There are many professional reasons to be critical of FBI Director Kash Patel, the timing and firing of Walter Giardina is not one of them.
Corrupt FBI Special Agent Walter Giardina’s wife was battling cancer; she died last month at the age of 49. FBI Director Kash compassionately and ¹wisely waited to fire Giardina while the corrupt official supported his wife and later grieved her loss.
[¹I include the word ‘wisely’ because given the adversarial nature of the employee’s situation within the organization, Giardina was almost guaranteed to exploit the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) law, and subsequent legal protection, if he was terminated by Patel during his wife’s illness. Giardina is a toxic federal employee in DC, and the one thing these federal DC employees know best is how to exploit employment protection law.]
Keep in mind that Giardina was one of the lead FBI agents working for the Mueller investigation. The Mueller investigation was a clear coverup operation and all of the FBI officials within it knew they were working on a fraudulent precept.
As soon as he was terminated, Special Agent Walter Giardina sent his termination letter to Ken Dilanian of MSNBC who was one of the primary narrative engineers behind Russiagate. Dilanian immediately posted a screenshot of it on social media, noting “Giardina is a Marine combat veteran whose wife died of cancer last month at age 49.”
Just because Giardina served in the military and his wife was fighting cancer, does not mean Giardina was not a toxic and corrupt FBI special agent who used the power and authorities of his office for his own agenda. He was.
There are a multitude of genuine reasons to be critical of Kash Patel and his ability to remove the toxic puss represented by his agency operations in/around Washington DC. However, when a critical and smart decision is made, he should also be appreciated. Everything around the removal and timing of Giardina was strategically smart.
Just because one served in the military does not automatically make one a patriot and the reverse is also true. One can be a patriot despite never serving in the military
True – reference John McCain and John Kerry for starters.
I respect John McCain’s military service as a true patriot. People have different political outlooks. The shame falls on those who manipulated him in his final days of suffering from brain cancer. I’m willing to damn the people who knowing the Steele Dossier was garbage gave it to him.
McStain helped the North by making recorded statements against the US and fellow soldiers,airmen and marines to get better treatment while in prison. Everything about McCain’s time in the Navy was not Honorable and he only served because his family name and the strings they pulled You can find the recordings online.
☝️ Spot on!
One of the instructors in SERE school filled us in on “songbird” McStain…
It wasn’t very flattering….
True that that and Trump called him out early on his perfidy.
Nearly destroyed an aircraft carrier and I don’t recall if there were casualties but that aside he was a friend of Harry Reid, and facilitated the delivery of the Steele Dossier not to mention he was the deciding vote against a bill to fix Obamacare, which to this day I have being paying over $6000/year for a premium tax credit below the line for income tax( i.e. it is added right on the bottom line as tax that you owe in addition to all other taxes) with a $7000 annual deductible which is basically catastrophic insurance. Thanks, but no thanks. He was jerk.
McCain was the only Naval Aviator to ever crash 3 aircraft. Anyone else would have been drummed out after one, or, at the most, two.
JM was a treasonous traitor, NEPOTISM is ONLY reason the asshole got anywhere.
McCain was not “swayed” or manipulated. He was a master liar and manipulator. Anything honorable he may have done (and that’s questionable) was eclipsed by his decades of wrongdoing once he was elected.
I wouldn’t piss on mccain if he was on fire.
Case in point:
… b-b-b-but I was just following orders …
Quite so. As a veteran I’m getting freakin’ tired of this “and he/she is a decorated veteran” trope being trotted out, as if it excuses seriously dastardly conduct. It’s often played just like a race card. Military service shouldn’t be cited that way, any more than it should be the cover fire for the treacherous perfidy of someone like Alexander Vindman.
Anybody else think that he looks like he was just asked in he’d been in the cookie jar?
Oswald and McVeigh both served in the military. In fact, some say, that service made them perfect candidates for the covert government operations that made them infamous.
There is a huge difference between physical courage and moral courage. There are plenty of people who willingly put their life on the line, who go into battle, who will charge into machine-gun fire and otherwise show tremendous physical courage. But some of those same people lack moral courage. Or sometimes people show that courage early in life but when they become older and more ‘comfortable’ their courage evaporates.
