OK, it’s only commonly know nowadays as the KGB, but that’s what it is. So now the KKK, FBI and KGB are all supporting the same candidate.
From my reading it appears more like a good number of agents felt that Clinton should have been indicted back this summer for the e-mail server and are simply angry about it. But the congruence of interests between the Trump campaign, the KGB and now the FBI is startling.
Used to be the Reds hiding under your bed, then it was the dirty fucking hippy peaceniks, and the Black Panthers and MLK. The Mafia wasn’t under your bed, because they never existed. Then the FBI crushed the Klan in Mississippi, like in the documentary I saw.
The FBI is law enforcement. In our current political culture, conservatives self-select to become law enforcement. And conservatives have been subjected to decades of propaganda convincing them that Hillary Clinton is the worst thing since birth control. So it should not be surprising.
Also consider that the FBI has tens of thousands of employees. Statistically, dozens of them are Clothahump types.
The FBI was corrupted long ago by Jedgar Hoover and every president that wanted to use it as their own secret police. Even Jedgar wouldn’t go along with Nixon’s plan to go after his political opponents. But he made bureaucratic procedure and political mission the basis of the FBI instead of seeking facts and justice and they’ve never corrected course since.
You left out the FBI investigation of potential links between Trump and Russian interests (which found nothing). Seems like a pretty clear sign that the FBI is full of left-wing Clinton supporters, no?
Bottom line is that any investigation of your guy is clearly political persecution. Any investigation of the other guy is an important look at very serious and dangerous concerns.
It appears that the professionalism of the FBI requires that they investigate the criminal activity of Team Hillary, regardless of any reservations you may have about their doing their job. I guess ol’ Hillary, and her minions, should have been more upright, transparent, and honest.
People have got to know if their President is a crook.
-Dick Nixon
So the FBI investigating in an effort to find one is obviously an attempt by left-wing FBI agents to help Clinton, in exactly the same manner as FBI investigations of the Clinton Foundation were right wing attempts to help Trump.
Only difference is that the DOJ - which has apparently not been corrupted by Trump supporters or the KGB - put the kibosh on the Clinton Foundation investigation, while the left-wingers going after Trump seem to have had more of a free hand.
Unless the investigation uncovers a clandestine connection between Obama and Vladimir (Putin). Politics sometimes makes for strange bedfellows.
President Obama was caught on a hot mic telling outgoing Russian President Dmitri Medvedev that if given “space,” he’ll have more flexibility “after my election.”
An alternative to this analytical approach is to actually consider each investigation on its merits.
The server investigation is entirely legitimate. The Foundation investigation, as reported, is suspect, given the lack of public information suggesting anything to investigate and it’s origin with Steve Bannon. The Russian ties investigation is not suspect, given the (ongoing) investigation into Paul Manafort.
I don’t know who Steve Bannon is, but the media reported that the CF investigation was triggered by the Clinton Cash book, by a guy named Schweizer. Further, that the investigation was shot down because while there was a lot of circumstantial evidence, there was not much in the way of hard evidence.
I don’t know how that compares to the Russian ties investigation, including the investigation of Manafort. (The connection between the Trump investigation and the Manafort one is also unclear - more detail here.) At a glance, the suggested links between Trump and the Russian government seems circumstantial - and pretty weakly at that - but I confess to not following this matter (or the Clinton Foundation issue) all that closely and relying mostly on characterizations in the mainstream media, as in the above link.
FWIW, I’m not a big believer in the notion that career civil servants are all apolitical drones with no biases, which seems to be the premise of many people commenting on these stories. So it’s possible the FBI has any number of right-wingers rearing to get at Clinton. But the same applies even more so to the people at the DOJ, who are even more aligned with the Democrats at this time.
As for the book itself, it seems like there were factual errors that needed to be corrected, but nothing that changed the overall story, and reaction by people who were not CEOs of Trump’s campaign seemed to generally be that it raised serious issues. See e.g. Clinton Cash - Wikipedia
Correct. But it is also an objective reason to be suspicious of the investigation, contrary to your implication that such suspicion is the result of partisan bias.
Well I wasn’t seriously alleging that (though it may well be true, of course). But the premise of this thread is that investigations of Clinton are proof of partisan bias, and this was a valid counter to that premise.