What Ex-Agents Are Saying About Trump's Brewing War with the FBI

Some were stunned at the increasingly aggressive attacks on the Bureau as the Russia investigation inches closer to the Oval Office.
Matt Taylor - Vice News

Feb 1 2018, 2:51pm


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It's one thing for the president to fire James Comey—a man who was generally supported by the FBI's rank and file—and pressured his deputy Andrew McCabe to quit, as Trump did earlier this week. It's quite another matter to cast a shadow over the entire agency and attempt to discredit an important investigation that's still in progress, as many Republicans seem to be doing.

"It's a deliberate attack designed to ruin the reputation of an institution that's over 100 years old," David Gomez, a former FBI counter-terrorism executive (and past VICE contributor), told me Wednesday of the GOP broadsides against his old employer. "It boggles my mind—I'm almost at a loss for words."

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"Each side is ratcheting up," German, the former agent, told me. "It makes me wonder what they all know is coming."

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