Enemies: The President, Justice & The FBI

If you believe in democracy you need to see this. All the dots are connected between those political "leaders" who think themselves above the law and their lawless behavior. The role of pardons in their criminal enterprises is especially frightening. Must see for all. You won't be able to hang onto your alternate fact sets after seeing this.

Liberal propaganda. I do like politically historical shows that discuss major events in the past at the highest levels. This unfortunately falls short because it is a liberal propaganda piece. Many times they've use the word unbiased when it comes to the FBI. We now know that is totally untrue based on Comey who took it upon himself to intervene in a presidential election and undermined a sitting president. That is the worst of law-enforcement when they become a political arm just because they feel morally obligated in spite of existing laws and elections. This sounds more like Russia than the United States. You never want your police officers to become an arm of any politician. While some of the footage is good The message is awful. Note they left out Obama who had about 13 scandals during his presidency. It has potential, but crashed and burned.

Need I say more. Some is bent truth but trying to make liberals the ones NOT creating an idealust society, hiding truths from American citizens. We are a divided country and maybe will one day be a free country again but will more than likely be split into two Historty repeats, its the civil war all over again.

I'm writing this not only because I enjoyed the show, but because the accusations of this show being propaganda is unfounded. The show examines 4-5 conflicts between the FBI and executive branch starting with Watergate. Speaking with numerous former agents as well as former White House employees the stories show both sides of these conflicts. The episode focus on the following: watergate, Iran-contra scandal, Chinagate/Whitewater"/Monica gate, and the rise of Comey during the Bush Adminstration up until the present day. Incredibly interesting and I recommend.

I've seen several of Alex Gibney's documentaries so far and I find myself noticing the glaring, blatant, intelligence-insulting manipulations.

I was really enjoying this documentary (more than many of his others, which were lousy and incredibly one-sided and manipulative) until the final episode. I am a Democrat and I loathe Trump, so I have no bone to pick in terms of "owning the libs." But to claim that not a single FBI Agent was happy about Comey being fired is, on its face, implausible. No leader is 100% beloved. In fact, career agents are not particularly impressed with political appointments. Imagine being at a company for 30 years and suddenly your new CEO is plucked out of a totally different industry and put in charge. Sure, in many ways it's a figurehead position, but respect still has to be earned. I'd say Louis Freeh came the closest to having that respect the day he started, but only because he'd previously been an agent. And still, there were those who said, "Sure, but he quit after 6 years."

Comey may have been somewhat popular in his early days as director, especially in contrast to the dour Mueller, because he was more extroverted and friendly and seemed to have more of an open door policy. But he certainly carried a lot of baggage. He had a reputation in DC as kind of a holier-than-thou, self-aggrandizing, "I'm the only honest man in DC" persona. He may have tried to play the humble aw, shucks role, but the guy was full of himself. Everyone knew it.

Add to that his relentless PR campaign to make the FBI more open and transparent, complete with TV appearances, speeches, you name it, and suddenly the FBI was in the spotlight all the time, which made many agents uncomfortable and miss Mueller's discreet and quiet leadership style. But yeah Comey had some burning desire to blaze a new trail.

That Alex Gibney actually used an official FBI internal memo to "prove" that Comey was so beloved and going to be missed is utterly laughable. Like the FBI is really going to have an internal memo that said "Phew, glad to see the POS is getting the boot!"

How stupid and naive do you think the viewers are? Many agents resented Comey and were glad to see him go. I had to take off 2 stars just for that jaw-dropping segment. I'm still shaking my head.