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The Bell Finally Tolls for the FBI
Racket News ^ | 2 Dec, 2024 | Matt Taibbi

Posted on 12/03/2024 7:19:57 AM PST by MtnClimber

The reported nomination of Kash Patel means chickens are coming home to roost for the FBI, which needs to be destroyed as a political entity.

From CNN’s “Trump announces he intends to replace current FBI director with loyalist Kash Patel”:

Even among Trump loyalists, Patel is widely viewed as a controversial figure and relentless self-promoter whose value to the president-elect largely derives from a shared disdain for the so-called deep state… Patel rose to prominence within Trump’s orbit in 2018, when he served as an aide to Rep. Devin Nunes, the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee… Patel played a key role in Nunes’ efforts to discredit the FBI’s Russia investigation into the Trump campaign, including a controversial classified memo that alleged FBI abuses of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrants on Trump advisers.What’s a “loyalist”? How many presidents nominate “disloyalists” to fill senior positions? Why do sites like Axios continue to complain that Donald Trump has picked “yet another hardline MAGA ally” to occupy a key spot? Who the hell else is he supposed to pick?

After everything that’s taken place, it’s unsafe for Trump to do anything but bonfire the whole FBI leadership structure, including probably the entire National Security and Counterintelligence Divisions, for starters. Control over the FBI is the critical test of how real any coming changes will be. In the last eight-plus years, the Bureau went beyond the excesses of the J. Edgar Hoover era, attempting to install itself as a KGB-like domestic intelligence service with gatekeeping power over everything from the White House to the speech landscape. Forget Trump: we are not safe unless its bureaucracy is fully dismantled.

As for CNN: for the network to shudder about what a “frightening” choice Patel is without mentioning its own role in his story ought to be a shock, but it’s sadly par for the course. Coverage of the “controversial classified memo” Patel helped author may be exhibit A in the case against the “dishonest fake news media,” a description CNN’s gesticulator-in-chief Jim Acosta denounced as “out of control” and part of Trump’s “assaults on the truth.” The network spent more than a year attacking this “Nunes memo,” through reports that were themselves frequently proven wrong, with a few venturing into the realm of outright hoaxes. Industry coverage of the episode collectively represents perhaps the most egregious still-unacknowledged error of the Trump years, a story botched in quantity. No one performed worse than Acosta’s CNN:...SNIP


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1 posted on 12/03/2024 7:19:57 AM PST by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

The roaches are already looking for a place to hide.


2 posted on 12/03/2024 7:20:07 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

If the FBI was totally free of political influence then it would have no reasons to be concerned about Patel.


3 posted on 12/03/2024 7:26:44 AM PST by Starboard
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To: MtnClimber

Don’t fund a new facility


4 posted on 12/03/2024 7:28:45 AM PST by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: Starboard
"What good is having an FBI, CIA, ATF, DHS, NSA, if we can't use those agencies for our very own purposes?"

The pilitical leftists hive mind. Some people just can't have nice things.

5 posted on 12/03/2024 7:32:10 AM PST by blackdog ((Z28.310) Be careful what you say. Your refrigerator may be listening & reporting you.)
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To: MtnClimber

I’ll bet Trump held back on the Patel nomination, knowing the Hunter pardon was coming and that it would result in indignation and support.


6 posted on 12/03/2024 7:34:11 AM PST by bigbob (Yes. We ARE going back!)
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To: MtnClimber
Message to Americans, picking leaders from the same small pool of elites who think they are entitled to run the government, you will never have change!

This is why we need people from outside of the system!

7 posted on 12/03/2024 7:35:32 AM PST by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show host to me.... Sting)
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To: MtnClimber

The FBI went downhill when the Director at the time decided that every investigation be run out of HQ. This was either Freeh or Mueller working with the top assistants. Then it got worse when they decided to focus on intelligence gathering on all Americans that are a threat to the deep state.

Patel is right that HQ needs to be broke up and the 7,000 employees need be scattered through the 50 states and become cops again


8 posted on 12/03/2024 7:42:17 AM PST by shotgun
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To: Jan_Sobieski

>> Don’t fund a new facility

I think it’s funny and fitting that Kash Patel said he’d turn FBI headquarters into a Museum of the Deep State, and scatter their 7000 agents “downrange” to actually pursue criminals.

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2024/11/14/kash_patel_shut_down_the_fbis_hoover_building_and_turn_it_into_museum_of_the_deep_state.html


9 posted on 12/03/2024 7:43:18 AM PST by Nervous Tick ("First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people...": ISLAM is the problem!)
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To: MtnClimber
The network spent more than a year attacking this “Nunes memo,” through reports that were themselves frequently proven wrong,

We used to call this activity: Committing OVERT ACTS in Furtherance of a Criminal Conspiracy of Sedition in an Attempt to Overthrow the United States Presidency.
10 posted on 12/03/2024 7:43:59 AM PST by eyeamok
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To: Lockbox

>> Message to Americans, picking leaders from the same small pool of elites who think they are entitled to run the government, you will never have change!

So obvious! Preach it!


11 posted on 12/03/2024 7:44:55 AM PST by Nervous Tick ("First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people...": ISLAM is the problem!)
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To: Nervous Tick

Hadn’t heard that bit about closing the FBI headquarters, permanently sending 7k agents “downrange”, and opening the doors of the building the next day as the Museum of the Deep State.

A capital idea. The public would flood in to visit the place, and our children would begin being educated about how to avoid similar tyrrany in the future.


12 posted on 12/03/2024 8:02:27 AM PST by one guy in new jersey
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To: one guy in new jersey

Make wax heads of all the deep state scum and put them on pikes. That would make a great exhibit.


13 posted on 12/03/2024 8:10:51 AM PST by HYPOCRACY (Democracy is dead. Long live the Republic!)
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To: shotgun
Patel is right that HQ needs to be broke up and the 7,000 employees need be scattered through the 50 states and become cops again

With today's Zoom culture, never mind its successors, there is no such thing as "scattering."

14 posted on 12/03/2024 8:15:58 AM PST by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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To: MtnClimber

Remember when the FBI was non-political under J. Edgar Hoover. /sarc


15 posted on 12/03/2024 8:17:01 AM PST by Rightwing Conspiratr1
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To: MtnClimber

We’re supposed to forget about Strzok and Page and the entrapment of Mike Flynn.


16 posted on 12/03/2024 8:22:50 AM PST by Fido969
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To: Lockbox
Message to Americans, picking leaders from the same small pool of elites who think they are entitled to run the government, you will never have change!

Also, getting rich while in office needs to be eliminated. Politicians taking advantage of insider trading and accepting money from lobbyists needs to end. The lure of enriching themselves draws the wrong type of people into politics. Harry Truman said you can’t get rich in politics unless you are a crook.

17 posted on 12/03/2024 8:23:56 AM PST by dznutz
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To: MtnClimber

We need a bull in the China shop for our government, and Patel is the bull’s bull.


18 posted on 12/03/2024 8:36:30 AM PST by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: HYPOCRACY

The Deep State will try to install one of its own as museum curator...how shall we protect against this eventuality


19 posted on 12/03/2024 8:39:34 AM PST by one guy in new jersey
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To: Fido969

The Strzok smirk.

Never Forget

Never Again


20 posted on 12/03/2024 8:42:12 AM PST by one guy in new jersey
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