From the Boston Marathon bombing investigation through the San Bernardino terrorist attack; passing the Garland, Texas cartoon terror shooting; and continuing through Orlando’s Pulse Nightclub; and then through the Parkland shooting and into Las Vegas -via the Mandalay Bay- we always knew something was wrong with the apparatus, the institutional apparatus, of the FBI… but it wasn’t until 2017 with James Comey, Andrew McCabe and the transparently corrupt Clinton exoneration and candidate Trump set-up scheme that we fully grasped the scale and scope of the corruption.
It is disconcerting to accept that the institution of the FBI is corrupt, soup-to-nuts, including every aforementioned field office and participant therein. But reality doesn’t care about feelings; it just keeps staring us in the face until we accept it:
So the FBI agent took bribes from a source; protected the “illegal business” of the source; withheld information from state law enforcement; lied to the local police department; then lied (“lacked candor”) to the FBI Inspection Division, and lied to the OIG….. and then we get the taxpayer kicker: “criminal prosecution of the Special Agent was declined.”
None will pay not a single treasonous one of them will answer for their crimes.
The thing that keeps going through my mind is that General Flynn, as verified by his interviewers, never lied yet he has been ruined and forced to confess to something he never did. Yet time and time again, the FBI, DOJ and IC show that lying and perjury is NOT a crime and is not anything to punish anyone over unless it is politically useful.
The FBI, DOJ and IC are not bad, corrupt organizations, but there are bad, corrupt, anti-American people within them; not all or even most, but some. Until these people are rooted out and replaced with people dedicated to their duty instead of a candidate, trust in these organizations (by people who value honor, patriotism and truth anyway) will continue to erode. Liberals don’t care about this erosion, they only care about how they can be weaponized for their ideology.
The Inspector General substantiated the allegations. It’s unlikely that the DOJ declined to prosecute to protect a guilty Special Agent. More likely there’s something that they can’t allow to be revealed in a trial—witness or informant identities, the identities of undercover agents, related ongoing investigations, etc.
Lack of prosecution doesn’t mean the person in question gets off. The FBI may terminate the agent on the spot.
@Greg: Your answer is a cop out, making excuses for criminal behavior, even offering a bribe to a federal officer is a crime, why are not those people being prosecuted? Because it was the FBI cavorting with the press, its in the IG report.
@Greg: If that was the reason, it would have been stated in the review.
There simply aren’t enough details to know why the DOJ declined to prosecute after the IG substantiated the allegations. There are hardly any details at all. Speculation isn’t truth.
@Greg: @Greg: The OIG investigation substantiated the allegations, does your 3rd world education not include reading comprehension?
sub·stan·ti·ate
səbˈstan(t)SHēˌāt/
verb
past tense: substantiated; past participle: substantiated
provide evidence to support or prove the truth of.
“they had found nothing to substantiate the allegations”
synonyms: prove, show to be true, give substance to, support, uphold, bear out, justify, vindicate, validate, corroborate, verify, authenticate, confirm, endorse, give credence to
“can you substantiate your allegations?”
@kitt, #7:
I just acknowledged that, didn’t I? Had they not been substantiated, there would be very little to wonder about. The question is why there was no prosecution when there seems to have been a basis for such. That’s what we don’t know—and without knowing, we cannot say whether or not there was a good reason. There’s really nothing here to argue about, other than why someone is trying to pretend there is.
@Greg: He got the Comey treatment, name all the crimes the close the investigation with no punishment.
This hardly gives us trust and confidence in the FBI.
@Greg:
Hmmm…. but Trump is guilty of collusion though, right?