The idea that the FBI is a nest of liberals is perhaps the least probable right wing conspiracy theory. The loonier these accusations get, the more evidence and events pile up to show how absurd they are.
Here is today’s icing on that cake:
Former Special Agent In Charge Of The New York FBI Counterintelligence Division Charged With Violating U.S. Sanctions On Russia
In 2021, MCGONIGAL and SHESTAKOV conspired to provide services to Deripaska, in violation of U.S. sanctions imposed on Deripaska in 2018. Specifically, following their negotiations with an agent of Deripaska, MCGONIGAL and SHESTAKOV agreed to and did investigate a rival Russian oligarch in return for concealed payments from Deripaska. As part of their negotiations with Deripaska’s agent, MCGONIGAL, SHESTAKOV, and the agent attempted to conceal Deripaska’s involvement by, among other means, not directly naming Deripaska in electronic communications, using shell companies as counterparties in the contract that outlined the services to be performed, using a forged signature on that contract, and using the same shell companies to send and receive payments from Deripaska.
In 2018, it drove me nuts when based on a few texts from two agents, Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, Republicans were screaming about FBI liberal/Hillary bias, and I wrote Breaking! (in 2016): Anti-Hillary Bias in Communications Between Ex-NY FBI Chief and FBI Agents!
I asked:
Why are we looking only at the Strzok/Page texts for bias when
1. There were 100 agents assigned to Hillary’s emails and foundation; and
2. There are 13,000 FBI agents and 35,000 FBI employees; and
3, The NY FBI office was known to be riven with pro-Trump agents.
Four days before the 2020 election, the late Jim Kallstrom, retired head of the NY FBI Office, admitted he was in contact with current agents and “channeled” their outrage about Hillary Clinton.
And FBI Agents were the source for the October 31, 2016 Times article saying there was “No Clear Link” between Trump and the Russians.
We need to know a lot more about what the FBI was doing from 2016 and after on Russia and investigations.
“Russia Hoax” indeed.