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I fear the FBI has been destroyed by this. All a plan by the GOP to (Original Post) sinkingfeeling Oct 2018 OP
I think the FBI is fine Lithos Oct 2018 #1
Everyone knows? I dusagree. Very few know. pangaia Oct 2018 #4
I never base anything on DU anymore Lithos Oct 2018 #5
Nah, most of us know darn well they were hamstrung from the start donkeypoofed Oct 2018 #2
The FBI is ok. roamer65 Oct 2018 #3
I wonder when the leaks about Trump sandbagging the FBI investigation will start. gulliver Oct 2018 #6
As a child/minority of 2 races, I remember reading about Jay Edgar Hoover's FBI .... LenaBaby61 Oct 2018 #7
I have never trusted the FBI. Scruffy1 Oct 2018 #8
I don't trust them either Raine Oct 2018 #9

Lithos

(26,403 posts)
1. I think the FBI is fine
Sun Oct 7, 2018, 12:01 AM
Oct 2018

Everyone knows they were curtailed and limited at the direction of the DOJ and Whitehouse.

Also, from what I gathered, even the limited check revealed corroboration - which is why McConnell put such a tight set of controls on the release to the Senate. It is rather obvious the stink comes from McConnell.

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donkeypoofed

(2,187 posts)
2. Nah, most of us know darn well they were hamstrung from the start
Sun Oct 7, 2018, 12:09 AM
Oct 2018

And we all know by who! I haven't heard anyone bashing the FBI on this - just the cheaters who made sure it wasn't a fulsome investigation! Seriously, the FBI has been kicked in the nuts enough already.

LenaBaby61

(6,974 posts)
7. As a child/minority of 2 races, I remember reading about Jay Edgar Hoover's FBI ....
Sun Oct 7, 2018, 01:38 AM
Oct 2018

And I'd be sitting here typing all night pointing out the complex to egregious relationship between POC and the FBI. It's lack of diversity, and the fact that it's NOT improving. So, while my feelings towards the FBI is totally mixed, I do feel that they were hamstrung from the very start and kept from conducting a real investigation into Dr. Ford/Kavanaugh thanks to toilet-paper-in-chief. And even though many in the FBI lean right (Especially the SDNY, Anti-Hillary Ghouliani faction), I'm sure many of them cannot stand the way toilet-paper-in-chief runs them down and talks about them like dogs, in deep state ways saying that they were in with Hillary trying to get her elected. Let me get this straight, Hillary worked with the ruskies and the FBI to get herself elected, but instead she helped to get toilet-paper-in-chief elected 🙄

Hopefully if Dems win back the House this Fall, they can schedule full investigations and first up call FBI head Wray and get to the bottom of what kind of investigation they really launched into Dr. Ford & Kavanaugh, and go from there.

Scruffy1

(3,256 posts)
8. I have never trusted the FBI.
Sun Oct 7, 2018, 01:52 AM
Oct 2018

I still remember Hoover and his overt racism There has been a long history of the FBI oppressing labor and being willing to serve the right wing faction of America. Wray and Rosenstein are Kavanughs Ivy league buddies. Of course they probably have a mostly honest agents in the field their higher ups are mere political hacks. I cannot believe an honest FBI can't find anything illegal about T-rumps many activities. At least they got Al Capone for tax evasion, but it took the New York Times to find it on Trump.

Raine

(30,540 posts)
9. I don't trust them either
Sun Oct 7, 2018, 02:57 AM
Oct 2018

I especially remember what they did to people in the late 1960's and early 1970's.

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