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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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To: MtnClimber

Fire all of them. Disband it and raze it’s facilities to the ground.


41 posted on 08/11/2022 5:50:02 AM PDT by Gaffer (Infidel, and proud of it!)
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To: MtnClimber

Yep, just like Comey, Wray is a bad cop and a corrupt cop.


42 posted on 08/11/2022 5:50:40 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: bray

They are ALL complicit. Even if by silence.


43 posted on 08/11/2022 5:51:37 AM PDT by Gaffer (Infidel, and proud of it!)
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To: Leep

There are no good guys in the FBI.


44 posted on 08/11/2022 5:53:02 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin ( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: MtnClimber

The FBI has become the standing army the original colonies were so afraid of.


45 posted on 08/11/2022 5:53:11 AM PDT by Yogafist (Voting rino is voting for the managed decline of America.)
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To: MtnClimber

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

Usually articles like this exaggerate the threat. Not in this case. If anything, they are understanding the threat posed by the FBI.


46 posted on 08/11/2022 5:53:29 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA (You can vote your way into socialism, but you have to shoot your way out.)
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To: MtnClimber

Any federal policing authority that is extra-jurisdictional will ALWAYS become corrupt. This is a universal axiom. The FBI, ATF and various other alphabet agencies must be deleted. They will only become more powerful and more corrupt as we move forward.


47 posted on 08/11/2022 5:53:48 AM PDT by freedomjusticeruleoflaw (Strange that a man with his wealth would have to resort to prostitution.)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

But Hannity says 99% of agents are swell people.


48 posted on 08/11/2022 5:54:06 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA (You can vote your way into socialism, but you have to shoot your way out.)
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To: MtnClimber

I remember in reading US history of how the FBI was so corrupt back in the 1920’s and that era until J. Edgar Hoover cleaned it up; I think it’s time for that to happen again - someone like him to clean it up again.


49 posted on 08/11/2022 5:55:01 AM PDT by SkyDancer ( I make airplanes fly, what's your super power?)
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To: pghoilman

Who is Hannity?


50 posted on 08/11/2022 5:55:02 AM PDT by bray (The Vax is fake and deadly)
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To: Red in Blue PA

He thinks the same of Flimsey Grahamnesty and Karl Rove.

He’s an idiot.


51 posted on 08/11/2022 5:55:24 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin ( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Georgia Girl 2
I’m sick of hearing how most FBI agents are decent people. No they’re not.

I’m sick of hearing how most IRS agents are decent people. No they’re not.

52 posted on 08/11/2022 5:55:24 AM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

LOL!

Hannity is an idiot!


53 posted on 08/11/2022 5:55:39 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA (You can vote your way into socialism, but you have to shoot your way out.)
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To: Gaffer

If they have not resigned they agree with political persecution of dissenters.


54 posted on 08/11/2022 5:56:26 AM PDT by bray (The Vax is fake and deadly)
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To: bray
Hannity
55 posted on 08/11/2022 5:57:40 AM PDT by deport
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To: MtnClimber

Part of this is garland’s anger and revenge for Republicans over not making it to the Supreme Court. The other part is biden’s hatred for Republicans and this country.


56 posted on 08/11/2022 5:59:22 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Damn it! We need Trump! America First! Bring America back! We're being governed by fascists.)
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To: silverleaf

Am envisioning a political cartoon entitled:
Red November.


57 posted on 08/11/2022 6:01:25 AM PDT by milagro (There is no peace in appeasement! There)
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To: MtnClimber

Since nothing was inside the safe at Mar-A-Lago as the FBI’s two stooges had told them there was, it would have to appear there was nothing else of interest there. It appears the FIB boys got some bad poop from their snitches. Of course, they can always make sh*t up. No telling what has been added to the boxes they stole from the Trump family residence with their phony balony warrant.


58 posted on 08/11/2022 6:01:33 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (The House is supposed to represent the people, not the friggin' Federal government. )
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To: MtnClimber
VDH ping.

He is spot on.

59 posted on 08/11/2022 6:02:53 AM PDT by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF pilot. USAF aviation runs in the family )
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To: Oscar in Batangas

State bureaus of investigation, perhaps.

Concur on the lack of Federal agencies thus.


60 posted on 08/11/2022 6:03:06 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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