John McCain is a prime example. He demonstrated enormous physical courage in flying off aircraft carriers, resisting torture, surviving as a POW, suffering crippling wounds. But his moral courage was nonexistent. He cheated on multiple wives. He enriched himself through the ‘Keating Five’ S&L banking scam. He sold out his country negotiating against US interests with foreign enemies. He sold us all out with his vote on Obamacare repeal.
There are plenty of examples of people who had physical courage but lacked moral courage.
Respect courage yes. But know the physical does not automatically cross-over into the moral, and people change over time.
The best definition of a patriot is one who protects his country from its government.
And more often than not doing it outside of the limelight.
The patriots that won our independence from the crown did not seek recognition for their accomplishments. They rode quietly back to their farms where the resumed building a nation upon the freedom they had just secured.
JMO.
“[¹I include the word ‘wisely’ because given the adversarial nature of the employee’s situation within the organization, ”
So, what about the other thousands of biden, weaponizing, treasonous thugs who are still working in the DOJ / 3-Letter departments?………..Will we find out that each one of those has a sad story delaying their firing for cause?
It is kind of funny that thousands of biden thugs have been fired from the Dept of State, Treasury Dept, USAID, Homeland Security, Defense Department, etc, etc, etc but it is only the DOJ / FBI and other 3-letter departments that are given special protection for their biden carryovers …. delaying their firing and exposing President Trump to their continued treasonous activities.
Save the drama for your mama ………. no special protection for the biden traitor carryovers in the DOJ and the 3-letter departments.
Fire them all, yesterday ……. all Americas were damaged by their treasonous crimes …… Americans deserve sympathy, not the treasonous traitors still on our payroll.
MAGA / America First isn’t just our motto, it is our duty!
Reminds me of talking to my teenager.
There’s such a thing as public opinion, not to mention FMLA laws of he had been fired while his wife was still ailing.
From Dilanian’s X comment. Those “many” oughta be fired too.
‘“Giardina is a Marine combat veteran whose wife died of cancer last month at age 49.”’ Any time I read some drivel like this about a bad actor, I’m reminded that Adolph Hitler was a veteran, teetotaling, non-smoker, vegetarian, dog lover.
WOW my opion just did a 180 on old Adolf
And bisexual who forced his niece Geli Raubal into incest, who debased her, and then murdered her when she decided to escape his clutches.
An Austrian priest who heard Geli Raubal’s confession buried her in consecrated ground because she was not a suicide. He would later reach out to Otto Strasser, a former Nazi and an opponent of Hitler, to explain the depths of Hitler’ depravities in hopes Strasser would expose Hitler and have him punished. Strasser got cold feet. He barely escaped Germany with his life in 1933. When he defected, shared the info with our OSS during WWII.
William L. Shirer, the 1930s and 1940 correspondent in Germany, in his book “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich,” covered the Geli Raubal “suicide” errr, murder. This book was not obscure; it won him a nonfiction book award and sold several million copies in America and Europe in the early 1960s.
Here’s a link to an article on the murder:
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/1992/04/hitlers-doomed-angel
If the German justice system had done its job, Hitler would have been beheaded for murder before he got a chance to take over.
It’s important to punish the criminals.
if Hitler had not taken over, then the KPD and their Antifa terrorist arm would have taken over and handed Germany to the Soviet Union. Jews had tried previously in their Jewish revolution of 1919 to make Germany into a Communist shithole as well.
Germany should have expelled every Jew in 1920.
Adolph won the Iron Cross for gallantry in the trenches of WWI. And Benedict Arnold was a general and hero of the Revolution.
You run into plenty of criminal-minded and loony people in the military.
And John Wayne Gacy was a nice neighbor.
Well….Cringeshaw was a seal…does that make him wonderful? we thank him for his service to 🇺🇲but that doesn’t make them truly good people.
What a shame that someone who served turned out to be a traitor. His wife being a cancer victim is sad, just as it is for anyone.
The fact that the little maggot sent his letter of termination to msnbc speaks volumes of his true character.
What else along the way did he send? He certainly knew how to get there, didn’t he!
Not in my venue, anytime ask about exculpatory information.
Does MSPB stand for – MAGA Slapped Psychotic Bureaucrats?
When they closed the auto factory and all of us lost our jobs, paychecks and health insurance no one concerned themselves with our well being.
and that auto factory likely had many faithful employees who were veterans from all branches who never soiled the honor of the branch they served in.
Giardina, Mueller, Milley, Esper – and on and on, all have tried to cloak their crimes by hiding under their old uniforms.
