{"id":40350,"date":"2019-12-17T02:41:40","date_gmt":"2019-12-17T02:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=40350"},"modified":"2019-12-17T02:41:40","modified_gmt":"2019-12-17T02:41:40","slug":"former-cia-fbi-director-takes-aim-at-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=40350","title":{"rendered":"Former CIA, FBI director takes aim at Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23NYTimes%20%23POTUS%20%23CIA%20%23FBI%20%23WilliamWebster&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/fbi.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-40351\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/fbi-300x197.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/fbi-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/fbi-768x506.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/fbi.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump, the &#8220;current&#8221; president of the United States, is a threat to national security and is undermining the morale of the agencies charged with protecting us.<\/p>\n<p>Who said that? A flaming, squishy liberal activist? Oh, no. That thought comes from a longtime Republican and the only person ever to hold the offices of FBI and CIA director, William Webster.<\/p>\n<p>Webster is concerned that the president took issue with the &#8220;current&#8221; director of the FBI, Christopher Wray, who stands behind the inspector general&#8217;s assessment that he found no political bias in the launching of an FBI investigation into allegations of Russian election interference in our 2016 presidential campaign.<\/p>\n<p>He skewered Trump in an op-ed written for the New York Times. You can read it\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/12\/16\/opinion\/FBI-Trump-russia-investigation.html?action=click&amp;module=Opinion&amp;pgtype=Homepage\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Webster criticizes Trump for referring to the FBI as a &#8220;broken&#8221; agency. It isn&#8217;t broken. Indeed, the only &#8220;broken&#8221; federal office is the one operating inside the White House.<\/p>\n<p>My point here is that Webster is a strong, faithful and loyal Republican who is actually standing up to the fraudulent politician who is masquerading as our nation&#8217;s president.<\/p>\n<p>If only other reliable Republicans &#8212; those in public office at this moment &#8212; could summon the courage of William Webster.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23NYTimes%20%23POTUS%20%23CIA%20%23FBI%20%23WilliamWebster&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump, the &#8220;current&#8221; president of the United States, is a threat to national security and is undermining the morale of the agencies charged with protecting us. Who said that? A flaming, squishy liberal activist? Oh, no. That thought comes from a longtime Republican and the only person ever to hold the offices of FBI &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=40350\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Former CIA, FBI director takes aim at Trump<\/span> <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":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[989,1424,1693,1941,3360,9101],"class_list":["post-40350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-cia","tag-donald-trump","tag-fbi","tag-gop","tag-ny-times","tag-william-webster"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40350"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40352,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40350\/revisions\/40352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}