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The FBI Tragedy: Elites above the Law
National Review ^ | June 11, 2019 6:30 AM | By VICTOR DAVIS HANSON

Posted on 06/11/2019 9:32:15 AM PDT by US Navy Vet

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To: qaz123

Long post but: :)


21 posted on 06/11/2019 10:14:21 AM PDT by Shark24
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To: US Navy Vet
The "FBI" SHOULD Be ABOLISHED and it's "Assets" BURNED to the ground. AND it's "People" tried for TREASON and SHOT!

I'd settle for abolished, assets sold, those who committed crimes be prosecuted, and anyone who worked there be advised to learn to code. However, I prefer your plan.

22 posted on 06/11/2019 10:14:24 AM PDT by Stentor
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To: Truthoverpower

Fortunately our great and wonderful president Donald J Trump. who sacrificed everything for this great nation and its people, will have another 5 to 5 1/2 years to get this done.
_________________________________________________________

I happily and proudly voted for and contributed to PDJT in 2016. Now, with 20/20 hindsight, I’m totally proud of what I did and intend to do it more and harder in 2020. Indeed, if I could magically return myself to 2016 and be given a magic button that I could push to make anybody in the world President, including myself, I joyously and proudly would push it for NOBODY BUT My President, Donald J. Trump.


23 posted on 06/11/2019 10:15:15 AM PDT by libstripper (q)
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To: Signalman

LOL

It’s the field agents that will put everyone on the list here.


24 posted on 06/11/2019 10:15:54 AM PDT by grumpygresh
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To: Signalman
...not the majority of field agents who are dedicated and who, for the most part, despise what has happened over the past few years.

Are you kidding me?

They took an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution yet they sit around and ignore the crimes that have been committed within their ranks. And, by this lack of response, these agent become fully complicit co-conspirators.

Get real!

25 posted on 06/11/2019 10:18:13 AM PDT by JohnG45
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To: US Navy Vet
If it is time for a shutdown or a serious alteration of the FBI to bring it back under control we are going to have to ensure that we don't replace it with something worse, because a very large number of like-minded people are going to see it as an opportunity for just that. Hanson provides the usual disclaimer at the end of the article about the purported rectitude of the "rank and file" but to be perfectly candid I don't see any protestations, mass resignations, or other signs that anything of the sort is the case. Hanson is, in short, according them an "innocent until proven guilty" benefit that has been notably absent on the part of the FBI in nearly all of the case he cites. He, and we, can do no other, but it's galling to see how easily that is taken advantage of. For example:

Mueller’s team also deliberately edited a phone message from Trump counsel John Dowd to Robert Kelner, General Michael Flynn’s lawyer, to make it appear incriminating and possibly unethical or illegal. Only after a federal judge ordered the full release of the transcript did the public learn the extent of Mueller’s selective and misleading cut-and-paste of Dowd’s message.

So, the pattern: falsify, leak, publish, watch as the damage is done, then deny and walk away. None of this train of corruption would be possible without the knowing participation of media whose editors and celebrities profit from the scam, both passively by sneak-thievery and hitting from behind and actively by openly bribing their sources. Nice, tidy little system, and utterly corrupt.

26 posted on 06/11/2019 10:20:47 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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27 posted on 06/11/2019 10:21:14 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (This space for rent...)
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To: Shark24

I was a cop. Used to work with the FBI quite a bit. I may have been lucky, but all the ones I worked with were seemed like good people. But that was me on the street, doing some police work or on a firing range. No idea what they did in the confines of their offices.

But, I tend to get a little passionate about the subject and get a little goofy on the keyboard. This is what they did and continued to try and do, to the President of the United States. The most Powerful and Influential Politician on the planet. What would and could they do to you and me?

And this whole thing about these people resigning. If they resign, they get nothing. Were they allowed to quietly retire and will then be collecting a pension for the rest of their lives, even if they go to prison?


28 posted on 06/11/2019 10:22:57 AM PDT by qaz123
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To: US Navy Vet

Until wrongdoers suffer jail time or financial loss, this will continue and no reforms will happen.


29 posted on 06/11/2019 10:23:06 AM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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To: qaz123

There will be a price paid it’s just a question of who pays and how.


30 posted on 06/11/2019 10:25:05 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: US Navy Vet; Liz
... in about every growing scandal of the past two years — FISA, illegal leaking, spying on a presidential candidate, lying under oath, obstructing justice — someone in the FBI is involved.

The ugly truth - dirty FBI cops...

31 posted on 06/11/2019 10:28:59 AM PDT by GOPJ (Send Ebola illegals from Congo to Martha's Vineyard - let them kill liberals elites first...)
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To: Signalman

‘the majority of field agents who are dedicated and who, for the most part, despise what has happened over the past few years.’


And what proof do you have that the majority of field agents are so pure at heart?


