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FBI, R.I.P.?
American Greatness ^ | 10 Aug, 2022 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 08/11/2022 5:06:12 AM PDT by MtnClimber

The agency has become dangerous to Americans and an existential threat to their democracy and rule of law.

The FBI is dissolving before our eyes into a rogue security service akin to those in Eastern Europe during the Cold War.

Take the FBI’s deliberately asymmetrical application of the law. This week the bureau surprise-raided the home of former President Donald Trump—an historical first.

A massive phalanx of FBI agents swooped into the Trump residence while he was not home, to confiscate his personal property, safe, and records. All of this was over an archival dispute of presidential papers common to many former presidents. Agents swarmed the entire house, including the wardrobe closet of the former first lady.

Note we are less than 90 days out from a midterm election, and this was not just a raid, but a political act.

The Democratic Party is anticipated to suffer historical losses. Donald Trump was on the verge of announcing his 2024 presidential candidacy. In many polls, he remains the Republican front-runner for the nomination—and well ahead of incumbent Joe Biden in a putative 2024 rematch.

In 2016 then FBI Director James Comey announced that candidate Hillary Clinton was guilty of destroying subpoenaed emails—a likely felony pertaining to her tenure as secretary of state. Yet he all but pledged that she would not be prosecuted given her status as a presidential candidate.

As far as targeting presidential candidates, Donald Trump was impeached in 2020 ostensibly for delaying military aid to Ukraine by asking Ukrainian officials to investigate more fully the clearly corrupt Biden family—given Joe Biden at the time was a likely possible presidential opponent in 2020.

The FBI has devolved into a personal retrieval service for the incorrigible Biden family. It suppressed, for political purposes, information surrounding Hunter Biden’s

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: communism; creepstate; deepstate; fbi; fib; policestate; singlepartystate; vdh
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1 posted on 08/11/2022 5:06:12 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

I am so thankful that Merrick Garland did not make it to the Supreme Court.


2 posted on 08/11/2022 5:06:27 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: texas booster

VDH ping.


3 posted on 08/11/2022 5:06:58 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

Well, it was created to enforce one of the grandest failures in American history, the 18th Amendment, also known as the Volstead Act.


4 posted on 08/11/2022 5:09:44 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966 )
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To: MtnClimber

FBI, R.I.P.?

I CERTAINLY HOPE SO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


5 posted on 08/11/2022 5:11:24 AM PDT by Maris Crane
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6 posted on 08/11/2022 5:12:33 AM PDT by Daffynition (*This admin tells us *A* story; but they don't tell us *THE* story* & :) ~ D Bongino)
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To: OttawaFreeper

And yet, despite the 18th Amendment being repealed, we got prohibition anyway (the Controlled Substances Act), as well as an FDA that imposes prior restraint on dissemination and discussion of scientific research on medicines.


7 posted on 08/11/2022 5:12:58 AM PDT by oblomov
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To: MtnClimber

An early order of business for the new Congress could be to zero out the FBI’s budget.


8 posted on 08/11/2022 5:13:43 AM PDT by Oscar in Batangas (An Honors Graduate from the Don Rickles School of Personal Verbal Intercourse)
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To: MtnClimber

Merrick Garland’s picture has been seen on milk cartons.


9 posted on 08/11/2022 5:13:55 AM PDT by Daffynition (*This admin tells us *A* story; but they don't tell us *THE* story* & :) ~ D Bongino)
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To: MtnClimber

I say, FBI, Good Riddance! It’s been a criminal/political organization from the get-go. From what I’ve read, Woodrow Wilson was the first to use the agency to arrest and intimidate Americans who publically voiced their opposition to America’s entry into WWI. And that was just the beginning of the agency’s “storied history”.


10 posted on 08/11/2022 5:17:34 AM PDT by LIConFem (Read up on Russia's Oct, 1917 Revolution... And prepare.)
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To: MtnClimber

The dirty Agents make the other 5% look bad.


11 posted on 08/11/2022 5:18:27 AM PDT by bray (The Vax is fake and deadly)
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To: MtnClimber

RIP?

I think you mean RIH.


12 posted on 08/11/2022 5:18:44 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: Daffynition

Wanted dead or dead?😏


13 posted on 08/11/2022 5:18:48 AM PDT by BiteYourSelf ( Earth first we'll strip mine the other planets later.)
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To: oblomov

It seems you miss the main point that despite the repeal of prohibition, we still have the FBI.


14 posted on 08/11/2022 5:19:03 AM PDT by Empire_of_Liberty
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To: bray

I think you mean 1%.🙄


15 posted on 08/11/2022 5:19:50 AM PDT by BiteYourSelf ( Earth first we'll strip mine the other planets later.)
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To: MtnClimber

Souldn’t be too hard for a new Congress to shut down a Bureau.


16 posted on 08/11/2022 5:22:33 AM PDT by Mashood
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To: MtnClimber

Uh, Garland is proving far more dangerous where he is now. If on the SC he would at least have been checked by 4 cojservatives and once in awhile Roberts.


17 posted on 08/11/2022 5:23:11 AM PDT by KobraKai
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But, it would have been FOREVER!!!!

This way we will be free of him...hopefully shortly.


18 posted on 08/11/2022 5:24:52 AM PDT by Maris Crane
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To: MtnClimber

“A massive phalanx of FBI agents swooped into the Trump residence while he was not home, to confiscate his personal property, safe, and records.”

It should be emphasized that did this while carrying “weapons of war”! To paraphrase Andrew Cuomo “You don’t need 30 rounds to search an ex President’s home!”.


19 posted on 08/11/2022 5:25:12 AM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (I went to bed on November 3rd 2020 and woke up in 1984.)
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To: bray
The dirty Agents make the other 5% look bad.

Has Hannity said anything re: the gestapo raid on Mar a Lago? I stopped watching Fox after the election night lie.

20 posted on 08/11/2022 5:25:24 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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