Posted on 04/15/2016 2:51:31 PM PDT by jazusamo
Former FBI agents who worked the notorious 1970s sting operation known as ABSCAM have written FBI Director James Comey to warn that nothing less than the bureau's "reputation" is on the line as the investigation into Hillary Clinton's email practices enters a critical phase.
The agents, in a March 16 letter obtained by Fox News, offered their support for Comey and the agents working the email case. But the letter cautioned the outcome would have long-lasting implications.
"Decisions must be made on facts alone. Much is at stake here -- people's trust in the Bureau for years to come, as well as the Bureau's reputation among our allies, partners, and friends as the greatest law enforcement agency in the world, wrote John F. Good, president of the Long Island Chapter of the Society of Former Special Agents of the FBI.
Good told Fox News a half-dozen FBI agents who worked the 1978 ABSCAM investigation which targeted sitting members of Congress -- belong to the chapter. The ABSCAM investigation included more than 30 political figures, with six House members and one U.S. senator ultimately convicted of crimes. The investigation was depicted in the 2013 Golden Globe-winning movie "American Hustle," in which Bradley Cooper played an agent based on Good and others.
Good, 79, told Fox News by phone that the Clinton email case boils down to whether the U.S. is a nation of laws, where all citizens are equal under the law, or there is a different set of rules for the powerful. He said the ABSCAM agents thought it was important to show support for the bureaus work in the email probe since they know what it feels like to face intense public scrutiny.
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Famous But Incompetent. Wouldn’t hire a one of them. Nothing but political stooges.
Famous, But Incompetent.
P.R. par excellence.
His good friend Tip O’Neill saved his bacon.
They are promoted based on their corruptibility.
> the U.S. is a nation of laws, where all citizens are equal under the law<
The Clintons are ABOVE the law.
“They are promoted based on their corruptibility.”
I did a six week gig in Columbia many years ago. The DEA guys weren’t half bad at trying to get the job done right within the terribly political situation they had to work within. The FBI guys were all part of the corruption. The FBI idiots didn’t do squat unless they called into higher headquarters asking what would be the appropriate political decision to make.
The entire government in DC is corrupt. FBI and IRS etc all corrupt. Both parties corrupt.
If the DOJ prosecutes, that will tarnish the image of the FBI as an agency that is very selective in who it investigates.
Not to mention their notorious SOP of conducting non-recorded (except for hand-written notes by an agent) “field interviews” that are routinely turned into perjury traps against the unwary, where any two lines of response might be compared unfavorably and taken to a tame U.S. attorney who his part of the schtick, to secure a “lying to a federal agent” indictment as part of an extortion shakedown to coerce testimony etc etc etc.
What they do to ordinary Joes is extraordinary. They have the velvet gloves on to approach Hillary, who did 1,000 times more damage than any average Joe.
They use statement entrapments because they are too feeble minded to think and do real work. I’ve never met an FBI agent (including one I dated) that had any reasonable intellect. When their FBI lab in DC was shown to be corrupt and incompetent I lost my last ounce of respect for them.
Why does Hitlery get her arse kissed so much? I really do not get it. Just WHAT were in those FBI files she stole?
Wish we knew, whoever is named in them deserve to go down with her.
Please don’t tell my mom that I’m an FBI agent. She still thinks I play piano in a whorehouse.
Is he Johnny B.'s son?
Murtha.
I remember a Senator.
USA banana republic bump for later...
The FBI seems to have become just another political tool for the ruling class. By the way, I totally agree with your tagline.
Isn’t this the same FBI that investigated itself about its’ inability to connect the dots with the Boston Marathon bombers and found that it did nothing wrong?
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