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Mr. Baker is a retired FBI special agent and legal attaché and author of “The Fall of the FBI: How a Once Great Agency Became a Threat to Democracy,” forthcoming in December.
1 posted on 09/16/2022 11:58:23 AM PDT by Pelham
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I hope Mr. Baker can persuade some of his contemporaries to join his choir.


2 posted on 09/16/2022 12:04:42 PM PDT by gloryblaze
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Wasn’t Mulehead in charge of the Boston office during part of the Whitey Bulger era?


3 posted on 09/16/2022 12:08:29 PM PDT by Fido969 (45 is Superman! )
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Excellent article. Thank you for posting it. Here we are 20+ years on and it’s spiralled into a DC snake pit of utter corruption. Not that the FBI was ever perfect, but goes to show culture and organization are important.


5 posted on 09/16/2022 12:14:10 PM PDT by CatHerd (Whoever said "All's fair in love and war" probably never participated in either.)
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New Totalitarianism Led by ‘Dull Bureaucrats and Technocrats’: Psychologist Mattias Desmet
epoch times ^ | 15 September A.D. 2022 | Jan Jekielek & Masooma Haq

Desmet believes the world is now seeing a new form of totalitarianism, spawned in the last couple of decades and fostered by mass formation during the pandemic.

“What you’re dealing with now is not a communist or not fascist authoritarianism. It is the emergence, I think, of technocratic totalitarianism,” Desmet said during a recent interview for EpochTV’s “American Thought Leaders” program. This new form of control will not be “led by gang leaders such as Stalin or Hitler, but by dull bureaucrats and technocrats,” added Desmet, citing the work of 20th century political philosopher Hannah Arendt.


7 posted on 09/16/2022 12:17:34 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Anyone, who can make you believe in absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.!" ~ (Voltaire)!, )
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Lady Livingstone and her 800 raw FBI files is what began the ruin of the FBI and DOJ. Subsequent agency heads and appointees were just following the path to the brass ring.


8 posted on 09/16/2022 12:17:43 PM PDT by blackdog ("That's an applause line you useful idiots" )
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James Comey was a big part of the FBI’s moral collapse also.


9 posted on 09/16/2022 12:19:49 PM PDT by lee martell ( )
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As the trial of Clinton lawyer Michael Sussmann demonstrated, FBI General Counsel James Baker, a nonagent, accepted misdirection from Mr. Sussmann, causing the bureau to chase the fabricated Alfa Bank connection.

Bullshyte. These people are politicized, bureaucrat hacks, but they aren't stupid. The signs of fraud were everywhere. The FBI at its highest levels wanted to pursue a soft-coup against an elected President (ie. Treason). They were merely looking for cheap cover for their operation.

10 posted on 09/16/2022 12:21:16 PM PDT by PGR88
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Exclusive— Former CIA Station Chief: Intelligence Agencies Cannot ‘Be Reformed’ Unless POTUS Can ‘Fire Every Federal Employee’

Former CIA officer and station chief Scott Uehlinger told Breitbart News on Thursday that intelligence agencies cannot be cleansed of political and partisan corruption unless the president has the unitary power over the federal government’s personnel decisions.

Uehlinger discussed left-wing and partisan politicization of federal intelligence agencies on Thursday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with special guest host and retired Navy SEAL and FBI agent Jonathan Gilliam.

“It’s a real cause of concern, not just among regular folks, but [among] people who served in these agencies,” he stated. He emphasized the ubiquity of such political orientations among intelligence agency employees.

He remarked, “The infection in these organizations is not just the political appointees. It’s basically everyone from mid-grade-level and up, if not lower because they’re all the recipients of a super-liberal education.”


13 posted on 09/16/2022 12:31:33 PM PDT by Bratch
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Watching Mueller testify in 2019 about the “Russia-gate investigation,” I realized, like Joe Biden, he’s a corrupt, demented old patsy who probably can’t think beyond what pudding he will have after his nap.

He was a figurehead who was put in place for public propaganda and optics, while other devious people organized the real work behind the scenes.

Now he is serving that role again - they’re blaming their obvious corruption on the old fool who will not defend himself and will be dead before too long.


14 posted on 09/16/2022 12:32:53 PM PDT by PGR88
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Dan Bongino discussed this article on his podcast yesterday. Mueller centralized investigative work to the DC HQ and it continued into the Comey reign.

The investigation of Crossfire Hurricane was run from the the 7th floor. Sometime during early 2017 the 7th floor decided to shakeup the investigative team. The new agents on the case likely assumed the previous agents were spot on and didn't question what happened before they were placed on the case. They certainly weren't going to ruffle any feather's of higher ups...

16 posted on 09/16/2022 12:41:10 PM PDT by EVO X ( )
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The FBI is the DOJ. The DOJ is the FBI.

It wasn’t just Mueller. In fact, Mueller, the dolt figurehead, is but a very small player in the whole thing. But given his name recognition, the main culprits: Rosenstein, Wiseman and the rest of the Russia Collusion crew, Comey’s daughter in the Southern District of NY, Comey, the list is very long and very loathsome. Full of absolutely decrepit, hypocrites.


17 posted on 09/16/2022 1:06:00 PM PDT by qaz123
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This is a good article but it does not include the many ways Mueller and Comey corrupted and destroyed the FBI.

The article does not include the botched anthrax investigation and Steven Hatfill, the FBI pressuring people to commit perjury in the Senator Stevens case and others, The FBI failures in the Dr. Hassan investigation and the many other failures.

Mueller and Comey corrupted the FBI. Wray is continuing the job.

21 posted on 09/16/2022 2:04:14 PM PDT by detective
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When the WSJ wakes up to election fraud, please let me know.

Otherwise, my subscription canceled Jan 7, 2021 will remain canceled.


27 posted on 09/16/2022 2:42:26 PM PDT by nicollo (arbitrary law is not rule of law)
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D*MN.

Two months too months to help the October-November discussions.
Or was that publication date also (deliberately) set to be after the Nov elections?


32 posted on 09/16/2022 5:51:42 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (Method, motive, and opportunity: No morals, shear madness and hatred by those who cheat.)
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bump


34 posted on 09/16/2022 9:12:01 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free... Galatians 5:1 )
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