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FBI criminal complaint on Capitol incursion used Photoshopped 4-chan hoax picture as evidence
American Thinker ^ | February 6, 2021 | Thomas Lifson

Posted on 02/06/2021 6:14:01 AM PST by george76

Just when you thought the FBI couldn’t fall any further, the Bureau utterly, hilariously, and luridly beclowns itself. In a formal document, a criminal charge. Using a Photoshopped picture from 4-chan, the reviled (by all people who abhor wrongthink) website where a wag substituted a lurid picture for the official portrait hanging on the wall of the US Capitol in the background of a shot of the Viking horn helmet guy and others who stormed in on January 6, 2021.

Seamus Hughes was the eagle eye who spotted it, though the arrow in his picture on the following tweet directs the eye away from the object of humor:

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This is so sloppy a job that it suggests extreme pressure to act in haste. That need for speed, of course, is the excuse used by Kevin Clinesmith to explain away his lying to a federal court – and the judge in question, James Boasberg, bought it and let him off with no prison time, a $100 fine and community service.

I am so old that I remember when the FBI was adored by the media and most of the citizenry other than communists. And J. Edgar Hoover’s insistence on getting the details right was legendary. Back then, not having enough Brylcreem in an agent’s hair could get one exiled to the field office in Butte, Montana. Considering the light punishment handed out to FBI lawyer Clinesmith, will anyone at the FBI even care about this? Will the judge hearing the complaint?

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


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: clinesmith; doj; fbi; fbilawyer; hoax; hoaxpicture; media; photoshopped; poisonfruit
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1 posted on 02/06/2021 6:14:01 AM PST by george76
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This episode should end at least a handful of careers. It probably won’t. Clown World marches on. Honk honk.


2 posted on 02/06/2021 6:15:48 AM PST by cdcdawg (My greatest fear is that our society will get what it deserves.)
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I don’t know whether to laugh or cry.


3 posted on 02/06/2021 6:18:46 AM PST by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: george76

The entire upper echelon of the FBI, etc. is utterly screwed up. I swear to the All Mighty, Trump should have cleaned house of the entire Intel community, Pentagon, etc. within the first two weeks in office. Bet, if he gets re-elected, he will remember the email I and others sent him urging such.......


4 posted on 02/06/2021 6:19:04 AM PST by cranked
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Here’s a bit more on the infamous photo:

https://nypost.com/2021/02/05/nude-wood-sitting-on-a-bed-meme-included-in-capitol-rioter-complaint/

https://manofmany.com/entertainment/videos/the-true-story-behind-wood-sitting-on-a-bed

Not much to laugh at these days, but this is certainly one thing.


5 posted on 02/06/2021 6:21:36 AM PST by BobL (TheDonald.win is now Patriots.win)
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To: george76; Alaska Wolf; DCBryan1; Slings and Arrows; Doomonyou; napscoordinator; Shimmer1; ...
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“Any police department (or university faculty, or military unit, etc.) is only as good as the worst psycho they tolerate.” ~ H/T RedStateRocker


6 posted on 02/06/2021 6:21:49 AM PST by null and void (Since I'm a punster, a jokester, and a well rounded funny guy, my personal pronoun is "He He")
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To: cranked

everybody says that...like its an incantation of some sort.

How do you purge the DC Lifers...the bureaucracy...many of whom have served as secretaries, receptionists etc in DC Fed.gov -in some families since the 1930’s?

They know which side their bread is buttered and who butters it. They control the schedule, the phone messages, screen the emails, schedule meetings for everybody across government. They will not do anything that could upset the apple cart for one another.

That is the REAL limitation on the imagination and sweep, on the “power” of an AG like Sessions or Barr. And ultimately on a “rogue” president


7 posted on 02/06/2021 6:24:26 AM PST by mo ("If you understand, no explanation is needed; if you don't understand, no explanation is possible)
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To: george76

By this alone, the entire case is suspect. The FBI can not be trusted. #resist.


8 posted on 02/06/2021 6:27:42 AM PST by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: cranked

The entire upper echelon of the FBI, etc. is utterly screwed up. I swear to the All Mighty, Trump should have cleaned house of the entire Intel community

Easier said than done. If the Republicans had any backbone and would have stood behind him he may have stood a chance. But the Dems owned the courts and were able to keep his hands tied all the time. Amazing he was able to accomplish what he did.


9 posted on 02/06/2021 6:28:02 AM PST by TStro (Better to die on your feet than live on your knees)
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To: george76

The FBI needs to be disbanded. It is nothing but a criminal enterprise.


10 posted on 02/06/2021 6:29:49 AM PST by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Have!)
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To: george76

The FBI has become the enforcement wing of the democrat party, the same as the KGB was to the Soviet communists in the old Soviet Union.


11 posted on 02/06/2021 6:30:35 AM PST by kenmcg (tHE WHOLE )
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the GOP have a ‘backbone’?

have a drink? they are garter snake coven
of liars, seditionists, pedophiles, pedophile protectors,
traitors, and MSM-preeners, who LIE LIE LIE LIE
as they DARED attack POTUS.

the GOP and FIB are as far from Patriots as
Hunter Biden going after a 6 year old taped down
in the Lincoln bedroom.


12 posted on 02/06/2021 6:31:57 AM PST by Diogenesis (Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum)
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To: kenmcg

I am reminded of the Stalinist photo shopped picture of the unwanted apparatchik on the bridge.


13 posted on 02/06/2021 6:33:53 AM PST by Don Corleone (leave the gun, take the canolis)
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Efrem Zimbalist Jr. is rolling over in his grave.


14 posted on 02/06/2021 6:35:54 AM PST by Captain Compassion (I'm just sayin')
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15 posted on 02/06/2021 6:37:58 AM PST by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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Is there any reason any Citizen should ever believe anything the FBI says, especially if you are a Juror in one of their sham cases??


16 posted on 02/06/2021 6:44:57 AM PST by eyeamok
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Anyone in any intel job should be fired if they have been around more than five years if Trump is re-elected.


17 posted on 02/06/2021 6:47:10 AM PST by devane617 ('It's Only Donuts Ma'am')
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I would not doubt that they did. If someone says that they did, I will take their word without question.


18 posted on 02/06/2021 6:48:49 AM PST by sport
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To: cdcdawg

They will be promoted. There is no chance that they will be fired.


19 posted on 02/06/2021 6:50:31 AM PST by sport
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To: george76
WT* over? Look at the picture carefully.

Asterisk mine.

20 posted on 02/06/2021 6:53:23 AM PST by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds. )
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