Peter Strzok asks us to give him a pass based on the contention that everyone has political beliefs, everyone has biases, and he's no different, except, okay, as an FBI agent his obligation is to be scrupulous, even fanatical, about not acting on those biases, which he did not, he claims.
Take the issue of Trump's disrespecting of gold-star father, Khizr Kahn, an episode which Strzok pointedly hauled out at the hearing.
Nothing Strzok said in his testimony was offered without extreme consideration and, no doubt, lawyerly advice, so why bring up Kahn, in particular? Clearly, it's because the rendition of that event as framed by the anti-Trump left and swallowed whole by Strzok paints a picture so egregious, so utterly without justification, and, they believe, so revelatory of Trump's deficient, repellant character that no one could possible argue otherwise or fail to see it in the same way.
Since we all agree on its awfulness, Strzok is convinced, surely we can empathize with his inability to temper his late night missive, exhausted as he was from fighting the good fight for the American people all day, weighed down with the burden of having to diligently maintain his objectivity in the face of this kind of repulsive behavior by one of the candidates.
Doesn't an FBI agent have a greater duty to work hard to "Keep an open mind"? Was it really okay for Strzok to immediately embrace the politicized version of that event, fly off the handle and fulminate with righteous indignation - and then set about investigating one of the parties involved? Is Strzok unaware that all kinds of people say all kinds of things in the political rough-and-tumble and that sorting it out not only takes a lot of work - but is a job best left to the American people at large?
On the question of Strzok's bias and whether we should believe he didn't act on it.
You just have to remember Momma's admonition that "There are two sides to every story" and avoid the temptation to indulge in the kind of delicious, holier-than-thou finger pointing, grandstanding and virtue-signaling - all those things that can lead to bias - that those of us who don't have other peoples' lives in our hands are allowed to engage in, but which FBI agents surely should not.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/07/strzok_the_fbi_and_bias.html
Take the issue of Trump's disrespecting of gold-star father, Khizr Kahn, an episode which Strzok pointedly hauled out at the hearing.
Nothing Strzok said in his testimony was offered without extreme consideration and, no doubt, lawyerly advice, so why bring up Kahn, in particular? Clearly, it's because the rendition of that event as framed by the anti-Trump left and swallowed whole by Strzok paints a picture so egregious, so utterly without justification, and, they believe, so revelatory of Trump's deficient, repellant character that no one could possible argue otherwise or fail to see it in the same way.
Since we all agree on its awfulness, Strzok is convinced, surely we can empathize with his inability to temper his late night missive, exhausted as he was from fighting the good fight for the American people all day, weighed down with the burden of having to diligently maintain his objectivity in the face of this kind of repulsive behavior by one of the candidates.
Doesn't an FBI agent have a greater duty to work hard to "Keep an open mind"? Was it really okay for Strzok to immediately embrace the politicized version of that event, fly off the handle and fulminate with righteous indignation - and then set about investigating one of the parties involved? Is Strzok unaware that all kinds of people say all kinds of things in the political rough-and-tumble and that sorting it out not only takes a lot of work - but is a job best left to the American people at large?
On the question of Strzok's bias and whether we should believe he didn't act on it.
You just have to remember Momma's admonition that "There are two sides to every story" and avoid the temptation to indulge in the kind of delicious, holier-than-thou finger pointing, grandstanding and virtue-signaling - all those things that can lead to bias - that those of us who don't have other peoples' lives in our hands are allowed to engage in, but which FBI agents surely should not.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/07/strzok_the_fbi_and_bias.html
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