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Former FBI Agent Jonathan Gilliam: Bureau’s Top Brass Climb Ladder by Ideology, Not Merit
Breitbart ^ | 8 Feb 2018 | Robert Kraychik

Posted on 02/08/2018 1:11:27 PM PST by detective

“Go in and think like a liberal” was the advice two FBI agents gave Jonathan Gilliam prior to his taking an FBI entrance exam. Gilliam shared his anecdote during a Wednesday interview on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight with co-hosts Rebecca Mansour and Joel Pollak.

Gilliam, a retired Navy SEAL and former FBI special agent, spoke of left-wing political corruption across the federal government, specifically identifying the CIA and FBI.

Gilliam recalled that two FBI agents advised him to “think like a liberal” during his FBI entrance exam. “I was told by two FBI agents that did not know each other – I was told, ‘Do not go in and take that test as though you are thinking like a SEAL.’ In other words, ‘If this happened, this is the way it should be done because this is the way a team works, and this is the way an investigation should be carried out.’ They said, ‘Don’t do that, you’ll fail. Go in and think like a liberal.’ And that’s what I did, and I passed.”

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government
KEYWORDS: fbi; fbiagent; gillium
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The Obama administration (including Comey) corrupted the FBI.
1 posted on 02/08/2018 1:11:27 PM PST by detective
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Former FBI Agent Jonathan Gilliam: Bureau’s Top Brass Climb Ladder by Ideology, Not Merit

And they climb the ladder because they are willing to break the law for their crooked anti American president.

2 posted on 02/08/2018 1:14:42 PM PST by FreeReign
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The Obama administration (including Comey) corrupted the FBI.

The Clintons co-presidency corrupted every federal agency... and obviously W Bush did nothing to clean up the corruption.

3 posted on 02/08/2018 1:20:22 PM PST by Just mythoughts
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To: FreeReign

Hey! Quit trash-talking The Brown Clown! ;-)


4 posted on 02/08/2018 1:21:13 PM PST by kiryandil (Never pick a fight with an angry beehive)
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To: detective

The corruption is systemic, and goes way back, all the way to Hoover’s last breath....................


5 posted on 02/08/2018 1:21:42 PM PST by Red Badger (Wanna surprise? Google your own name. Wanna have fun? Google your friends names......)
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To: detective

Any one that thought any different is big time naive.
SOP from its birth I am sure. Its the government.


6 posted on 02/08/2018 1:21:58 PM PST by CGASMIA68
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To: detective

This is perfectly understandabe, they want someone that will go along with everything, the last thing they need is anyone that actually believes in right and wrong.


7 posted on 02/08/2018 1:22:58 PM PST by eyeamok (Tolerance: The virtue of having a belief in Nothing!)
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To: Red Badger

I think it goes back to Hoover’s first breath. He was corruption itself. Expecting more out of giant, powerful federal bureaucracies is naive.


8 posted on 02/08/2018 1:24:06 PM PST by all the best
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To: detective

Thank God the EPA is a place where a conservative can go in and get a government job.

/S


9 posted on 02/08/2018 1:26:51 PM PST by alternatives? (Why have an army if there are no borders?)
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Former FBI Agent Jonathan Gilliam: Bureau’s Top Brass Climb Ladder by Ideology, Not Merit

I am SHOCKED I tellya... (not). Over the past 20-30 years this has become the norm in all federal agencies!

10 posted on 02/08/2018 1:27:13 PM PST by ExSES (the "bottom-line")
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True in Acadamia, Military, all of government, Media.

You have to admire their effectiveness if not their intentions.

11 posted on 02/08/2018 1:30:13 PM PST by tinyowl (A is A)
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Go in and think like a liberal.’ And that’s what I did, and I passed.”

If Kareem has two coconuts, and Johnny has four coconuts, how long will it take to confiscate Johnny's coconuts and redistribute them because he's an effing racist?


12 posted on 02/08/2018 1:33:06 PM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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“Go in and think like a liberal” -

In other words:

"Let the Progressive ideology be your creed and guide--not the Constitution of the United States of America, to which you have sworn an oath of allegiance, or the philosophical foundation of that Constitution, as enshrined in the Declaration of Independence, with its four manifestations of a Supreme Being and ultimate 'Judge of the World'"!

13 posted on 02/08/2018 1:34:07 PM PST by loveliberty2
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To: detective

Ideological Terroism.


14 posted on 02/08/2018 1:34:15 PM PST by Big Red Badger (UNSCANABLE in an IDIOCRACY!)
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re: “Bureau’s Top Brass Climb Ladder by Ideology, Not Merit”

45 years in practice in DC. Would disagree. Most R&F, especially in the New York City Field Office are great.

But the bosses in DC? Bureau’s Top Brass Climb Ladder by ASS KISSING, Not Merit


15 posted on 02/08/2018 1:36:35 PM PST by Strac6 ("Mrs. Strac, Pilatus, and Sig Sauer: All the fun things in my life are Swiss!")
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Is That a Quote from the ARTICLE?


16 posted on 02/08/2018 1:36:50 PM PST by Big Red Badger (UNSCANABLE in an IDIOCRACY!)
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Of course. This is an issue with the bureaucracy from the Feds all the way down to the state level. It’s in their best interest to be socialist and globalist, isn’t it?


17 posted on 02/08/2018 1:53:00 PM PST by snarkytart
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To: Just mythoughts
The Clintons co-presidency corrupted every federal agency... and obviously W Bush did nothing to clean up the corruption.

When Hillary ended up with scads of FBI files on her political enemies and did not go to prison, we should have realized the agency was corrupt.

18 posted on 02/08/2018 1:59:13 PM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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The corruption is systemic, and goes way back, all the way to Hoover’s last breath....................

I agree that it is systemic, but I think the endemic corruption of federal agencies goes back to Lincoln. He was mostly responsible for creating the "crony capitalism" of Washington DC, though in his day they called it "Mercantilism."

19 posted on 02/08/2018 2:01:06 PM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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Of course. This is an issue with the bureaucracy from the Feds all the way down to the state level. It’s in their best interest to be socialist and globalist, isn’t it?


20 posted on 02/08/2018 2:04:17 PM PST by snarkytart
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