But Wray, that is the proof of the coverup. The fact that nobody can find any evidence of or prove any of the accusations of the deep state’s existence actually proves its existence and the fact that it’s hiding. I mean, why do you think it calls itself the “deep state”?
Whatever that is, I’m not thinking about it.
Attacks against the FBI have come from the president who appointed him. President Donald Trump has called the FBI a biased institution and insisted the agency planted a spy to help Hillary Clinton, his Democratic opponent in the 2016 election.
So, by this standard, the FBI REALLY sucks since they couldn’t get Hillary elected. HEY STUPID: If the FBI had been “spying” on your campaign and REALLY wanted to derail the campaign, all this stuff about Russian contacts would have come out DURING THE CAMPAIGN…not afterwards, you ignorant dolt.
Sure…there was no politicization in the FBI’s NY office when the status of the Hillary email investigation was leaked to Giuliani…
If I were Wray I would have a hell of a time not just laughing my ass off at a question like that.
His will be part of a veritable avalanche of books about “How I Saved the Republic during America’s Third Reich Moment”. Bookstores will have to open up a brand new wing for all this.
It doesn’t matter what you see Mr. Wray …
It only matters what the Orange Unaborted sees …
for example —
“I really don’t see a politicized organization…"
I honestly don’t see what else he could have said to that question. I mean, he gave all right answers.
Hopefully (and as an initial Wray skeptic I’m now cautiously optimistic) he fully intends to do the right thing.
Director Chris Wray said Wednesday he doesn’t see politics creeping into the bureau’s ranks, and the way to keep it that way is to focus on “doing the right thing in the right way.”
(emphasis mine)
I am pretty sure Wray is attempting to quote James Comey.
For those of you who haven’t read The Chickenshit Club, in '01/'02 GWB appointed Comey US attorney for SDNY. After spending months on a “listening tour” of the agency, Comey decided to give a speech to the criminal division.
He inserted himself into a monthly meeting where the cream of the prosecutorial crop had their recent trial outcomes announced. The exact quote:
Before we read off the box score, I have something to say. We have a saying around here: we do the right things for the right reasons in the right ways. (pp xiv)
Say what you want about Comey (and I myself have said plenty), this exact quote has stuck with me, because I think it states very plainly one of the most important differences between government and everything else. We expect everyone to do the right things. But, additionally, we require that government do those things for the right reasons and in the right ways.
I think Wray has heard this quote. Eisinger (Chickenshit author) makes it seem like this speech was especially impactful.
Strawberry Fields forever
The sad part is, Obama should/could have fired Comey for proper cause… first in July, and second in October.
And Comey did neither when it came down to it.
That we got a special prosecutor to go after Trump doesn’t make up for what he did to Clinton.
100% agreement here.
Comey violated procedure, which is bad in itself, and his actions led pretty directly to an outcome he says he didn’t want. He sacrificed both the ends and the means.
I am really disappointed his book apparently sold so well. I was hoping people wouldn’t buy it, so he wouldn’t be able to profit from the notoriety that flowed from his failure, and so that he wouldn’t really have an audience for his attempt to save his legacy.