By Free Republic | Created at 2024-11-14 21:59:01 | Updated at 2024-11-22 20:09:35
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Gaetz Pick Unnerves an Already Jittery Justice Dept. and F.B.I.
The New York Times ^ | Nov. 14, 2024, 2:17 p.m. ET | Glenn Thrush and Adam Goldman
Posted on 11/14/2024 1:47:12 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Senior law enforcement officials face a wave of uncertainty as Donald J. Trump moves to nominate a fierce partisan and a longtime ally to fill one of the most powerful cabinet posts.
Matt Gaetz, who savaged the Justice Department and the F.B.I. as Donald J. Trump’s off-leash political guard dog, faces an uphill fight to becoming attorney general. But his selection has already achieved one desired effect: intimidating an already-frazzled federal law enforcement work force.
During his campaign, Mr. Trump vowed to exact revenge against officials who prosecuted him. That threat is particularly acute for the F.B.I., which has been in his cross hairs since it opened an investigation into his campaign’s connection to Russia in 2016.
Mr. Gaetz, a former Florida Republican congressman who was the focus of a federal investigation into sex-trafficking allegations, has positioned himself as the right guy for that job, an avenger who will tear down and rebuild a Justice Department that twice indicted Mr. Trump, with the close cooperation of the bureau’s agents.
“People trusted the F.B.I. more when J. Edgar Hoover was running the place than when you are,” Mr. Gaetz told Christopher A. Wray, the bureau’s director, during a testy oversight hearing in 2023, invoking the name of its imperious and secretive founding director. “And the reason is because you don’t give straight answers.”
Whatever the outcome of his nomination, the fact that he was selected at all was intended to send an unmistakable message to the nonpolitical career officials who form the backbone of federal law enforcement: Get in line or get out — and maybe get a lawyer.
All of this has sent a wave of uncertainty throughout Justice Department and F.B.I. headquarters, perhaps unlike anything experienced by the federal law enforcement establishment since Mr. Trump fired James B. Comey,...
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Gaetz certainly has the right enemies.
To: E. Pluribus Unum
If the Democrats were smart, they would confirm him ASAP.
2 posted on 11/14/2024 1:50:26 PM PST by nickcarraway
To: E. Pluribus Unum
That threat is particularly acute for the F.B.I., which has been in his cross hairs since it opened an investigation into his campaign’s connection to Russia in 2016.
The FIBs knew in advance that the Russia Collusion story was a hoax, and illegally persued it anyway.
Roast em in court and then imprison them for DECADES EACH.
3 posted on 11/14/2024 1:50:36 PM PST by Uncle Miltie (NOT TIRED OF WINNING!)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
SWEAT BULLETS YOU CREEPS!
4 posted on 11/14/2024 1:51:12 PM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Evil is terrified of a real Sheriff in town.
5 posted on 11/14/2024 1:51:26 PM PST by Enlightened1
To: E. Pluribus Unum
6 posted on 11/14/2024 1:51:42 PM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Gaetz is an improvement over Garland.
7 posted on 11/14/2024 1:52:07 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money)
To: Enlightened1
Matt Gaetz......the REAL Florida Man!
8 posted on 11/14/2024 1:52:23 PM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Famous
But
Incompetent.
Time to clean out that rat’s nest in DC.
9 posted on 11/14/2024 1:53:04 PM PST by ASOC (This space for rent)
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