https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO
(derived from COunter INTELligence PROgram) (1956–1971) was a series of covert and illegal[1][2] projects conducted by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) aimed at surveilling, infiltrating, discrediting, and disrupting American political organizations.
...The FBI has used covert operations against domestic political groups since its inception; however, covert operations under the official COINTELPRO label took place between 1956 and 1971.[12] COINTELPRO tactics are still used to this day and have been alleged to include discrediting targets through psychological warfare; smearing individuals and groups using forged documents and by planting false reports in the media; harassment; wrongful imprisonment; and illegal violence, including assassination.[13][14][15][16] The FBI’s stated motivation was “protecting national security, preventing violence, and maintaining the existing social and political order”.[17]
...Illegal surveillance
The final report of the Church Committee concluded:
Too many people have been spied upon by too many Government agencies and too much information has been illegally collected. The Government has often undertaken the secret surveillance of citizens on the basis of their political beliefs, even when those beliefs posed no threat of violence or illegal acts on behalf of a hostile foreign power. The Government, operating primarily through secret and biased informants, but also using other intrusive techniques such as wiretaps, microphone “bugs”, surreptitious mail opening, and break-ins, has swept in vast amounts of information about the personal lives, views, and associations of American citizens. Investigations of groups deemed potentially dangerous—and even of groups suspected of associating with potentially dangerous organizations—have continued for decades, despite the fact that those groups did not engage in unlawful activity.
Groups and individuals have been assaulted, repressed, harassed and disrupted because of their political views, social beliefs and their lifestyles. Investigations have been based upon vague standards whose breadth made excessive collection inevitable. Unsavory, harmful and vicious tactics have been employed—including anonymous attempts to break up marriages, disrupt meetings, ostracize persons from their professions, and provoke target groups into rivalries that might result in deaths. Intelligence agencies have served the political and personal objectives of presidents and other high officials. While the agencies often committed excesses in response to pressure from high officials in the Executive branch and Congress, they also occasionally initiated improper activities and then concealed them from officials whom they had a duty to inform.
Governmental officials—including those whose principal duty is to enforce the law—have violated or ignored the law over long periods of time and have advocated and defended their right to break the law.
The Constitutional system of checks and balances has not adequately controlled intelligence activities. Until recently the Executive branch has neither delineated the scope of permissible activities nor established procedures for supervising intelligence agencies. Congress has failed to exercise sufficient oversight, seldom questioning the use to which its appropriations were being put. Most domestic intelligence issues have not reached the courts, and in those cases when they have reached the courts, the judiciary has been reluctant to grapple with them.[92][93]
Asking a bunch of liars to not lie is going to get them to lie to you. Nothing will come of this.
Good luck with getting any truthful information out of the FIB or Wray. They are the enemy of the American people.
It seems that the US is now run by the FBI/NSA/CIA/DOJ/NSA and not by politicians and certainly not by “WE THE PEOPLE”!
Doubtful
A sternly worded letter
If the FBI wasn’t involved, how did they catch so many of the rioters and insurrectionists so fast??
Tucker exposed the whole FBI conspiracy last night on his show. The FBI had covert operatives who were listed in court documents as unnamed co-conspiraters but not indicted as were those arrested and now sit in the DC jail awaiting trial.
The FBI did not disclose anything when the Republicans controlled the entire government. They would go before Congress and threaten the Republicans. Don’t expect them to do so now. They will clink their martinis tonight with glee.
There’s a big difference in investigating a terrorist plot from the inside and actively participating in the planning of it. The FBI are showing themselves to be a thoroughly corrupt terrorist organization. This genie needs to be put back in the bottle before it becomes too big to fit.
Any Republican candidate (and we should demand this as voters) should commit to completely dismantling the FBI once and for all.
The FBI likely outsourced much of this work to foreign mercenaries. Untraceable goons from Eastern Europe. Team Soros.
Where are my South Carolina Senators and Congresscritters? Why are they not ever first out on something like this which obviously needs answering? What the heck are my Congresscritters doing other than planning to enrich themselves?
I think one specific case confirmed that the Eff Bee Eye is corrupt. George Papadopoulos was given $10K by an individual in Israel as a “retainer” but George P. suspected that something wasn’t right so he left the money with an attorney. When George P. returned to the U.S., the Eff Bee Eye met him at the airport and took him into custody without a warrant. He was released when they found that he was not carrying the $10K. The individual who gave George P. the money was later identified as a former asset of the Eff Bee Eye and See Eye Aye.
Wray’s answer will be a middle finger.