I apologize for the shouting, but the upper case was their choice.
I just threw out the magazine, so I recalled the article well.
THE TRUE STORY OF THE COMEY LETTER DEBACLE
When F.B.I. director James Comey reopened the investigation into Hillary Clintons e-mails in the final days of the campaign, many saw it as a political move that cost Clinton the presidency. But some insiders suspect Comey had a more personal concern: his own legacy.
BY BETHANY MCLEAN
MARCH 2017
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F.B.I. agents still tend to be white males. In a way, this situation is systemic: to be promoted, you have to be willing to relocate, which can be difficult for women with children. A current agent also says that theres a strong conservative bent: if a TV is on in an F.B.I. building, its likely to be Fox News. ... But even within the F.B.I., there are tensions. There are three F.B.I.s, this agent tells me. There are the [56] field offices, theres [headquarters in] Washington, and then theres [the field office in] New York.
Often, a retired agent says, those in the field are suspicious of Washington. Dreamland, they called it in his day, because they believed those who werent on the ground investigating cases were clueless. [Agents] out in the field never want to give a case to D.C., because they believe headquarters is a hindrance to their investigations, says the agent, who also notes there is a paranoia that politics might interfere at headquarters. New York has an especially dim view of Washington and a reputation for fierce independence. There is a renegade quality to the New York F.B.I., says a former prosecutor, which, he claims, can take the form of agents leaking to the press to advance their own interests or to influence an investigation. New York leaks like a sieve, concurs another former prosecutor.
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On January 14, 2016, the inspector general notified the Senate that Clintons private servers had been flagged for classified information. Comey made the decision to run the investigation out of D.C., not New York, despite the fact that Clinton and her server were in New York. A core group of investigators and analysts were vetted and given security clearance, meaning that only those who were working on the case knew what they were doing.
Comey chose Washington because he wanted to be close enough to get daily updates, according to CNN, but he may also have been worried about leaks from New York. A former D.O.J. official says that, as early as 2015, a rumor was floating around that the F.B.I. agents in New York were cracking jokes about seeing Hillary Clinton in handcuffs. It was widely understood that there was a faction in that office that couldnt stand her and was out to get her, this person says.
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There is another piece to the internal issues at the F.B.I. Agents, primarily in New York, had been trying over the last few years to put together a case involving financial crimes or influence peddling against the Clinton Foundation. One knowledgeable source says that agents went to several U.S. Attorneys offices, trying to get prosecutors to open a case, before finally going to the Justice Departments public-integrity office. This person says that the agents did not have any facts that would support prosecutors taking further steps. But angry agents leaked to
The Wall Street Journal.
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