This is bullshit. Buma copied and distributed 130 confidential/classified files. He and FBI have nothing to do with Israel, everything to do with harassing Trump, Giuliani, etc.
Buma should not be facing 1 year in jail maximum. He should be facing a decade breaking rocks at Leavenworth penitentiary.
Friend, O'Boyle, etc were genuine whistleblowers brutalized by Wray's FBI.
FBI/Israel/Mob put Buma through a Hell of a lot. Mr. Bloom is an expert. Even so, I'm curious how much of Buma's issue was Israel. Or could some of Buma's issue could have been the Trump Int'l. Mob.
Wasn't Buma instrumental in getting investigation/prosecution into Charles McGonigal/Agron Nezaj, at a time the majority of Americans welcomed Justice and Convictions of corruption? At the same time Trump's New York Roy Cohn (now deceased)/Giuliani Mob deserved to be exposed; it was a long time coming.
But, did other actors tied to Trump destabilize the FBI in 2019/2020/2021-- to the extent that FBI agents with integrity were targeted/ousted, leading possibly to an FBI that is now extremely compromised? Ginni Thomas allegedly worked in tandem with long-time Trump friends Charles McGonigal and James Kallstrom to influence/infiltrate/oust (allegedly) many in the FBI, (i.e., Ginni Thomas' hit list to oust anyone who was not sufficiently loyal to Trump).
Plus, Sidney Powell in 2020 privately met with Bill Barr to get Barr to appoint (seemingly single-purpose) Jeff Jensen as Special Counsel to spring Mike Flynn and Roger Stone -- in time to orchestrate the 1/6/2021 Coup. This overrode the FBI's work/conviction and sentencing in Mike Flynn's and Roger Stone's cases, tied to Trump. How did this activity of Trump loyalists in (or into) the FBI affect Buma's (or any agent's) ability to be effective in the past 7 years, or so?
I know Mr. Bloom's article is about Israel's long-time targeting of Buma. But, wouldn't Trump's Int'l. Mob (a Mob that appeared to have infiltrated the FBI) have targeted "anyone" who got in the way? Is it possible that Buma pushing for what he believed was right, was both what the USA needed, but also what made him more dangerous to Trump's Int'l. Mob?
I hope Mr. Buma can find contentment where he "is at," knowing he has done important work for USA, and has an excellent attorney.
There will be more to come on this. He was upset by my publishing his statement to Congress, but my feeling at the time was that if it was already an inter-branch whistleblower matter it's by definition in the public interest to publish, and you could see by that point that the Israel stuff was going to pop off. Anyone else who got the story would be highly likely to write that out. He has since come around a bit more to my point of view.
It's definitely also true that a lot of corrupt figures in Ukraine and Russia did not like Buma either, but part of the problem here is much of the American public's view of that conflict is mediated by partisans of Israel, which has a stake in both countries, both Ukrainian and Russian oligarchs have Israeli citizenship, and so forth, so it's important to kind of take the Israeli partisans out of the information loop for a while.
Excellent reporting as always
This is bullshit. Buma copied and distributed 130 confidential/classified files. He and FBI have nothing to do with Israel, everything to do with harassing Trump, Giuliani, etc.
Buma should not be facing 1 year in jail maximum. He should be facing a decade breaking rocks at Leavenworth penitentiary.
Friend, O'Boyle, etc were genuine whistleblowers brutalized by Wray's FBI.
FBI/Israel/Mob put Buma through a Hell of a lot. Mr. Bloom is an expert. Even so, I'm curious how much of Buma's issue was Israel. Or could some of Buma's issue could have been the Trump Int'l. Mob.
Wasn't Buma instrumental in getting investigation/prosecution into Charles McGonigal/Agron Nezaj, at a time the majority of Americans welcomed Justice and Convictions of corruption? At the same time Trump's New York Roy Cohn (now deceased)/Giuliani Mob deserved to be exposed; it was a long time coming.
But, did other actors tied to Trump destabilize the FBI in 2019/2020/2021-- to the extent that FBI agents with integrity were targeted/ousted, leading possibly to an FBI that is now extremely compromised? Ginni Thomas allegedly worked in tandem with long-time Trump friends Charles McGonigal and James Kallstrom to influence/infiltrate/oust (allegedly) many in the FBI, (i.e., Ginni Thomas' hit list to oust anyone who was not sufficiently loyal to Trump).
Plus, Sidney Powell in 2020 privately met with Bill Barr to get Barr to appoint (seemingly single-purpose) Jeff Jensen as Special Counsel to spring Mike Flynn and Roger Stone -- in time to orchestrate the 1/6/2021 Coup. This overrode the FBI's work/conviction and sentencing in Mike Flynn's and Roger Stone's cases, tied to Trump. How did this activity of Trump loyalists in (or into) the FBI affect Buma's (or any agent's) ability to be effective in the past 7 years, or so?
I know Mr. Bloom's article is about Israel's long-time targeting of Buma. But, wouldn't Trump's Int'l. Mob (a Mob that appeared to have infiltrated the FBI) have targeted "anyone" who got in the way? Is it possible that Buma pushing for what he believed was right, was both what the USA needed, but also what made him more dangerous to Trump's Int'l. Mob?
I hope Mr. Buma can find contentment where he "is at," knowing he has done important work for USA, and has an excellent attorney.
There will be more to come on this. He was upset by my publishing his statement to Congress, but my feeling at the time was that if it was already an inter-branch whistleblower matter it's by definition in the public interest to publish, and you could see by that point that the Israel stuff was going to pop off. Anyone else who got the story would be highly likely to write that out. He has since come around a bit more to my point of view.
It's definitely also true that a lot of corrupt figures in Ukraine and Russia did not like Buma either, but part of the problem here is much of the American public's view of that conflict is mediated by partisans of Israel, which has a stake in both countries, both Ukrainian and Russian oligarchs have Israeli citizenship, and so forth, so it's important to kind of take the Israeli partisans out of the information loop for a while.