Deep antipathy to Hillary Clinton exists within the FBI, multiple bureau sources have told the Guardian, spurring a rapid series of leaks damaging to her campaign just days before the election.
Current and former FBI officials, none of whom were willing or cleared to speak on the record, have described a chaotic internal climate that resulted from outrage over director James Comeys July decision not to recommend an indictment over Clintons maintenance of a private email server on which classified information transited.
The FBI is Trumpland, said one current agent.
This atmosphere raises major questions about how Comey and the bureau he is slated to run for the next seven years can work with Clinton should she win the White House.
The currently serving FBI agent said Clinton is the antichrist personified to a large swath of FBI personnel, and that the reason why theyre leaking is theyre pro-Trump.
The agent called the bureau Trumplandia, with some colleagues openly discussing voting for a GOP nominee who has garnered unprecedented condemnation from the partys national security wing and who has pledged to jail Clinton if elected.
At the same time, other sources dispute the depth of support for Trump within the bureau, though they uniformly stated that Clinton is viewed highly unfavorably.
There are lots of people who dont think Trump is qualified, but also believe Clinton is corrupt. What you hear a lot is that its a bad choice, between an incompetent and a corrupt politician, said a former FBI official.
Sources who disputed the depth of Trumps internal support agreed that the FBI is now in parlous political territory. Justice department officials another current target of FBI dissatisfaction have said the bureau disregarded longstanding rules against perceived or actual electoral interference when Comey wrote to Congress to say it was reviewing newly discovered emails relating to Clintons personal server.
