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In reply to the discussion: Everyone with a Parler account should be pissing their pants right... about... NOW! 💦💧 [View all]FormerDittoHead
(5,159 posts)CULTURE is not recorded conversations, signed documents and ceremonies. It's a tacit acceptance of norms and where one draws the line. It's an acceptance of who one can trust and who should be suspected. In an organization whose structure involves partners and close working teams, we must remain vigilant.
I don't believe that 4 years of Trump "loyalty" appointments and hires, working with other branches of "loyalty tested" of DOJ, etc... that there could be any greater "neutrality" in the FBI today than in 2016 when it was called "Trumpland".
Off the top of my head I remember reading how in 2016, Comey felt alienated in the FBI for failing to push the investigations into the Clintons based upon the Steve Bannon project "Clinton Cash" which was basically a list of the donors to the Clinton Foundation and drawing Glenn Beck whiteboard connections.
I remember reading how Comey would walk down the halls of the FBI building, feeling alone. That's the effect of culture.
I'm absolutely sure that his biased enforcement and breaking of clear DOJ rules, his covering up the investigation into Trump's campaign and his 11th hour announcements of Wiener's laptop (which had been in-hand for weeks, and should have taken an afternoon to have checked and NEVER ONCE FOUND ANYTHING)...
...and then Comey was only too happy to have fucking Trump kiss him on the cheek only to have been repelled by Trump's true nature. Unfortunately, Comey was a 'traditional' Republican and not a 'mob' Republican who would surely use him up and spit him out...
...and I STILL haven't forgotten the "mysterious" 11th hour timing of the FBI's otherwise dormant Twitter feed suddenly springing to life with tweets about Clinton investigations... https://www.vice.com/en/article/nek55w/a-technical-malfunction-made-an-fbi-twitter-account-seem-anti-clinton-in-the-final-days-of-the-election