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The IG Report on 2016 FBI Spying Reveals a Scandal of Historic Magnitude...
The Intercept,com ^ | 12/12/2019 | Glenn Greenwald

Posted on 12/15/2019 6:25:00 PM PST by Beave Meister

JUST AS WAS TRUE when the Mueller investigation closed without a single American being charged with criminally conspiring with Russia over the 2016 election, Wednesday’s issuance of the long-waited report from the Department of Justice’s Inspector General reveals that years of major claims and narratives from the U.S. media were utter frauds.

Before evaluating the media component of this scandal, the FBI’s gross abuse of its power – its serial deceit – is so grave and manifest that it requires little effort to demonstrate it. In sum, the IG Report documents multiple instances in which the FBI – in order to convince a FISA court to allow it spy on former Trump campaign operative Carter Page during the 2016 election – manipulated documents, concealed crucial exonerating evidence, and touted what it knew were unreliable if not outright false claims.

If you don’t consider FBI lying, concealment of evidence, and manipulation of documents in order to spy on a U.S. citizen in the middle of a presidential campaign to be a major scandal, what is? But none of this is aberrational: the FBI still has its headquarters in a building named after J. Edgar Hoover – who constantly blackmailed elected officials with dossiers and tried to blackmail Martin Luther King into killing himself – because that’s what these security state agencies are. They are out-of-control, virtually unlimited police state factions that lie, abuse their spying and law enforcement powers, and subvert democracy and civic and political freedoms as a matter of course.

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It's a long read, but well worth it...
1 posted on 12/15/2019 6:25:01 PM PST by Beave Meister
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To: Beave Meister

Agreed. Highly recommend!


2 posted on 12/15/2019 6:25:45 PM PST by griswold3 (Democratic Socialism is Slavery by Mob Rule)
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To: Beave Meister

Full title: The Inspector General’s Report on 2016 FBI Spying Reveals a Scandal of Historic Magnitude: Not Only for the FBI but Also the U.S. Media


3 posted on 12/15/2019 6:25:50 PM PST by Beave Meister (Leave the gun. Take the cannoli....)
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To: Beave Meister

We all know it should be the worst scandal in American history and most of us know that the NYT will wield their power to ignore treachery be Democrats and nothing will happen.


4 posted on 12/15/2019 6:29:26 PM PST by libertylover (Democrats hated Lincoln too.)
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To: Beave Meister

Please tell me we have not forgotten why they are called
the Enemedia?

Their function is pure psychological warfare.

That has not changed...

yet.

(They are finally starting to lose, though...)

You are the News now.


5 posted on 12/15/2019 6:30:47 PM PST by EasySt (Say not this is the truth, but so it seems to me to be, as I see this thing I think I see #KAG)
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To: griswold3

Sometimes it seems like Greenwald and Solomon are the only two investigative reporters on the planet...


6 posted on 12/15/2019 6:38:17 PM PST by Beave Meister (Leave the gun. Take the cannoli....)
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To: Beave Meister

I believe that the IG’s job is to whitewash the whole thing and cover for the FBI and the DoJ and especially cover for the leader of the Resistance, who must not be identified.


7 posted on 12/15/2019 6:42:03 PM PST by CMailBag
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To: Beave Meister

Carter, Attkisson, Herridge and Rion at OANN.


8 posted on 12/15/2019 6:48:11 PM PST by MileHi (Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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To: Beave Meister

https://youtu.be/3I26oxabQLc (40 minutes)
Psychological warfare and the Trump Impeachment—Jack Posobiec Explains | Crossroads

I case anyone can use an update on just how it’s been, and
is being done to us...

~Easy


9 posted on 12/15/2019 7:40:24 PM PST by EasySt (Say not this is the truth, but so it seems to me to be, as I see this thing I think I see #KAG)
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To: Beave Meister

Maybe now we can watch Hannity without hearing him yap about how 99% of FBI personnel are eligible for sainthood!


10 posted on 12/15/2019 8:01:50 PM PST by fortes fortuna juvat (America's greatest FREEDOM FIGHTER PRESIDENTS: Washington, Lincoln, and Trump.)
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To: CMailBag

The IG Report made it crystal clear that he’s a Deep State shill.


11 posted on 12/15/2019 8:05:02 PM PST by fortes fortuna juvat (America's greatest FREEDOM FIGHTER PRESIDENTS: Washington, Lincoln, and Trump.)
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To: Beave Meister

Greenwald doesn’t know dick about J.Edgar Hoover and Martin Luther King Jr. Even leftist historian Barrow missed a lot on what was really g going on. Find out the full truth about Kong’s top advisors and aides, and you only begin to understand the sheer c complexity of what the FBI and presumably the CIA/NSA/European pro-western Intel agencies had on him as a well hemmed in KGB target. Stanley Levison, Jack O’Dell (aka Hunter Pitts O’Dell, aka John Vesey), Rev. Wyatt. Tee Walker, Rev. Butterworth, Jack Spiegel, etc. All were Communist members or supporters (Shuttlesworth- pro-Hanoi along with his wife) and at least two were KGB or KGB assets in the CPUSA - Levison and O’Dell, poss. Spiegel. Kong’s overseas behavior, besides being immoral and stupid, left him wide open to Soviet/KGB/CPUSA blackmail. As Chicago sang in their song “Only the Beginnings”, what I have posted above is only the tip of what really was going on with Dr. King and the communists who literally controlled his ideological life.


