Comments on: Christopher Wray will be going away and making way for Kash Patel

By: Snow on Pine

Snow on Pine — Fri, 13 Dec 2024 12:55:53 +0000

R2L–

In far more innocent days, when I was in grade school, almost 7 decades ago now, our main entertainment, which I used to listen to when I walked back home from school each day, was the Radio, and I remember I used to listen to “The FBI in Peace and War,” which made the FBI and it’s agents out to be the straightest of “straight arrows”–extremely admirable, noble, tough, patriotic, and very skilled at what they did.

How far the FBI and it’s agents have fallen.

Propaganda is a very powerful tool.

By: R2L

R2L — Fri, 13 Dec 2024 04:17:37 +0000

Snow on Pine:
and yet this evening we watched the latest episode of FBI’s Most Wanted, and ace FBI agent Remy Scott shoots the bad guy, who is about 50 or 60 feet away, from a standing position, once, and hits him square in the middle of the forehead. Go figure!!

By: Philip Sells

Philip Sells — Fri, 13 Dec 2024 01:40:04 +0000

Susan, what an odd historical circumstance! Interesting to hear about.

By: Snow on Pine

Snow on Pine — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 18:22:59 +0000

The Secret Service also needs atop to bottom reform.

Here is an article pointing out that the Secret Service Agent who belatedly spotted would be assassin Routh hiding in the bushes at Trump’s golf course fired six shots at Routh from five feet away, point blank range–yet, not one of this Agent’s shots hit the assassin.*

Isn’t part of any basic law enforcement handgun training to fire at a target which is at what has been found to be the most common distance, what we might call a “combat distance” away from you i.e. five feet?

* See https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/12/new-revelations-expose-shocking-incompetence-secret-service-agent/

By: miguel cervantes

miguel cervantes — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 18:07:30 +0000

actually he was recommended by chris christie, who used him to get out of the bridgegate disaster, but any thorough investigation would have revealed him to be volunteer mutineer against W during the whole Alberto Gonzalez affair involving the NSA, Comey was a major player*

*in a subsequent memoir Gonzalez still hasn’t figured out what happened,

By: Cicero

Cicero — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 18:00:40 +0000

Barry-
The extended stay for non-citizen workers is retroactive to May 2022!
Democrats in federal bureaucracy at “work”.

By: Cicero

Cicero — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 17:52:49 +0000

I strongly second Art Deco’s post, as is usual for me. Almost a reflex by now!

By: Mike Plaiss

Mike Plaiss — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 13:21:20 +0000

A nice follow-up to my earlier post.

https://thefederalist.com/2024/12/12/john-boltons-cheap-shots-at-kash-patel-are-a-sign-of-panic-in-washington/

By: Art Deco

Art Deco — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 12:27:17 +0000

Please note that Comey was a government lifer shown favor by both W. and BO. Wray is a Bush Administration veteran recommended by Rod Rosenstein (an echt government lifer).
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It would be agreeable if the management level and the Washington HQ were purged, along with the counter-intelligence division. Ideally, the FBI would be broken up into twenty pieces and federal law enforcement would be scattered over about seven departments.
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A huge problem is the bloat of federal penal code, the permissive rules of criminal procedure, and the lack of a mechanism to sanction bad behavior among judges and prosecutors.

By: Susan

Susan — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 07:02:24 +0000

I second Neo’s “bravo” to Phillip Sells!

I just have to mention this, since we probably won’t be talking about Christopher Wray much longer.

I actually used to babysit for him and his sister Katie, in, get this: Paris!

He was about 12, I was 25, I think. His mother gave me a tiny apartment in exchange for occasional babysitting. HIs father directed an international law firm there for a couple of years.

I hadn’t thought about him in years when I read of his appointment as Director of the FBI. I said to myself: Christopher Wray? Is that the Christopher Wray I once babysat for?

It was him! I came across a photo (hard to find at the beginning) and he looked EXACTLY as I remembered. Almost uncanny. HIs hair had that same sculpted, stiff-looking wave. The only difference was that it had turned gray, whereas he had been blond as a boy.

He was a real know-it-all kind of kid (or so I remember him). I believe his personality actually softened with age.