US President Donald Trump is leading a battle to question the credibility of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in preparation for his innocence in investigating Russia's intervention in the 2016 US presidential election.
It is open to all odds battle, and may not end in the foreseeable future, at a time when America's constitutional crisis threatens the "Saturday Night Massacre", famed in 1973, when Richard Nixon was overthrown by justice before the resignation of office leaves, .
Even before he officially took power, the specter of the Russian investigation began to hover around the new president and his team. Trump has since regressed from the pressure on the institution, which is known for its independence from the White House.
Trump has so far attacked his ally, Justice Minister Jeff Sessions, because of his isolation from the Russian investigation, Deputy Justice Minister Rob Rosenstein, because of his appointment, Robert Muller, a special investigator, and expelled the former director of the FBI, James Komi, Andrew McCabe, who resigned this week. What Trump wants is loyalty or what he called "nepotism" in his testimony before Congress last year.
The FBI refused to present him, and Trump was informed by programmed leaks to the media that all the suspects in the investigation had been tried later. As the office publicly denied all Trump accounts about listening to Barack Obama's predecessor during the recent presidential election, and more than once, the president's request to stop the investigation with his national security adviser resigned Michael Flynn, but on the contrary, the FBI "Flynn The suspect is a collaborator in the investigation.
Trump on Friday accused Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) officials and the Justice Department of politicizing the investigations of his Democratic rivals. "Top FBI officials and investigators and the Justice Department have politicized the investigation process for Democrats and Republicans," Trump said in a tweet on his Twitter account, "it was unimaginable a short time ago," praising the work of " Oppose the officials.
As the White House probe rises, Trump, who is trying to identify empty Mueller papers, rises as the latter moves to the president. But Trump's recent tour of this battle is the worst, as it seeks to discredit the FBI and put the Republican Party in the face of an old intelligence establishment.
The head of the intelligence committee is Republican Rep. Devin Nunes, who links the FBI and Trump, and former British intelligence agent Christopher Steele, who was behind the so-called "steel file" of the Trump scandals and Moscow's influence on him. .
The four-page "Nunez Memorandum" states that the campaign of Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton, who funded Steele's file during the presidential campaign, colluded with the Justice Department.
The main objective here is to prove that there is bias from the FBI against Trump, to discredit Rosenstein, who oversees the work of the FBI, and more importantly is questioning his intentions behind Muller's appointment as a special investigator.
Most of the mass intelligence committee voted to publish the memo on Monday. For the first time, the FBI expressed its silence on administrative issues, warning in an unprecedented statement of the release of this confidential memo. Letters to the White House said newly appointed director of the FBI, Christopher Ray, could resign if published.
There is concern in the Justice Department that Trump will use a fact-finding memorandum and evidence to liquidate the account and dismiss senior officials, including Rosenstein or even Muller.
House Speaker Paul Ryan called for the memo to be published, helping to "cleanse" the FBI. The fear here is that Washington will be at the gates of the "Saturday Night Massacre" while the famous Justice Minister Nixon sacked his deputy, thus allowing the third man in the ministry, Robert Burke, to exclude the private investigator in the Watergate scandal.
Attempts to prevent the publication of the memo in Congress have not stopped. MP Adam Schiff, the highest-ranking Democrat on the intelligence committee, accused his colleague Nunez of sending a copy of the memorandum to the White House that had been agreed at the committee meeting and called for a re-vote on the resolution.
There are also votes in the Senate, which want a vote to approve the publishing decision, which has so far been limited to the House of Representatives. The danger of publishing the memo is politicizing the US intelligence work, which is likely to be a popular skepticism, especially at the Trump base, toward FBI agents in the field who have daily contact with American citizens.
Muller asked the court this week to postpone Michael Flynn's sentence until next spring, which means the latter continues to cooperate and there are follow-up steps. While all Trump's actions give indications that he fears that Muller will reach a stage where the president is accused of obstructing justice and the conduct of the investigation.
In a recent poll for Monmouth University, 71 percent of Americans saw Trump talking to Mueller under oath, including 51 percent of Republicans. He is locked in an open battle with the FBI for any US president, especially if he is personally involved in an investigation led by the Justice Department.
Trump's adventure will have repercussions in the next stage on the doors of the grand confrontation when the features of Muller's realization begin to appear next spring.