12 posted on 12/15/2019 9:32:48 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper (Figures)
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To: Beave Meister

There’s two or three others...


13 posted on 12/15/2019 9:50:27 PM PST by GOPJ (Twitter and far-left nutcases DO NOT REPRESENT AMERICAN VOTERS OF EITHER PARTY)
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

“Greenwald doesn’t know dick about J.Edgar Hoover and Martin Luther King Jr. “

Hoover’s FBI and the Deep state at the time...had only a small fraction of the technology and the personnel of what they have today.


14 posted on 12/15/2019 9:53:45 PM PST by RonnG (')
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To: Beave Meister

Sharyl Attkisson...


15 posted on 12/15/2019 9:55:37 PM PST by GOPJ (Twitter and far-left nutcases DO NOT REPRESENT AMERICAN VOTERS OF EITHER PARTY)
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
I think Comey was trying to do what Hoover is often accused of doing with respect to blackmail. Whether Hoover himself actually did this is debatable. Many myths about Hoover proliferated after his death. Rumors about Hoover acting improperly with respect to the King surveillance were spread by William C. Sullivan, who was the agent actually in charge of the King surveillance and had a vested interest in the matter when it came up for Congressional review after Watergate. Ray Wannall's The Real J. Edgar Hoover provides an important corrective to the record on this, documenting both King's Communist ties and Sullivan's role in shaping the historical record.

The Kennedys also had an interest in shaping the historical record on the matter, since the King surveillance was authorized by Robert F. Kennedy. This threatened to become a political embarrassment to Robert and Ted Kennedy in the 1968 and 1972 campaigns and during the Watergate investigation, when Nixon used his knowledge of this as leverage to resist his critics.

As far as King's Communist ties, this reflects a long-term CPUSA effort to infiltrate the civil rights movement, which actually predates the formation of CPUSA and can be traced to German intelligence manipulation of the American Socialist and civil rights movements during the First World War, when Germany was the center of the international Socialist movement (the Second International, the successor of Karl Marx's First International). The Soviets tapped into the original German Socialist network in the post-WWI era, forming their own faction of the civil rights movement and putting up the first black Vice Presidential candidate, James W. Ford, in 1932. Eleanor Roosevelt lent her support to CP civil rights front groups such as the Highlander Folk School. The post-WWII civil rights movement gave renewed impetus to the CP's efforts to manipulate the civil rights cause. Rosa Parks's boycott started after she had attended Highlander training; Parks had previously attended CP meetings with her husband, though reportedly was not a CP member. The boycott gave a national platform to King, who also received training at Highlander. The New York CP quickly got involved with King's movement at this point and infiltrated his circles, with Levison being an example of this. Another Highlander figure associated with King, James Dombrowski of the Southern Conference for Human Welfare and the Southern Conference Educational Fund, forged links between the American civil rights movement and Fidel Castro's network in the U.S. in the early 1960s. At this time, Hoover advised Attorney General Robert Kennedy that King was associating with known Communists. Kennedy and President Kennedy advised King to cease these associations, but King ignored them with contempt, and the Kennedys were afraid to call him on it due to his influence with black voters. At the time of his death, King had been developing ties to the Vietnam antiwar movement through connections such as Riverside Church, a center of CP influence in Harlem.

Meanwhile, the Soviets, China, Cuba, and North Vietnam had begun cultivating ties to more violent factions of the American civil rights movement such as the Black Panthers. My research indicates that King's assassination was intended to push the civil rights movement further in this direction and to agitate armed clashes between the Black Panthers and KKK-type groups. Offshoots of the KKK that wanted to start a race war are known to have put out a contract on King with this intent. Curiously enough, elements of the neo-Nazi movement in the U.S. had formed an alliance with the Soviets at this time, seeing the Soviet policy towards Jews as in line with their goals, and seeing the U.S. government as a bigger short-term enemy to the Fourth Reich. To sum up a much longer story. . .

16 posted on 12/15/2019 11:47:51 PM PST by Fedora
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To: Beave Meister

Chanel Rion, Sharyl Attkisson, Luke Roziak...


17 posted on 12/16/2019 1:05:42 AM PST by Eagles6
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To: Beave Meister

bmp


18 posted on 12/16/2019 2:36:20 AM PST by gattaca ("Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives." Ronald Reagan)
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To: Beave Meister

The main stream media has driven its reputation to the gutter, and deservedly so.
I do not trust nor believe anything coming out of today’s press.


19 posted on 12/16/2019 3:24:58 AM PST by Joe Boucher ( Molon Labe' baby, Molon Labe)
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To: fortes fortuna juvat

I’m thinking the FBI should be dissolved, the building razed, and the earth it sits upon salted.


20 posted on 12/16/2019 3:28:57 AM PST by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
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