Peter Strzok asks us to give him a pass based on the contention that everyone has political beliefs, everyone has biases, and he’s no different, except, okay, as an FBI agent his obligation is to be scrupulous, even fanatical, about not acting on those biases, which he did not, he claims.  Therefore, he met every obligation to his sworn duty.  However implausible that might be, considering the brutal intensity of his anti-Trump feelings as well as the almost obsessive frequency with which he gave vent to them (on FBI computers, no less), let’s take him at his word: Yes, he had biases, but, no, he didn’t act on them, at least not in a way detectable by the Inspector General, apparently, and, hence, where’s the problem? But there’s another element to this bias-business.  It’s not just about having them and acting on them, yes or no -- it’s also about forming them, and that’s being lost in the shuffle, it seems. Take...(Read Full Article)