What's your reaction

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Kind of depends. First if you can substantiate if there was applause. Second whether or not the FBI had REASON to fuck those people. By the way if by fuck, you mean investigate, is that not literally in the name of the agency?

Assume the applause was real. Is it OK for the FBI to take it upon itself to overturn the will of the American people

-If the applause was real it would be a problem for the APPEARANCE of bias. On the other hand the courts never counted bias as an actual legal reasoning to not investigate. It matters politically NOT in a court of law. I can imaging the people investigating child molesters to be biased against them, does that mean their investigation is invalid?
-I also don't see how the act of investigating would be in any way overturning the will of the people. The will of the people is political. Investigating crimes by the FBI isn't. They have to follow rules. Rules described in the law and DOJ policies. If they don't, the investigation is invalid. The ruling of that is also something that happens in court NOT in a political arena.
-What you seem to be suggesting is that being voted into office means you and the people around you should be above the law. I don't think the framers of the constitution had that in mind when they wrote the document.

I didn't say that getting elected means you're above the law and that's not the case in the hypothetical situation above.

Are you at all troubling at this behavior by the FBI?

If this is a hypothetical, it is much to vague. What do you mean by fuck? Does the applause signify that they don't follow the rules? How can I answer a hypothetical that uses language open to interpretation?

That's all I can tell you.

The Number 3 guy at the FBI called a meeting of 20 of his top lieutenants, said that they were going to Fuck the incoming NSA head and then Fuck the new President and about 3/4 applauded.

That's the FBI leadership. It did not sound American when I first heard it, it was more like some Fascist Third World nation, but several people reported the incident

So it isn't a hypothetical but a real event? That begs the question. Why not say so? Better yet why not provide the source and ask what people think of it when they listen? I'll play though. Without context timing or any other information we are purely talking from what I think. I don't think that the FBI would start a vendetta against someone without legal backing to do so. So I think what happened with the remark, providing it did happen. Kind of like a football coach rallying his team. So it could be a benign as the third guy in the FBI providing a pep talk to his investigators. Something like," we are gonna get those crooks. " Then again maybe not. I don't have any context. In the end though as I stated before bias is NOT a problem in the legal sense, providing that that bias doesn't make you break the rules of conduct in prosecuting the investigation.