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FBI leaders going full “we were just following orders” as accountability for turning the agency into a full-time Anti-Trump operation looms.
X ^ | Feb 3, 2025 | Mollie

Posted on 02/03/2025 2:45:00 PM PST by george76

FBI leaders going full “we were just following orders” as accountability for turning the agency into a full-time Anti-Trump operation looms.

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Julie Kelly. = Expecting a bloodbath at FBI today and tomorrow. My guess is acting FBI director Brian Driscoll will be gone by this evening for defying a direct order seeking names of FBI employees—perhaps more than 6,000—involved in Jan 6 cases.

Hard to see how James Dennehy, who runs the NY field office, keeps his job after sending defiant email to colleagues over the weekend promising to “dig in” and not step down or follow orders.

The NYT obtained the email.

Dennehy: “Today, we find ourselves in the middle of a battle of our own, as good people are being walked out of the F.B.I. and others are being targeted because they did their jobs in accordance with the law and F.B.I. policy,” Dennehy wrote.

Dennehy also said the removal of top officials including at Miami and Washington field offices have caused “fear and angst within the F.B.I. ranks.”

He compared his insubordination to being a Marine “in the early 1990s, when he dug a small foxhole five feet deep and hunkered down for safety.

“It sucked,” he wrote. “But it worked.”

Don’t think this is going to end well for Mr. Dennehy.

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Also it’s unclear whether every FBI employee who worked on Jan 6 “terrorism” cases will be fired. My guess is many will be asked to take their “terrorism” expertise down to the southern border or other locations where real terror threats exist.

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The FBI under Democratic rule became a full-blown Deep State cartel - protecting cronies, crushing dissent, and weaponizing justice against political enemies. Now, as the rot gets exposed, the insubordinate foot soldiers are squealing about ‘fear and angst.’ Sorry Dennehy, you’re not a war hero, you’re just another bureaucratic thug who thought his badge made him untouchable. Pack your

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Did their jobs "in accordance with the law?" Oh? Like PLANTING EVIDENCE? Showing up in full SWAT gear raiding J6ers in front of their children?

Raiding Roger Stone in the middle of the night with CNN in tow? Categorizing parents as terrorists? Labeling "right wing" as terrorists while ignoring BLM and Antifa violence -WHERE ARE THOSE RAIDS?

FBl needs to be shut down.

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J6 was a protest for a rigged election.

The FBI should have been going after the lawbreakers in 6 swing states.

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"Just following orders"

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That defense, often referred to as "just following orders," was notably used during the Nuremberg Trials after World War II.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: briandriscoll; dennehy; diggingin; digin; driscoll; email; fbi; fbidirector; fbileaders; hannitysfinest; j6; jamesdennehy; jan6; jimdennehy; mainjustice; resistance
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1 posted on 02/03/2025 2:45:00 PM PST by george76
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They should have resisted their anti-American bosses and not committed the crimes they were told to commit.


2 posted on 02/03/2025 2:46:55 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (If Trump gets elected, we're all going to hang.- Hillary "The Wanderer" Clintoon.)
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To: george76

“Just following orders”

Except the whistleblowers who were promptly destroyed by the FBI.


3 posted on 02/03/2025 2:47:08 PM PST by Pete Dovgan
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Sieg Heil!!
Let’s see how that argument holds up.


4 posted on 02/03/2025 2:49:24 PM PST by BigB60 (C. S. Lewis loves hobbits)
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To: george76

Arrest them.


5 posted on 02/03/2025 2:50:01 PM PST by Salman (In Hell it is a punishable offense not to call it Heaven.)
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The “just following orders” group will be ordered to sing like songbirds and rat out their fellow Gestapo members.

Let us see how many follow orders then.


6 posted on 02/03/2025 2:50:47 PM PST by cgbg (It is time to pull the Deep State out of the mass media--like ticks from a dog.)
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To: george76

Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it. Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions. (This is cruel, but very effective. Direct, personalized criticism and ridicule works.)

Saul Alinsky


7 posted on 02/03/2025 2:51:35 PM PST by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show host to me.... Sting)
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To: cgbg

Send each a transcript of the Nuremberg Trials.


8 posted on 02/03/2025 2:52:03 PM PST by GingisK
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To: Pete Dovgan

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy just bragged that he has an illegal alien living above his garage, adding “good luck to the feds coming in to try to get her.” How exactly is that good for this person to be staked out / political game to make a point?...

If Murphy wanted to help this person, why would he parade her location and position in an interview to thrill his base? There is something in Matthew 6:3 that might be usual for Murphy ... ~Jonathan Turley


9 posted on 02/03/2025 2:52:13 PM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Pretty much a tacit admission that they were breaking the law, persecuting Americans that Democrats don’t like and violating the civil rights of the American people.


10 posted on 02/03/2025 2:52:22 PM PST by rdcbn1 (TV )
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To: george76
Yeah, we've heard this before, right?


11 posted on 02/03/2025 2:52:46 PM PST by Alas Babylon! (Repeal the Patriot Act; Abolish the DHS; reform FBI top to bottom!)
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I would tell them that if they studied the US Constitution and passed with high score an extremely hard test they might be able to keep their job. Then no matter what they scored I would still fire them. But maybe they would understand why.
12 posted on 02/03/2025 2:53:08 PM PST by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper)
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To: george76

Funny how they “just follow orders” when they identify with the administration giving them. The sec they don’t? It’s “resistance” don’t cha know.


13 posted on 02/03/2025 2:55:58 PM PST by FlipWilson
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Hmmm, the Nazis: “Ve vere chust following ze orders.”
The Biden FBI: “We were just following orders.”
See, no comparison whatsoever between Democrats and Nazis.


14 posted on 02/03/2025 2:57:10 PM PST by Da Coyote
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He compared his insubordination to being a Marine “in the early 1990s, when he dug a small foxhole five feet deep and hunkered down for safety

He was an Officer in Combat Engineers from 93 and 96, and then a recruiter in Springfield Mass. Was deployed at some point to Haiti and Liberia.
This clown makes it sound like he was in Verdun.


15 posted on 02/03/2025 2:57:58 PM PST by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2025... RETURN OF THE JEDI...)
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When I was with 7th Engineer Support Battalion in the USMC they can in with back hoes and dropped a plywood fighting hole in. Yeah, that is rough. I feel for him.


16 posted on 02/03/2025 3:02:56 PM PST by jimpick
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“Did their jobs “in accordance with the law?” Oh? Like PLANTING EVIDENCE? Showing up in full SWAT gear raiding J6ers in front of their children?”

He’s a fag. Those warrants could have been served by two clean cut men in sport coats and concealed revolvers.


17 posted on 02/03/2025 3:05:15 PM PST by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2025... RETURN OF THE JEDI...)
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To: george76

Go ahead and tell the outside of the door. BYE


18 posted on 02/03/2025 3:05:44 PM PST by FrankRizzo890
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FBI Agt. “I’ve spied, lied and stole for the Bureau but by gawd I’ve always kept my integrity”.


19 posted on 02/03/2025 3:08:44 PM PST by BipolarBob (The dog didn't eat my homework, he did my homework . . . hence the typos.)
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To: george76

FU FBI.


20 posted on 02/03/2025 3:09:55 PM PST by stevio (Fight until you die!)
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