Ex-agent calls move ‘a punch in the stomach’ as some former employees fright a ‘chilling effect’ on bureau’s investigation of Trump’s ties to RussiaDonald Trump’s firing of the FBI director,James Comey, has left FBI agents shocked, or wrathful and humiliated,with some former agents worried that the president has fundamentally compromised the bureau’s prized political neutrality. Bobby Chacon, a former FBI agent who served in Los Angeles and current York and retired in 2014, and compared the abrupt firing to “a punch in the stomach to agents”. Related: Few Republicans defend Comey firing outright,as Democrats cry Watergate Continue reading...
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