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  • November 5, 2016 at 8:57 am #56855
    Billy_T
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    ‘The FBI is Trumpland’: anti-Clinton atmosphere spurred leaking, sources say

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    Deep antipathy to Hillary Clinton exists within the FBI, multiple bureau sources have told the Guardian, spurring a rapid series of leaks damaging to her campaign just days before the election.

    Current and former FBI officials, none of whom were willing or cleared to speak on the record, have described a chaotic internal climate that resulted from outrage over director James Comey’s July decision not to recommend an indictment over Clinton’s maintenance of a private email server on which classified information transited.

    “The FBI is Trumpland,” said one current agent.

    This atmosphere raises major questions about how Comey and the bureau he is slated to run for the next seven years can work with Clinton should she win the White House.
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    The currently serving FBI agent said Clinton is “the antichrist personified to a large swath of FBI personnel,” and that “the reason why they’re leaking is they’re pro-Trump.”

    The agent called the bureau “Trumplandia”, with some colleagues openly discussing voting for a GOP nominee who has garnered unprecedented condemnation from the party’s national security wing and who has pledged to jail Clinton if elected.

    At the same time, other sources dispute the depth of support for Trump within the bureau, though they uniformly stated that Clinton is viewed highly unfavorably.

    “There are lots of people who don’t think Trump is qualified, but also believe Clinton is corrupt. What you hear a lot is that it’s a bad choice, between an incompetent and a corrupt politician,” said a former FBI official.

    Sources who disputed the depth of Trump’s internal support agreed that the FBI is now in parlous political territory. Justice department officials – another current target of FBI dissatisfaction – have said the bureau disregarded longstanding rules against perceived or actual electoral interference when Comey wrote to Congress to say it was reviewing newly discovered emails relating to Clinton’s personal server.

    November 5, 2016 at 9:05 am #56857
    Billy_T
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    Bill Maher talks about a slow right-wing coup happening in America. I think this is likely, though it’s not even necessary for it to be “coordinated” in any way. It can be the result of enough actors and organizations with the same goal, working aggressively to achieve that. There might be some active coordination, a lot, a ton, or none at all, and it can all still result in the same thing.

    But it does seem pretty clear that the hyper-aggression is primarily on the right, with little pushback from anything to the left of that.

    Russia is intent on electing Trump. Wikileaks is intent on electing Trump. It appears that certain factions within the FBI are intent on electing Trump. And the GOP, obviously, has been doing its damndest to, at the very least, crush the Dems.

    In my lifetime, I’ve never seen a more lopsided, one-sided election, as far as the factions and powerful forces arrayed against or for this or that politician. If Trump weren’t a crazy person, a serial liar, a serial sexual predator, and incredibly ignorant about the world, this election would have been over months ago.

    November 5, 2016 at 9:07 am #56859
    Billy_T
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    Why Vladimir Putin’s Russia Is Backing Donald Trump — By Kurt Eichenwald On 11/4/16 at 5:50 AM

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    America’s European partners are also troubled by the actions of several people close to Trump’s campaign and company. Trump has been surrounded by advisers and associates with economic and familial links to Russia. The publicized connections and contacts between former campaign manager Paul Manafort with Ukraine have raised concerns. Former Trump adviser Carter Page is being probed by American and European intelligence on allegations that he engaged in back-channel discussions with Russian government officials over the summer. Page did travel to Moscow, but he denies any inappropriate contact with Russian officials. The allies are also uneasy about retired Lieutenant General Michael Flynn, a Trump adviser who was reportedly considered a possible running mate for the GOP nominee. Last December, Flynn attended a dinner at the Metropol Hotel in honor of the 10th anniversary of RT, a Russian news agency that has been publicly identified by American intelligence as a primary outlet for Moscow’s disinformation campaigns. Flynn, who was two seats away from Russian President Vladimir Putin at the dinner, has frequently appeared on RT, despite public warnings by American intelligence that the news agency is used for Russian propaganda.

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