The FBI is considering carrying out a “showy” arrest and perp walk of the agency’s now-indicted ex-Director James Comey, and has suspended an agent who refused to participate in the plan, three sources familiar with the matter told CBS News.

Ray refused to participate in this plan, believing it would be inappropriate and highly unusual for a white-collar defendant like Comey, according to the source. He was then suspended for insubordination.

The FBI is now actively working to put together a team to arrest Comey between now and his court appearance on Thursday, but other FBI supervisors have also refused to cooperate, said a source knowledgeable about the conversions and a law enforcement source familiar with the situation. The expectation is that the FBI will eventually find somebody.

  • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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    15 hours ago

    Let it happen, it will backfire mightily.

    Remember Luigi’s peep walk, with all the cops, and Adams, and that Sociopathic Oligarch Nepo-Baby Police Commissioner? They thought that it would make them look powerful, and instead, it made them look scared and cowardly, while he looked perfectly unperturbed. One caption I saw said: “Christ led to his crucifixion by Roman Centurions.” Not exactly the message they thought they were sending.

    So let them try, they’ll just fuck it up, and look incompetent, as usual.

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      14 hours ago

      It’s not the same thing. Most people love Luigi so the perp walk did nothing except show how shitty cops are.

      No-one gives a shit about Comey. Democrats hate him because he undermined Hillary and basically lead to Trump part one.

      Republicans hate him because he didn’t gargle Trumps nuts with enthusiasm.

      It’s the same shit as Bolton. What Trump is doing is wrong and despicable. At the same time Bolton and Comey are pieces of shit…