Inside the FBI: agents' outrage at Hillary email decision
By Jon Rappoport
---You're an FBI agent. You sit and watch television night
after night, as a Presidential candidate who should have been brought up
on felony charges, and thereby disqualified and scuttled, moves through
the land and makes promises about what she'll do as the next leader of
the nation. You sit and watch, deepening your grasp on how the system
actually works---
How much blood is boiling among FBI agents?
Sharyl Attkisson, former CBS News investigative reporter, has the story (sharylattkisson.com):
"Many people at the FBI are outraged, but cannot speak out," one insider told me," Attkisson writes.
We're talking about FBI Director James Comey's recommendation
that Hillary Clinton not be prosecuted in her email scandal. This,
after thousands of hours of FBI work scouring the emails connected to
Hillary's illegal private server.
Here are several other comments FBI professionals made, off the record, to Attkisson, with my remarks in parentheses ():
"It appears to me they made a deal not to record [the key FBI-Hillary] interview."
(This failure, as I wrote, means the interview is lost
forever. No stenographic transcript was executed, either. FBI agents'
notes on the interview are useless. They can never be used against
Hillary as ironclad evidence in a court of law.)
"Director Comey seems to have taken on responsibilities far
beyond the FBI's purview---he assumed the duties of the Agent, US
Attorney and Grand Jury."
(Indeed he did. He functioned as FBI Director, Grand Jury,
Attorney General, and appellate judge. In this last role, he knowingly
misinterpreted the Federal Penal Code, which clearly states that gross
negligence in the handling of classified material is a crime, regardless
of intent. Hillary was, at the very least, grossly negligent. FBI
Director Comey acknowledged this.)
"It appears no Grand Jury was empaneled for this
investigation. This is absurd, Grand Juries are used in nearly all
criminal investigations."
"Even in the most straightforward of cases, the time span
between a target interview [of Hillary] and prosecution opinion [on
whether to file charges] takes weeks, not days. If a good interview were
conducted [with Clinton] on Saturday, there would have been leads or
other new pieces of information to verify or investigate prior to any
conclusion to the case."
(In other words, the fix was already in.)
Attkisson: "During his Congressional testimony, Comey
indicated he didn't look into Clinton's false statements. He said he
needed an additional 'referral' or formal request [from Congress] for
the FBI to investigate whether she committed perjury under oath to
Congress. 'This makes no sense,' said a career agent. 'It is normal
practice that if you came upon evidence of a crime different than the
one you were originally investigating, it was fair game.'"
(There is no need to wait for a request to investigate from Congress.)
You can bet many people at the FBI are boiling over after
Director Comey's recommendation that Hillary not be charged and
prosecuted.
Level of Bureau morale now? Too low to measure.
How would you feel, if you'd spent months uncovering multiple
breaches of the law, all of which your boss admitted were quite
real---and then he turned around and said the suspect---a Presidential
candidate---was innocent?
It's your job to prove serious violations occurred, and you
did, in a case that would have been the highlight of your career, to say
nothing of supporting a little item called justice; but then your work
was flushed down the drain.
The next time a case even vaguely approaching the magnitude
of this one is tossed in your lap, how much commitment are you going to
be able to marshal? You'll know your facts and findings could well be
deemed irrelevant, because the person at the top of your food chain is
doing politics, not law. He's essentially working for players who aren't
in your agency. He's breaking the law, but you can't touch him.
Your paycheck feeds your family and pays the rent. You want
to do the right thing, but you're trapped. You joined up for honor, but
that ideal is off the table.
Your colleagues at work, who feel their own outrage, advise
you to keep your mouth shut and move straight ahead, if you want to hold
on to your job and grab a promotion somewhere out in the future. That's
what they're doing.
So you're living in a culture of corruption.
How does that sit with you?
You're not naïve. For years you've known government is
riddled with corruption and lies. But this time, it hits you.
Personally. You're paying the price. You did something honest and
important, and suddenly it was transformed into nothing, and you have to
pretend all is well.
You're an FBI agent. You sit and watch television night after
night, as a Presidential candidate who should have been brought up on a
felony charge, and thereby disqualified and scuttled, moves through the
land and makes promises about what she'll do as the next leader of the
nation. You sit and watch, deepening your personal knowledge of how the
system actually works.
You're a federal agent, and once upon a time you thought you had signed on to work for the good of the Republic.
You're learning, when the chips are down, you're actually laboring for an extended crime family.
How does that sit? How does it feel?
Are you going to decide you were an idiot for believing in a ideal above and beyond gross personal advantage?
Are you now going to go over to the dark side, and look for ways to grease the wheels of your career?
Or are you, against long odds, somehow going to find a way to stick to your derided principles?
As you sit and watch the news of this Presidential campaign,
night after night, that's the question you ponder, trying to see a way
through the darkness.
Where is the dawn?
Of course, you and a few of your colleagues, who were
intimately involved in the Clinton investigation, could decide to go
public. On the record. You could find a media outlet somewhere that
would listen to you. You could turn over your notes of the Hillary
interview, and you could swear on a stack of bibles that those notes are
an accurate reflection of the proceeding. You could explain your other
findings. Perhaps, in all her emails, you found criminal connections
between Hillary's State Department and the infamous Clinton Foundation.
You could tell the whole truth. You could take that giant step. You
could cause a national uproar. You could make your own federal case.
This, too, is going through your mind as you sit in the darkness.
Looking for a way out.
People have told you that, in life, some choices are hard.
But you didn't really believe these choices would be yours.
Now they are.
You're sitting in the dark, you're flying solo.
Looking for that way out.
"I [name] do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support
and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies,
foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the
same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation
or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge
the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God."
At the end of your academy training, at your graduation
ceremony, you took that oath, and as at every graduation, by
long-standing tradition, the oath was personally administered by, of all
people...
The Director of the FBI.
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