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Is the FBI Setting Up the ‘One Bad Apple’ Defense?
Via Instapundit I just saw this news piece.
The Washington Times reported eyewitness accounts that “Mr. Thibault was seen exiting the bureau’s elevator last Friday escorted by two or three ‘headquarters-looking types.’”
Whistleblowers alleged that Thibault concealed the partisan nature of evidence from FBI Director Christopher Wray and Attorney General Merrick Garland to secure their approval to open an investigation into former President Donald Trump. That investigation culminated in the FBI’s raid on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate earlier this month.
It strains credulity that Wray and Garland, never mind Comey, et al., didn’t know what was going on. Nevertheless, if true, this event suggests they think they’ve found a way to “credibly” attempt to pin it all on one “one bad apple”. Or at least enough Kabuki to give a fig leaf to the Dem-Press’ attempt to defuse the 50%+ of the electorate that now believes the FBI is a partisan actor for the DC Democrats. SA Thibault takes one for the team and gets his retirement.
What do you think?
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McCarthy is gradually becoming a buffoon. It’s a shame. He has so much to offer.
Always remember, when Mueller was asked about the Steele report, he claimed not to know about it, before Congress!!!!!! Comey testified that he “didn’t remember” over a hundred times about stuff he “investigated”. They have no shame.
Who can bring charges against the DOJ itself?
I don’t think this guy acted without the approval of FBI senior leadership.
SA Thibault takes one for the team and gets his retirement.
Nailed it. The mission was accomplished. It was so overt that some blowback was inevitable. Just the one guy is a low, acceptable casualty rate. And being out of government service, it is now a little tougher to drag him in front of an oversight committee.
The sick thing about the FBI is that they are increasingly committed to partisanship because they believe they cannot afford to be held accountable for past partisan malfeasance. Unless there is mass decapitation (with pain, criminal charges, and loss of future income) based on whistleblower revelations, this will persist out of perceived necessity and survival.
I’m sorry to say I’m leaning that way too. I still find him to be a useful perspective, but now filtered a bit differently…
Yes. They are well past the Rubicon. They’ve burned their boats on the other shore. However, I suspect that in their bubble they thought they were still approaching the near side of the river bank. I doubt very much that they had the perspective to appreciate where they were on the continuum. After all everyone in their social orbit is convinced that “right-wing insurrectionists” have penetrated the government in many different cells. I mean that last part literally, it is a sincere belief. I know for a fact that there is still a panic in the Democrat/DC complex that there really are “enemies of the republic” littered throughout the government.
They believe it. Believe me. I’ve talked to people from there. It’s very eye opening. I just think to myself, if only…
I agree with Dan Bongino today, saying that we need to stop thinking of “rotten” apples and think instead of “rotten orchards”
I guess I have less tolerance for that, I figure he pretty much beclowned himself some time ago.
Let me break this self-reinforcing cycle and say that I find Andy McCarthy very much worth following.
Yes, he was slow to comprehend just how partisan and corrupt the FBI leadership has become in the years since he last dealt with them personally, but that serves to make it harder for the Left to dismiss him as a fringe crackpot.
WAS slow? He still IS slow. He seems to revert after every event that proves him wrong.
From today’s article in National Review titled “Justice Department Bulldozes Court on Trump Privilege Claims,” Andy McCarthy sums it up as:
“Again, I don’t think the Justice Department intends to prosecute Trump on classified information and records-retention offenses. I think the government just wanted its documents back — to restore order, to conduct a damage assessment regarding any national-security compromises, and to assess whether any documents bear on the DOJ’s January 6 investigation.”
So McCarthy is back to “the Justice Department just wants to restore order and safeguard our national security concerns.” They are not doing any politically motivated stunts. Nothing to see here, now move along please.
Because they did such a great job of that with the Clintons, and Obama, and now Biden…
And, of course, “please clap.” For the rock-ribbed patriots of the FBI/DOJ/etc.
As a dog returns to its vomit . . .
I like that one!………………still laughing…………….
And the Sow returns to her Mire . . .
Mistakes were made.
If these folks are looking for “enemies of the republic” I suggest that they first look into the mirror.
And the burnt fool’s bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the fire . . .
Yes, agreed. But the point is a substantial number have convinced themselves they are saving the Republic. It’s true, many are cynical Leftists exploiting things, but an awful lot of the DC complex just think they’re regular people manning the barricades. I’m not justifying them, my point is that to combat them we must understand how they think. Victory comes from knowing yourself and your enemy better than they know themselves.
We need to know enough to understand why they need to be defeated, and maybe get some ideas on how. But not to try and convince to change their tiny little minds, cuz it’s likely impossible.