The FBI Has Become Dangerous to Americans
Aug 14, 2022 14:56:20 #
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The FBI Has Become Dangerous to Americans
Victor Davis Hanson / @VDHanson / August 12, 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. 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 President 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, 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 that 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 adviser Peter Navarro, swarmed the office of Trump 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 adviser-designate Gen. 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 cellphone 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’s trust.
(C)2022 Tribune Content Agency, LLC.
The FBI Has Become Dangerous to Americans
Victor Davis Hanson / @VDHanson / August 12, 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. 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 President 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, 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 that 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 adviser Peter Navarro, swarmed the office of Trump 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 adviser-designate Gen. 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 cellphone 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’s trust.
(C)2022 Tribune Content Agency, LLC.
Aug 14, 2022 15:00:17 #
AuntiE wrote:
The IRS is being set up to operate the same way.
Aug 14, 2022 15:28:02 #
Liberty Tree wrote:
The IRS is being set up to operate the same way.
Unequivocally!!
Aug 14, 2022 16:00:39 #
Aug 14, 2022 16:01:53 #
Liberty Tree wrote:
The IRS is being set up to operate the same way.
Perhaps they fear when the Republicans take over Congress after the midterms they will take down the FBI and stop this. And democrats' new version of the irs is being put in place to replace them ... only worse?
Aug 14, 2022 16:19:50 #
Your post was a mixture of truths, half truths and outright lies. Yet you said nothing about the Comey's investigation of Hillary's emails that resulted in Trump's win shortly before the 2016 election.
The last poll I looked at, last night posted by Fox news, shows Trump an Biden neck and neck. A tie.
Hillary, as far as I remember it, erased Emails, after she gave her phone to the FBI and asked them if it was OK to do so. These Emails were of a personal nature. Hillary made the mistake of using her phone for business and personal uses, which was stupid. Trump had 4 years to charge her with a crime. He never had enough evidence to do so. Now the statute of limitations is up. Trump was impeached for trying to dig up dirt on Hunter Biden, by withholding aid to Ukaraine. I wish he had been prosecuted last year, because the statute of limitations ran out on that caper.
Fist off, the FBI didn't seize Trump's personal property last Monday. They seized government property that Trump stole in 2021 when he vacated the White House.
Accusing Hunter Biden about his wrong doing is the favorite sport of the right. They don't have anything on Biden, so they are going after his son. You will never convince me that the stuff found on a laptop in Delaware was his, because Hunter was living on the west coast and wouldn't have sent his laptop to Delaware to be repaired. I also question the whole story of the lurid diary of Bidens daughter. If the reporter had it, the diary was stolen property. A search warrant has to have a reasonable chance of a crime has been commited, and a good chance that evidence of that crime will be seized.
Comey wasn't disgraced. He was fired by Trump for doing his job. The Muller investigation followed what Comey started.
Carter Page was using Russia in Trump's first presidenisl run, which is against the law. You can't use a foreign power to help you in a presidential campaign, as it should be. They are our elections, not Putin's.
I am tired this. If you look up on the web all of Hansen's accusations, you will find that Hanson is not the whole story.
The last poll I looked at, last night posted by Fox news, shows Trump an Biden neck and neck. A tie.
Hillary, as far as I remember it, erased Emails, after she gave her phone to the FBI and asked them if it was OK to do so. These Emails were of a personal nature. Hillary made the mistake of using her phone for business and personal uses, which was stupid. Trump had 4 years to charge her with a crime. He never had enough evidence to do so. Now the statute of limitations is up. Trump was impeached for trying to dig up dirt on Hunter Biden, by withholding aid to Ukaraine. I wish he had been prosecuted last year, because the statute of limitations ran out on that caper.
Fist off, the FBI didn't seize Trump's personal property last Monday. They seized government property that Trump stole in 2021 when he vacated the White House.
Accusing Hunter Biden about his wrong doing is the favorite sport of the right. They don't have anything on Biden, so they are going after his son. You will never convince me that the stuff found on a laptop in Delaware was his, because Hunter was living on the west coast and wouldn't have sent his laptop to Delaware to be repaired. I also question the whole story of the lurid diary of Bidens daughter. If the reporter had it, the diary was stolen property. A search warrant has to have a reasonable chance of a crime has been commited, and a good chance that evidence of that crime will be seized.
Comey wasn't disgraced. He was fired by Trump for doing his job. The Muller investigation followed what Comey started.
Carter Page was using Russia in Trump's first presidenisl run, which is against the law. You can't use a foreign power to help you in a presidential campaign, as it should be. They are our elections, not Putin's.
I am tired this. If you look up on the web all of Hansen's accusations, you will find that Hanson is not the whole story.
Aug 14, 2022 19:14:57 #
“Right On Liberty Tree!”
Biden is hiring the IRS agents just before he introduces the Biden Digital Dollar which will replace the US dollar. The digital dollar will have spyware to observe every transaction American’s make. Checking and saving accounts will have negative interest to allow the government to deduct money from our saving accounts to funnel into the government coffers. If you donate to an opponents campaign, the government will have knowledge of it and target IRS audits on those contributors.
“Brave New World” is just around the corner!
Biden is hiring the IRS agents just before he introduces the Biden Digital Dollar which will replace the US dollar. The digital dollar will have spyware to observe every transaction American’s make. Checking and saving accounts will have negative interest to allow the government to deduct money from our saving accounts to funnel into the government coffers. If you donate to an opponents campaign, the government will have knowledge of it and target IRS audits on those contributors.
“Brave New World” is just around the corner!
Aug 15, 2022 08:50:04 #
tbutkovich wrote:
“Right On Liberty Tree!” br br Biden is hiring th... (show quote)
You are really close to full blown mental illness if you belive this will happen. Please speak to a mental health professional.
Aug 15, 2022 13:40:33 #
AuntiE wrote:
From a temporary bully agency, how did they ever become permanent? Many things about their latest debacle to quote a friend "smells to the skies." He was tweeting during a high speed chase? Nobody is dumb enough to use a nail gun when a real gun may or may not work (bullet-proof glass). There is a bounty on every fbi agent just as every irs agent. They want to play war, they'll have war for real.
Aug 15, 2022 18:18:14 #
MidnightRider wrote:
From a temporary bully agency, how did they ever become permanent? Many things about their latest debacle to quote a friend "smells to the skies." He was tweeting during a high speed chase? Nobody is dumb enough to use a nail gun when a real gun may or may not work (bullet-proof glass). There is a bounty on every fbi agent just as every irs agent. They want to play war, they'll have war for real.
I agree Rider.
The story and post made had to be done while chased by police. Strange indeed!
A Nail gun? Hmmmmm 🤔
Aug 16, 2022 12:24:02 #
MidnightRider wrote:
From a temporary bully agency, how did they ever become permanent? Many things about their latest debacle to quote a friend "smells to the skies." He was tweeting during a high speed chase? Nobody is dumb enough to use a nail gun when a real gun may or may not work (bullet-proof glass). There is a bounty on every fbi agent just as every irs agent. They want to play war, they'll have war for real.
The nail gun guy also had a semiautomatic rifle. I think the nail gun was such good news that it got a lot of play. In this state, nail guns are required to be licensed.
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