agents, what they ought to do is do their job and not worry about that. but it s very tough when you see things like people s the director of the fbi chris wray being asked about agents by name in a recent by name at a recent congressional hearing. and asked whether they had any political bias. that s very intimidating for career agents. but what needs to happen in these situations is that the leaders of these documents, the director of the fbi, the attorney general, the deputy attorney general need to stand up for the career people that work for them and defend their honor and integrity. that doesn t mean chris wray has to come out and have a press conference every time the president says something off the wall on twitter. but he does need to pick his moments where he tells the general public, they need to hear this not from democrats, but from republicans, and republicans who have been appointed by president trump, that this agency, the fbi is going to follow the facts, follow th
weapon eyes against hillary clinton now donald trump? it is made up of career agents who are patriotic but that is a powerful editorial. but when the lead investigator sends text messages to his girlfriend that are derogatory about the president he investigates allegedly impartially, there is fuel and evidence. it would be wise for the fbi to get to the bottom see if actions were taken if they cooperated those messages. is the investigation tainted? if that is the argument they are making they have to show how exactly there are no findings yet. aren t today already showing that? what action did the agent
weapon eyes against hillary clinton now donald trump? it is made up of career agents who are patriotic but that is a powerful editorial. but when the lead investigator sends text messages to his girlfriend that are derogatory about the president he investigates allegedly impartially, there is fuel and evidence. it would be wise for the fbi to get to the bottom see if actions were taken if they cooperated those messages. is the investigation tainted? if that is the argument they are making they have to show how exactly there are no findings yet. aren t today already showing that? what action did the agent take.
investigation, unfocused and zeroing in on what they say are the political motivations of people inside the agency. we are still at that moment here where the president says he s not going to fire him, but there is a lot of work behind the scenes. yeah, i think wide ranging and also never ending, christine, if you come at it from the republican perspective. that is the political angle to this right now. how much have we heard this year, that term, deep state, didn t go mainstream until 11 or 12 months ago. now, we hear this talk all the time about career agents and the fbi and various intelligence agencies having it out for the president of the united states. what s interesting about that, what s interesting to me about that is, that is, i would say, people who worked inside the fbi say it tends to lean conservative. historically, very conservative. that number, according to former
know hundreds of career professionals at the fbi and throughout the justice department, and was just consistently impressed with the effort they ve put in, the sacrifices, literally the sacrifices that fbi agents make all the time. i can tell you they have been so disscourged, not just by the president s remarks, but up until now really a failure from the leadership of the department of justice to defend these career agents. you saw a little bit of a defense from the attorney general today, finally, after months of the president attacking the fbi and attacking prosecutors. but that was as tepid and milquetoast defense as you could get. you heard him say the president is 100% behind the fbi. that doesn t seem to be true when he says their reputation is in tatters. when you combine this with everything else we re seeing,