Posted on 05/02/2020 5:55:57 AM PDT by billorites
Who would have ever believed that James Comey and Andrew McCabe might be arrested before Donald J. Trump?
As the president said Thursday of this greatest scandal in American political history: “I wish I knew then what I know now.”
Every day, in every way, this catastrophe of corruption by the FBI’s “human scum,” as the president so rightly describes them, metastasizes into something ever more appalling.
Did these effete, crooked cops ever stop railroading their fellow American citizens and obstructing justice?
And yet the Democrats and the media, but I repeat myself, just keep saying, nothing to see here folks, move along.
They’ve gone from covering the news to covering up the news.
According to one account Thursday, the “news” networks spent 2,284 minutes over the years promoting the Russian collusion hoax from start to finish.
But here’s the amount of airtime they’ve devoted to these latest revelations about the FBI’s pervasive top-to-bottom corruption in promoting the hoax:
CNN, ABC and CBS: a combined zero mentions. MSNBC: one mention, at 5:14 a.m., NBC: one mention, at 3:41 a.m.
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The New York Times, which handed itself a Pulitzer Prize for years of “reporting” Russian collusion that didn’t exist, now argues that President Trump wants prosecutions of the crooked FBI agents so he can “weaponize” their criminal behavior for the campaign.
So it was totally OK for the feds to try to frame Trump and everyone around him, but to want someone brought to justice for it is just politics — weaponizing and seizing and pouncing on those wonderful Democrats in the FBI and the CIA?
Thursday, the Associated Press was still couching these latest revelations about the FBI’s frame-ups as something that Michael Flynn was “claiming” and “contending.”
One of the pro-Deep State blogs “claimed” and “contended” that the newly-revealed handwritten notes about Flynn were no big deal, because the briefers at the J. Edgar Hoover Building often brainstorm on how to best destroy anyone who gets in their way.
Which everyone in Boston, at least, has known for decades. But isn’t that the problem, that this has been going on forever?
New stuff is coming out daily, and since it’s Friday, we’ll likely be getting more dirt late this afternoon. As the Justice Department said Wednesday, as it was releasing 11 more pages, “additional documents may be forthcoming.”
Here’s the smoking gun from Wednesday, in the handwritten notes of one of the members of the lynch mob, (very) Special Agent Bill Priestap. The leaders of America’s most corrupt law-enforcement agency were discussing how best to railroad a decorated three-star general and combat veteran:
“What is our goal? Truth/Admission or to get him to lie, so we can prosecute him or get him fired?”
Get him fired? Think about that. Is that now part of the FBI’s mission statement, getting people they don’t like fired, especially people like Gen. Flynn, who had already been canned once, by Obama, for trying to clean up the endemic corruption of the Deep State?
You have to ask yourself, if this is what these FBI crooks would put in writing, what levels were they stooping to that they wouldn’t dare make notes on?
Bottom line: the Deep State got Flynn before he could get them. Which was probably to have been expected, considering the warnings of Sen. Chuck Schumer about how “really dumb” it is for anyone to think they can go up against the Deep State.
“Let me tell you,” he said, the same month the G-men began framing Flynn. “You take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you.”
So now Flynn finds himself still possibly looking at a prison sentence. By some accounts he owes up to $6 million in legal bills, and his career is ruined. So Schumer was right.
On the other hand, you could argue that Flynn has gotten off easy, compared to others who’ve crossed the Deep State. Just ask Jeffrey Epstein.
Poor Flynn. He just didn’t understand. He grew up watching Efrem Zimbalist Jr. on Sunday nights on ABC as Inspector Erskine. All the FBI agents drove Fords and fought bad guys.
He didn’t realize that the FBI were the bad guys.
If only the Famous But Incompetent G-men had been nearly as obsessed with trying to run down that lead from the Russians that the Tsarnaevs were planning a terrorist attack in Boston, or that tip to the FBI hotline from the Parkland High School shooter’s aunt that he was going to kill a bunch of his classmates.
But no, they were too busy trying to frame Gen. Flynn and Donald Trump and Roger Stone and Carter Page and George Papadopoulos … .
Whatever happened to the American Civil Liberties Union?
The ACLU doesn’t seem to have the slightest interest in this attempted coup against the duly elected government of the United States.
I remember when the FBI was coming after everybody in Somerville. One day an alderman I knew from Union Square told me sadly:
“Do you know what it’s like to see it actually printed out, at the top of a criminal indictment, ‘The United States of America v. Francis P. Bakey?’ ”
No, Frank, I don’t what that’s like, and I hope I never do. But I pray that every one of these crooked FBI agents find out, sooner rather than later.
The whole culture, and those who stay and carry out orders in it, is rotten.
Like the rest of the DoJ and the State Department and 17 intelligence agencies, for starters, needs to be scrapped and only very minimalistically built again.
