Goodbye to All That – My Resignation from the FBI(lawfaremedia.org) |
Goodbye to All That – My Resignation from the FBI(lawfaremedia.org) |
> I’m looking forward to exploring all of these issues over the next few months in writing, in engagements with the public, and by other means.
It seems they don’t believe that their name will be added to the list as a “persona non grata” who will be toxic for others to associate with. For the sake of democracy, I certainly hope they will not be another name on the list.
> In that way, I hope, I can continue my service to the United States and—of equal importance to me, at this point in my life—to those who still carry FBI credentials.
Counter-intel has a shelf life of around three months in the DC area. It isn't like there weren't multiple opportunities for the FEEB to do something. Oleg Deripaska had multiple properties in the US, including one in NYC and one across the street from Kellyanne Conway near 30th and Massachusetts Ave in DC. Deripaska visited the US on a diplomatic passport multiple times in 2017-2018 and no-one found anything on him? And Charles McGonigal, a retired NYC FBI agent pleaded guilty in 2023 to providing services to Deripaska, who was under US sanctions?
I am skeptical that I am hearing a complete and true accounting of the facts and reasons for the action.
Note that I am not impugning the author, but everyone is the hero or the victim of their own story, and even if everything said was a true and complete accounting of the author’s experience, there might have been reasons (good or nefarious) for the action that were not disclosed to them.
Like, if life were a narrative, who would you be?
That might or might not be true, but the article is almost certainly biased to support that narrative, true or not. I was cautioning that the article not be taken on faith.
So this dude literally worked for THE US domestic intelligence gathering agency and he has no idea how they found out about his friendship to someone who has been all over the news for 9 years for his investigative targeting of the current president?
I mean demotion due to the friendship…or perhaps he is just not the brightest bulb in the bureau?
Seems weird to immediately assume he’s stupider than you are.
Whether it’s meant as: “Can’t fathom how this happened”, “I don’t know how, specifically”, or “I can’t imagine how they found out”…it’s a totally boneheaded thing to write and publicly publish if you are an FBI agent. We make assessments about people’s capabilities every day based on what they say and do. This is no different.
It seems that his problem is that he does not agree with it now being used against the "side" he stands with, rather than that he disagrees with it being used politically at all. I'd agree that it often is used for political purposes, but I would not agree that this only started in Trump's current term. It's been used by both sides in this way.
Did they? Why not just assert what you believe, instead of giving it this weird air of deniability?
Do you believe that the Hunter Biden “story” is similar or dissimilar to firing political and personal enemies of appointees?
And here is the story about the raid of the journalist: https://www.politico.com/news/2021/11/13/raid-veritas-okeefe...
Doesn’t sound like a resignation
And it’s beside the point, which is that right-wing cable news gasbags are now running the country.
Polys are also subjective. They keep asking the same questions over and over again until there's some indication they can point to and say you're lying. It might be a sneeze, cough, or a deep breath at the wrong time. It's also generally a multi hour to multi day ordeal. I wouldn't bother if I was them.
But how is it that no matter who politicizes anything, it’s always actually one sides fault. And, like you implied, who cares if Republicans succeed in consistently and repetitively politicizing the FBI, because the Democrats may have done it once in a way that royally backfired. Two wrongs make a right.
But I love how Democrats keep getting punished for the one story that has helped Republicans more than any other of the past decade.
I personally do view governmental control of speech and attacks on journalists to be pretty severe in the grand scheme of things. I don't want either side to be using the FBI for this, but I don't like the authors non-genuine attempt at making it seem like this is a Trump specific problem. They did not speak out about it before, they only had a problem with it when it impacted them.
Trump couldn’t have planned a better tactic than trying to suppress the Hunter Biden laptop story if he tried.
You can be mad at the writer, if it makes you feel better, I guess, but this was pretty clear writing from my point of view.
If you want people to take your story seriously, why would you disqualify yourself in such a way in the beginning of the article?