Posted on 12/19/2024 6:33:55 AM PST by CFW
Can you imagine the danger to our republic if the Executive Branch could secretly, for months on end, and without any clear and compelling justification, surveil the very people in Congress conducting oversight of those agencies?
That chilling constitutional nightmare transpired. And we’re only getting the details about the separation-of-powers-eviscerating, civil liberties-undermining, and transparency-imperiling activity seven years after it started.
The revelations come in a recently released Justice Department Inspector General report. Like much of this corrupt activity, the story begins with Russiagate. In the spring and summer of 2017, the first year of the Trump presidency, CNN, The New York Times, and The Washington Post published articles containing classified information concerning Trump and Russia.
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So why couldn’t this exact episode play out again?
The IG concluded that though it could not find evidence of “retaliatory or political motivation” for the issuance of the subpoenas, efforts like these risk “chilling Congress’s ability to conduct oversight of the executive branch,” and at minimum create “the appearance of inappropriate interference” by that branch “in legitimate oversight activity.”
One need not think hard about how a dishonest or corrupt national security apparatus could use the predicate of an illegal leak to spy on political foes for nefarious ends. The mere possibility that could happen, as the IG suggests, is corrosive to our system. And it’s worth noting that in the case at hand, no leaker was ever charged.
The IG report provides yet another disturbing example of an FBI and DOJ that have abused their powers in chilling ways.
Kash Patel, a man who has exposed that ab
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Could be???????
When did they ever stop?...................
Hopefully the quagmire can be beaten by with all the moles and trojan horses and bouncing Bettys in place it will be difficult. It will take more than four years I believe.
Kash needs to make some heads roll
This is another reason to shut down the government until the new administration comes to town.
You cannot have a reasonable negotiation if your side is bugged and the other side is not.
Even back in the supposed good old days they illegally spied on congress, except they were bipartisan and J Edgar was playing his own hand.
Agreed—the easy way is the best way.
Shut it down—and then begin investigating all the nasty stuff they did.
I and tired of some of the talking heads that continue to cover for the career agents calling them good, hardworking people with integrity. They’re not. The organization has been infected with a statist, fascist ideology that has no respect for the constitution and due process rights.
This is similar to the situation with officers of the Wehrmacht in WW2. Although they didn’t develop the anti Judeo-bolshevik ideology as a justification for mass killings, they readily adopted and promulgated it.
With respect your the FBI agents, they have a strong antipathy towards those that value constitutional rights and question authoritarian government. When leader reinforces those beliefs, agents become bullies and tyrants.
After rooting out the bully boys, Patel should order agents to undergo a thorough re-education process emphasizing the limits to their power and respect for the law and constitutional rights. A de-Nazification program for the FBI.
It’s their primary job, managing elections.
Fire the top two floors and purge the rest.
Ya think?
> Dissolve the FBI and consolidate duties in the miliary.
The military is no shining example of rectitude. They are as corrupt as any of those creatures in DC.
Well duh.
I love the idea of using the disbanded FBI to investigate the former FBI brass.
“This is similar to the situation with officers of the Wehrmacht in WW2. Although they didn’t develop the anti Judeo-bolshevik ideology as a justification for mass killings, they readily adopted and promulgated it.”
Good analogy.
There is no practical way to “de-Nazify” the FBI.
The institution needs to shut down and the individuals need to be investigated for criminal activities—one at a time.
Edgar was a pen pal of Himmler. He also fired the only FBI agent who broke a major Nasi spy ring.
Then there are the Pearl Harbor plans he got from British double agent, Dusko Popov, that he sat on.
J Edgar’s legacy lives on in filth like Wray. It cannot be reformed.
Indeed
So what else is new, that cross dressing POS Hoover had blackmail files on congressman and senators from the inception oftheFBI.
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