.................. " FBI agents, like anyone else, are human beings. W e are allowed to have our political beliefs. If anything, the overwhelming majority of agents are conservative Republicans," he added.
Former FBI counterintelligence agent Asha Rangappa made a similar point in an interview earlier this week.
"The FBI investigators who are working on any given day will probably be mostly politically conservative," Rangappa said, drawing from her interactions with agents under President George W. Bush. That is one reason, she said, why Republicans should "think carefully" about the precedent they're setting in pointing to agents' political leanings as evidence of a tainted investigation.
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Frank Montoya, Jr., a former FBI special agent who served as the Director of the Office of the National Counterintelligence Executive, was blunt.More
Frank Montoya, Jr., a former FBI special agent who served as the Director of the Office of the National Counterintelligence Executive, was blunt. Trump "says nary a negative word about the Russians, but will insult us every chance he gets"
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Notes:
Bush nominated Comey Dep AG. Bush nom’d Mueller as FBI Director. Mueller and Comey are both Republicans. Trump nom’d Rosenstein Dep AG. He’s Republican. He made Mueller Special Counsel |