Benedict Arnold was one of our best and bravest generals until Peggy Shippen turned his little head and his big head followed into turning coat.
I think that all federal employees should “serve at the Presiden’t pleasure”. That would effectively eliminate the “independent bureaucrcy”.
When federal employees are hired they swear an oath to the Constitution. After, or perhaps before, they do that, they should be required to read Article II of the Constitution. Article II says that all power, ALL power, in the executive branch is vested in the president. This needs to be made clear to them.
As federal employees, they don’t work for “the people”, they work for the president. We elected HIM, not them. If they can’t do that they should resign, or, they should be fired.
This man IS a traitor. He violated his oath and the Constitution, and put himself above the People of the United States.
Title 5 USC sets the conditions. If don’t like it, get the law changed.
Because:
his wife was ill he should have done the right thing;
he was a veteran with an oath to uphold;
and to not stain the honor of the branch he served in –
He should have:
disobeyed the illegal orders given him (everyone in America knew the eff bee eye was horribly corrupt) and he should have become a whistleblower upon discovering the illegalities committed and originating within that agency.
All LEO’s are obligated to act whenever they see or otherwise become aware of a crime.
He failed at the most elementary level.
He is not the only one in DC in that boat.
I had to re-read SD’s first couple of paragraphs, because I thought he was complimenting that Kash showed grace by allowing this turd to use FMLA and other employee benefits to care for his wife until she died.
I was mad, because that is just how the deep state always takes care of each other. Let’s not forget that Biden is supposedly suffering from Stage 4 cancer, so he should be inoculated from criticism.
(I understand, after re-reading, that SD is saying that waiting removed/lessened the possibility of Giardina suing for unfair termination.)
Well, I have a family member who was a senior employee relations specialist. You need to listen to these sometimes otherwise you will just get slapped down by the MSPB.
Yes, compassion is admirable. But when did we as a nation all vote to allow federal officials to spend taxpayer money (not their own personal money) to subsidize their personal feelings of compassion? When did we vote to turn the US Treasury into a charity?
See the example of how great Americans once viewed a similar situation – a situation with Davy Crocket when he was a congressman from Tennessee. “Not Yours to Give.” https://fee.org/resources/not-your-to-give/
Yes the total monetary amount is a miniscule fraction of a fraction of what the US Government spends every minute of every day. But it is “doing good” with our money, not his own.
Yes there is an argument that keeping this guy on his health insurance can be justified because it helps overall morale at the FBI. But ultimately he had to be fired. Keeping him onboard sends a mixed message.
I hope Patel at least had this guy on paid leave for the past few months instead of allowing a known saboteur to remain in place where he could do damage.
I think SD was saying that, while it may have appeared compassionate to Giardina on staff, the good thing about doing so was that it makes it harder for Giardina to sue over being deprived of bereavement or FMLA pay during wife’s illness.
I agree with this, but was angry when I initially thought SD was saying ‘isn’t it great that Kash kept him on til his wife passed’. Because, having a sick wife is not a get out of jail free card for gross misconduct in your job. So, I totally agree with you.
In other words, if you learn an employee is very sick, you can’t fire them because the employee can claim that you fired them to avoid paying health benefits and sick time. That is what Giardina would have attempted if Kash fired him as soon as possible.
OK I can see the “optics” point.
Was any of this waiting compassion extend to those who Jan 6’er’s who were treated viciously in prison and now set free
They have been financially devastated by a large $$$$$pverbloated money spouting machine that most normal citizens could not withstand—even resulted in a few suicides because of this extreme duress….
Please help if you can to support they are still struggling with such biddy OOO mass media defamation
https://www.wearegoodmen.com/
Do you think any of the corrupt politicians or any of the corrupt alphabet agencies on Jan. 6, thought twice about whether or not any of those peaceful protesters were veterans who served our country? Ask Ashley Babbitt.
If Giardina was preoccupied wit his wife’s illness, grieving, etc., he was likely not at work, and therefore not creating further harm. Patel’s delay in firing Giardina had low cost, while depriving the media of a chance to slam the administration with a big sob story. Wisdom of this sort gets wins without stirring up resistance. More please.
Good move bowels!!
There was a running joke during the Obummer years: Bill Gates wants to buy the FBI but the Clintons aren’t ready to sell!
(Many a truths were said in jest)
Guardina sounds like giardia, the parasite that causes bad diarrhea.