posts)That fuck corrupted the FBI into an internal Intel tool.
Why investigate John Lennon?
muntrv
(14,505 posts)SCVDem
(5,103 posts)Just kidding. Let me buy you a beer.
It sucks when your starters go down.
muntrv
(14,505 posts)paleotn
(17,912 posts)of organizations I most definitely wouldn't want pissed at me. Barr, Blotus and the rest of the minions are bat shit insane.
C_U_L8R
(45,001 posts)Barr was channeling his deepest darkest Dick Cheney gravitas to hypnotize the uncritical low-info trumphorde. It doesn't matter that every word he said was a lie. With a determined shake of his jowls, Barr played the suckers with doublethink and newspeak.