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03rd Feb 2018

FBI boss fires back after Trump releases highly controversial anti-FBI memo

Rory Cashin

Trump believes the new report will help “discredit” the FBI.

That is according to a report by CNN, who claim that Trump had been bragging to his friends on the phone, stating that this new memo would help him argue that the Russia investigations were prejudiced against him.

Now referred to as the Nunes Memo, the previously classified report was released by House Republicans on Friday, in which the FBI were accused of abusing their position and power (but not out and out accused of anything illegal) in order to obtain a warrant for surveillance of a subject they believed would help tie Trump to the Russians.

As well as the warnings by the Democrats that releasing the memo would lead to a “constitutional crisis”, the fear remains that the Trump had okay’d the release of the memo in order to line-up the eventual firing of Special Counsel Robert Mueller (who is leading the probe into the Trump/Russia investigations), which “could result in a constitutional crisis of the kind not seen since the Saturday night massacre”, aka the night Nixon fired the Watergate prosecutor.

Even members of Trump’s own party were against the release of the memo, with Republican Sen. John McCain saying that the President has done Putin’s job for him:

“The latest attacks against the FBI and Department of Justice serve no American interests — no party’s, no President’s, only Putin’s. The American people deserve to know all the facts surrounding Russia’s ongoing efforts to subvert our democracy, which is why Special Counsel Mueller’s investigation must proceed unimpeded.”

“Our nation’s elected officials, including the president, must stop looking at this investigation through the lens of politics and manufacturing political sideshows. If we continue to undermine our own rule of law, we are doing Putin’s job for him.”

Additionally, the current Head of the FBI Christoper Wray, told his 35,000 staff that each and every one of them has his full support in this very tumultuous time:

“You’ve all been through a lot in the past nine months and I know it’s often been unsettling, to say the least, and the past few days haven’t done much to calm those waters… Let me be clear: I stand fully committed to our mission… I stand with you.”

“I determined to defend your integrity and professionalism every day. […] Talk is cheap; the work you do is what will endure.”

Former FBI head James Comey seconded his successor’s statement on Twitter:

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