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mat-ty
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| wsurfer wrote: | Thank you Senator!!!
Never has a party abandoned and fled its principles and deeply held beliefs so quickly as my party did in the face of the nativist juggernaut. We have become strangers to ourselves...It we are going to cloister ourselves in the alternative truth of an erratic leader... then my party might not deserve to lead."
— GOP Sen. Jeff Flake |
I can see your attraction.....you're both FLAKES!!!! |
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mac
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| Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2018 11:40 am Post subject: |
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| nw30 wrote: | The only people pissing and moaning about McCabe being fired are former swamp people, and all they can do it fling swamp mud.
It's pretty hysterical actually, self identification, they may as well be wearing a sign as they piss and moan "I'm a former member of the swamp". |
Always one to leap to a conclusion without considering both sides of the story. Here is McCabe's statement.
| Quote: | I have been an FBI Special Agent for over 21 years. I spent half of that time investigating Russian Organized Crime as a street agent and Supervisor in New York City. I have spent the second half of my career focusing on national security issues and protecting this country from terrorism. I served in some of the most challenging, demanding investigative and leadership roles in the FBI. And I was privileged to serve as Deputy Director during a particularly tough time.
For the last year and a half, my family and I have been the targets of an unrelenting assault on our reputation and my service to this country. Articles too numerous to count have leveled every sort of false, defamatory and degrading allegation against us. The president’s tweets have amplified and exacerbated it all. He called for my firing. He called for me to be stripped of my pension after more than 20 years of service. And all along we have said nothing, never wanting to distract from the mission of the FBI by addressing the lies told and repeated about it.
No more.
The investigation by the Justice Department’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) has to be understood in the context of the attacks on my credibility. The investigation flows from my attempt to explain the FBI’s involvement and my supervision of investigations involving Hillary Clinton. I was being portrayed in the media over and over as a political partisan, accused of closing down investigations under political pressure. The FBI was portrayed as caving under that pressure, and making decisions for political rather than law enforcement purposes. Nothing was further from the truth. In fact, this entire investigation stems from my efforts, fully authorized under FBI rules, to set the record straight on behalf of the Bureau and to make it clear that we were continuing an investigation that people in DOJ opposed.
The OIG investigation has focused on information I chose to share with a reporter through my public affairs officer and a legal counselor. As Deputy Director, I was one of only a few people who had the authority to do that. It was not a secret, it took place over several days, and others, including the Director, were aware of the interaction with the reporter. It was the same type of exchange with the media that the Deputy Director oversees several times per week. In fact it was the same type of work that I continued to do under Director Wray, at his request. The investigation subsequently focused on who I talked to, when I talked to them, and so forth. During these inquiries, I answered questions truthfully and as accurately as I could amidst the chaos that surrounded me. And when I thought my answers were misunderstood, I contacted investigators to correct them.
But looking at that in isolation completely misses the big picture. The big picture is a tale of what can happen when law enforcement is politicized, public servants are attacked, and people who are supposed to cherish and protect our institutions become instruments for damaging those institutions and people.
Here is the reality: I am being singled out and treated this way because of the role I played, the actions I took, and the events I witnessed in the aftermath of the firing of James Comey. The release of this report was accelerated only after my testimony to the House Intelligence Committee revealed that I would corroborate former Director Comey’s accounts of his discussions with the President. The OIG’s focus on me and this report became a part of an unprecedented effort by the Administration, driven by the President himself, to remove me from my position, destroy my reputation, and possibly strip me of a pension that I worked 21 years to earn. The accelerated release of the report, and the punitive actions taken in response, make sense only when viewed through this lens. Thursday’s comments from the White House are just the latest example of this.
This attack on my credibility is one part of a larger effort not just to slander me personally, but to taint the FBI, law enforcement, and intelligence professionals more generally. It is part of this Administration’s ongoing war on the FBI and the efforts of the Special Counsel investigation, which continue to this day. Their persistence in this campaign only highlights the importance of the Special Counsel’s work.
I have always prided myself on serving my country with distinction and integrity, and I have always encouraged those around me to do the same. Just ask them. To have my career end in this way, and to be accused of lacking candor when at worst I was distracted in the midst of chaotic events, is incredibly disappointing and unfair. But it will not erase the important work I was prevailed to be a part of, the results of which will in the end be revealed for the country to see.
I have unfailing faith in the men and women of the FBI and I am confident that their efforts to seek justice will not be deterred. |
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nw30
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| Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2018 11:48 am Post subject: |
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| Boo-fu(king-hoo, to poor swamp dweller. |
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real-human
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| Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2018 12:32 pm Post subject: |
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| MalibuGuru wrote: | Good! The corrupt government officials are crying because Trump is exposing them for the criminals they are....
