FBI, R.I.P.?
Aug 11, 2022 17:41:16 #
dtucker300
Loc: Vista, CA
The FBI has a long history of spying on American citizens. It needs to be broken apart, the leadership immediately fired, and every rand and file person in the bureau should have to reapply for their job, proving they support the Constitution instead of being part of the deep state.
FBI, R.I.P.?
The agency has become dangerous to Americans and an existential threat to their democracy and rule of law.
By Victor Davis Hanson
August 10, 2022
The FBI is dissolving before our eyes into a rogue security service akin to those in Eastern Europe during the Cold War.
Take the FBI’s deliberately asymmetrical application of the law. This week the bureau surprise-raided the home of former President Donald Trump—an historical first.
A massive phalanx of FBI agents swooped into the Trump residence while he was not home, to confiscate his personal property, safe, and records. All of this was over an archival dispute of presidential papers common to many former presidents. Agents swarmed the entire house, including the wardrobe closet of the former first lady.
Note we are less than 90 days out from a midterm election, and this was not just a raid, but a political act.
The Democratic Party is anticipated to suffer historical losses. Donald Trump was on the verge of announcing his 2024 presidential candidacy. In many polls, he remains the Republican front-runner for the nomination—and well ahead of incumbent Joe Biden in a putative 2024 rematch.
In 2016 then FBI Director James Comey announced that candidate Hillary Clinton was guilty of destroying subpoenaed emails—a likely felony pertaining to her tenure as secretary of state. Yet he all but pledged that she would not be prosecuted given her status as a presidential candidate.
As far as targeting presidential candidates, Donald Trump was impeached in 2020 ostensibly for delaying military aid to Ukraine by asking Ukrainian officials to investigate more fully the clearly corrupt Biden family—given Joe Biden at the time was a likely possible presidential opponent in 2020.
The FBI has devolved into a personal retrieval service for the incorrigible Biden family. It suppressed, for political purposes, information surrounding Hunter Biden’s missing laptop on the eve of the 2020 election.
Previously, the FBI never pursued Hunter’s fraudulently registered firearm, his mysterious foreign income, his felonious crack cocaine use, or his regular employment of foreign prostitutes.
Yet in a pre-dawn raid just before the 2020 election, the FBI targeted the home of journalist James O’Keefe on grounds someone had passed to him the lost and lurid diary of Ashley Biden, Biden’s wayward daughter.
At various times, in Stasi-style the FBI has publicly shackled Trump economic advisor Peter Navarro, swarmed the office of Trump’s legal counsel Rudy Giuliani, and sent a SWAT team to surround the house of Trump ally Roger Stone. Meanwhile, terrorists and cartels walk with impunity across an open border.
FBI Director Christopher Wray last week cut short his evasive testimony before Congress. He claimed he had to leave for a critical appointment—only to use his FBI Gulfstream luxury jet to fly to his favorite vacation spot in the Adirondacks.
Wray took over from disgraced interim FBI Director Andrew McCabe. The latter admitted lying repeatedly to federal investigators and signed off on a fraudulent FBI FISA application. He faced zero legal consequences.
McCabe, remember, was also the point man in the softball Hillary Clinton email investigation—while his wife was a political candidate and recipient of thousands of dollars from a political action committee with close ties to the Clinton family.
McCabe took over from disgraced FBI Director James Comey. On 245 occasions, Comey claimed under oath before the House Intelligence Committee that he had no memory or knowledge of key questions concerning his tenure. With impunity, he leaked confidential FBI memos to the media.
Comey took over from Director Robert Mueller. Implausibly, Mueller swore under oath that he had no knowledge, either of the Steele dossier or of Fusion GPS, the firm that commissioned Christopher Steele to compile the dossier. But those were the very twin catalysts that had prompted his entire special investigation into the Russian collusion hoax.
FBI legal counsel Kevin Clinesmith was convicted of a felony for altering an FBI warrant request to spy on an innocent Carter Page.
The FBI, by Comey’s own public boasts, bragged how it caught National Security Advisor designate General Michael Flynn in its Crossfire Hurricane Russian collusion hoax.
As special counsel, Mueller then fired two of his top investigators—Lisa Page and Peter Strzok—for improper personal and professional behavior. He then staggered their releases to mask their collaborative wrongdoing.
