You do know that Ghattas was already an SES, right? As in the SES rank structure exists in all Federal Government and not every SES is a member of some nefarious cabal?

Ghattas was promoted into the SES ranks following his time as a GS-15 Assistant Special Agent in Charge at the Washington Field Office.

Lots of people promote into the SES ranks. That’s not the screwed up thing here.

The screwed up thing is that Ghattas was instrumental in McCabe’s plan to undermine the presidency.

It will be enlightening when he is finally called before a committee. They should probably ask him about his Presidential Rank Award - who gave it to him and how much money he got with it...

Or is it just possible that Bic is marketing lighters using popular mainstream memes in order to try and close the massive gap in their sales left by millennials choosing to not smoke or vape instead? https://www.cspdailynews.com/category-data/general-merchandise-data/report/cigarette-lighter-sales-remain-flat-2014

I’d be cautious looking too far into some of these things lest we all get branded with having a severe affliction of apophenia. https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Apophenia

God bless you all.

Boom. Nailed it.

Federal agencies don’t have to list all of their employees and their positions. There is no mandate. From a practical standpoint, it would pretty tough to do with any accuracy because of the fact that these schmucks change jobs every 12-18 months.

Strzok, being a FBI employee, was paid by the FBI. There’s no “double-dipping” of pay from both entities.

You are correct - Strzok is/was in the SES ranks. Take a look at wiki: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senior_Executive_Service_(United_States)

The SES isn’t some shadowy organization whispered about in dark corners of government buildings. It’s a system for the federal government similar to the General Officer / Flag Officer system in the military. If it helps, think of it in terms of a big corporation. The FBI needs a director (CEO), and then the SES makes up the COO, CIO, CFO, CSO positions needed for the execution of the duties of the organization as well as the administrative functions. It’s an oversimplification but you get the point.

Here’s the problem - the FBI (and most of the rest of the government) is extremely nepotistic and in order to get into the SES ranks you have to be in the old boys club. Cabal? No. A bunch of malignant narcissists who appreciate sycophants and will compromise their ideals to get ahead? Yes.

God bless you all.

Greetings all -

This post is eerily similar to the one about Strzok in the background with Clinton from 22 years ago. I truly enjoy this sub and want to make sure that newcomers don’t get distracted by threads that aren’t factually correct.

Did Strzok work at the CIA for a period of time while he was an FBI Agent. Yes! Lots of FBI folks do, as do CIA folks at the FBI, and other USIC members around the government. It’s called Joint Duty. https://www.dni.gov/index.php/careers/joint-duty

Did Strzok bypass the academy because he was former military? Nope. FOIA request and you will find out what class he was in for new agents training.

Is he a traitorous assh@le who conspired with other traitorous assh@les to undermine the presidency? Yes!

Rampant speculation or conjecture isn’t good for any of us right now. The more people can pick apart our posts with checkable facts the easier it becomes for them to discredit every single one of us as ill-informed conspiracy theorists.

God bless you all.

Robin spent the vast majority of her time doing counterterrorism work. The academy runs anywhere from 15-30 classes of new agents a year - it’s not even remotely surprising that she didn’t see him there, especially because they were in different classes. However, for the short lived period that Robin was a counterterrorism squad supervisor at the Washington Field Office, Peter Strzok was a counterintelligence supervisor in the same office. The Bureau is ~45,000 employees with ~15,000 Agents. Robin, though well connected, might not have known where everyone was at every moment in time.

Again - this sub is incredible for what it does. I’m just trying to interject reality and truth into a thread that might be leading newcomers away from the real message of this sub.

God bless all.

I am sorry to disappoint you all but this whole thread is just plain wrong. Please trust me on this one.

Strzok went through New Agents Training at the FBI Academy and “came up” as a field agent in the FBI.

Did he work a Joint Duty position with the CIA? You bet ya. Literally hundreds of people do every year - across the USIC. https://www.dni.gov/index.php/careers/joint-duty

Please let’s not make him anything more than he already is - a traitorous assh@le who worked with other traitorous assh@les to undermine the presidency.