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| Firing James Comey may have been Trump's 'best move as president' |
| 2021-11-18 |
[HOT AIR] NY Times columnist Bret Stephens wrote a column yesterday in which he reviewed for readers the history of the FBI’s actions during the Trump administration with regard to the Steele dossier. Stephens argues that if Igor Danchenko is convicted, it will be a real embarrassment for the media outlets who promoted the dossier. However he says that putting the media’s role aside, Danchenko’s indictment is an even bigger blow to the credibility of the FBI:What this indictment further exposes is that James Comey’s F.B.I. became a Bureau of Dirty Tricks, mitigated only by its own incompetence — like a mash-up of Inspector Javert and Inspector Clouseau. Donald Trump’s best move as president (about which I was dead wrong at the time) may have been to fire him.The Inspector General’s report on the FBI’s handling of the FISA process found "many basic and fundamental errors." Stephens suggests this raised the question of whether the FBI was biased or incompetent. But he includes there’s evidence it was both. He points to FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith’s rewriting of an email to conceal the fact that Carter Page was working with the CIA: |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #10 A more accurate slogan for the NYT: "Doing the dark dirty deed of destroying democracy" |
| Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 2021-11-18 22:14 |
| #9 Too bad it wasn't enough. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2021-11-18 13:45 |
| #8 ^ "Journalists" never get burned any more. That only happens to their credulous readership. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2021-11-18 12:32 |
| #7 If the media had any credibility they'd keep track of anonymous sources and retractions and if you have two retractions the anonymity drops for both. |
| Posted by: ruprecht 2021-11-18 12:23 |
| #6 ...with maybe We are the Darkness |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2021-11-18 11:42 |
| #5 Did they return their Pulitzer? Did they get rid of their ridiculously ironic slogan, Democracy dies in darkness? |
| Posted by: Merrick Ferret 2021-11-18 11:16 |
| #4 ^ Did they fire the |
| Posted by: Frank G 2021-11-18 10:18 |
| #3 Washington Post has corrected over a dozen articles related to Steele dossier coverage |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2021-11-18 09:22 |
| #2 A bunch more should have been canned. Unfortunately, Trump could not fire some in the House and Senate. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2021-11-18 09:00 |
| #1 He points to FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith’s rewriting of an email to conceal the fact that Carter Page was working with the CIA And likely had never stopped 'working' for them. He was just on temp detail to the Bureau. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2021-11-18 07:31 |