“On Friday, a former FBI agent wrote an eye-catching opinion piece in the New York Times, claiming that he had retired from the Bureau because it had received unfair “political attacks” from Republicans in Congress.

Other than its entirely disingenuous premise (alleging Republicans are attacking the FBI as a whole, rather than investigating alleged misdeads [sic, but I kinda like it] under leaders James Comey and Andrew McCabe), the piece leaves out important information.

Nowhere in the opinion article does Campbell reveal the fact that he was James Come’’s special assistant.
Campbell presents himself as someone who is unattached to the current political situation, leaving out the fact that he has a huge vested interest in defending Comey. [apparently, he’s already “redacted” his media profiles to eliminate that information]

But it gets worse. Following the op-ed, John Cardillo, a host for The Rebel and former law enforcement officer, claimed that Campbell also left out the fact that he had already accepted an offer to become a CNN analyst.”

“From: Mulvaney, Mick (CFPB)
Date: January 23, 2018 at 12:59:57 PM CST
To: _DL_CFPB_AllHands
Subject: To Everybody from the Acting Director
…
We are government employees. We don’t just work for the government, we work for the people. And
that means everyone: those who use credit cards, and those who provide those cards; those who take
loans, and those who make them; those who buy cars, and those who sell them. All of those people
are part of what makes this country great. And all of them deserve to be treated fairly by their
government. There is a reason that Lady Justice wears a blindfold and carries a balance, along with her
sword.
It is not appropriate for any government entity to “push the envelope” when it comes into conflict with
our citizens. The damage that we can do to people could linger for years and cost them their jobs, their
savings, and their homes. If the CFPB loses a court case because we “pushed too hard,” we simply move
on to the next matter. But where do those that we have charged go to get their time, their money, or
their good names back? If a company closes its doors under the weight of a multi-year Civil Investigative
Demand, you and I will still have jobs at CFPB. But what about the workers who are laid off as a
result? Where do they go the next morning?

Let me be clear: there will absolutely be times when circumstances dictate that we take dramatic action
to protect consumers. And at those appropriate times, I expect us to be vigorous in our enforcement of
the law. But bringing the full weight of the federal government down on the necks of the people we
serve should be something that we do only reluctantly, and only when all other attempts at resolution
have failed. It should be the most final of last resorts.”

MAGA

Who knows, maybe that’s been their goal all along. Or maybe they were just operating 99% under that mindset and now, peeved by someone challenging their 99% lack of accountability, are threatening to unconstitutionally arrogate to themselves the status of being fourth, fifth, and sixth co-equal branches of government, that are really better than the other three branches, because they’re entirely untainted by that “democratic election” and “consent of the governed” and “public accountability” baggage.”

Gee, Ace, tell us how you really feel!
A salutary example would be Reagan and the Air Traffic controllers.
If they don’t play by the rules, fire them all.
The States can take care of their own legal matters and investigations, and be deputized for any Federal offenses (without the FBI and DOJ padding the rolls with cases, maybe there would be fewer to investigate).
Besides, EPA & DOE (among others) have their own SWAT teams.
Who needs the FBI anymore?

(Only half-facetiously submitted, because the other half is very, very angry.)

That’s not how it works. That’s bad and good for patriots and Republicans.

Good, in the sense that the Left can’t get to him easily with the usual tricks. Bad in the sense that while many of us, me included, would have told him to purge DC of all Demoncrats, no matter how useful, Trum decided to do otherwise. Perhaps Bannon played a role in that as well.

Now you get what you get. The MSM doesn’t hold Trum accountable. The public does not. And neither does the FBI heads Trum thought he could bribe or pull over to his side as loyal bureaucrats.

Only the Deep State holds America’s power accountable. Only the Deep State can fight the factions in the Deep State. The DS chose Trum to do so and the leaks proceed as planned. Selected, not elected.

Contempt of Congress followed by Trump firing them. Repeat and rinse as needed until the rot is expunged.

February 2nd, 2018 at 4:12 pm

I keep thinking about Judge Rudolph Contreras (who sits on the DC Circuit Court as well as the FISA Court), who recused himself in the Flynn case back on 12/7/2017 (only after General Flynn made his plea deal). I’m wondering whether he was the same FISA Court Judge who approved the FISA warrant (and the several renewals of that warrant) on Carter Page. Does anyone know?

I ran a Google search, “Who is the FISA Court judge who issued the FISA warrants on Carter Page?” and got no helpful results (try it for yourself). The reason I ask is this: I’ve seen a lot of judges over the past 35+ years and have never yet known of (or even heard of) one who tolerates being lied to or misled. If the FISA Court was in fact lied to (either actively or by omission), why hasn’t someone been held in contempt? What’s actually going on at the FISA Court? What facts or circumstances led to Judge Contreras’ decision to recuse himself in the Flynn case? I guess we’ll never know, but damn, this whole thing is giving off a bad Star Chamber-y odor, no?

Today government bureaucracies don’t have leaders who regularly remind them of who they work for. Every government office in D.C. should have a sign proclaiming: “We work for the citizens of the USA and are held accountable by their representatives.” Then the leadership should follow that motto.