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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: FlingWingFlyer
It appears the FIB boys got some bad poop from their snitches.

Reminds me of a classic movie, The Sting.

61 posted on 08/11/2022 6:03:22 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

I quit listening to Hannity when he was still on local radio here in the ATL area. I never did get it.


62 posted on 08/11/2022 6:04:39 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: MtnClimber
I am so thankful that Merrick Garland did not make it to the Supreme Court.

The guy's mental state is what I call "twisted".

63 posted on 08/11/2022 6:05:32 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Leep

Hell, there were Secret Service people involved as well.

On one hand we have SS supposedly protecting PDJT and on the other they are raiding his home. I wonder if he feels protected.

PDJT presidential run should carry and execute the banner, “ The first thing when elected is an executed raid on Odinga’s compound.”


64 posted on 08/11/2022 6:05:46 AM PDT by eartick (Stupidity is expecting the government that broke itself to go out and fix itself. Texan for TEXIT)
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To: Daffynition

Here’s a little know fact......One of Hitler’s nephews from Long Island was an IRS agent before he was killed in an automobile accident. I bet he would have made a great modern-day FBI agent too.


65 posted on 08/11/2022 6:06:36 AM PDT by ohioman
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To: Empire_of_Liberty

I understood your point.

And I added to that, by noting that even though the substance prohibition power of FedGov had been taken away, we still got prohibition, too. Also, restrictions on free speech when it comes to “public health”.

None of these things, including the existence of the FBI, is a legitimate power of FedGov.


66 posted on 08/11/2022 6:07:43 AM PDT by oblomov
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To: null and void
Here's a data point that dropped in out of noahwhere this morning:

Abbreviation FBI
Motto Fidelity, Bravery, Integrity
Agency overview
Formed July 26, 1908 (as the Bureau of Investigation)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Bureau_of_Investigation

Noah idea why or how, for some reason you seem the one to ask.

Search results
revition

"Showing results for reaction. No results found for revition."

(Odd that the results didn't default to "revision". Suppose when it's too late, it's too late.)

ABBREVIATION:

BOAT.. RAIN.. VIBE

67 posted on 08/11/2022 6:09:02 AM PDT by Ezekiel (🆘️𓊹 𓌃 "Come fly with US". Ingenuity -- because the Son of David begins with Mars ♂️)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

Ok a women is raped. There are bystanders that do nothing. This bystanders in my book are just as culpable as the rapists themselves.


68 posted on 08/11/2022 6:09:36 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: rlmorel

Level headed people = sheeple.


69 posted on 08/11/2022 6:10:57 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Gaffer

Every x-FBI agent needs an F branded on their forehead so we know who they are.


70 posted on 08/11/2022 6:12:07 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: The Free Engineer
Not. A. Chance. Squish boy Kevin (McCarthy) is not the one.

I believe you are probably correct. Sadly the FBI answers to the American people through the US Congress which means as we know, they are completely unsupervised, not accountable, and lawless. Perhaps Congress could perform an act they have the talent for; shirking their responsibility. Transfer the top down authority of every FBI field office to the Governor where that office is located, and eliminate any central authority as well as the director position.

That way plotting stings and nefarious operations against the American people and political enemy's would be way more complicated.

71 posted on 08/11/2022 6:15:23 AM PDT by WhoisAlanGreenspan? (It's a failed virus but a hugely successful propaganda campaign.)
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To: FreedomPoster

Hannity is HORRIBLE to listen to.

Not witty. Bad voice. No insight.

AND now we see he is the Deepest of Deep State.


72 posted on 08/11/2022 6:15:33 AM PDT by Lazamataz (The firearms I own today, are the firearms I will die with. How I die will be up to them.)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Then use a few of the less bad agents to rat out the really bad agents.
Then appoint a new leader (from outside of of the federal government),fire the upper teir, and then steadily get rid of them all and start over.


73 posted on 08/11/2022 6:15:44 AM PDT by Leep (Hillary will NEVER be president! 😁)
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To: Leep

It needs to be disbanded, hopelessly corrupted top to bottom.


74 posted on 08/11/2022 6:19:46 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 liberals have turned the citizens against the Law enforcement. They have been screwing everything up since the 50’s. Damn commies.


75 posted on 08/11/2022 6:26:23 AM PDT by Delta 21 (It started as a virus, and mutated into an IQ test.)
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To: magua

“What happened to Ron DeSantis? Has he said anything in the last 24 hours? Ron you’re missing a big opportunity here if you have any to say get it out there fast baby”

Ron’s next.


76 posted on 08/11/2022 6:35:17 AM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (I went to bed on November 3rd 2020 and woke up in 1984.)
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To: Oscar in Batangas

Abolish the FBI, fire all agents, demolish that ugly building in Washington City ...


77 posted on 08/11/2022 6:38:03 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: MtnClimber

Yes. Abolish the FIB.

Fire the leadership, Gut, and disperse the other 3 letter agencies to America, but the FIB is beyond salvaging at this point. It needs to be abolished to serve as a warning to others.


78 posted on 08/11/2022 6:40:55 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: central_va

If you are referring to my characterization of someone like Victor Davis Hanson as “level-headed” and thus labeling him a “compliant sheep” I could not disagree with you more vociferously.

Being level headed is not the same as being a compliant sheep.

I have read many books by Victor Davis Hanson and watched hours of his lectures, and the man is a gentleman.

He takes care to phrase things logically and carefully, which serve to unequivocally get the point across without throwing gasoline on an emotional fire, emotional fires being the thought processes of many people. That is not an easy thing to do. But he does it. I aspire to that level of calmness in conveying a message.


79 posted on 08/11/2022 6:42:58 AM PDT by rlmorel (Nolnah's Razor: Never attribute to incompetence that which is adequately explained by malice.)
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To: Ezekiel

Something about days being cut short comes to mind...


80 posted on 08/11/2022 6:48:40 AM PDT by null and void (they promise the jetsons but deliver the flintstones)
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