‘The FBI is Trumpland’: Anti-Clinton atmosphere spurred leaks, sources say

The Guardian reports: Deep antipathy to Hillary Clinton exists within the FBI, multiple bureau sources have told the Guardian, spurring a rapid series of leaks damaging to her campaign just days before the election.

Current and former FBI officials, none of whom were willing or cleared to speak on the record, have described a chaotic internal climate that resulted from outrage over director James Comey’s July decision not to recommend an indictment over Clinton’s maintenance of a private email server on which classified information transited.

“The FBI is Trumpland,” said one current agent.

This atmosphere raises major questions about how Comey and the bureau he is slated to run for the next seven years can work with Clinton should she win the White House.

The currently serving FBI agent said Clinton is “the antichrist personified to a large swath of FBI personnel,” and that “the reason why they’re leaking is they’re pro-Trump.”

The agent called the bureau “Trumplandia”, with some colleagues openly discussing voting for a GOP nominee who has garnered unprecedented condemnation from the party’s national security wing and who has pledged to jail Clinton if elected.

At the same time, other sources dispute the depth of support for Trump within the bureau, though they uniformly stated that Clinton is viewed highly unfavorably. [Continue reading…]

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One thought on “‘The FBI is Trumpland’: Anti-Clinton atmosphere spurred leaks, sources say

  1. N Waff

    The fact that James Coney sold-out his ethics to the Clinton is not disturbing. But the fact that FBI agents are outraged at this gross injustice – well we should find that disturbing. The last thing we want is the FBI rank-and-file having a conscience. So lets smear them with this fake “Trumpland” label. This is too sick.

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