“This is absolutely a big deal. Don’t buy the bullshit otherwise,” Bongino said.
“It was not a standard op. The MAL raid was an unprecedented action with significant potential for confusion and blue on blue issues and conflict. It also involved competing equities between federal agencies (FBI & USSS) with equal statutory claims to interrupt the other’s activities,” he said.
“Anyone telling you otherwise is either dumb, or playing dumb. I’ve done more >deconfliction with Russians in a foreign op I did for the USSS than the FBI did in their search warrant at MAL,” Bongino added.
“Only a dumbass would pitch the “it’s the standard paperwork” line. Go serve a search warrant at the White House in the cocaine case while filling out your “standard paperwork” and see how that works out for you. Wake up,”
Bongino said.
The point about blue-on-blue conflict. i.e. FBI and USSS, is that such a warrant would mean they could start shooting and the other (also armed) party would just shoot back, in self defence - no matter what could happen if Trump was in the firing line. It simply does not hold water, to say it is standard procedure, because the raid was anything but standard, and required a proper risk assessment - not a shoot-to-kill order, which could have ended in a bloodbath.
In any case it looks very bad to say it is a standard procedure, because that means that any raid, on any hapless citizen, could mean they can be killed for twitching, and the now-rogue agency can raid for any reason - say a mean tweet. The FBI and the White House have just declared war on WE the people.
Bongino said.
The point about blue-on-blue conflict. i.e. FBI and USSS, is that such a warrant would mean they could start shooting and the other (also armed) party would just shoot back, in self defence - no matter what could happen if Trump was in the firing line. It simply does not hold water, to say it is standard procedure, because the raid was anything but standard, and required a proper risk assessment - not a shoot-to-kill order, which could have ended in a bloodbath.
In any case it looks very bad to say it is a standard procedure, because that means that any raid, on any hapless citizen, could mean they can be killed for twitching, and the now-rogue agency can raid for any reason - say a mean tweet. The FBI and the White House have just declared war on WE the people.