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Today’s Election Interference Isn’t The First Time The FBI’s Been Out Of Control
American Thinker ^ | 9 Jul, 2023 | Mark Adams

Posted on 07/09/2023 4:53:25 AM PDT by MtnClimber

Thirty years ago, a dangerously reckless FBI went to war against the Branch Davidians.

We’ve recently learned a great deal about the FBI’s election interference by hiding the truth about Hunter’s laptop, as well as its illegal persecution of Donald Trump. Sadly, this isn’t the first time the FBI’s gotten recklessly out of control.

On February 28, 1993, more than 70 Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (“BATF”) agents, with help from three military helicopters, launched an attack on the Branch Davidians, an offshoot sect of Seventh-Day Adventism, operating under David Koresh’s leadership. The attack took place at the Davidians’ sprawling residence called Mount Carmel, in Waco, Texas.

The attack was spurred by allegations that Koresh and his followers had illegally converted semi-automatic rifles to full-automatic capacity and that nothing short of a massive military-style raid would make it possible to arrest David Koresh and properly search the residence. To build the public case, the government alleged that the Davidians were a child-molesting cult.

The BATF agents botched the raid. The result was that several were killed, and the remainder were forced into a humiliating retreat and ultimate surrender. According to one writer, the real reason for the raid was that the BATF “saw the Branch Davidians…as the perfect patsies for a high-profile raid that would make G-men look like heroes.”

After the ATF debacle, the FBI was called in to deal with the mess. The FBI’s involvement ultimately ended in a fiery inferno. The FBI caused much of the main building to collapse on the Davidians, leaving 76 burned corpses buried in the smoldering rubble.

A lot of people know that story. What few people know is that Joe Biden was a major player, and that’s true despite a criminal trial, two cabinet-level inquiries, and three sets of congressional...

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To: MCSETots

This is why the folks best in position to seek accountability (e.g., Jordan, Comer, etc.) cannot pussy foot around. The rot is deep and severe. The only way to remove it is too play for keeps, something R politicians are incapable of.


21 posted on 07/09/2023 6:51:19 AM PDT by No Party Affiliation
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To: Trump Girl Kit Cat

You miss my point.

Watergate wasn’t about what NIXON did, it was about what the FBI/CIA did TO NIXON.

It was much worse than Crossfire Hurricane, because they succeeded in removing the President with the largest mandate in the history of the country, successfully covered up their involvement, used the media to propagate an essentially false version of events, and has most people 50 years later still believing they were the good guys.


22 posted on 07/09/2023 7:05:43 AM PDT by Jim Noble (Make the GOP illegal - everything else will follow)
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To: MtnClimber

J Edgar conspired with the CIA to cover up the Kennedy assassination. That was pretty bad. The Branch Davidian massacre was in response to Clinton wanting the siege off the evening news cycle. The FBI burned the village to save it.


23 posted on 07/09/2023 7:07:20 AM PDT by DeplorablePaul
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To: DeplorablePaul

I think it’s probable the CIA/Deep State killed JFK either as revenge for Bay of Pigs, his screwing an East German spy in the White House, or his peace overtures to the USSR (American University speech).

But we will never have as much direct evidence as we do in the revelation that the “author” of the Watergate story was the FBI Deputy Director.


24 posted on 07/09/2023 7:14:03 AM PDT by Jim Noble (Make the GOP illegal - everything else will follow)
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To: Jim Noble

RFK was tightening the legal noose around some of LBJ’s corrupt henchmen, Billie Sol Estes for example, just one more reason for LBJ to want JFK gone


25 posted on 07/09/2023 7:29:06 AM PDT by csvset (tolerance becomes a crime when attached to evil)
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To: Jim Noble

Yup. Those were the good old days when the deep state was anti communist. I think the CIA offed Kennedy to prevent being exposed as contracting the mafia to assassinate Castro. RFK did not know this. J Edgar did.

I always liked Nixon. I was pro Nixon speaker in a debate in 1968 in college. Why Nixon allowed Watergate to undo him has always mystified me. It was so stupid and unnecessary. He won the 72 election by a landslide. He had a juicy enemies list and four years to exact revenge. What a missed historical opportunity.

ps

Nixon knew the CIA killed Kennedy as well. He was probably afraid of the CIA too.


26 posted on 07/09/2023 7:35:06 AM PDT by DeplorablePaul
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To: MtnClimber

Isn’t The First Time The FBI’s Been Out Of Control

Hoover taps tune on box.


27 posted on 07/09/2023 8:08:05 AM PDT by Vaduz (....)
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To: MtnClimber

Bttt


28 posted on 07/09/2023 9:14:18 AM PDT by ChildOfThe60s ( If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there..)
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To: MtnClimber
And the basis for the raid?

Making meth or child abuse?

Oh, converting legal semi autos to full auto.

Full auto is perfectly legal, if you pay the $200 tax.

So, this multimillion dollar raid was executed because the Davidians didn't pay some taxes.

Hunter and Pedo Joe, anyone?

Oh and I'm pretty sure they didn't find ANY full auto weapons, so, it was all 🦬💩.

29 posted on 07/09/2023 9:16:34 AM PDT by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual.)
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To: Jim Noble

I didn’t miss your point at all, they did the exact same thing with Crossfire Hurricane and STILL no consequences for ANYONE!! YES Nixon was removed from office HOWEVER in my eyes so was Trump these alphabet agencies were the ones responsible for the stolen election for the SELECTION of Biden!! They will NEVER let Trump back in the WH they will kill him first!!


30 posted on 07/09/2023 10:20:58 AM PDT by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: Trump Girl Kit Cat

They will NEVER let Trump back in the WH they will kill him first!!

***********

Trump is history. He may can help a candidate win but he’s
not to be leader of the ticket.

The current plan is to get Biden re-elected so they can have a
female president later on in the term. History in the making.


31 posted on 07/09/2023 10:31:08 AM PDT by deport
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Killed in the fire were 76 Branch Davidians, including 25 children, two pregnant women,
and David Koresh.
32 posted on 07/09/2023 10:45:10 AM PDT by deport
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To: Phoenix8

Government agencies with unchecked power are evil. My own Brother, the genius of the family was in the ASA, then moved on to its other Brother agencies. He came out of that to work in Navy shipyards, it was more honest and he liked working. He handed me two books, None dare call it conspiracy, and None dare call it treason. He would never tell me what he did or where his posts were. I read, and come to conclusions. We talked, he said the things in the book were just the tip of it all.

I am sure it is MUCH worse now.
I am sure it is worse now.


33 posted on 07/09/2023 5:10:45 PM PDT by Glad2bnuts (“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: We should have set up ambushes...paraphrased)
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To: MtnClimber

Almost half of the dead were black men, women, and children.


34 posted on 07/09/2023 6:04:57 PM PDT by BerryDingle (I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
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