COM: You bet. It all started last summer when I decided -- in what I now recognize was a bad mistake in judgement -- to publicly talk about Hillary Clinton's emails investigation. I need to stop here to clarify something: I feel I can talk about this with you only under the strictest rules of confidentiality.
PSY: Please know that I am prohibited by the law and by custom and by the ethics of the psychiatric profession from divulging anything you relate to me. Nothing you say leaves this room. In fact, I will put down my notepad and pen, so that no record will exist of our conversation. Will this suffice in alleviating your concerns?
COM: Yes, thank you. I'm placing this sound disrupter on the table -- just in case anybody is sweeping for conversation. It breaks up words into shredder-like noise-chaff.
PSY: I hope you will talk more about who might want to listen in on this session. But, regardless, If this makes you feel more secure, it's fine with me. Please proceed.
COM: So what I was about to say has to do with the political snake pit that is the FBI. There are partisan and ideological factions so entrenched in the Bureau that it makes the Justice Department 's political culture seem like a Sunday School picnic.
PSY: Are you suggesting that these factions are actually warring with each other?
COM: Exactly. And because these tribes at the Bureau leak like a sieve to the media -- it seems that every senior agent has direct access to favorite journalists at the Times, Post, Fox News, BuzzFeed, Wall Street Journal, all of them -- and, since my staff memos on this subject had little to no effect, I had to quickly learn how to keep everybody happy.
PSY: What does that mean, "to keep everybody happy"?
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