Good to know that, along with the Secret Service, we have political mice in the FBI:
Months
of disputes between Justice Department prosecutors and FBI agents over
how best to try to recover classified documents from Donald Trump’s
Mar-a-Lago Club and residence led to a tense showdown near the end of
July last year, according to four people familiar with the discussions.
Prosecutors
argued that new evidence suggested Trump was knowingly concealing
secret documents at his Palm Beach, Fla., home and urged the FBI to
conduct a surprise raid at the property. But two senior FBI officials
who would be in charge of leading the search resisted the plan as too
combative and proposed instead to seek Trump’s permission to search his
property, according to the four people, who spoke on the condition of
anonymity to describe a sensitive investigation. [snip]
Starting in May, FBI agents in the Washington field office had sought to slow the probe, urging caution given its extraordinary sensitivity, the people said.
Some
of those field agents wanted to shutter the criminal investigation
altogether in early June, after Trump’s legal team asserted a diligent
search had been conducted and all classified records had been turned over, according to some people with knowledge of the discussions. [snip]
On one side, federal prosecutors in the department’s national security
division advocated aggressive ways to secure some of the country’s most
closely guarded secrets, which they feared Trump was intentionally
hiding at Mar-a-Lago; on the other, FBI agents in the Washington field
office urged more caution with such a high-profile matter, recommending
they take a cooperative rather than confrontational approach. (our emphasis)
What ever happened to applying the law without fear or favor? And what's that FBI motto? "Fidelity, Bravery, Integrity." Some of those officials are 0 for 3 on that account. Also, arguing that the Malignant Loser, after lying and stonewalling for well over a year, might cooperate with the FBI takes willful ignorance to a whole new level. On its face, it seems more likely to us that those FBI officials are Trumpists doing their best to help out their guy.
Maybe their "fidelity, bravery, and integrity" should be rewarded with a posting to, say, the FBI's Niamey, Niger sub-office, until the FBI can open one in Timbuktu, or they take early retirement?
