Saturday 13 May 2017

FBI Agents Worry White House Will Kneecap Russia Probe

The Don and his Goodfellas
From my time at senior levels in government, the take in this piece in the Daily Beast reads spot on.  There are serious concerns here, friends. All those Republicans saying "don't worry, the investigation will go on", are just blowing smoke in our faces, knowingly (knaves) or not (fools):
Betsy Woodruff & Jana Winter:
On Tuesday night, after James Comey got fired, FBI agents tasked with thwarting Russian intelligence operations started drinking.
Two well-connected former FBI employees told The Daily Beast that counterintelligence agents working on the Russian counterintelligence program out of FBI headquarters in downtown Washington met for drinks in the hours after their boss’s firing and shared their concerns: that they would be reassigned elsewhere, and their work on the Russian-Trump associates investigation would come to a grinding halt.
And just in case consistency in Trump's positions were ever in doubt:

 ДО СВИДА́НИЯ!