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A Half Century of Failure to Reform the FBI Has Gifted Patel With Alarming Power
THE NATION ^ | 21 Feb 2025 | Steve Howell

Posted on 02/22/2025 7:12:35 AM PST by DUMBGRUNT

To make matters worse, the FBI now has 38,000 staff, compared to the 4,602 at the height of the witch hunt in 1950—and access to technology beyond Hoover’s wildest dreams. While Washington politicians worry about this force being weaponized against each other, the real issue for progressives is whether it is being used for repression of dissent.

(Excerpt) Read more at thenation.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Conspiracy; History
KEYWORDS: fbi; stevehowell
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To: hardspunned

>> Hegseth and Rubio are perfect yes men

You see them as “yes men”? I see them as like-minded allies. That’s why PDJT called them up.


21 posted on 02/22/2025 8:11:58 AM PST by Nervous Tick (Hope, as a righteous product of properly aligned Faith, IS in fact a strategy.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

38,000 well I’m sure we could use less than that number get DOGE in there to shake things up.


22 posted on 02/22/2025 8:23:03 AM PST by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS-REMEMBER REV. NIEMOLLER)
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To: Larry Lucido

Ya somehow it was not “alarming power” on Feb 19th 2025 or during Biden’s puppet regime, these political operatives are shameless ideologues.


23 posted on 02/22/2025 8:25:39 AM PST by Skwor
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To: hardspunned
What other president could have arbitrarily walked away from NATO and increase his popularity by doing so?

I’d say most of them. NATO is a big deal in Europe because that’s where most of the money is spent. In the US, not so much. Even back in Cold War days it was common to hear people complaining about the number of troops we had stationed in Germany. Most Americans don’t see how NATO affects their lives.

24 posted on 02/22/2025 9:12:54 AM PST by Ditto
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To: DUMBGRUNT

” height of the witch hunt in 1950”

There were plenty of witches to catch.


25 posted on 02/22/2025 9:14:56 AM PST by dljordan
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To: asinclair

“”It’s a poor weapon that won’t work both ways” — Salvor Hardin, Foundation (Issac Asimov)”

Just finished re-reading that.


26 posted on 02/22/2025 9:15:48 AM PST by dljordan
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To: DUMBGRUNT

A bit off topic, but I’d like to see an investigation into the communist infiltration that senator Mccarthy was prosecuting in the 50s.. I’d bet there are reems of files showing he was right all along.


27 posted on 02/22/2025 9:28:24 AM PST by subterfuge (I'm a pure-blood!)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Thanks for posting this. We need to understand the left’s positions well enough to state them accurately. I’ve had people object to posts I’ve submitted simply because they were from a leftist publication.


28 posted on 02/22/2025 9:35:46 AM PST by TexasKamaAina
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To: Ditto

I think you are completely wrong. Even during the “no first use” protest days of Reagan, NATO still had deep bipartisan support.


29 posted on 02/22/2025 9:36:07 AM PST by hardspunned (Look for the“Putin Stooge” libel, news from Ukraine you’ve gradually grown to trust over 30 months s)
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To: HighSierra5

“FEAR of BEING INVESTIGATED!”

Why do they FEAR being investigated? After all, all they have to do is answer questions truthfully.

Oh.


30 posted on 02/22/2025 9:44:07 AM PST by BobL (The people who hate Trump demand that you hate Russia)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Now it’s a problem. The Nation would see no problem if Harris were President. His opinion can be written off as insincere and fake.


31 posted on 02/22/2025 9:45:08 AM PST by ChessExpert (The Democratic party must be destroyed.)
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To: subterfuge
From the article: "When agreement was finally reached to give the Church Committee access to FBI files, Schwarz discovered that “substantial numbers of relevant, highly pertinent and sensitive Bureau documents” had been destroyed after Hoover’s death in 1972."
32 posted on 02/22/2025 10:43:21 AM PST by DUMBGRUNT ( "The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Lol. Things happen sometimes I guess.


33 posted on 02/22/2025 11:19:06 AM PST by subterfuge (I'm a pure-blood!)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

I really loved Walking Tall.


34 posted on 02/22/2025 11:27:28 AM PST by Manic_Episode (Harpazo imminent. Each post may be my last. It's been real =)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Now that the table has turned, this extremist leftist is getting nervous that he may receive what he and his leftist buddies have been dishing out.

Schadenfreude.


35 posted on 02/22/2025 1:35:10 PM PST by SharpRightTurn (“Giving money & power to government is like giving whiskey & car keys to teenage boys” P.J. O’Rourke)
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To: hardspunned
NATO still had deep bipartisan support.

In the halls of congress I’d agree. But among the American people… you’d have to show me. I was very much alive and kicking back then and I don’t recall anyone ever singing the praises of NATO. I recall many wondering why their sons were sent to Germany to play chicken with the Russians when only the British seemed to stand with us.

36 posted on 02/22/2025 2:31:09 PM PST by Ditto
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To: DUMBGRUNT



37 posted on 02/22/2025 4:26:56 PM PST by Albion Wilde (“Did you ever meet a woke person that’s happy? There’s no such thing.” —Donald J. Trump)
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