DISASTER: The FBI’s War On Trump Has Just Reached DEFCON 1
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According to The Washington Post, in the aftermath of President Trump’s firing
of FBI director James Comey, agents are now focused in laserlike fashion on
taking Trump down. Here’s the report:
Many employees said they were furious about the firing, saying the circumstances of his dismissal did more damage to the FBI’s independence than anything Comey did in his three-plus years in the
job.One intelligence official who works on Russian espionage matters said they were more determined than ever to pursue such cases. Another said Comey’s firing and the subsequent comments from the White House are attacks that won’t soon be forgotten. Trump had “essentially declared war on a lot of people at the FBI,” one official said. “I think there will be a concerted effort to respond over time in kind.”
The FBI director serves at the pleasure of the president. Trump’s firing of Comey
might be a cover-up, as the Left claims; it’s just as likely (significantly more likely
in my view) that Trump just wanted Comey gone, and Trump has terrible timing.
But regardless, the notion that the members of the intelligence community are
now empowered morally or legally to redouble their efforts to damage Trump is
anti-republican and frightening. The intelligence community is not its own shadow
government, poised to strike the head of the executive branch because he takes
a measure for which he has full constitutional authority.
Months ago, just as President Trump prepared to take office, a wave of
mainstream media reports emerged suggesting that the intelligence community
hated Trump and would work to take him down. In January, Trump tweeted
about the intelligence agencies leaking information about confidential briefings,
in typical Trumpian fashion:
While the language was ridiculous, the concern wasn’t off base. Senate Minority
Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) threatened Trump with the intelligence community
cudgel: “Let me tell you, you take on the intelligence community, they have six
ways from Sunday to get back at you. So, even for a practical, supposedly
hard-nosed businessman, he is being really dumb to do this.” As I wrote
at the time, “This is actually frightening stuff. The intelligence community
isn’t its own government.”
In February, Trump enemies began endorsing the notion of an intelligence
assistant secretary of defense Evelyn Farkas explaining that she had told her
friends in the intelligence community to preserve information on Trump before
Obama left office out of “fear that somehow that information would disappear
with the senior [Obama] people who left, so it would be hidden away in the
bureaucracy … that the Trump folks — if they found out how we knew what
we knew about their … the Trump staff dealing with Russians — that they
would try to compromise those sources and methods.” Farkas said that
intelligence officials had distributed the information widely to avoid it being
destroyed.
But this report from The Washington Post is on another level entirely. It isn’t
second-hand discussions by a former official of conversations she supposedly
had years ago. It’s contemporaneous reporting of what is happening right
now inside the FBI. And that should frighten anyone of good conscience.
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