Fbi Quotes - Page 11

• [Bill Clinton] has called for expanded wiretaps for the FBI.

  Nat Hentoff

  Bills, Clinton

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• I was writing - at least beginning to write Boston Boy and there were a lot of holes in my so-called research. I didn't know the towns my mother and father came from in Russia. I didn't know the name of the clothing store I went to work for when I was 11 years old. I didn't know a lot of things. So I called for my FBI files, not expecting to have that stuff there, but I wanted to know what they had on me.But they did have the towns my mother and father lived in in Russia. They had the grocery store I worked in when I was 11 years old.

  Nat Hentoff

  Mother, Father, Writing

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• I talk to cryptographers, some of the leading technologists in the world, all the time about how we can deal with these issues. It is not possible to create a back door that is only accessible, for example, to the FBI.

  Edward Snowden

  Issues, Doors, World

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• If the FBI is watching you for suspected terrorist links, you should not be able to buy a gun with no questions asked.

  Hillary Clinton

  Gun, Terrorist

  "Guns, terror, and LGBT rights: Orlando shooting raises stakes for next president" by David Smith, www.theguardian.com. June 14, 2016.

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• FBI directors serve at the pleasure of the president, but they often have terms that transcend partisan transfers of power at the White House. Firing an FBI director is a major problem from the point of view of a president who is already facing significant questions about investigations already underway.

  Stephen Farnsworth

  House, President, Problem

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Presidents are given immense power in the American political system when it comes to personnel. FBI directors are given ten-year terms to insulate them from politics as much as one can, but it's not absolute protection. If a president wants to fire an FBI director, they can do that.

  Stephen Farnsworth

  Political, President, Protection

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• People elected Donald Trump because he acts decisively. He fired James Comey. He didn't fire the entire FBI. If there's something there, the FBI is going to continue to investigate it.

  Leon Panetta

  People

  Source: www.npr.org

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• My experience is that the director of the FBI is particularly important to just how aggressive an investigation will be into an issue. And once you remove James Comey, it creates a vacuum at the top. And the fundamental issue will be whether or not there is support at the highest levels within the FBI to continue to conduct that investigation. That's going to be the question mark.

  Leon Panetta

  Support, Important, Aggressive

  Source: www.npr.org

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• There is nothing normal about removing the FBI director, as a general matter. It's an extraordinary measure. This is an office that is typically served for a term of years, 10 years, to be precise.

  Benjamin Wittes

  Office, Term, Extraordinary

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• The president has a duty and a right to oversee the FBI, and you know, he properly delegate the law enforcement to the FBI and try to insulate it from politics. But that's not to curb the president's authority over the FBI. So if he wants to meet with the FBI and give his opinion or even talk about his hopes, if indeed, he said that, he has every right to do so.

  Laura Ingraham

  Giving, Trying, President

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• I did work well with Hillary Clinton when she was my colleague in the Senate, and I certainly don't bear her any ill will. But when I listened carefully to her commencement speech, what I heard was a laundry list of very expensive new programs that our country simply cannot afford, and that would add to our already overwhelming $17 trillion debt. I'm also disturbed by the mismatch in her answers to the questions about her e-mail server and what the FBI Director Comey says that the FBI's investigation found.

  Susan Collins

  Country, Laundry, Clinton

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Isn't it a little strange the FBI director has a private conversation with the president. Instead of saying to the president, Mr. President, you're new to this job. You're not a legal law enforcement guy. What you're saying is inappropriate to me.

  Christopher Ruddy

  Guy, President, Strange

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• We continue to get stories that Donald Trump colluded with the Russians, even though there's no evidence. We continue to get stories that Donald Trump is saying the most insulting, stupid things to people, that he's bragging to enemies about his nut job FBI director that he fired. None of it is substantiated. But there are no anonymous leaks on this trip to the Middle East. So far. We don't have a single story that tells us that Trump told the king of Saudi Arabia, "Take the veil off, man. Get into the twenty-first century and look like a real man." No leaks like this.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Stupid, Real, Men

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The disclosure that President Donald Trump allegedly asked Jim Comey to drop an FBI investigation has raised the question of whether this may constitute obstruction of justice. There's plenty of disagreement.

  John Yang

  Justice, President, Plenty

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Before the election, I reported on a story about a counterintelligence officer from another service sending reports to the FBI saying that his sources in Russia were saying that Moscow tried for years to cultivate and co-opt Donald Trump. I'm not saying that happened. I'm saying I hope the FBI took a strong look, because it is really hard to believe that a president-elect would be so callous in how he approaches this issue and so dismissive of the seriousness of it.

  David Corn

  Strong, Believe, Election

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The special council is Robert Mueller, and he's worked for both parties. He's held positions in both party administrations. He's former FBI director. He's been at this level for a long time, done it all. He has a reputation for being a straight shooter, nonpartisan, independent, can't be led by the nose down one path or another.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Party, Independent, Long

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Remember, the left corrupts everything, folks. The Democrat Party, the left corrupts every institution. They politicize it, and by virtue of that alone they corrupt it. And so at the NSA, at the Defense Intelligence Agency, at the CIA, and at the FBI, there are Obamaites, there are people that think like he.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Party, Thinking, People

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The Clinton investigation was a completed investigation that the FBI had been deeply involved in, so I had an opportunity to understand all the facts and apply those facts against the law as I understood them. This investigation was under way - still going when I was fired. So it's nowhere near in the same place.

  James Comey

  Opportunity, Clinton

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• This was a big leak that WikiLeaks published, and it was hacking software developed by the CIA and the FBI that was able to leave fingerprints of other countries. So the CIA could hack our election to make it look like the Russians did it.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country, Election, Cia

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I am being investigated for firing the FBI Director by the man who told me to fire the FBI Director! Witch Hunt.

  Donald Trump

  Men, Witch, He Man

  Twitter post from Jun 16, 2017

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• A good umpire, like a good FBI agent, is never noticed if he is doing his job.

  Thomas Boswell

  Jobs, Fbi Agents, Umpires

  Thomas Boswell (1984). “Why Time Begins on Opening Day”, Doubleday Books

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• In other words, under Attorney General John Ashcroft, the FBI, the INS and the Department of Justice are so out of control that they have actually begun to enforce U.S. immigration laws.

  Ann Coulter

  Law, Justice, Immigration

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• The American Communist Party was notoriously infiltrated by informers, some working for the FBI, some for capitalist employers. At one time it used to be said that spies practically kept the Party going with their dues and contributions.

  Helen Lawrenson

  Party, Spy, Communism

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• Comey really spent an enormous amount of energy in the period in which both he and Trump were in office trying to protect the FBI from political interference from the White House.

  Benjamin Wittes

  Office, House, Political

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The FBI is unique in that it straddles both law enforcement and counterintelligence.

  James R. Clapper

  Unique, Law Enforcement

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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