32 posted on 06/11/2019 10:29:53 AM PDT by Presbyterian Reporter
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To: GOPJ
You gotta knw the Halfrican had a huge hand in corrupting th FBI. Here's one godawful Boobamba program.

FBI takes on ‘Islamophobia’: White nationalism seen as bigger threat than jihadism
Leo Hohmann | 1/26/18 | FR Posted by markomalley

Two Michigan residents attended a BRIDGES meeting hosted by the Detroit office of the FBI recently that left them stunned by the level of Islamist infiltration at the Bureau. BRIDGES is a quarterly FBI outreach program that stands for Building Respect in Diverse Groups to Enhance Sensitivity, whereby the FBI hosts workshops for law enforcement and various immigrant communities.

They’ve been held in Boston, Detroit, Houston and Minneapolis-St. Paul and some city police departments host similar meetings on their own, without the FBI in attendance. According to the FBI website, BRIDGES “brings together members of diverse communities and state, local, and federal law enforcement agencies to discuss issues and concerns within their communities.”

In southeastern Michigan, those diverse communities include an array of Islamic migrant enclaves, both Shia and Sunni, as well as Coptic, Chaldean and Assyrian Christians forced to flee their Middle Eastern homelands by the Islamic State and other jihadist groups. The outreaches can sometimes go to bizarre lengths to demonstrate the FBI’s respect for Islam. In St. Paul, for example, the FBI boasted in its Oct. 7, 2014 edition of the Law Enforcement Bulletin that the local police department “hosted its first halal cookout” with the Somali Muslim community.

The Jan. 10 FBI BRIDGES meeting in Michigan serves as a fresh reminder of how the FBI has made a concerted effort to divert the eyes of law enforcement away from Muslim communities as potential breeding grounds for terror and refocus attention on “Islamophobic” American citizens. The meeting, held at the Troy Police and Fire Training Center in Oakland County, an affluent suburb of Detroit, was described as “painful to watch” by two guests who attended. Dick Manasseri, an activist with Secure Michigan and a resident of Oakland County, gained entry to the meeting by way of a guest invitation from the American Middle Eastern Christian Congress, a regular attendee. But he said he heard nothing about the plight of persecuted Middle Eastern Christians now living in Oakland County. Instead, almost the entire hour-and-a-half meeting was spent focusing on Islamic religious and cultural practices and trying to debunk any derogatory information police officers may have received about Islamic ideology.

The FBI’s point person for this task was Bushra Alawie, a young female Muslim wearing a full head covering, or hijab. Alawie served in the Army National Guard and upon leaving the Guard in September 2016 the FBI hired her to be its “community outreach specialist” in Detroit. The mother of four spoke confidently and without any trace of an accent during her presentation on Islamic “cultural education.” “I get that initial look like, ‘is that really Bushra’ because of my visibly Muslim attire,” she told Detroit’s WXYZ-TV in 2016. “Immediately those rumors are dispelled and it’s business as usual.”

Alawie admitted in the WXYZ-TV interview that her real mission at the FBI is not to ferret out tips and information useful in the apprehension of terrorists but rather it is to “combat Islamophobia.”

That just happens to be the same exact mission of the Muslim Brotherhood-offshoot Council on American-Islamic Relations, which has an entire division called the Department to Monitor and Combat Islamophobia. And while he did not attend the January meeting, CAIR’s Michigan chapter head, Dawud Walid, has a standing invitation to the FBI’s quarterly BRIDGES meetings in metro Detroit.

Also on the FBI’s invite list is CAIR’s former Michigan chapter leader, Muthanna Al-Hanooti, who was convicted in 2011 of conspiring to work for a foreign government, Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, and making false statements to the same FBI. Yes, that would be the same FBI which now courts him as a guest at its Detroit-area outreach meetings.

WATCH VIDEO AT WEB SITE : Meet Bushra Alawie, a Muslim woman working for the FBI

About that phrase “Allahu Akbar,” so frequently shouted during the commission of Islamic terrorist attacks, Alawie assured the police officers in attendance not to worry or give it a second thought. According to her, “Allahu Akbar”:
<><>Is said by Muslims 85 times a day
<><>Was said by Jews and Christians before Islam began
<><>Would be used to celebrate the birth of a child or in the prayer of a sick person
<><>Is perfectly normal and not particularly associated with violent jihad.

She explained that “jihad” means: An inner struggle – for her to “not eat cheesecake” Higher jihad – inner struggle Lower Jihad – to defend one’s property.

She mentioned that “Jihad” was even a name taken by Christian men on occasion and that there was an FBI employee of Palestinian descent whose name was Jihad. According to Alawie, if we Americans understand these subtleties, then we will be well on our way to wiping out Islamophobia. Where did the impetus for this FBI focus on Islamophobia come from?

