{"id":14033,"date":"2018-01-29T12:49:43","date_gmt":"2018-01-29T18:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=14033"},"modified":"2018-01-29T12:49:43","modified_gmt":"2018-01-29T18:49:43","slug":"theres-more-than-one-way-to-damage-institutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/01\/29\/theres-more-than-one-way-to-damage-institutions\/","title":{"rendered":"There’s More Than One Way To Damage Institutions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Which is to say, sometimes casting baseless aspersions are not enough. I see CNN<\/strong><\/em> is reporting<\/a> that FBI<\/strong><\/em> Deputy Director Andrew McCabe<\/a> is “stepping down,” and there is a suggestion that it may not be his choice. McCabe has not been a favorite of Trump (and it’s terrible that I can write that line as more than just a turn of phrase, but instead mean it), mostly because he and his wife are Democrats – and his wife actually ran for a state-level office and gave money to the Clinton campaign.<\/p>\n

Regardless of whether he chose to quit or was handed a termination notice, it’s important to note that McCabe has worked for the FBI<\/strong><\/em> since 1996 – he’s no political appointee who has received a sinecure for butt-licking, he’s a real working dude with real world experience in counter-terrorism and interrogation techniques. The FBI’s reputation, like most institutions, rests primarily on its personnel, so by removing high-ranking personnel, Trump is implicitly destroying the prestige of the institution.<\/p>\n

It’s also worth thinking about how the efficiency of the FBI is compromised by McCabe’s exit. Undoubtedly, the FBI will do its best to compensate – and they have enough resources to reduce the impact to perhaps unmeasurability in the short term. But without a doubt, this will impact the morale of the FBI<\/strong><\/em>, as did the sacking of Comey after he quite properly refused to swear fealty to Trump. People who are not happy going into work rarely do their best work.<\/p>\n

If McCabe has been forced out, someone should ask Trump why he’s endangering the citizens of the United States in order to pursue a personal vendetta.<\/p>\n

And if he doesn’t answer, ask it again. And again. The regular folk endangered by reckless acts would really like to know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Which is to say, sometimes casting baseless aspersions are not enough. I see CNN is reporting that FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe is “stepping down,” and there is a suggestion that it may not be his choice. McCabe has not been a favorite of Trump (and it’s terrible that I \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14033"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14034,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14033\/revisions\/14034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}