Quote (ThatAlex @ 18 Jul 2018 04:59)
I don't think the intelligence community wants a war with Russia. I don't think it's some deep state conspiracy. The people that make up these intelligence agencies are Americans who probably want the best for America. I think they want to steer us more into a pro-NATO, pro-Western direction. In my view, that direction is probably in our best interest.
However, if present, that steering is fuckery nonetheless. For better or worse, the American people elected Donald Trump to be our President and Head of State. My point is I think we are allowing our intelligence communities to influence our domestic and international politics too much. Do you see how this could be problematic?
I agree with Trey Gowdy's sentiment on this subject: if FBI agents are going to refuse to answer to Congressional subpoenas and operate in so much secrecy on this subject with so many domestic and international implications, I think we need to see a little more public evidence of interference, conspiracy, and/or campaign collusion. Right now, we can only trust our institutions, but those institutions have demonstrated some incompetency (OIG report on McCabe, FISA warrants granted without proper protocol, Strzok bias) over recent years.
Strzok's 'bias' is not fbi incompetency. I've said it before - you need intelligent, competent and objective investigators. Anyone like that is gonna think Trump is a twat. Because he is objectively a twat and you have to be stupid or incompetent to think otherwise.
Arguing that you should only have people investigating who don't think Trump is an utter tool is arguing for the investigation to be conducted by morons.