It certainly did not originate in Oakland County, Michigan, or even Washington. It’s international in scope. “Combating Islamophobia” has been a top priority, since at least 2005, of the United Nations and the Muslim Brotherhood-dominated Organization of Islamic Cooperation, a 57-nation group of Muslim-majority nations that makes up the largest voting bloc at the U.N.

The OIC adopted its 10-year Strategic Action Plan to Overcome Islamophobia in 2005, calling for nations to pass new laws “including deterrent punishments” for those guilty of Islamophobia. This crime was described as any speech that counters the OIC’s statement that “Islam is the religion of moderation and tolerance.”

This 10-year plan served as the basis for the 2011 U.N. Human Rights Resolution 16/18, which encourages every nation in the world to adopt hate-speech laws making “defamation of religion” a crime. There is only one religion, however, that seeks to punish people for speech deemed offensive to its members – Islam. Many nations in Western Europe, including the UK, Germany and Sweden obliged, as did Canada, and passed hate-speech laws geared toward punishing these vile Islamophobes.

It was also around this same time frame – 2010 to 2012 – that lesson plans in public schools across the United States started incorporating large sections on Islam, emphasizing it as a religion of peace and tolerance. Any teacher who resisted was an Islamophobe.

In 2013 the OIC opened an office in Brussels explicitly for the purpose of combating Islamophobia in Europe.In February 2017 U.N. Secretary General Antonio Gutteres cited “Islamophobia” as the fuel that has ignited the rise of global terrorism. This U.N. focus on Islamophobia came during the peak offensives of ISIS, al-Nusra and other jihadist groups conducting a genocide against Christian minorities in Iraq and Syria – exposing the global body’s agenda as more concerned about speech deemed offensive to Muslims than beheadings, rapes and mass-murdering of Christians.

Philip Haney, a former Customs and Border Protection officer who became a founding member of the Department of Homeland Security in 2003 and a member of the Advanced Targeting Team before retiring in July 2015, said the FBI did not get to the point of rolling out Bushra Alawie overnight.

When Haney tried to blow the whistle on Homeland Security ineptitude, he found himself the target of repeated investigations and harassment. A critical data template he developed to catch terrorists before they strike was erased from the DHS computer system. He was an Islamophobe. Haney believes the term “Islamophobia” was created by the global Islamic movement to set up a watered-down version of the blasphemy laws that terrorize Christians and other religious minorities in the Middle East. Instead of a stern-looking mullah or sheikh enforcing the blasphemy laws under penalty of death, the Muslims in the West use people like Bushra Alawie, who deliver the same warning with a smile, under penalty of losing one’s reputation and career.

“She wouldn’t have been given that platform under the old rules,” Haney said. “These concessions to Islam have been developing for a long time, and the fact that someone like her would be endorsed by the FBI and given that platform, it would never have happened without all those previous developments at the OIC, U.N., and the fervent work of Obama holdovers in the FBI.”

Scrubbing FBI training manuals One of the more crucial developments came in 2011 – the same year the U.N. adopted Resolution 16/18. That’s when more than 50 Muslim organizations, many with ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, sent a letter to Obama’s then-deputy national security adviser John Brennan demanding he remove from FBI training manuals all references to Islam deemed offensive to Muslims. They also requested that the FBI and DHS rid themselves of all “biased experts” – people like Haney – and “immediately create an inter-agency task force to address the problem.”

Brennan and then-FBI chief Robert Mueller fell over like a stack of dominos. They immediately scrubbed the training manuals and began purging federal agencies of patriots with expert knowledge of Islamist ideology. Instead of true terrorism experts, police would receive training from people like Bushra Alawie, the smooth-talking, hijab-wearing Muslim apologist with the contagious smile.

Since most local police chiefs get training from the FBI Academy, the same drivel that now passes for counter-terrorist instruction at the Bureau gets filtered down to police departments nationwide. But Trump is rectifying all of this right? Unfortunately, no. All of the Muslim infiltrations of the government remain in place. Hiring a woman like Alawie to present an unrealistic view of Islam is the new normal at the FBI.

Other highlights from the BRIDGES meeting: Troy Mayor Dane Slater welcomed the meeting attendees to the “most diverse city in Michigan.” Troy Police Chief Gary Mayer, along with four of his senior officers, welcomed their federal counterparts from the FBI and witnessed the guidance provided by the FBI regarding the “normalcy of Allahu Akbar” and ”the benevolent jihad.”

Praise was offered for the Obama-appointed former U.S. Attorney Barbara McQuade who was fired by Trump. Examples offered of domestic terrorism repeatedly focused on white supremacist groups, who are seen as more dangerous than Islamic terrorism according to the teaching of the previous administration and the United Nations-endorsed Strong Cities Network.

