Posted on 02/17/2025 9:41:11 PM PST by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
In recent years, the house that J. Edgar Hoover built has elevated the liberal agenda over the traditional mission of locking up violent crooks. The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s 38,000 employees spend less time combating crimes such as murder, kidnapping and terrorism as a result.
That will change if the Senate approves President Trump’s choice to run the bureau. “The only thing that will matter if I am confirmed as the director of the FBI is a de-weaponized, depoliticized system of law enforcement completely devoted to rigorous obedience to the Constitution and a singular standard of justice,” Kash Patel vowed in his nomination hearing.
As a former public defender and Justice Department prosecutor, Mr. Patel is controversial for one reason. While serving as an investigator on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, he revealed the FBI’s complicity in a plot to undermine the Republican presidential candidate who went on to become commander in chief.
“We followed the money and exposed the fraud that was the Steele dossier,” Mr. Patel said.
That doesn’t sit well with Sen. Adam B. Schiff, the California Democrat who read the farrago of lies into the Congressional Record and earned a censure from the House of Representatives.
Although the broad outlines of the dossier scandal are known, mysteries remain. For instance, court documents confirm that Hillary Clinton hired a firm that paid “journalists” to write stories libeling Mr. Trump with dodgy material, but the names of those taking the dirty money remain sealed. They do not deserve this courtesy.
There can be no faith in the FBI as an institution without a full accounting of its involvement. The same is true regarding the bureau’s records on the assassinations of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and President Kennedy.
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I kept looking for news. One week I would read "Vote delayed." Then next week news would say "Delayed until next week." Now it's hard to find anything except MSNBC type hit pieces.
My opinion: We have needed a strong, fearless FBI director for years.
I literally JUST logged onto FR right now to post about this as a vanity! I wanted to know when the confirmation hearing was!
Who has time to go after violent crime when the country is full of white supremacists, catholics, abortion protesters, and parents who go to school board meetings?
Prayer alert for the completion of Trump’s cabinet and protection for Kash Patel. The enemy wants at least one victory as far as confirmations go!
TPTP. Those darn acronyms again
Thanks. I am still not sure what has been going on. One thought that popped into my head was that maybe Kash wanted more time to prepare.
TPTB, The Powers That Be.
“The enemy wants at least one victory as far as confirmations go!”
I thought Matt Gaetz was supposed to be the sacrificial lamb.
No quarter
There are some cops you just should’nt mess with....at all!
This is Not a staged film...they WILL take you down!
https://x.com/HumansNoContext/status/1878444230722408706
It was supposed to have been last week, but the Senate decided to go on vacation.
I saw Scarlett Johansson do that in a movie once. She wasn’t as good.
It seems inconsiderate to do that with no explanation.
Here’s the answer. Cloture vote tomorrow night. 30 hours of debate to follow
https://punchbowl.news/article/finance/economy/senate-republicans-budget/
President’s day. I think they’re back in session today. But the House is taking the whole week of.
Schiff, Booker, Hirono, Whitehouse, and Klobuchar can’t wait to go on camera again. They aren’t going to stop Kash but they can ask their donors for “emergency contributions.”
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