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On FBI site-powerful words: Why American officials don't swear loyalty to a man-but to CONSTITUTION (Original Post)
kpete
May 2017
OP
So the "three times" part was true. You need one true thing in your lie to sell it.
bettyellen
May 2017
#4
Knr so glad to see the FBI post this. It makes me feel better knowing that
AgadorSparticus
May 2017
#8
Here's a link -- its a 2009 article that's been there since 2015 if not before.
progree
May 2017
#11
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)1. You know it's bad when FBI goes straight to Godwin! nt
beachbum bob
(10,437 posts)2. unprecedented...and should make people wake up
keithbvadu2
(36,816 posts)6. Don't you mean 'unpresidented'?
Don't you mean 'unpresidented'?
(sarcasm thingie goes here)
Panich52
(5,829 posts)3. The tenets that led to Comey getting fired
Trump lied to Holt abt conversation during his & Corey's dinner. Sources say Dumpf tried couple times to get Comey to pledge loyalty to Dumpf. Comey refused.
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)4. So the "three times" part was true. You need one true thing in your lie to sell it.
beam me up scottie
(57,349 posts)5. A timely reminder.
nolabear
(41,984 posts)7. Wow. This is a genuine Constitutional crisis.
AgadorSparticus
(7,963 posts)8. Knr so glad to see the FBI post this. It makes me feel better knowing that
They are neutral. That they will stand their ground. I feel a bit safer knowing this.
Stonepounder
(4,033 posts)9. Link?
I can't find it at www.fbi.gov
progree
(10,908 posts)12. https://leb.fbi.gov/2009-pdfs/leb-september-2009
The earliest instance on archive.org is 4/12/2015
https://web.archive.org/web/20150412112815/https://leb.fbi.gov/2009-pdfs/leb-september-2009
on page 25
Wounded Bear
(58,662 posts)10. I remeber rumors of that kind of BS under Bush the Younger...
Authoritarianism at its worst.
progree
(10,908 posts)11. Here's a link -- its a 2009 article that's been there since 2015 if not before.
https://leb.fbi.gov/2009-pdfs/leb-september-2009
On page 25.
The earliest instance on archive.org is 4/12/2015
https://web.archive.org/web/20150412112815/https://leb.fbi.gov/2009-pdfs/leb-september-2009
So it's not like some rogue FBI agents or higher ups splashed it on the home page or anywhere else on the site in the wake of Comey's firing.
On page 25.
The earliest instance on archive.org is 4/12/2015
https://web.archive.org/web/20150412112815/https://leb.fbi.gov/2009-pdfs/leb-september-2009
So it's not like some rogue FBI agents or higher ups splashed it on the home page or anywhere else on the site in the wake of Comey's firing.