Irresponsible

For John, BLUF:  While I would like to believe that FBI Director Christopher Wray has cleaned up the FBI, I have my doubts.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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Olympic Gymnasts Reveal That Comey's Trump-Hating FBI Was OK With Child Rape

Top O’ the Briefing

From The Morning Briefing, by Writer Stephen Kruiser, 16 September 2021, 8:23 AM ET.

Here is the lede plus four:

Happy Thursday, dear Kruiser Morning Briefing friends.  You will always look ridiculous in a hoop skirt.

This is one of the rare times that I am leading off with something I wrote.  It’s necessary though, and I’m sure you will all agree with me.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has become an unhinged, unchecked state police service that needs to be reined in and overhauled.  In recent times, this was an opinion one found only on the right.

It should be a bipartisan issue now.

All the while it was crafting a hoax about Russian collusion that was designed to destroy the president of the United States, the FBI was deliberately covering for a serial rapist of little girls.

From CNN we have this story lede:

Olympic gymnasts McKayla Maroney and Simone Biles ripped the FBI and the Justice Department in Senate testimony Wednesday for how FBI agents mishandled abuse allegations brought against Larry Nassar and then made false statements in the fallout from the botched investigation.

Here is another extract from the CNN report:

The senators on Wednesday joined the gymnasts in questioning why the Justice Department chose not to prosecute the FBI officials in question.  "It's not only that the FBI failed to do its job, systematically, and repeatedly.  It is also the cover up, the cover up that occurred afterwards," Sen. Richard Blumenthal, a Democrat from Connecticut, said.  "When FBI agents made material, false statements and deceptive omission referred by the Inspector General for criminal prosecution those referrals were declined, without explanation. without any public explanation at all."

Strangely, CNN does not name the lying FBI Agent, Mr Jay Abbott, although a subsequent CNN story does.

It is flat out corruption when the FBI goes after Retired Army Lieutenant General Michael Flynn on a technicality for "lying to the FBI" but yet allows a lying FBI Agent to retire with no repercussions.♠  The fact that there were patterns of corruption at this time, not just the problem with the Dr Larry Nassar sexual abuse issues, is a blot on the Directorship of Mr James Comey.

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff

♠  Yes, the FBI did fire a lower level agent, Mr Michael Langeman, but the corruption went higher, as the Senate testimony yesterday, and the DOJ IG Report, demonstrated.