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FBI agents are changing their FB profile pictures to Comey (Original Post) Jarqui May 2017 OP
Very moving display of solidarity - beautiful and sad - thanks, Jarqui. eom Leghorn21 May 2017 #1
Thanks Jarqui saidsimplesimon May 2017 #2
It was one thing to fire him Phoenix61 May 2017 #3
They've been looking at this for some time. Jarqui May 2017 #4
This idiot actually thought he would be cheered there Thrill May 2017 #5
It's called delusion iluvtennis May 2017 #8
Blowback: Amaryllis May 2017 #6
Love it. iluvtennis May 2017 #7
Good! Stay outta the FBI's yard!!!! You're not welcome there, you blowhard! Honeycombe8 May 2017 #9
Trump SHOULD visit the FBI building OldRedneck May 2017 #10
There have to be some FBI agents who would love to be in the detail that brings in Cheeto. LuckyLib May 2017 #18
Big fat orange chicken lark May 2017 #11
Let's not be so quick to canonize the man. tenorly May 2017 #12
Excellent point and well said!! (eom) StevieM May 2017 #14
Thanks! tenorly May 2017 #19
Comey sent a classified letter to Congress Mr. Ected May 2017 #16
And you're probably right. tenorly May 2017 #20
+1 uponit7771 May 2017 #22
k for visibility riversedge May 2017 #13
The dunce will probably try to fire all the Comeys. n/t miyazaki May 2017 #15
But Huckabuck's daughter says she's received untold (of course) numbers of emails, LuckyLib May 2017 #17
Sarah h. Sanders looks like an idiot. She comes out and says she talked to AgadorSparticus May 2017 #21

saidsimplesimon

(7,888 posts)
2. Thanks Jarqui
Thu May 11, 2017, 04:55 PM
May 2017

I don't do twitter, the link is appreciated.

A little birdie told me that the agents in our local FBI office were in tears. They are a tight knit group of career public servants. Like myself, and others they were also angry and appalled by the disgusting way the announcement was delivered.

Phoenix61

(16,926 posts)
3. It was one thing to fire him
Thu May 11, 2017, 05:01 PM
May 2017

How he did it was so very, very wrong. So disrespectful. I think he has lost the FBI for good. I don't see them "getting over" that. I do see it motivating the hell out of them to take him down.

Jarqui

(10,094 posts)
4. They've been looking at this for some time.
Thu May 11, 2017, 05:16 PM
May 2017

If there was nothing there, they would have packed up and shut it down.

It could be the greatest thing Comey ever does : get fired. Because the media has been woken up and seem to, ignoring FOX (who are not real media), going after Trump in unison, smelling blood in the water.

I was a strong Sanders supporter. And I agreed with some who smelled bad things with these emails. But I do not agree with Comey's handling of this a week or so before the election. He put Trump in the White House.

I was pessimistic that Trump might get away with it after he fired Comey. I'm not as pessimistic now. Things like the above are encouraging. Having family members who have been in law enforcement going back more than 100 years, what the FBI agents did maybe hits home a bit more.

Amaryllis

(9,523 posts)
6. Blowback:
Thu May 11, 2017, 05:28 PM
May 2017

"A senior-level FBI source was more candid. If Trump has declared war on the bureau’s leadership, the source said, then the president should expect “nothing less in return.” "

Honeycombe8

(37,648 posts)
9. Good! Stay outta the FBI's yard!!!! You're not welcome there, you blowhard!
Thu May 11, 2017, 06:07 PM
May 2017

How dare you trash Comey publicly after firing him! How DARE you!

He really is trying to ruin Comey personally, and his career. This is PERSONAL. Comey wouldn't give his oath of loyalty to Trump personally, as Trump demanded.

 

OldRedneck

(1,397 posts)
10. Trump SHOULD visit the FBI building
Thu May 11, 2017, 06:31 PM
May 2017

Because, if he does, he'll go in wearing his usual suit and extra-long tie.

He'll come out in leg irons, cuffs, and an orange jump suit.

tenorly

(2,037 posts)
12. Let's not be so quick to canonize the man.
Thu May 11, 2017, 06:42 PM
May 2017

His firing - like everything else Cheeto does - was shameful and shameless, yes; but Comey's malfeasance cost Hillary the election.

Let's not forget that.

tenorly

(2,037 posts)
19. Thanks!
Thu May 11, 2017, 11:31 PM
May 2017

Comey can still redeem himself - but only by leveling with the American people and sharing what he knows.

Mr. Ected

(9,670 posts)
16. Comey sent a classified letter to Congress
Thu May 11, 2017, 07:30 PM
May 2017

Chaffetz intercepted it, declassified it, then tweeted it before disclosing to any Democrats. Chaffetz is currently under investigation in Utah for this abuse of office.

Comey messed up because the NY Field Office went rogue under his watch. Together with Chaffetz and Guiliani, they outflanked Comey and ultimately made him the scapegoat.

That is my conspiracy theory at least.

LuckyLib

(6,812 posts)
17. But Huckabuck's daughter says she's received untold (of course) numbers of emails,
Thu May 11, 2017, 07:32 PM
May 2017

tweets, etc from FBI agents saying they support the firing!

Good Grief, this WH is a runaway train of complete dolts and bald-faced liars. Nonstop, each and every day.

Special Investigation, Special Prosecutor, Impeachment! Now!

AgadorSparticus

(7,963 posts)
21. Sarah h. Sanders looks like an idiot. She comes out and says she talked to
Thu May 11, 2017, 11:38 PM
May 2017

A great number of the rank and file that were happy about the firing. She got called on that assertion too. I mean, really. WHY/HOW would she know "So many" rank and file in the fbi?

WHAT A HOT MESS. I am so thankful these people are mindnumbingly incompetent.

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