Politico reveals
The FBI looks like Trump’s America (AND BOY! IS THAT AWFUL)
With 67 percent white male agents, the bureau doesn’t reflect the nation. Did its conservative culture play a role in Comey’s decision to reveal the renewed Clinton email probe?
So that’s it! We should have known. How lucky are the American people to have Politico.
This ‘mainstream news (?) outlet’ has given us the scoop. You know all those FBI investigations over all the years? Al Capone, the Mafia, the threats to national security, communist infiltration into labor unions, etc, etc. You probably had a pretty high level of respect for the FBI and the people who serve in that agency.
Well, now we know what the real deal was. A bunch of white guys, many of them having served in the military, now middle aged. Revealing, at last, these demographics, those sharp, insightful, investigative reporters at Politico suggest that the American people had better take a look at what the FBI has been up to. If you are a Democrat, a ‘person of color’, female, a liberal college age youth, you better look out!
Why, we don’t even know how many agents are gay, if any, how many transgenders, bi-sexuals, non-cisgenders, or what-all there are carrying out so-called “investigations”.
(The gist of the Politico’s analysis can be summarized from the excerpts we’ve selected and present below this commentary.)
Just look, the article seems to urge, at what this government agency is doing to our electoral system and to poor Hillary Clinton! Former Secretary of State Clinton, on the cusp of becoming our first woman president is being pursued by this so-called ‘law enforcement’ agency, and the whole world is watching…and it’s really concerned by what it sees.
If Hillary had an Italian last name, or was male, given the facts that are known, she would be arrested already. Hillary benefits from discrimination.
This bunch of white guys, whom many suspect may be, ugh, Donald Trump supporters, who’ve spent their entire professional lives investigating crime and lawbreakers and have successfully won prosecutions and convictions of many of America’s worst… murderers, robbers, white collar criminals… have now quite possibly forever tarnished the FBI’s reputation.
One former assistant director of the FBI, Tom Fuentes, believes that people may begin to think that the bureau is “totally politicized”…or maybe corrupted or incompetent, or maybe all of the above.
And, digging deep, Politico’s crack investigative reporters have determined why. Apparently there are too many middle aged white guys who’ve been in the military. And everybody knows that’s the kind of people who vote for Donald Trump.
How’s a black person, or a female, or a transgender, or an “educated” person, or a wise Latina supposed to get a break from these guys?
Why, this outfit, the FBI, doesn’t even look like today’s America, according to Politico.
Look what they’re doing to the best qualified, most experienced, all-around greatest candidate for president this formerly white male-dominated, misogynistic, nativist country has ever seen!
The conclusion one must take from the Politico story is that America will get the president it deserves (Hillary) only if the non-partisan, wildly competent, incorruptible, totally transparent, honest to a fault Department of Justice, led by the second greatest Attorney General ever, Loretta Lynch (Eric Holder obviously the greatest) brings this rogue agency, the FBI, under control.
Note: We must call attention to one quote by the “former FBI assistant director, Fuentes. We believe it is priceless in that it stands out as a glaring example of extreme partisan journalistic ‘spin’:
“Fuentes blames part of Comey’s predicament on the UNUSUAL PARTIAL RECUSAL Attorney General Loretta Lynch made after holding a meeting with President Bill Clinton on an airplane tarmac in Phoenix in June.”
“UNUSUAL PARTIAL RECUSAL”!!!
Just our opinion, but, the “unusual partial recusal” was never the issue and Fuentes and Politico know it! What was “unusual” and must constitute the root of Mr. Comey’s “predicament” is the UNUSUAL MEETING of the Attorney General with the husband of the subject of an FBI investigation on the eve of the announcement that despite a mountain of evidence of mishandling of confidential government documents, there would be no charges!
That, Mr. Fuentes and Politico/Clinton shills, IS the issue!)
If you don’t wish to read the entire Politico story by Josh Gerstein, here are are some excerpts that we believe, will give you the full flavor of this epic journalistic triumph:
“I think it’s a possibility people are going to think the FBI is totally politicized,” Fuentes said. “When you have people saying the FBI has either been corrupted or is incompetent or both, that is serious stuff.”
“The typical Federal Bureau of Investigation special agent is white, male, and middle-aged, often with a military background — in short, drawn from the segment of the U.S. population most likely to support GOP nominee Donald Trump.”
“Incendiary, politically charged remarks from former FBI officials — with one prominent ex-FBI leader publicly calling the Clintons a “crime family” — are also endangering the law enforcement agency’s reputation for sober, nonpartisan investigation.
“Largely overlooked in the imbroglio is how the fact that the FBI doesn’t look much like America is complicating Comey’s effort to extricate himself and his agency from the political firestorm.”
“But with numerous leaks from inside the bureau in the final weeks of the presidential race and some prominent former officials denouncing Hillary Clinton and former President Bill Clinton in scathing terms, the FBI chief’s assurances that the bureau is completely untainted by politics are in doubt.”
“The case itself was not a cliff-hanger; despite all the chest-beating by people no longer in government, there really wasn’t a prosecutable case,” Comey wrote in a two-page memo to FBI personnel in September explaining the agency’s conclusions in the case. He seemed to acknowledge that he was getting grief about the decision from former FBI agents he had met around the country.
“I think they looked at it and said what he laid out in his July 5 press conference was ample information that they had specific violations of federal law,” said former FBI assistant director Tom Fuentes. “When I talked to other people watching that, I thought, he’s actually going to recommend the charge. When he didn’t … there were some in the ranks who were concerned about why.”
“Fuentes blames part of Comey’s predicament on the unusual partial recusal Attorney General Loretta Lynch made after holding a meeting with President Bill Clinton on an airplane tarmac in Phoenix in June. She later said she’d defer to career prosecutors and the FBI on the case. That put an unusual degree of weight on the FBI chief in a highly politically-charged case, the former official said.
“Fuentes also said he’s worried that the current flurry of charges and countercharges could damage the FBI’s credibility not just domestically, but around the world, where the agency is seen as the gold standard for detached, professional law enforcement.”
DLH
So the Politico guy’s name is Josh Gerstein. Throw away the g and the i (no doubt he never served in the armed forces) and rearrange the guys last name and you get Josh Ernest.
That is too close to Obama spokeshole Josh Earnest. Just say’n
“With 67 percent white male agents, the bureau doesn’t reflect the nation. Did its conservative culture play a role in Comey’s decision to reveal the renewed Clinton email probe?”
So it is very possible that the “persecution” of Hillary Clinton is due to the fact that 67% of FBI agents are “white male”!?
Well let’s just speculate on how a ‘report’ would be welcomed by the MSM, including Politico, if it noted that x% of the DOJ’s leadership (including the Attorney General), “many believe” is comprised of resentful, dishonest blacks, much like the president who selected them and who found that department “fertile ground” on which to carry out a spiteful agenda to “fundamentally transform” America?
“Racist! Slanderous! Xenophobic! Un-American! Deplorable” And, of course, “Not who we are!
Well, let’s stipulate that all those responses would be accurate and justified. However, to many Americans, white and “people of color” alike, the same reaction is appropriate to the suggestion that ‘it’s all those white guys with military backgrounds and a conservative culture that are going after Hillary only because they support Donald Trump’. Shame on Politico; it’s a new low, even for them.