It Ain't Your Momma's FBI

[Cow Poke]

FBI agent removed from Mueller investigation over anti-Trump messages

(CNN)Special counsel Robert Mueller removed one of the FBI's top Russian counterintelligence experts from his team of investigators after an internal investigation found messages he sent that could be interpreted as showing political bias for Hillary Clinton and against President Donald Trump, according to US officials briefed on the matter.

Peter Strzok, who led the investigation of the Hillary Clinton email server as the No. 2 official in the FBI's counterintelligence division, left the Mueller team this past summer, multiple sources said.
Investigators from the Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General have been reviewing both the FBI's and the Justice Department's handling of the Clinton probe, which cleared the former Democratic presidential candidate of criminal wrongdoing, sources said.

The messages from Strzok to another FBI expert assigned to the Mueller team were discovered in the course of that internal review. The wording of the messages sent during the 2016 campaign appeared to be making fun of then-candidate Trump, and raised concerns that they could be seen as being pro-Clinton, the sources said.

Yeah, I know, there's another thread about Strzok in particular, but this is about the FBI in general.

It used to be assumed (as portrayed in The Untouchables) that the FBI was an institution without bias and full of integrity and honor. (yeah, J Edgar was a colorful figure, and....)

It is appearing more and more that the FBI seems incapable of acting without bias.

Looks like investigations will be focusing on the FBI itself.

[One Bad Pig]

The FBI, like every other organization, is comprised of humans, and is therefore prone to human failings.

[Cow Poke]

Absolutely, but it appears the degree to which it allows those feelings to affect its work is changing.

[mikewhitney]

Trump really is cleaning out the swap. It is sort of like when Jonathan went against the Philistines and they started killing each other (1 Samuel 14)

Maybe more, this was like when a righteous king resulted in the people following the Lord. It may not be exactly that people are following the Lord more in Washington DC but rather that the more decent people are able to get some footing

[Psychic Missile]

Absolutely, but it appears the degree to which it allows those feelings to affect its work is changing.

To affect it less due to greater transparency compared to the days of COINTELPRO.

[Sparko]

Where are Mulder and Scully when you need them?

[rogue06]

The FBI, like every other organization, is comprised of humans, and is therefore prone to human failings.

They had a largely deserved squeaky clean reputation for decades which has completely turned around in just a few years.

[Cow Poke]

They had a largely deserved squeaky clean reputation for decades which has completely turned around in just a few years.

That. When I was a kid, I wanted to be a policeman. When I was a policeman, I wanted to be a "G-man". That was what so may law enforcement members aspired to.

[rogue06]

That. When I was a kid, I wanted to be a policeman. When I was a policeman, I wanted to be a "G-man". That was what so may law enforcement members aspired to.

I know you left the "n" out of "many" on purpose just so I might think I caught you misspellinating sumethin

[Cow Poke]

I know you left the "n" out of "many" on purpose just so I might think I caught you misspellinating sumethin

Yeah, and I also did that thing where I ended a sentence with one of those proposition thingies you're never spose to end a sentence with.

[rogue06]

Yeah, and I also did that thing where I ended a sentence with one of those proposition thingies you're never spose to end a sentence with.

You purposely prepositioned your spouse?

[Cow Poke]

You purposely prepositioned your spouse?

Only once. It worked.

[One Bad Pig]

The plot thickens....

Source: Congressional investigators find irregularities in FBI's handling of Clinton email case

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© Copyright Original Source

Clinton hack lies to FBI, gets immunity. Manafort lies to the FBI, gets charges.

ETA: language warning

[Zymologist]

The plot thickens....

Source: Congressional investigators find irregularities in FBI's handling of Clinton email case

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© Copyright Original Source

Clinton hack lies to FBI, gets immunity. Manafort lies to the FBI, gets charges.

There are some pretty damning claims in the rest of the article, too. If true, it'll be interesting to see when nothing happens.

[Sparko]

I don't want to read such articles. They are too long and boring. I think I will just wait here till JimL tells me what to think. He has an inside line on the whole thing.