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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
RIP, FBI?

Nonsense.

The FBI has been absorbed into the Deep State. It ain't going anywhere until the Deep State is dismantled.

81 posted on 08/11/2022 6:55:37 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: Lurkinanloomin

So,no one can stop actual federal crimes?


82 posted on 08/11/2022 7:00:00 AM PDT by Leep (Hillary will NEVER be president! 😁)
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To: x
J. Edgar Hoover, though, was a political policeman from the start, hunting first for German sympathizers, and then for Reds and anarchists.

I wouldn't call him a political policeman. We were at war with Germany, so German-sympathizing aliens were fair game, as were Reds and anarchists, who sought to overthrow our government.

During WWII, Hoover's FBI rolled up the Axis spy rings. Afterwards, it rounded up the Soviet atom spies and neutered the US Communist Party.

83 posted on 08/11/2022 7:01:55 AM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: MtnClimber

Disband it and absorb their functions into the US Marshals;


84 posted on 08/11/2022 7:05:43 AM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself)
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To: MtnClimber

BTTT


85 posted on 08/11/2022 7:10:19 AM PDT by nopardons
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To: Georgia Girl 2

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

All members of law enforcement agencies are mercenaries. They’re like the “good Germans” simply following orders.

They have mortgages to pay, family to feed, college to pay for... They’re going to do what they’re told.


86 posted on 08/11/2022 7:15:37 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: central_va

I fully agree.


87 posted on 08/11/2022 7:26:09 AM PDT by Gaffer (Infidel, and proud of it!)
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To: MtnClimber

“Let me tell you: You take on the intelligence community — they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you,”

The most correct and prophetic thing Schumer has ever said.


88 posted on 08/11/2022 7:26:57 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: bray

That’s the truth. Standing buy when there are so many opportunities to let Americans know what’s really going on inside that cabal is indefensible.

Right now, I’d be hard put to think of a more dishonorable profession than FBI agent - unless it was a journalist for MSM.


89 posted on 08/11/2022 7:28:26 AM PDT by Gaffer (Infidel, and proud of it!)
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To: bray

LOL 😂

Is that you, Sean?


90 posted on 08/11/2022 7:55:10 AM PDT by Laslo Fripp (The Sybil of Free Republic)
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To: MtnClimber

Keep the lab, fire everyone else. The level of distrust they have sown outweighs any benefit they might lend to any police agency anywhere in the US.

It is like having a rabid dog in your pet shop. No dog is that damned cute. Get rid of it.


91 posted on 08/11/2022 8:00:42 AM PDT by bobbo666 (Baizuo)
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To: MtnClimber
Like the FBI was ever a legitimate organization... It was created by a cross-dressing creep and it hasn't changed a whole lot since it's creation.


92 posted on 08/11/2022 8:01:02 AM PDT by jerod (Nazi's were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: Leep

Not the ones committed by federal agencies.


93 posted on 08/11/2022 8:01:40 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: Lurkinanloomin

Maybe,limit their power to investigating waste,fraud and abuse.


94 posted on 08/11/2022 8:10:25 AM PDT by Leep (Hillary will NEVER be president! 😁)
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To: bray

Why Hannity knows that 95% of the rank and file, his good friends in the FBI are great guys and only 5% are bad.

Where are the whistleblowers who actually think their word and oath are worth a damn? If you will lie and cover up this crap what will you do to Johnny Quest in Podunk USA whom you arrested and charged with God knows what and want a jury of citizens to believe every word you and the DOJ utter so you can take Johnny out and execute him or put him away for life based on the words of people who have shown time and again they are highly unethical.


95 posted on 08/11/2022 8:51:01 AM PDT by sarge83
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To: aquila48

Exactly right. Everyone of those 40 agents should have refused to go into Mara-Lago. If they were told to try to arrest Trump they would do that too.


96 posted on 08/11/2022 9:41:14 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: sarge83; All

Ron Paul nailed the FBI in 1988:

https://youtu.be/m7lJgDJIBHU


97 posted on 08/11/2022 10:26:59 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: bray

Oh my God he just repeated the 95% bit again. 9:12 ET.
Why do I watch this crap?


98 posted on 08/11/2022 6:12:55 PM PDT by pghoilman (Earth First. We'll drill the rest of the galaxy later.)
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