The 'behavior' was merely words. Written words. Speech. Poster Flops does not offer the forum any evidence that their speech affected their professional duty. Their actions in investigating a suspected criminal.
But by the way, I don't think it is uncommon whatsoever for law enforcement at any level to have a disrespect, even a revulsion, towards the suspected criminals they are investigating.
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As context, or as a comparative.....what about those FBI staffers at any level who expressed their admiration and support for Trump? Should they too, have been dismissed as inappropriate for their professional duties?
The 'behavior' was merely words. Written words. Speech. Poster Flops does not offer the forum any evidence that their speech affected their professional duty. Their actions in investigating a suspected criminal.
Oh, I would’ve thought that would’ve been obvious. But for those of you who are a bit dense, here is the evidence:
They violated the requirements of their professional duty as soon as they started sending personal messages on FBI issued cell phones. that’s the personal messages of any kind, regardless of how innocuous.
The messages they sent were anything but innocuous. Those messages did two things. They created a public record of their adulterous affair, and they created a public record of their deranged Hatred for the subject of their investigation.
These actions not only violated FBI restrictions on use of FBI equipment for personal benefit, it also created perfect public records that could’ve been predicted to distrust among the public in the FBI professionalism.
Further, there is plenty of evidence that they acted on this irrational hatred of Donald Trump. at least Peter Strzok did. it was Strzok who pushed for the investigation of Trump to be reopened, when his superiors were long since ready to close it. It was Strzok who took Lisa Page’s advice to not be “loaded for bear” when interviewing who they believed was future president, Hillary Clinton. Amazing how wrong one couple can be in several thousand text messages.
It might have been his admiration for Hillary Clinton, who is under criminal investigation, that caused him to go easy on her, just as much as his insane hatred of Donald Trump. Either way, completely unprofessional, and violated several regulations of the FBI.
But by the way, I don't think it is uncommon whatsoever for law enforcement at any level to have a disrespect, even a revulsion, towards the suspected criminals they are investigating.
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Not uncommon at all, but still extremely unprofessional. Actually, it seems to be very common in the FBI. The FBI’s hatred of Martin Luther King Jr. is well documented as well as their attempts to murder him.
Famous “G-man“ Mel Purvis openly spoke of his hatred for the armed robbers that he pursued. Murderous armed robbers are not particularly likeable people so his personal feelings could be excused. However, he chose to sit them publicly, not as Melvin, Purvis private citizen, but as Melvin, Purvis, FBI leader.
He also chose to gun down those wanted criminal suspects in situations in which he could have obtained their surrender. John Dillinger is the most famous case of that, but he did it several times.
I suppose it is theoretically possible for FBI agents to have the level of hatred that those two express for Donald Trump and still be dispassionate investigators of Donald Trump. It’s possible, but clearly did not happen in their case. And under no circumstances, can you publicly express that kind of insane hatred, and expect reasonable people to have confidence in your unbiased professionalism.
Those who support Peter and Lisa in there, anti-Trump adventures, support them because of their bias, not in spite of it. They would never express the same support for anti-Clinton, FBI investigators who were on her case.
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As context, or as a comparative.....what about those FBI staffers at any level who expressed their admiration and support for Trump? Should they too, have been dismissed as inappropriate for their professional duties?
Expressed their admiration for Trump while texting on FBI issued cell phones to their mistresses? Yes absolutely they should have been fired.
Admiring a criminal suspect who is also a political figure is everyone’s first amendment right. Creating public records, public federal records, to express that admiration in profanity laced love notes to your side piece is definitely should be a firing offense.