NBC is out with a revealing report about the “bitter battle between the top FBI and DOJ officials” over whether to raid Mar-a-Lago.
Some FBI officials were also afraid that it would further erode the public’s confidence in them. They had that one right.
“You know what the reaction was in the department?” recalled a former FBI official involved in the case who asked not to be named. “We were like, ‘Oh shit, we don’t want any part of this. The real enemies are Russia and China.’”
They had concerns about politics being involved in the decision.
Career officials from the FBI Washington field office eventually took an unusual step. They privately questioned a career DOJ prosecutor’s political donations to Democrats and what they saw as his aggressive stance toward Trump. [….]Several FBI agents in the Washington field office were concerned about the aggressive tactics and political donations of Jay Bratt, one of the Justice Department prosecutors.
According to public records, Bratt, who now works for special counsel Jack Smith, had donated $600 to a former DOJ colleague’s unsuccessful Democratic primary campaign for the U.S. Senate in Oregon in 2007, $150 to the Oregon Senate Democratic Campaign Committee that same year, and a total of $500 to the Democratic National Committee in 1993 and 1994.
It’s not a lot of money but donating to the DNC is not a good look. As Matt Vespa at our sister site Townhall observed, with officials at that level, it raises questions.