{"id":11514,"date":"2019-12-16T12:30:09","date_gmt":"2019-12-16T17:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=11514"},"modified":"2019-12-16T12:30:09","modified_gmt":"2019-12-16T17:30:09","slug":"quote-for-the-day-213","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=11514","title":{"rendered":"Quote for the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>I know firsthand the professionalism of the men and women of the F.B.I. The aspersions cast upon them by the president and my longtime friend, Attorney General William P. Barr, are troubling in the extreme. Calling F.B.I. professionals \u201cscum,\u201d as the president did, is a slur against people who risk their lives to keep us safe. Mr. Barr\u2019s charges of bias within the F.B.I., made without providing any evidence and in direct dispute of the findings of the nonpartisan inspector general, risk inflicting enduring damage on this critically important institution.<\/p>\n<p>The country can ill afford to have a chief law enforcement officer dispute the Justice Department\u2019s own independent inspector general\u2019s report and claim that an F.B.I. investigation was based on \u201ca completely bogus narrative.\u201d In fact, the report conclusively found that the evidence to initiate the Russia investigation was unassailable. There were more than 100 contacts between members of the Trump campaign and Russian agents during the 2016 campaign, and Russian efforts to undermine our democracy continue to this day. I\u2019m glad the F.B.I. took the threat seriously. It is important, Mr. Wray said last week, that the inspector general found that \u201cthe investigation was opened with appropriate predication and authorization.\u201d<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/12\/16\/opinion\/FBI-Trump-russia-investigation.html?action=click&#038;module=Opinion&#038;pgtype=Homepage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">William Webster<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>William Webster is a former director of both the FBI and the CIA and deserves our attention, even if the First Felon <i>would<\/i> probably dismiss him as a senile has-been.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know firsthand the professionalism of the men and women of the F.B.I. The aspersions cast upon them by the president and my longtime friend, Attorney General William P. Barr, are troubling in the extreme. Calling F.B.I. professionals \u201cscum,\u201d as &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=11514\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11514"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11514"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11515,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11514\/revisions\/11515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}