Strzok bias and conduct

[RDANGELO]

As I watched the congressional hearing with stzrok today, I noticed the one word that kept being repeated - bias. Bias bias bias. Stzrok was biased against Trump. Everybody is biased. With the polarization in politics today, you had a man sitting there being accused of bias. The question that they should have been getting at is conduct; did Stzroks bias against Trump cause misconduct in the Russia investigation. There is no proof of that, and they were not going to get any information on the conduct of the investigation from Stzrok because it is an ongoing investigation. Therefore the whole hearing was pointless.

[Midnight Writer]

1. At least the Republicans in the hearing were fair. Certainly no bias evident there.

[0rganism]

2. i think there was a pretty clear point

imho, unmistakable. the visuals, the imagery of outraged GOP congresspeople facing off against an FBI official accused implicitly of professional misconduct and procedurally unable to properly answer the charges. turning an institution as durable as the FBI into an "enemy of the people" is a complex objective, and holding this hearing was one of many smaller steps necessary to achieve it.

Reagan was right about the B-reel. nothing hurts them quite like having that stock footage dominated by the obvious assholes who used to work for Agent Orange getting marched into court to drop their pathetic meeping guilty pleas. likewise, nothing helps them more than images suitable for seeding a preconception that the investigators and prosecutors are on some sort of mysterious deep state take to behave unethically.

so they don't need an orderly hearing in which important things are discovered and useful conclusions are reached in a collaborative bipartisan manner. in fact, that's the worst possible means of advancing their cause. the more vulgar and circus-like they can make it, the worse the flavor left in memory by the stock footage from this news cycle, and the more tainted the FBI by proxy.

[Squinch]

3. The thought police have arrived.

[pnwmom]

4. If bias should have excluded him, then NONE of those GOP Senators

had any business investigating Hillary Clinton.

Because bias.

[bucolic_frolic]

5. Logic doesn't work on these GOP people

you have to fight them with visuals, demeanor, dominance, and votes

Peter Strzok really hit home runs with outrage, facts, and relentless assertiveness

This hearing may have turned the tables on Gowdy and the Investigative Gang of Four

[Dennis Donovan]

6. Someone on MJ this am noted that VP Pence was biased against Trump early in 2016...

...due to comments he made regarding Trump's candidacy. Should he resign?