On FBI site-powerful words: Why American officials don't swear loyalty to a man-but to CONSTITUTION

[kpete]

Link to tweet

[ProudLib72]

1. You know it's bad when FBI goes straight to Godwin! nt

[beachbum bob]

2. unprecedented...and should make people wake up

[keithbvadu2]

6. Don't you mean 'unpresidented'?

Don't you mean 'unpresidented'?

(sarcasm thingie goes here)

[Panich52]

3. The tenets that led to Comey getting fired

Trump lied to Holt abt conversation during his & Corey's dinner. Sources say Dumpf tried couple times to get Comey to pledge loyalty to Dumpf. Comey refused.

[bettyellen]

4. So the "three times" part was true. You need one true thing in your lie to sell it.

[beam me up scottie]

5. A timely reminder.

[nolabear]

7. Wow. This is a genuine Constitutional crisis.

[AgadorSparticus]

8. Knr so glad to see the FBI post this. It makes me feel better knowing that

They are neutral. That they will stand their ground. I feel a bit safer knowing this.

[Stonepounder]

9. Link?

I can't find it at www.fbi.gov

[progree]

12. https://leb.fbi.gov/2009-pdfs/leb-september-2009

The earliest instance on archive.org is 4/12/2015

https://web.archive.org/web/20150412112815/https://leb.fbi.gov/2009-pdfs/leb-september-2009

on page 25

[Wounded Bear]

10. I remeber rumors of that kind of BS under Bush the Younger...

Authoritarianism at its worst.

[progree]

11. Here's a link -- its a 2009 article that's been there since 2015 if not before.

https://leb.fbi.gov/2009-pdfs/leb-september-2009

On page 25.

The earliest instance on archive.org is 4/12/2015

https://web.archive.org/web/20150412112815/https://leb.fbi.gov/2009-pdfs/leb-september-2009

So it's not like some rogue FBI agents or higher ups splashed it on the home page or anywhere else on the site in the wake of Comey's firing.