Posted on 11/19/2024 6:12:46 AM PST by MtnClimber
It should not come as a surprise to see the same methods deployed against President Trump in 2024 that were used by the FBI in 2016. The difference is now that President Trump understands the full power of his office in the security clearance process and that he doesn’t need the FBI.
In 2016 the FBI used their power to conduct security clearances as a tool to stall and block President Trump appointments. Historically this is one of the ways a very corrupt and political FBI interfere in any system that might be against the interests of the Intelligence Community that controls them. However, in 2024 President-Elect Trump and his transition team have already taken a different approach.
First the report:
WASHINGTON DC – An official at FBI headquarters in Washington is warning that the bureau’s security clearance division is politicized and can’t be trusted to screen President-elect Donald Trump’s nominees for top administration jobs.
The allegations of political bias at the FBI’s security division, or SecD, were revealed in a protected whistleblower disclosure sent to the House Judiciary Committee, which The Washington Times reviewed.
The official said the security clearance process has been “contaminated by the political agendas of [security division] officials and other executives in the FBI.” (more)
This is not any earth-shattering revelation. We painstakingly discussed this in a multitude of prior research discussions. The motive of the Whistleblower to come forth now, is likely because President Trump is already working around the problem.
WASHINGTON DC – President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team is skipping the protocol of using the FBI to conduct background checks, according to a report.
Instead, the president-elect’s team is turning to private companies to vet administrative appointees, people familiar with transition planning told CNN. Trump has criticized the FBI for its slow investigation process and feared it would delay his ability to roll out his agenda.
A security clearance is needed for some Cabinet positions, such as attorney general, and the process of obtaining one includes an FBI background check.
Dan Meyer, a national security attorney, told CNN Trump’s mistrust of the FBI and the deep state has made him go completely rogue. [They] “don’t want the FBI to coordinate a norm. They want to hammer the norm,” Meyer told CNN.
The Trump transition team’s decision to bypass the FBI background check comes as Trump has nominated former Reps. Matt Gaetz and Tulsi Gabbard for attorney general and National Intelligence director, respectively — both controversial picks. (more)
Because President Trump is making civics great again, it’s worth reminding everyone that President Trump has unilateral decision-making authority to grant anyone a security clearance. The President (atop the executive) can give anyone he chooses a top-secret security clearance status, simply by saying this person has top-secret security clearance. Yes, it really is that easy....SNIP
I agree fully......
The department eliminated, duties and good agents folded into US Marshals.
Abolish the FIB.
Exactly what I had in mind. The U.S. Marshals is all we have left. A perfect place for good, “old school” agents.
BTTT
Red Zones are for loading.
Blue Zones are for arriving!.........
Of course, if you’ll allow deep blue cities in otherwise Red states!
ELON needs to consider cutting the FBI in half and moving them to Kansas.
Maybe Trump should start using the “T” word a bit. Stopping a new administration from being able to execute undermines that security and sovereignty of the nation. This is far worse than ‘being a little less cooperative than desired’...it’s full blown insubordination.
They need more fear in them.
For a limited time, if FBI agents are willing to quit and give testimony, consider offer of amnesty.
He created it expressly to be a gatekeeper agency so he could decide what the government looked like.
And most importantly, so that he himself could never be excluded from the government.
Soetoro the Alien just understood all that and used it vigorously.
You may want to re-read the Constitution.
Those readily corruptible are NOT WANTED IN KANSAS. Thank you.
and Muslim with dual loyalties to the Koran first then the state
like commie voting Muslim Brennan in the CIA making moles galore
usually they are former by not toeing the corrupt line, Clinton and Obama worked at comradizing the upper echelons
I’m guessing the ‘readily corruptible’ would quit befoer they moved to Kansas so two problems are solved with one stone.l
All through the Russia hoax I kept hearing how the “rank and file” were good people, how they were upset with the Russia nonsense and spying on Catholics and school board meeting parents, but I didn’t see any of them resigning or refusing illegal orders. The I was just following orders won’t wash with me.
I have sat on probably 14 juries in my life from civil trials, to assault, drugs and murder and if an FBI agent testified in any trial I was sitting on today I would have to discount their entire testimony, there would be a reasonable doubt. If they would lie to a FISA court judge they would lie in any small town USA. That agencies credibility is destroyed and they did it themselves.
there are many layers in the bureau, the special agent report to many levels of supervisors and managers that follow orders given like the military, the grunt agents do the foot work and digging and supervisory agents put the cases together the senior agents and syat managers are the ones that could have spoken out but clinton through obama were developing loyalists that did what they were told
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