Authoritarians just gotta hate.
Something tells me that Nunes is well aware of the FBI’s political orientation. This is not about the FBI. This is a desperation move. You can almost smell the flop-sweat.
Smells like teen McCarthy.
Sorry, Nunes, The FBI Just Isn’t A Hotbed Of Democratic Partisans
Just ask Hillary Clinton.
I would add that the White supremacist / gun nut contingency has loathed the FBI for decades…so that particular arm of the trump party is more than happy to wear any tin foil hat tossed their way by Nunes.
It’s pretty scary that a “news” organization like Fox is able to convince a large swath of Republicans that a demonstrably right-leaning organization like the FBI is filled to the brim with conspiring lefties.
That’s very true. Ruby Ridge and Waco gave them some ammunition, so to speak. But the “moderate” Republicans trashing the FBI seems bizarre. I always thought that country club Rs liked the FBI as much as they did golf.
Well, they’ve firmly convinced them the conservative owned media is liberal, and that’s always blown me away too.
The FBI is about as liberal as any other law enforcement agency. They are committed not so much to the rule of law, which is the province of the courts, but to “law and order” which they generally interpret as “it is the law that you have to follow my orders”. It all stems from Max Weber’s notion that the state has a monopoly on the legitimate use of force along with Lord Acton’s observation that absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Ya
One of my Faves Eugene Robinson Schools the Republicans with a little history
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/messing-with-the-fbi-trump-doesnt-know-history/2018/02/01/53f94f62-0788-11e8-94e8-e8b8600ade23_story.html?utm_term=.98879b712963&wpisrc=nl_opinions&wpmm=1
I think you’re giving Nunes too much credit. Nunes was a nobody before Trump and now he thinks he’s Trump’s right hand of Trump.
I still can’t figure out how he got the chairmanship of the House Intelligence Committee, a committee that deals with oversight of out most sensitive operations.
Fox was able to generate a similar 30% drop in belief of climate change among republicans after Obama was elected.
Two Words
Grassley and Inhofe
Any idiot can get elected and be given a position of power.
Nunes fails to grasp he is a "useful idiot " in the finest Russia tradition
“The FBI is Trumpland” and Clinton is “the antichrist to a large swath of FBI personnel,” a current FBI agent told The Guardian.
Definitely pro Clinton as you can see by the above quote.
shesh… the R’s are just so ignorant… We spent from mid July - mid August 2016 hearing complains from the NY office of the FBI that Clinton was evil, and they just “had to help rid us of this evil”. They succeed in getting Comey (anoter R) to put his finger on the scale. They win the election, and now try to claim that the FBI was pro-Clinton.
I don’t know how they can keep their heads from exploding… it just boggles the mind.
This is all part of Bannon’s dream to destroy the “Administrative State”. Destroying faith in all of the institutions of the state is the path to authoritarianism. And Trump is just the means to the end for the billionaires who pull his puppet strings. (And, no, it is not Vladimir Putin. The real and far more dangerous enemies of American Democracy are homegrown…)
The simple fact is most people in this country have made up their minds about Donald Trump, particularly about whether he’s honest or not. This charade isn’t going to change many of those minds. He picked up a bit of support from that damn tax cut. But it’s going to be a long fuckin’ year for the GOP and I don’t see much changing that.
Clinton colluded with both the FBI and Russia to throw the election to Trump. Sure, everyone’ll believe that.
Matryoshka-Russian nesting dolls. Which number is Nunes?
If there is justice in the world, Nunes will serve time for obstruction of justice. My fear is that they have effectively insulated him from prosecution by this stunt. Any investigation or prosecution will result in cries of “retribution.” He could have, as Charlie Daniels sang “a commie flag tacked up on the wall inside of his garage” and the true believers wouldn’t care. He may have effectively gotten away with it.
Nunes should be indicted for wire fraud, having doctored and passed on a congressional committee report.