Comment by stickfigure
18 hours ago
It is also possible he is an idiot. There are few valuable sentences that begin with "it is possible..."
18 hours ago
It is also possible he is an idiot. There are few valuable sentences that begin with "it is possible..."
To be fair, he probably never once in his wildest dreams ever thought he would be head of the FBI. So he probably didn't think he needed the extra security, because what idiot would put him in charge of the world's largest spy network.
The same idiot who pushed him into SecDef’s office and DNI in 2020.
He shouldn’t be FBI Director and he shouldn’t have been in the DNI or Secretary of Staff for SecDef either. All of those are high positions of responsibility and require tremendous OpsSec. This guy’s first act as FBI Director was to waive most of the investigations into his staff to bypass security clearance checks.
Sorry if I’m not disagreeing with you. Sarcasm is a bit hard to identify these days.
World’s largest spy network? The FBI wouldn’t even be the largest spy network within the US.
The FBI is not a spy network.
You are being pedantic.
I have 2 family members who are/were special agents for the FBI. Much of their job is harvesting evidence to build cases by spying, which frequently comes more in the form of “spying” in the way we saw in The Sopranos.
The FBI is also the premier counter-espionage organization within the US, so it is tasked with spying on suspected foreign / turned spies.
It is much more than a spy network, but it is exactly that as well.
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While I understand why you would say that, I think the way "spy network" was meant, was in the way that their job is to spy within the US. And given the resources at their disposition, and the size of the US, "worlds biggest spy network" is not wrong.
Also, they do head up the main counterintelligence effort of the US.
How the mighty have fallen.