As if it weren’t torture enough to try to listen to Hannity, his mindless repetition about 99.9% of Bureau employees being fantastic is just sickening.
Dirty cops go to jail. Disband the FBI since it cannot be cleaned or fixed, remove the professional immunity the guilty had so that Flynn can sue them personally right into a California homeless sewer, establish a new national police force to replace the disgraced FBI and move forward. Just another reason Trump should have fired every Obama hire on his first day in office. He didn’t and we see the results everywhere.
The out-of-control FBI is just a symptom of a much deeper problem in this country which is that we have become a kleptocracy. The government is fundamentally corrupt.
Unless that problem is fixed everything else is putting band aids on a life threatening wound.
Yep, Howie is an old-school reporter. He actually talks to and gets information from real live people.
The new breed of reporter fabricates stories and talks “at” instead of “with” people. In other words, the new breed of reporter is not a reporter at all.
...and to the republic, for which it stands...
NO justice, NO America
As if it weren’t torture enough to try to listen to Hannity, his mindless repetition about 99.9% of Bureau employees being fantastic is just sickening.
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Hannity has never worked in a bureaucracy yet he adamantly makes that absurd claim. He’s simply misleading his audience.
There are lots of social networks inside bureaucracies and eventually many people become aware of shenanigans and other forms of corruption and malfeasance, but no one is willing to report it. There are lots of reasons for that but suffice to say that secretive behavior does not go unnoticed in federal agencies. In fact, it often becomes obvious by the efforts to conceal it.
The point is, Hannity is profoundly wrong and to excuse it is avoiding a big part of the problem (i.e., accountability). People who work in jobs of PUBLIC TRUST who know and say nothing are just as guilty as those who engineer and engage in mischief).
The Federal Bureau of Incrimination And Sedition (FBIAS) is corrupt to the core.
Disband it.
NO justice, NO America
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Well stated and absolutely true.
Just another reason Trump should have fired every Obama hire on his first day in office. He didn’t and we see the results everywhere.
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I have to agree. It was a huge and costly mistake on his part.
Management 101 says never leave disloyal subordinates in positions where they can undermine you and your agenda. Because if you do, they will.
They were left swinging for 25 minutes.
Let justice be done.
Michael Moore of TruePundit gets most his scoops from the FBI, has personally experienced some of their tactics, and reports how threats to family, framing in cases, illegal seizures, driving to suicide and outright murder are among the ways that would-be whistleblowers are kept in check.
The whole thing needs to be shut down and started anew on a much, much smaller scale—with people who haven’t worked in the old system.
Chip Tatum, an old CIA whistleblower (and former assassin for them), tells how deeply Barr has been involved in the drug and gun-running in So. America and as a long-time coverup specialist for the Deep State, if you will. Along with covering his and his sponsors and co-conspirators tracks, he says Barr has two other interests that drive him: a) protecting the role and powers of the executive office (not necessarily the individual president in office), and disliking the FBI and their attitude.
Makes sense that while he’s clearly still a deep coverup guy, burying things left and right, what bit he will go after is those FBI players who went after what might be considered the sanctity of the presidency.
and he bases his assertion on the mere fact that his mother was a prison guard many decades ago.
absolutely inane...
Chip claims to have been an assassin. I guess it looks better on the resume than “bullshit artist” peddling books to people who desperately want to believe. He couldn’t even keep it straight whether he was in communications with Colby or Casey, claiming he had tried to message Casey but Casey had died in a boating accident. That was Colby, of course, not Casey. But he is not the only one who produced bullcrap recollections of Casey.
“The ACLU doesn’t seem to have the slightest interest in this attempted coup against the duly elected government of the United States.”
Nor does the ACLU care about the obliteration of our civil liberties in response to the Chinese Wuhan Flu.
Its interesting how the FBI has taken on a mafia like culture. The fact that they can readily leverage/abuse our nation’s intelligence assets is downright frightening.
I think I now understand why the congress so obviously fears this monster.
And they continue to do so daily.
Nor does the ACLU care about the obliteration of our civil liberties in response to the Chinese Wuhan Flu.
The ACLU was founded by communists and its purpose was to use marginalized groups to indict the entire free market capitalist system that depends on the rule of law. They were among the original virtue-signallers founded 100 years ago on the winds of the Soviet Socialist Revolution who fooled a lot of people touting their high-sounding intentions. What they really intended was "divide and destroy."
Can’t see anything really happening to the FBI at this point, it was probably too late to do anything about it 50+ years ago. They have 35,000+ employees and a budget of around 9 billion they deign to inform us about. Too big to fail.
What politician will ever cut them by 10% even? No one wants to be the one that could be held responsible for cutting any of the giant Fed agencies, my God what if there’s an attack? Then they would be the one who cut their budget and personnel during the era of relentless panic and the 24 hour news cycle.
Freegards
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