asking about was deeply dist disturbing. we had an individual wearing a tactic call vest and gun and nail gun who tried to attack the cincinnati field office. a subsequent review of the subject s devices and online postings identified a pretty striking anti-f.b.i., anti-federal law enforcement hostility. he was calling on others to kill federal law enforcement claiming he felt he was fighting in his words a civil war. it is unfortunately part of a broader phenomenon that we have seen not just against the f.b.i. this is important to add, but against law enforcement all across the country. not just against law enforcement professionals themselves, which is appalling enough, but calling
name. they assume you ve committed crimes and the fbi is our premiere law enforcement agency, and i support law enforcement. to attack the fbi is to attack law enforcement in general. a few days after mar-a-lago there was some individual that went after the cincinnati headquarters of the fbi. can you tell us a little bit about that and how you think that came about? so the incident that you re asking about was obviously deeply disturbing. we had an individual wearing a tactical vest armed with an ar-style rifle and a nail gun who attempted to forcibly enter and attack our cincinnati field office. a subsequent review of the subject s devices and online postings identified a pretty striking anti-fbi, anti-federal law enforcement hostility. he was calling on others to kill
but somehow this is extended out to republicans supporting in congress. with donald trump and so much the mainstream of the elite in the republican party, there is a sort of misnomer that they tried to pretend they are anti deep state, anti fbi, anti doj whatever they constantly say. that is absolutely not true. donald trump and his cronies are a pro deep state. it s just so they want a deep state to be entirely populated with trump loyalists. and with mockup people. they want the fbi and doj to be brimming with people who are basically exactly like it. this isn t some civil libertarian or so-called principle critique they re making. the only principle here is we need to be loyal to donald trump. and the republican party. and only go after and harass our enemies. not there. on top of that, if you ask your
i want to ask you, garrett, whether there s any discomfort with turning the entire republican party into anti-national security agencies, anti-fbi, anti-doj, anti-intelligence. yeah. republicans will have to walk a fine line on this because they defined themselves so much in the sort of most recently premodern version of the republican party as being the party of police, the party of first responders, the party of law and order and of the military and so forth. and so to go after the doj, to go after the fbi, they re going to have to, if they want to try to make this credible to the country, to walk a very fine line in how they do it and give a compelling case to the american people about corruption and political malfeasance and so forth that thus far they haven t been able to do. i think that may have been also perhaps part of the resistance to the degree there was any
documents. end tweet. could you call over to the justice department and find out for yourself? here s what we learned. the justi department is largely in service of the house republican d.o.j. bashers led by devin nunes. nunes has spearheaded anti-fbi and d.o.j. headlines. hands house gop thousands of documents on russia probe. offers lawmakers another briefing. thousands of fbi docs turpd one over to house. extraordinary access to fisa applications. donald trump s unending and inconsolable angst about the investigation, former cia director john brennan tweeted this. quote, your fear of exposure is palpable. your desperation even more so. when will those of conscience among your cabinet inner circle, republican leadership realize that you re unprincipled and unelgt cal behavior as well as your incompetence are seriously