Mueller’s team deleted critical cell phone evidence under subpoena that might well have revealed systemic FBI-related bias.
The FBI interferes with and warps national elections. It hires complete frauds as informants who are far worse than its targets. It humiliates or exempts government and elected officials based on their politics. It violates the civil liberties of individual American citizens.
The FBI’s highest officials now routinely mislead Congress. They have erased or altered court and subpoenaed evidence. They illegally leak confidential material to the media. And they have lied under oath to federal investigators.
The agency has become dangerous to Americans and an existential threat to their democracy and rule of law. The FBI should be dispersing its investigatory responsibilities to other government investigative agencies that have not yet lost the public trust.
FBI, R.I.P.?
The agency has become dangerous to Americans and an existential threat to their democracy and rule of law.
By Victor Davis Hanson
August 10, 2022
The FBI is dissolving before our eyes into a rogue security service akin to those in Eastern Europe during the Cold War.
Take the FBI’s deliberately asymmetrical application of the law. This week the bureau surprise-raided the home of former President Donald Trump—an historical first.
A massive phalanx of FBI agents swooped into the Trump residence while he was not home, to confiscate his personal property, safe, and records. All of this was over an archival dispute of presidential papers common to many former presidents. Agents swarmed the entire house, including the wardrobe closet of the former first lady.
Note we are less than 90 days out from a midterm election, and this was not just a raid, but a political act.
The Democratic Party is anticipated to suffer historical losses. Donald Trump was on the verge of announcing his 2024 presidential candidacy. In many polls, he remains the Republican front-runner for the nomination—and well ahead of incumbent Joe Biden in a putative 2024 rematch.
In 2016 then FBI Director James Comey announced that candidate Hillary Clinton was guilty of destroying subpoenaed emails—a likely felony pertaining to her tenure as secretary of state. Yet he all but pledged that she would not be prosecuted given her status as a presidential candidate.
As far as targeting presidential candidates, Donald Trump was impeached in 2020 ostensibly for delaying military aid to Ukraine by asking Ukrainian officials to investigate more fully the clearly corrupt Biden family—given Joe Biden at the time was a likely possible presidential opponent in 2020.
The FBI has devolved into a personal retrieval service for the incorrigible Biden family. It suppressed, for political purposes, information surrounding Hunter Biden’s missing laptop on the eve of the 2020 election.
Previously, the FBI never pursued Hunter’s fraudulently registered firearm, his mysterious foreign income, his felonious crack cocaine use, or his regular employment of foreign prostitutes.
Yet in a pre-dawn raid just before the 2020 election, the FBI targeted the home of journalist James O’Keefe on grounds someone had passed to him the lost and lurid diary of Ashley Biden, Biden’s wayward daughter.
At various times, in Stasi-style the FBI has publicly shackled Trump economic advisor Peter Navarro, swarmed the office of Trump’s legal counsel Rudy Giuliani, and sent a SWAT team to surround the house of Trump ally Roger Stone. Meanwhile, terrorists and cartels walk with impunity across an open border.
FBI Director Christopher Wray last week cut short his evasive testimony before Congress. He claimed he had to leave for a critical appointment—only to use his FBI Gulfstream luxury jet to fly to his favorite vacation spot in the Adirondacks.
Wray took over from disgraced interim FBI Director Andrew McCabe. The latter admitted lying repeatedly to federal investigators and signed off on a fraudulent FBI FISA application. He faced zero legal consequences.
McCabe, remember, was also the point man in the softball Hillary Clinton email investigation—while his wife was a political candidate and recipient of thousands of dollars from a political action committee with close ties to the Clinton family.
McCabe took over from disgraced FBI Director James Comey. On 245 occasions, Comey claimed under oath before the House Intelligence Committee that he had no memory or knowledge of key questions concerning his tenure. With impunity, he leaked confidential FBI memos to the media.
Comey took over from Director Robert Mueller. Implausibly, Mueller swore under oath that he had no knowledge, either of the Steele dossier or of Fusion GPS, the firm that commissioned Christopher Steele to compile the dossier. But those were the very twin catalysts that had prompted his entire special investigation into the Russian collusion hoax.
FBI legal counsel Kevin Clinesmith was convicted of a felony for altering an FBI warrant request to spy on an innocent Carter Page.
The FBI, by Comey’s own public boasts, bragged how it caught National Security Advisor designate General Michael Flynn in its Crossfire Hurricane Russian collusion hoax.