The FBI’s special agent in charge of Detroit said there remains no clear motive for the Las Vegas massacre. Mental health was injected as an explanation for violent activity per the Muslim Brotherhood playbook. Celebration of the long-standing civil rights partnership between the FBI and the Muslim community was marked with recognition awards. “Everything was about welcoming, welcoming, welcoming,” Manasseri said. “It was terribly discouraging, including when they talked about domestic terrorism and they kept coming back to white supremacism and how do you protect us from white nationalism? Stunning.”

To counter the false and incomplete training being given by the FBI, Manasseri has co-founded a project called Sharia Crime Stoppers in partnership with a retired police chief.

“The Muslim Brotherhood-managed FBI and its pandering to Islam at 60-plus BRIDGES meetings since the 9/11 terrorist attacks provides ample evidence that Michigan is already living under Sharia, even while it contemplates the candidacy of Sharia-compliant and Muslim Brotherhood-groomed candidate Abdul El-Sayed for governor,” Manasseri said. El-Sayed is running on the Democratic ticket in Michigan’s 2018 gubernatorial race.

CAIR’s Dawud Walid has already said, in an article for the Detroit News, that any questions to Muslim candidates about Sharia law are off limits. For any journalist or concerned citizen to ask such a question would be Islamophobic.

33 posted on 06/11/2019 10:32:54 AM PDT by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: Signalman

the majority of field agents who are dedicated and who, for the most part, despise what has happened over the past few years.

I USED to buy that crap too.

A few years ago there were two high school kids pulled over by the FBI, the Male driver was shot in the face by an FBI agent. No real reason.

The Fib did no wrong!
The checked it out themselves!

Nothing to see.

I did search around for the story, east coast bank robber(?) about five years back.


34 posted on 06/11/2019 10:43:19 AM PDT 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: US Navy Vet

I believe the Clintons started this corruption of the FBI. Based on their performance in other areas, it’s safe to say that the Clintons made sure people were hired and promoted based on their alignment with the elites. People who spoke up in opposition were driven out of the organization. I doubt that anything was done to reverse this during George W. Bush’s administration.

And then along came Obama, who made the Clintons look like pikers. Thus, for 24 years, the ranks of the FBI have been filled, top to bottom, with people aligned with the Clintons and Obamas, and more than willing to take whatever illegal actions were necessary to maintain control of the government, no matter who was in the White House.

I keep hearing that the rank and file in the FBI are honest people trying to enforce the law and are not part of this criminal activity. If so, how did they survive these 24 years of hiring, firing, promoting based on willingness to break the laws of the land?


35 posted on 06/11/2019 10:43:29 AM PDT by Rocky
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To: Yo-Yo
"The FBI was founded on that attitude by J. Edgar Hoover. Nothing has changed since"

Yeah but in J Edgar's days (when America was still America) at least they actually got their hands dirty like REAL men and went after the underworld, nazis, communists etc and took on the likes of Dillinger, "Baby face Nelson", etc. Now its smothered in bureaucracy, hacks and political gamesmanship...big heroes who have to have SWAT teams to arrest paper assed ppeople like Manafort, Stone etc. Hell, that big drink of water Comey wouldn't even carry a gun and probably wouldn't know how to use one anyhow.


36 posted on 06/11/2019 10:43:58 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Signalman

For all of the BS under Obama and the BS happening to POTUS Trump,I find it perplexing that we never see whistle blowers. Does Deep State Swamp get to these people? It’s scary when one thinks about it.


37 posted on 06/11/2019 10:45:19 AM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: Signalman

Re your assertion that the FBI rank and file is dedicated and despise what happened, what evidence does an ordinary American like me have that it is true? Do I see hundreds of FBI agents and other personnel standing on the Capitol steps to make their disgust public? Do I see whistleblowers galore coming forward? Why the silence?


38 posted on 06/11/2019 10:48:34 AM PDT by Avalon Memories (This Deplorable is not fooled by the Marxist-Stalinist totalitarians infesting the Dem Party.)
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To: Signalman

I hope you’re referring to the top echelon who were involved in Spygate, not the majority of field agents who are dedicated and who, for the most part, despise what has happened over the past few years.


Yeah, so friggin what? How many of those SAs cared enough to speak out/approach the media/approach the House Intel Committee? Their oath should supersede their career ambitions. What we needed was 50 Adm. Rogers to come forward.


39 posted on 06/11/2019 10:50:53 AM PDT by 82nd Bragger (Count to four except when in a helicopter)
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To: Signalman; US Navy Vet
I hope you're referring to the top echelon who were involved in Spygate, not the majority of field agents who are dedicated and who, for the most part, despise what has happened over the past few years.

Can't speak for the original poster, but I sure as hell have no confidence in these allegedly 'dedicated' field agents. None at all. They could shut the entire place down and I wouldn't give a damn.

40 posted on 06/11/2019 10:51:49 AM PDT by zeugma (Power without accountability is fertilizer for tyranny.)
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