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10/13/2016

Career FBI and DOJ Personnel Not Happy About Refusal to Charge Clinton

Filed under: General — Patterico @ 7:36 am



B-b-b-but I thought Comey told us the careerists all agreed! Maybe they did . . . just not the way he says they did:

The decision to let Hillary Clinton off the hook for mishandling classified information has roiled the FBI and Department of Justice, with one person closely involved in the year-long probe telling FoxNews.com that career agents and attorneys on the case unanimously believed the Democratic presidential nominee should have been charged.

The source, who spoke to FoxNews.com on the condition of anonymity, said FBI Director James Comey’s dramatic July 5 announcement that he would not recommend to the Attorney General’s office that the former secretary of state be charged left members of the investigative team dismayed and disgusted. More than 100 FBI agents and analysts worked around the clock with six attorneys from the DOJ’s National Security Division, Counter Espionage Section, to investigate the case.

“No trial level attorney agreed, no agent working the case agreed, with the decision not to prosecute — it was a top-down decision,” said the source, whose identity and role in the case has been verified by FoxNews.com.

I’m always wary of anonymous sources, but I find it hard to believe that nobody favored prosecuting her in such a clear case.

Someone’s lying here, and I hate to say it, but I think it might be Comey.

22 Responses to “Career FBI and DOJ Personnel Not Happy About Refusal to Charge Clinton”

  1. Ding.

    Patterico (bcf524)

  2. I cannot express my disgust with this anonymous FBI. If you are so outraged do something about it.

    The FBI’s fraudulent reputation has been shown to be just that and these agents are acting g in the proud tradition of Mark Felt.

    SPQR (e33092)

  3. If you work for the gubmint, you aint helpun.

    mg (31009b)

  4. Comey and Lynch should be prosecuted for obstruction of justice. And under the “honest services” thing. They still can be. I believe the federal statute of limitations is five years for these crimes.

    nk (dbc370)

  5. In case I was too subtle, “proud tradition of Mark Felt” was sarcasm.

    SPQR (e33092)

  6. Deep Throat!

    nk (dbc370)

  7. Yet, when they step in the voting booth on November 8th, being federal employees, they’ll still vote for Hillary Clinton.

    The sadly realistic Dana (f6a568)

  8. Greetings:

    On the other hand, “golden handcuffs” do tend to work well.

    11B40 (6abb5c)

  9. If Hillary Clinton is elected president, there’s likely to be an investigation to see who leaked confidential information about a case. This kind of communication is probably an out and out violation of the law and legal ethics.

    There is also a possibility that some of the leakers are fake, and not telling the truth about what was the problem with the investigation.

    Sammy Finkelman (e3cf91)

  10. i don’t believe a word of this

    sleazy pooftertrash what work for the fbi are happy as pigs in mud with the new latitude sleazy corrupt james comey’s established for them

    this is the sort of latitude what brings prestige and respect in washington, and they’re loving it

    happyfeet (a037ad)

  11. All people involved in the casee, whether there’s evidence or not that they leaked anything to anybody, will be subpoenaed and ordered to turn over any private notes they might have made about the case. Search warrants also may be granted, so there’s no chance to hide anything.

    Sammy Finkelman (e3cf91)

  12. They didn’t revolt over screwing Ted Stevens out of an election, nor of trying to frame Richard Jewell. Nobody resigned over the resume’ enhancers involved in Waco and Ruby Ridge.

    Richard Aubrey (472a6f)

  13. It’s hard to leave your career behind. A lot of these guys will talk themselves into thinking that if they stay in they can keep it from happening again. New people coming in, of course, will already know what the score is and be okay with it.

    Four-eight years of Hillary will leave the FBI permanently a cog in the Democratic machine.

    Gabriel Hanna (64d4e1)

  14. It would make an absolutely damning Trump commercial if the agents and attorneys appeared one after the other, identified, saying the same thing: “Charge her” Might take several minutes.

    Probably couldn’t get a station to run it.

    Kevin M (25bbee)

  15. They’d all be immediately fired for cause, and complaints would be made to the DC Bar Association, and they’d probably be prosecuted too..

    Sammy Finkelman (e3cf91)

  16. I cannot express my disgust with this anonymous FBI. If you are so outraged do something about it.

    But SPQR, if you did something about it then you might have to sacrifice your $125k – $160k salary and end up having to take your chances in the scary old private sector. Far better to just play the game and go along to get along.

    JVW (6e49ce)

  17. I cannot express my disgust with this anonymous FBI. If you are so outraged do something about it.

    SPQR (e33092) — 10/13/2016 @ 7:42 am

    We’ve been hearing the same thing from Napolitano, and that former fbi toad who can hardly form a sentence, about all their friends who are outraged, OUTRAGED! Still, none has the jewels to go public. More posturing from pension piggies.

    You’d think there would be just one, just one, who was capable of survival away from the teat.

    Matador (86001c)

  18. Selling out your integrity is hard the first time you do it. It gets a lot easier after that.

    JVW (6e49ce)

  19. “Untouchables” in the Hindu Caste sense.

    Barely fit to shovel sh*t

    From one place to another.

    Pinandpuller (e66d72)

  20. Sorry, I think this is an attempt to distract the undecided voters about the corruption in the government. Sorry, but you can’t tell me that the FBI doesn’t get the same ethics training that most other government employees get. Which is contact the legislative branch and complain about the ethical violation. Call the IG and complain about the violation. Finally, there is the end all of mass strikes/retirements/quitting to protest. You can’t tell me there isn’t a at least one Frank Serpico, Robert Leuci,Rafael Perez type in the FBI that would be willing to stand tall in front of the mast and say that it’s corruption top down. That it hasn’t happened says more about the fear of whistle blowing in the government by honest folks vs the corruption. Whether you are just Joe Average who meets a candidate, a person from a tech firm who is outed after donating his private money to a cause, or various political grass roots folks who are arrested by midnight swat raids or are investigated by other federal agencies to find a smidgen of corruption in your own life. The fix has been in for at least 8 years if not longer that the 1st Amendment is null and voided. That the aristocracy is above the law.

    Charles (1a3f38)

  21. Greetings, Pinandpuller: ( @ #19— 10/13/2016 @ 2:12 pm)

    I saw an interview on Indian TV (Diya) the other day and the woman’s name was Shiela Dikshit.

    So there’s that.

    11B40 (6abb5c)

  22. I’ll believe how upset they are when I see some resignations.

    The Gentle Grizzly (8bd663)


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