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1 posted on 12/24/2022 9:57:38 AM PST by bitt
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Here it is..
I know they did...
You know they did...
They know they did....
The judges know they did..

Question is, what is the remedy?


30 posted on 12/24/2022 10:38:26 AM PST by joe fonebone (And the people said NO! The End)
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The FBI has abused many defenseless citizens for a long time.


31 posted on 12/24/2022 10:42:25 AM PST by chopperk
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A better question is: Did the FBI violate the First Amendment when it had a ‘Partner Portal’ and directly took down tweets without advising Twitter to do it?
Again, some of the tweets Twitter did not even view or were not advised to take down — the FBI did it directly without their knowledge.


32 posted on 12/24/2022 10:47:35 AM PST by JCM
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Yes


33 posted on 12/24/2022 10:53:19 AM PST by taxcontrol (The choice is clear - either live as a slave on your knees or die as a free citizen on your feet.)
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When you collude with social media sites, pay them with taxpayer dollars, so they will censure taxpayers who are also paying your salary, while you violate their right to free speech, I’d say the FBI is violating more than just the First Amendment.


34 posted on 12/24/2022 10:57:40 AM PST by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
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Of course they did. So what?


37 posted on 12/24/2022 11:05:20 AM PST by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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The FBI is an Executive Branch bureaucracy.

The argument per the headline is a false premise and will fail if they pursue that line in litigation.

Obviously the only real recourse here is impeachment of the responsible party, and we all know that will either not happen or lead to something much, much worse.

Thus, the real traitors are not the FBI, nor the Biden administration.

After what they did to Trump we all know the truth: The real traitors are the GOP and those pulling their strings.


38 posted on 12/24/2022 11:05:52 AM PST by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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Not sure it's a 1st amendment violation, but isn't the FBI supposed to be federal law enforcement? Not general purpose political operatives.

This is straight up spying on people who are not criminal suspects.

40 posted on 12/24/2022 11:57:30 AM PST by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along. )
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Yes.
Next question.


46 posted on 12/24/2022 12:57:39 PM PST by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same. )
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It is way beyond a violation of the first amendment. The alphabet agencies are participating in a “Color Revolution” (Hope the spelling is correct.) With designs to destroy the United States. I call it Treason.


50 posted on 12/24/2022 1:51:13 PM PST by Nuc 1.1 (Liberals aren't Patriots. Remember 1789!)
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Even if they did, who would prosecute them?


51 posted on 12/24/2022 2:07:25 PM PST by RobertoinAL
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Like all of the Constitutional “government may not...” restrictions the Constitution doesn’t provide criminal penalties for this crime.

We need a constitutional amendment which sets out harsh penalties for government entities and employees who violate the Constitution. Congress could create laws, but laws are easily changed.


52 posted on 12/24/2022 2:09:45 PM PST by nagant
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Yes. Congress funds the FBI, therefore falls under the 1st Amendment freedom of speech violation and should be defunded in total.


53 posted on 12/24/2022 2:11:24 PM PST by DownInFlames (P)
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They will argue that since the FBI is not congress, or even constitutional, that they are exempt from violating the Bill of Rights. And by threatening like Schiffhead, “if you don’t censor what we don’t like we might have to do something about it” they can claim they didn’t “order” Twitter or big tech to censor anything. And an Obama judge will agree.


54 posted on 12/24/2022 2:24:22 PM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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They didn’t just “collude” with Twitter. The federal government leaned on Twitter to do things that they, the federal government, could not.

This has been held by courts over and over again to be State Action.

The government, which has massive regulatory and oversight powers cannot lean on private companies as a means of getting around restrictions on government power in the constitution.

There needs to be consequences in the form of a massive class action lawsuit and mass firings of government employees involved.


55 posted on 12/24/2022 4:22:43 PM PST by FLT-bird
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YES. But Democrat voters don’t care. They elect frauds like Fetterman to the Senate who will vote for MORE reckless spending and block investigations.


57 posted on 12/25/2022 8:31:35 AM PST by Kaiser8408a (z)
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To the headline. If you have to ask, you’ll never know.


58 posted on 12/25/2022 4:14:37 PM PST by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David.)
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probably not ... I think the 1st amendment restricts congress from making laws about religion ... but they probably violated some election laws ...


63 posted on 12/26/2022 4:55:22 PM PST by bankwalker (Repeal the 19th ...)
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