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Here's the question of the day, who monitors or oversees the FBI?:
Within the U.S. Department of Justice, the FBI is responsible to the attorney general, and it reports its findings to U.S. Attorneys across the country. The FBI’s intelligence activities are overseen by the Director of National Intelligence.Say, isn't that incoming DNI Director the same former Congressional Representative and U.S. Army reservist that Hillary Clinton keeps calling a Russian agent, one who was personally dispatched by Putin to frustrate Hillary's presidential ambitions? And the same one who was placed on the TSA 'Quiet Skies' watchlist so her boarding passes would have the quad-S marking that got her a thorough airport shake-down whenever she flew? Yes, she is!
If confirmed, she'll be TSA's boss's boss, and able to find out just who did that to her. Revenge like that is practically poetic.
And the incoming Attorney General might be another former Congressman, one who was the subject of a futile but still years-long effort by DOJ to find any substance to allegations of his trafficking in underage women? (Even unsubstantiated sexual allegations are always the best kind to stir up a Washington scandal.) He is!
I'll bet those two each have a list of grievances with both DOJ and its subordinate Bureau, and if confirmed they'll be in the perfect position to double-team their former accusers. The accusatory institutions, anyway, if not the individuals, who will most likely decide to retire before The Trumpening 2 gets truly underway.
The appointment of Gaetz, in particular, will bring on much hypocritical weeping and wailing over transgression of the apolitical norms that DOJ has respected at least since Watergate.
But, did they really respect those norms? Obama's AG, Eric Holder, for instance, couldn't have found those supposed norms if he'd hunted for them with a GPS and a flashlight.
Maybe the appointment of Gaetz will turn out to be just superior trolling, a shot across the bows. Maybe even a misdirection intended to hide the REAL strike that will come from the new Department of Government Efficiency? Taking away half their personnel and facilities in the cause of efficiency would bring retribution to DOJ and FBI just as well as a head-on clash with AG Gaetz.
Either way, this will be the kind of spectacle that you could sell tickets to.
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It is said bureaucrats in DC are living in dread.
I've never lived in dread sounds like a scary place.
Dread is exactly right, which they are trying to relieve by shredding everything incriminating before they run to the exits. Sending Gaetz to DOJ means total war, and Trump wants 'a wartime consigliere' when he goes to the mattresses and settles all the family's business in DC (to mix some Godfather metaphors).
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