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FBI agents manhandled Manafort and his wife during pre-dawn raid in intimidation effort
The Washington Times ^

Posted on 11/02/2017 12:13:23 PM PDT by detective

Just how rough special counsel Robert Mueller is playing with Paul Manafort goes back before this week’s indictment — to the FBI’s no-knock raid in July.

It has been reported that the agents checked Mr. Manafort and wife Kathleen for guns as they broke into the Alexandria condo pre-dawn by picking the lock.

A source familiar with the case told The Washington Times the search was even more intrusive: An agent patted down Mrs. Manafort before she was allowed to get out of bed.

“Agents felt up Mrs. Manafort lying in bed to see if she had guns,” the source said of the intimidation.

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


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government
KEYWORDS: andrewweissmann; fbi; manafort; manafortraid; mueller; muellerinvestigation; weissmann
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To: detective
Maybe I'm wrong, and I guess they have to be ready for anything, but I find it hard to believe that Manafort and his wife would be planning to engage in a gun fight with the FBI.

If they were trying to escape and hide out in the wilderness, they would have done it several days ago.

Some of these guys just like to rough people up.

21 posted on 11/02/2017 12:46:21 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Kill: NFL, Hollywood, NBA, BLM, CAIR, Antifa, SPLC, CNN, ESPN, NPR, TWITTER, FACEBOOK)
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To: Defiant

‘Disgusting. Remember this the next time someone says that Mueller might be a good guy. He is a bullying swamp monster, and he is not going to go after Podesta or Clinton.’

A thousand times, *yes.* This fairytale that Mueller is a white hat ignores every known fact. It needs to be dismissed with extreme prejudice.


22 posted on 11/02/2017 12:48:14 PM PDT by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Inernet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: Defiant

‘All because Manafort dared to help Trump at the convention. Next time, no one will agree to work for him.’

+1

You’re on a roll.


23 posted on 11/02/2017 12:49:06 PM PDT by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Inernet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: detective

Just thinking how it would go if they were forced to search Hillary’s.

Dear Hillary we will be searching your residence 3 weeks from today starting at 1PM. Please leave milk and cookies by the door.


24 posted on 11/02/2017 12:53:13 PM PDT by Revel
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To: detective

She is a reasonably attractive but non-threatening woman, and the charges, such as they are, are white collar. A pat-down search is reprehensible misconduct purely for intimidation (or worse). These people disgust me.

25 posted on 11/02/2017 12:59:17 PM PDT by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: RightResponse

That was because they were working for a leftist Governmental effort in Wisconsin. So of course the FBI was fine with this.

I am saying that if he was a normal crook writing hot checks, and a local police department did this and stormed the house in a no-knock nighttime raid and felt up his wife. And they let it get out there that it was meant to intimidate... yes, the cops would be arrested.


26 posted on 11/02/2017 1:06:42 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ...)
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To: Pollster1

Utterly shameful and un-American.


27 posted on 11/02/2017 1:08:06 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ...)
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To: Pollster1

Utterly shameful and un-American.


28 posted on 11/02/2017 1:08:07 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ...)
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To: detective

This kind of government thuggery has been bipartisan. Shamefully, most conservatives betrayed Liberty and became statist bootlickers after 9/11. We are still dealing with the consequences of conservatives enthusiastically supporting Dubya’s un-Constitutional police state.

No knock raids need to end except in very specific and narrow circumstances. That’s just one of dozens of major changes we need to restore Liberty.


29 posted on 11/02/2017 1:11:14 PM PDT by WatchungEagle
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To: detective

He is a big important guy, I am a nobody but if they tossed me and mine around they betterwell outnumber me significantly and have the drop on me, I’m cranky in the morning.


30 posted on 11/02/2017 1:11:32 PM PDT by TexasTransplant (High quality, Low price, Speedy executionÂ…pick any two)
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To: detective
“Agents felt up Mrs. Manafort lying in bed to see if she had guns, ...”

Agents? Plural?

Did they at least offer the courtesy of having a female FBI agent available to handle this task knowing Manafort is married?

31 posted on 11/02/2017 1:11:56 PM PDT by JohnG45
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To: DesertRhino

Utterly shameful and un-American, if it was for intimidation.

Udderly shameful and all too American - democrat style - if it was so they could feel her up.

Either way, the agent willing to do this and the supervising agent who ordered/allowed it are disgusting and reprehensible people.


32 posted on 11/02/2017 1:17:55 PM PDT by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: detective
America is now a Police State. Shameful.

Obama literally got away with murder (Benghazi), weaponizing the DOJ, the Intel Community, the FBI and the IRS and nothing, not a peep out of Congress. NADA!

33 posted on 11/02/2017 1:20:41 PM PDT by Chgogal (Sessions recused himself for shaking an Ambassador's hand. Shameful!)
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To: detective

I’m going to assume they didn’t have a rat terrier that hears things from the basement and 20 feet out front? Radar ears. And her sense of smell catching their adrenaline would have set her off, too.

As for the sexual assault, did they do the same to the Mr?


34 posted on 11/02/2017 1:27:05 PM PDT by huldah1776 ( Vote Pro-life! Allow God to bless America before He avenges the death of the innocent.)
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To: Fantasywriter

Thanks, it happens every now and then. :)


35 posted on 11/02/2017 1:29:29 PM PDT by Defiant (It's not antifa, it's actually antifafa. Antifa Fascists.)
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To: LTC.Ret

Head shots only, they wear body armor.


36 posted on 11/02/2017 1:32:05 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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To: BlueYonder
Possibly because no agent would accept the assignment to feel up Hillary?

Winner!!

37 posted on 11/02/2017 1:35:28 PM PDT by awelliott (What one generation tolerates, the next embraces....)
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To: Pollster1

Udderly shameful
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That loud grone you herd was cumming from hear, (sic)


38 posted on 11/02/2017 1:35:52 PM PDT by xrmusn ((6/98)""If the earth were flat, cats would have pushed everything over the edge by now")
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To: JohnnyP
Are we allowed to shoot an unannounced intruder that picks the lock?

First of all all Americans should be considered armed. That said, my conscience allows me to shoot, stab, bludgeon, strangle, drown or do whatever other mayhem is available to me in the moment to any and all armed home invaders.

If they happen to be committing their violent B&E under the color of law I may not survive or I may end up in prison but I won't for a single moment of my life feel the slightest pang of remorse.

39 posted on 11/02/2017 1:37:38 PM PDT by TigersEye (0bama. The Legacy is a lie. The lie is the Legacy.)
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To: detective

Before I die, my hope is to see every last JBT hung in the public square, and solid Christian gov’t restored to our nation.


40 posted on 11/02/2017 1:38:04 PM PDT by Kalamata (Inside Every Liberal is a Totalitarian Screaming to Get Out - D. Horowitz)
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