For the first time, a high-ranking and decorated member of America’s military has come out swinging against President Donald Trump.
Retired four-star Gen. Barry McCaffrey tweeted Friday that the president was a threat to national security.
Actually, he tweeted that the president was “a serious threat” to national security.
All these half wit punks are folding. McCabe is just the beginning. |
you moron, when Clinton became president some idiot general made a speech to his command that to the effect we had a draft doging pot smoking..." He was in active duty and this was to his command. I said he should have been court marschaled and lose all his pension. needless to say trump is/was a rapist, draft dodging, drugging idiot. The general or what ever rank he was did lose his command and I think a rank something like that. I again beieve he should have been court marschalled and stripped of his pension.
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real-human
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| Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2018 12:39 pm Post subject: |
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| nw30 wrote: | | Boo-fu(king-hoo, to poor swamp dweller. |
a life long republican is as you say a swamp dwelled by defintion, tell us what we do not know....
ya there are exceptions as I noted Nevada gov Sandoval I would vote for him over Bernie. But that is a rare exception.
We need an independent counsel run by an adversary of trumps, not another life long republican investigation the republicans that control every branch of government and the media. Carters and both of Clintons were ultra partisan right wingers, and again they were independent counsels that could not be fired by the president.
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swchandler
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It interesting how you folks on the right cast a dark shadow on Andrew McCabe without any real facts.
I'm convinced that Donald Trump and the sycophants in his administration are getting really nervous as everything is beginning to unravel. It was a serious mistake to make this ugly move against McCabe, and it will come back and haunt them in the long run.
Don't get too excited and carried away with lies and utter BS coming from Donald Trump. Only fools are sucked into such nonsense. |
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nw30
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| swchandler wrote: | It interesting how you folks on the right cast a dark shadow on Andrew McCabe without any real facts.
I'm convinced that Donald Trump and the sycophants in his administration are getting really nervous as everything is beginning to unravel. It was a serious mistake to make this ugly move against McCabe, and it will come back and haunt them in the long run.
Don't get too excited and carried away with lies and utter BS coming from Donald Trump. Only fools are sucked into such nonsense. |
I find it interesting how you folks on the left don't care that the FBI's Office of Professional Responsibility proposed the termination, based on the findings of the Justice Department's inspector general. |
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mac
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| Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2018 2:31 pm Post subject: |
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| nw30 wrote: | | swchandler wrote: | It interesting how you folks on the right cast a dark shadow on Andrew McCabe without any real facts.
I'm convinced that Donald Trump and the sycophants in his administration are getting really nervous as everything is beginning to unravel. It was a serious mistake to make this ugly move against McCabe, and it will come back and haunt them in the long run.
Don't get too excited and carried away with lies and utter BS coming from Donald Trump. Only fools are sucked into such nonsense. |
I find it interesting how you folks on the left don't care that the FBI's Office of Professional Responsibility proposed the termination, based on the findings of the Justice Department's inspector general. |
Making it up again. What I said is look at the other side of the story. McCabe could have violated protocol, or this could be more obstruction of justice. Too early to tell. But if you work at it, you can get your head even further into a dark place. |
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nw30
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| mac wrote: | | nw30 wrote: | | swchandler wrote: | It interesting how you folks on the right cast a dark shadow on Andrew McCabe without any real facts.
I'm convinced that Donald Trump and the sycophants in his administration are getting really nervous as everything is beginning to unravel. It was a serious mistake to make this ugly move against McCabe, and it will come back and haunt them in the long run.
Don't get too excited and carried away with lies and utter BS coming from Donald Trump. Only fools are sucked into such nonsense. |
I find it interesting how you folks on the left don't care that the FBI's Office of Professional Responsibility proposed the termination, based on the findings of the Justice Department's inspector general. |
Making it up again. |
Didn't make up a damn thing. |
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mat-ty
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| Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2018 3:19 pm Post subject: |
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| swchandler wrote: | It interesting how you folks on the right cast a dark shadow on Andrew McCabe without any real facts.
I'm convinced that Donald Trump and the sycophants in his administration are getting really nervous as everything is beginning to unravel. It was a serious mistake to make this ugly move against McCabe, and it will come back and haunt them in the long run.
Don't get too excited and carried away with lies and utter BS coming from Donald Trump. Only fools are sucked into such nonsense. |
It wasn't Trump knucklehead, The recommendation came from FBI version of internal affairs.....Wrong once again.. |
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