Yes, We Will Question the Integrity of Our Federal Law Enforcement Officials
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Since we learned of the unprecedented raid on Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago compound last week, millions of Americans have questioned the political neutrality of the Department of Justice. Federal law enforcement is facing a legitimacy crisis—at least in the eyes of half the country—thanks to the fake and overhyped scandals it drummed up during the Trump years.
So MSNBC's Morning Joe invited the former FBI official Peter Strzok to assure viewers the bureau was on the level. "Absolutely the American public should trust what the FBI is doing," hesaid Monday.
You may remember Strzok from such FBI scandals asRussiagate, the investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of a privateemail server, or hisaffair with FBI lawyer Lisa Page. As the man in charge of investigations into the two candidates in the 2016 presidential election, he was constantly texting Page about his hatred for Trump. Asking this man to vouch for the integrity of the FBI is like putting Bernie Madoff in charge of the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Strzok's commentary is a microcosm of the mainstream media's approach to coverage of the Mar-a-Lago raid, about which we still know precious little— except, we are told, that the integrity of our law enforcement officials shall not be questioned!
"The FBI is not the enemy," was the headline of the Washington Post's lead editorial. The New York Times over the weekend labored to link a nutjob who shot up an FBI office in Ohio with, you know, the "bellicose, dehumanizing, and apocalyptic" language of people like us. It's extraordinary to hear that sort of tut-tutting from the same crowd that insisted for most of Trump's presidency that he was a fascist and a Kremlin agent.
Strzok would know something about that—in fact, he's free to run his mouth on television because the FBI canned him after the Justice Department's inspector general concluded his anti-Trump texts cast a cloud over the bureau's investigation into Trump. Strzok personally interfered with the agent overseeing the investigation into former national security adviser Michael Flynn to stop him from closing the file after the evidence against him didn't pan out.
And his team pushed to include opposition research paid for by the Clinton campaign in an application for a secret surveillance warrant on former Trump adviserCarter Page. That debacle led to the nullification of two of the four warrants and a scathing inspector general's report that "identified multiple instances" in which the factual assertions the bureau made in the application for the Page warrants "were inaccurate, incomplete, or unsupported by appropriate documentation, based upon information the FBI had in its possession at the time the application was filed."
Perhaps, when we know all the facts, we will find that the FBI raid on Trump's Florida home was justified. Until then, we reserve our right to question the integrity of the federal law enforcement officials who have demonstrated their willingness to behave like political hacks and abuse the power with which they are entrusted to punish their political opponents.
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Tell Mike Pence that they brought it on themselves.
Who penned this BS? Will nobody put their name on it?
The Washington Free Beacon editors.
Reading is fundamental.
I thought this was funny...
How many times does this need to be debunked for the left to shut the hell up?
The Free Beacon nor any Republican money had anything to do with the Steele Dossier. That was all Hillary Clinton's campaign; and the DNC.
Leftists love to play mumblety-pegs with the truth.
What the fuck does that have to do with what I posted? Hint, nothing....
The fact that the Free Beacon used Fusion GPS to gather information about Republican candidates means absolutely nothing. What aboutism at it's finest.
If it means nothing then why the jumping to conclusions and jump into attack mode?
I was pointing out irony. Seems some people can't see such things...
why?
What the fuck kind of question is that.
You don't why you thought it was funny?
What? Why does anyone think anything is funny....
There are several different reasons. Why do you think that article is funny? Is that question too difficult for you to answer?
I didn't say the article was funny so I guess you can stop supposing...I pointed out irony.
I am confused at the asking of weird questions....
Do you think the article is serious? Why do you think it is serious?....Get real.
Well ok, you can see you said "funny". What is the irony?
That POS Strzok should be stripped of his pension and put behind bars.
He got off easy ......
They always do.
It is the Democrat version golden parachute for those that break the law for them.
"...former FBI official Peter Strzok to assure viewers the bureau was on the level. "Absolutely the American public should trust what the FBI is doing," hesaid Monday."
I thought this was going satire...
It is hilarious to watch these people talk about "integrity" when all of them support a person who doesnt have a shred of integrity in his body.
The political right in this country is in thrall to rampant misinformation. Conservative media, on the whole, is simply not accurate or reliable to tell you the truth. If we started in on everything conservative media is factually wrong about there would be no end to it.