The Federal Bureau of Investigation IS on Donald Trump’s shit list…..
He ain’t gonna feel bad about people working there having issues…
Nearly 5,000 FBI special agents, intelligence analysts, attorneys, and professional staff have been furloughed.
They’ve weathered blistering attacks from the president, the exposure of sensitive sources, and the politicization of classified information. And now they’re not getting paid. “I’m not going to try to candy-coat it,” Tom O’Connor, a special agent and president of the FBI Agents Association, told me this week. “We really feel that the financial insecurities we are facing right now equate to a national-security issue.”
On Saturday, the current government shutdown will be the longest in U.S. history—and it could remain shuttered for “months or even years,” President Donald Trump warned Democrats last week. While much of the drama has centered around Trump’s demand for a wall on the southern border, thousands of FBI agents and other federal employees whose unfettered work is crucial to national security have either been furloughed or forced to work with no pay and steep budget cuts.
Morale at the FBI had already been steadily declining for months before the government shut down on December 22, according to current and recently departed agents who spoke to me on the condition of anonymity to discuss their feelings candidly. President Trump’s open warfare on the bureau has made agents’ jobs more difficult, they say, as trust in the FBI wanes among people who identify as Republicans and right-leaning independents. “Part of it is Trump’s constant attacks,” said one agent who left late last year. “Bigger than that, though, is that it seems like a portion of the population believes him. Which makes their jobs harder to do.”
Another agent who left the bureau last year told me that certain leads that might be politically controversial were sometimes tabled indefinitely because they were not seen as worth incurring the wrath of the Trump White House….
image…The Atlantic
Remember when it was liberals, left-wingers and civil-rights advocates (with some very bad memories of J. Edgar Hoover and CoIntelPro) who were very chary of talking to FBI agents ?
Yup!…..
How times HAVE changed, eh?
FBI agents getting in trouble for favoring Hillary Clinton????
Think of all the law-enforcement and security offiicials who aren’t getting paid (even though many of them are expected to work):
FBI, U.S. Marshals and Federal prison guards (U.S. Dept of Justice)
Customs & Border Protection, Immigration & Customs Enforcement, Secret Service, Transportation Security Administration and U.S. Coast Guard (Dept of Homeland Security)
Park & Forest Rangers and Federal forest fire service (U.S. Dept of Agriculture)
Plus all the health and safety inspectors (FDA, USDA, etc.)
Air Traffic Controller’s also…..
TSA is getting so many sick call-in’s and people quoting that they have had to close some screening points at airports around the country….
Me?
I don’t think this goes on for momths and months….
Trump people WILL have to figure out how to keep the affects of this to the minimum’s….
Trump has no one to blame but himself..
He said he’d take the blame…
He is…
He thinks things are alright…
They aren’t…
And he’s NEVER been in the ring with the likes of Pelosi…
A women who is right now kicking his ASS….
Again?
With His help….
A former Trump supporter explains how the government shutdown is affecting her one-income family—and why she no longer supports the president…..
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