As special counsel, Mueller then fired two of his top investigators—Lisa Page and Peter Strzok—for improper personal and professional behavior. He then staggered their releases to mask their collaborative wrongdoing.
Mueller’s team deleted critical cell phone evidence under subpoena that might well have revealed systemic FBI-related bias.
The FBI interferes with and warps national elections. It hires complete frauds as informants who are far worse than its targets. It humiliates or exempts government and elected officials based on their politics. It violates the civil liberties of individual American citizens.
The FBI’s highest officials now routinely mislead Congress. They have erased or altered court and subpoenaed evidence. They illegally leak confidential material to the media. And they have lied under oath to federal investigators.
The agency has become dangerous to Americans and an existential threat to their democracy and rule of law. The FBI should be dispersing its investigatory responsibilities to other government investigative agencies that have not yet lost the public trust.
Aug 11, 2022 17:49:28 #
dtucker300 wrote:
The FBI has a long history of spying on American c... (show quote)
F,FBI! FJB! And the DOJ!
Aug 11, 2022 18:22:23 #
WinkyTink
Loc: Hill Country, TX
Weasel wrote:
F,FBI! FJB! And the DOJ!
A well funded and equipped federal police force……..
Aug 11, 2022 19:27:13 #
TexaCan
Loc: Homeward Bound!
dtucker300 wrote:
The FBI has a long history of spying on American c... (show quote)
They’ve gotten way too big for their britches! Time to slap them naked!
Aug 11, 2022 21:19:44 #
dtucker300 wrote:
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Where’s the outrage from Republican legislators?
Aug 11, 2022 21:38:19 #
WinkyTink
Loc: Hill Country, TX
steve66613 wrote:
Where’s the outrage from Republican legislators?
Quietly staring at their shoes hoping no one axes them any questions.
Aug 11, 2022 22:56:26 #
dtucker300
Loc: Vista, CA
steve66613 wrote:
Where’s the outrage from Republican legislators?
Too many RINOs. Lots are Republicans are really Democrats, but no Democrats are Republicans.
Aug 12, 2022 08:55:09 #
dtucker300 wrote:
Too many RINOs. Lots are Republicans are really Democrats, but no Democrats are Republicans.
Scary observation,the FBI provides the dark side with jobs .They
hire criminals to do their handy work ,to the tune of 15000 on
the books. KGB was once thought the night mare of Russia,
well we have surpassed them !
Aug 12, 2022 11:58:27 #
crazylibertarian
Loc: Florida by way of New York & Rhode Island
dtucker300 wrote:
The FBI has a long history of spying on American c... (show quote)
Aug 12, 2022 12:08:51 #
crazylibertarian
Loc: Florida by way of New York & Rhode Island
dtucker300 wrote:
The FBI has a long history of spying on American c... (show quote)
It was inevitable that it would deteriorate to what it has become. In 'The Road To Serfdom,' Friedrich Hayek demonstrated how in bureaucracies the rats rise to the top.
Besides, I could find no constitutional authorization, explicit nor implicit, for the existence of a federal police force. If anyone can find one please cite it & let me know. Otherwise, it is unconstitutional.
Aug 12, 2022 12:13:58 #
dtucker300
Loc: Vista, CA
crazylibertarian wrote:
It was inevitable that it would deteriorate to what it has become. In 'The Road To Serfdom,' Friedrich Hayek demonstrated how in bureaucracies the rats rise to the top.
Besides, I could find no constitutional authorization, explicit nor implicit, for the existence of a federal police force. If anyone can find one please cite it & let me know. Otherwise, it is unconstitutional.
Besides, I could find no constitutional authorization, explicit nor implicit, for the existence of a federal police force. If anyone can find one please cite it & let me know. Otherwise, it is unconstitutional.
Aug 12, 2022 12:53:33 #
dtucker300 wrote:
The FBI has a long history of spying on American c... (show quote)
Victor Davis Hanson is a national treasure
Aug 12, 2022 12:55:44 #
steve66613 wrote:
Where’s the outrage from Republican legislators?
Where's any even mild disapproval from the Democrat/Communists legislators.
Aug 12, 2022 23:16:09 #
WinkyTink wrote:
A well funded and equipped federal police force……..
The only reason the gov. needs a police force is its doing things it shouldn't to the people.
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