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FBI keeps getting burned badly by reliance on liberal sources
Just The News ^ | February 12, 2023 | John Solomon

Posted on 02/14/2023 11:40:17 AM PST by Twotone

A dossier alleging Russian collusion funded by a Democrat presidential candidate. A suggestion that school parents were domestic terrorists from a left-leaning school board group. A list suggesting old-fashioned Catholics were extremists from a liberal watchdog on hate speech.

Three triggers for investigation. Three blunders that left America's premier law enforcement agency reeling with a black eye. The FBI's repeated reliance on liberal political and advocacy groups has proven costly in recent years, resulting in high-profile reversals and whispers the bureau has created a two-tier system of justice.

"They need to have an understanding that there are folks out there that are looking to manipulate them for political purposes and every time they fall for it, they're damaging the reputation of the FBI in a way that is fundamentally harmful to not only the FBI, but to the country," said Jason Foster, who investigated FBI wrongdoing for two decades as a U.S. Senate investigator and now represents FBI whistleblowers at the Empower Oversight whistleblower center.

The FBI's latest misstep came last week when it was forced to retract an intelligence bulletin issued by its Richmond office that suggested Catholics who prefer the traditional Latin language Mass pose a risk as white supremacists and extremists. That memo derived some of its information from the Southern Poverty Law Center, a left-leaning group in Georgia that tracks hate activity in the United States, as well as articles from overtly liberal magazines.

The Richmond memo urged agents to begin infiltrating Catholic groups, looking for such extremists. Its liberal bias showed through in a footnote where the author referred to a woman having a baby as a "pregnant person" rather than a mother.

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


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: blunders; fbi; splc
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To: Twotone
FBI keeps getting burned badly by reliance on liberal sources.

That's the trick! The 7th floor of FBI headquarters is filled with VICTIMS!

Someone, somewhere, will believe this!

John Solomon, if you wrote that headline, you should apologize.

21 posted on 02/14/2023 1:03:15 PM PST by TChad (Progressives are in favor of removing healthy sex organs from children. Conservatives oppose this.)
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To: Bratch

exactly....its absolutely the outcomes they want or are paid for.....


22 posted on 02/14/2023 1:03:54 PM PST by cherry
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To: Paladin2

The Feebs have been sucking up Morris Dees’ stuff for decades. His stupidly misnamed “Southern Poverty Law Center” has never been anything other than a purveyor of leftist disinformation.


23 posted on 02/14/2023 1:07:29 PM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: PGR88

Nope ... they’ve been in bed with the SPLC for decades. It goes back at least to the early 1990s.


24 posted on 02/14/2023 1:08:35 PM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Twotone

Oh they are not burned. They take part in creating the leftist lies. It’s for their benefit as well.


25 posted on 02/14/2023 1:09:15 PM PST by CFW (old and retired)
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To: Twotone

FBI IS a liberal source. They don’t need to rely on any other liberal sources.


26 posted on 02/14/2023 1:09:33 PM PST by MayflowerMadam (Stupid is supposed to hurt.)
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To: Twotone
No, no and no. This is an attempt to paint the FIB as a victim rather than the willing participant/instigators they are.
27 posted on 02/14/2023 1:10:01 PM PST by liberalh8ter (The only difference between flash mob 'urban yutes' and U.S. politicians is the hoodies.)
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To: Twotone

So? They can get away with anything they want to. They are untouchable.


28 posted on 02/14/2023 1:11:07 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard
"The Richmond memo urged agents to begin infiltrating Catholic groups.."

Oh, Really? Groups like the Knights of Columbus? Those agents better be octogenarians or they will stand out like plums among prunes.

29 posted on 02/14/2023 1:13:08 PM PST by Thommas (The snout of the camel is already under the tent.)
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To: Twotone
From September 2022:

A federal judge dismissed former President Trump’s lawsuit against Hillary Clinton, the Democratic National Committee and a number of other high-profile figures involved in creating the narrative that he and his 2016 presidential campaign were colluding with Russia.

Trump filed the lawsuit in March in the Southern District of Florida, alleging that Clinton and her "cohorts orchestrated an unthinkable plot" and "maliciously conspired to weave a false narrative" that Trump was colluding with Russia.

This week, U.S. District Judge Donald Middlebrooks threw out the lawsuit, saying that "most of" Trump’s claims were "unsupported by any legal authority" and said the lawsuit lacks "substance."

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/judge-dismisses-trump-lawsuit-against-clinton-dnc-officials-involved-in-russia-probe

30 posted on 02/14/2023 2:02:14 PM PST by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: ConservativeMind

Yes. If the DOJ was looking for an excuse to weaponize the department against political opponents of Obama/Clinton/Biden, they would do exactly what they did — ask bizarrely left-wing and conflicted sources about folks they want to prosecute and then pretend that they believe the sources.

What is great for them is that if they can try the case in front of a Washington DC jury, it is nearly impossible for a prosecutor to lose a criminal case against a Republican, regardless of the weakness of the evidence presented.


31 posted on 02/14/2023 2:08:35 PM PST by ModelBreaker
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To: Jacquerie

Middlebrook is a Clinton appointee.


32 posted on 02/14/2023 3:27:55 PM PST by laconic
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To: CFW

The so-called Southern Poverty Law Center is a left wing hate group which makes a pile of money for its executive staff. A real bunch of Bolshevik scumbos, filled with destructive views, that no government agency should be using our tax dollars to make any payments to.


33 posted on 02/14/2023 3:29:51 PM PST by laconic
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To: Twotone

The SPLC is based in Montgomery, Alabama, not Georgia.


34 posted on 02/14/2023 3:43:04 PM PST by Mister Da (The mark of a wise man is not what he knows, but what he knows he doesn't know!)
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To: Twotone

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35 posted on 02/14/2023 3:58:37 PM PST by sauropod (“If they don’t believe our lies, well, that’s just conspiracy theorist stuff, there.”)
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To: realcleanguy
The FBI has lost it’s ability to serve and protect the people. It is now a political activist group that is armed and has the authority to detain, imprison or execute people at their own will. We have lost all control of the federal government and are now under tyranny

We are under a tyranny like we have never seen before.

I see Obama as a tyrannical leader and Soros money following the Obama folks.

36 posted on 02/14/2023 4:43:08 PM PST by TheConservativeTejano (The Business of America is Business)
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To: ModelBreaker

BTTT

Very well said.


37 posted on 02/14/2023 5:01:36 PM PST by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: Twotone

When the SPLC (more like Northern Prosperous antilaw Society) defines “hate groups” then you can have a fox citing chickens.


38 posted on 02/14/2023 5:05:38 PM PST by daniel1212 (Turn to the Lord Jesus as a damned+destitute sinner, trust Him who saves, be baptized + follow Him!)
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