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Can the FBI be salvaged?
Townhall.com ^ | November 18, 2021 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 11/18/2021 4:54:06 AM PST by Kaslin

The Washington, D.C.-based Federal Bureau of Investigation has lost all credibility as a disinterested investigatory agency. Now we learn from a whistleblower that the agency was allegedly investigating moms and dads worried about the teaching of critical race theory in their kids' schools.

In truth, since 2015, the FBI has been constantly in the news - and mostly in a negative and constitutionally disturbing light.

The fired former Director James Comey injected himself into the 2016 political race by constantly editorializing on his ongoing investigation of candidate Hillary Clinton's email leaks.

In a bizarre twist, the public learned later that Comey had allowed Hillary Clinton's own private computer contractor - CrowdStrike - to run the investigation of the hack. The private firm was allowed to keep possession of pertinent hard drives central to the investigation. How odd that CrowdStrike's point man was Shawn Henry, a former high-ranking FBI employee.

During the Robert Mueller special investigation, the FBI implausibly claimed it had no idea how requested information on FBI cell phones had mysteriously disappeared.

It was also under Comey's directorship that the FBI submitted inaccurate requests for warrants to a FISA court. Elements of one affidavit to surveil Trump supporter Carter Page were forged by FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith, who later pleaded guilty to a felony.

The FBI hired the disreputable ex-British spy Christopher Steele as a contractor, while he was peddling his fantasy - the Clinton-bought dossier - to Obama government officials and the media.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Government
KEYWORDS: andrewmccabe; fbi; jamesbaker; jamescomey; no; robertmueller; vdh; victordavishanson
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1 posted on 11/18/2021 4:54:06 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Wrecked beyond belief it needs to be.

Who hired all of the Rank and File?


2 posted on 11/18/2021 4:56:51 AM PST by Paladin2 (Critical Marx Theory is The SOLUTION....)
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To: Kaslin

Ask if the DOJ can be salvaged.


3 posted on 11/18/2021 4:58:26 AM PST by PGR88
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To: Kaslin

Can the Stasi be salvaged? The FBI is a political secret police, always has been, always will be. Dissolve it.


4 posted on 11/18/2021 4:59:09 AM PST by Shadow44
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To: Kaslin

[hat tip to: Steven Tyler]

Attention is directed to the FACT that
the communists and Antifa and those who murder, rape
and light US cities on fire,
NEVER agitate to defund the FBI.


5 posted on 11/18/2021 4:59:13 AM PST by Diogenesis (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: Kaslin

—no—


6 posted on 11/18/2021 5:00:19 AM PST by rellimpank (--don't believe anything the media or government says about firearms or explosives--)
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To: Kaslin

No.


7 posted on 11/18/2021 5:01:13 AM PST by Skul
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To: Kaslin

No.


8 posted on 11/18/2021 5:01:48 AM PST by Skul
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To: Kaslin

Why?


9 posted on 11/18/2021 5:02:29 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Kaslin

Certain parts, like the crime labs, but all supervisory levels are probably tainted.


10 posted on 11/18/2021 5:05:02 AM PST by captain_dave
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To: Kaslin

Yea. Hire actually cops to do the job, instead of college boys , with suits and tie!


11 posted on 11/18/2021 5:05:52 AM PST by MGunny ( )
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To: Kaslin

Please don’t tell my Mom I work for the FBI.

She thinks I have an honest job playing piano at the whorehouse in town.


12 posted on 11/18/2021 5:06:01 AM PST by MattMusson (Sometimes the wind blows too much)
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To: Kaslin

No. It’s just an organized crime activities.

It’s the mafia with badges.

Bring RICO.


13 posted on 11/18/2021 5:06:14 AM PST by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
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To: Kaslin

No. The FBI doesn’t need to be reformed, it needs to be kicked over.


14 posted on 11/18/2021 5:07:02 AM PST by Berosus (I wish I had as much faith in God as liberals have in government.)
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To: Kaslin

NO!!! It’s TOTALLY CORRUPT!


15 posted on 11/18/2021 5:07:54 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Kaslin

FBI should be dismantled. Probably the whole DOJ too. America doesn’t need its own version of the KGB.


16 posted on 11/18/2021 5:08:45 AM PST by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them )
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To: Kaslin

Defund the FBI.


17 posted on 11/18/2021 5:09:35 AM PST by nagant
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To: Kaslin

Where are the “good” agents to stop the illegal activity?


18 posted on 11/18/2021 5:09:40 AM PST by Fido969 (45 is Superman!)
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To: Kaslin

Defund it.

Raze the building.

Salt the earth it rested upon.


19 posted on 11/18/2021 5:10:45 AM PST by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: PGR88

“Ask if the DOJ can be salvaged.”

And ask if the State Department can be saved.


20 posted on 11/18/2021 5:10:56 AM PST by ryderann
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