Now, the WSJ is really going after the FBI. There were pre-election emails between a bureau agent and lawyer, pre-election, calling him a menace. That is why Meuller fired Strzok. This emerging narrative is that the FBI is just plain anti-Trump. They didn't want Trump to win, and they all support the Dems. Today, Putin says Trump opponents harm the US with the "fake" Russia scandal. Hmmm.
A thinking person would conclude that...yes, Meuller fired Strzok for the appearance of bias. That was ethical.
Trump was called a "douche", an idiot and (in WSJ today) a menace - and one of them commented that they were worried for the organization (the FBI, that is).
However, the emails were pre-election and they were private exchanges - the two were a couple. And they were right. And the FBI, due to the Russia meddling, and Trump's history of financial corruption, 'was' probably trying to prevent Trump from being elected. If Russia was working to plant him as their puppet to undermine the US - why wouldn't the FBI be trying to prevent it? However, Obama did not want to be seen as being just plain election tampering with the Trumpian's guy - they hated that "Kenyan" enough already (wonder why?) - and he thought that to press the Russian issue would look like a ruse. So, he let the election play out, thinking Hillary would get at least 50 + 1, that the democratic institutions were strong enough to prevent Trump. That in the end, Americans would prove to be smarter than to elect Trump. He made the wrong gamble.
And...I read that the FBI agents are mostly conservative voters. They're not bleeding heart liberal raging hippy dead-heads, who sing praises to Hillary. No, they certainly are not.
If Putin, as the leader of a superpower, wanted Americans to believe something in order to trick them - what would he want them to believe? And who would his audience be? Educated people who have enough attention span to read the New Yorker? ...probably not. Vulnerable people who like memes and sound bites? Probably. How else would he pull off getting so many Americans to be Russian apologists and loyalists - when practically the day before Trump set foot on the campaign trail, the Republicans were wary of Russia? And Trump was used by Russia, too.
A thinking person would conclude that...yes, Meuller fired Strzok for the appearance of bias. That was ethical.
Trump was called a "douche", an idiot and (in WSJ today) a menace - and one of them commented that they were worried for the organization (the FBI, that is).
However, the emails were pre-election and they were private exchanges - the two were a couple. And they were right. And the FBI, due to the Russia meddling, and Trump's history of financial corruption, 'was' probably trying to prevent Trump from being elected. If Russia was working to plant him as their puppet to undermine the US - why wouldn't the FBI be trying to prevent it? However, Obama did not want to be seen as being just plain election tampering with the Trumpian's guy - they hated that "Kenyan" enough already (wonder why?) - and he thought that to press the Russian issue would look like a ruse. So, he let the election play out, thinking Hillary would get at least 50 + 1, that the democratic institutions were strong enough to prevent Trump. That in the end, Americans would prove to be smarter than to elect Trump. He made the wrong gamble.
And...I read that the FBI agents are mostly conservative voters. They're not bleeding heart liberal raging hippy dead-heads, who sing praises to Hillary. No, they certainly are not.
If Putin, as the leader of a superpower, wanted Americans to believe something in order to trick them - what would he want them to believe? And who would his audience be? Educated people who have enough attention span to read the New Yorker? ...probably not. Vulnerable people who like memes and sound bites? Probably. How else would he pull off getting so many Americans to be Russian apologists and loyalists - when practically the day before Trump set foot on the campaign trail, the Republicans were wary of Russia? And Trump was used by Russia, too.
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