Posted on 08/11/2022 6:04:06 AM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
The day before Donald Trump beat Hillary Clinton in the presidential election of 2016, The New York Times’ Paul Krugman claimed that the FBI—along with “Russian intelligence”—had “rigged the election.” Election denialism is perfectly acceptable behavior on the left. Krugman blamed the “rigged election” on “people within the F.B.I.” who, he asserted, “clearly felt that under Mr. Comey they had a free hand to indulge their political preferences,” by which he meant the investigation into Clinton’s email server. One can imagine the tenor of Krugman’s rhetoric if the investigation had been launched by the administration of Mitt Romney or George W. Bush or signed off on by AG Robert Bork.
Is it still the case that investigating a candidate for wrongdoing is “rigging” an election? Yesterday, Merrick Garland’s DOJ raided the home of a former president, and likely future presidential candidate, in a case regarding “potential mishandling of classified documents,” according to The Washington Post. Is that really it? We have long been told that “mishandling of classified documents” isn’t a serious crime.
When Clinton set up a secret private server to circumvent transparency, likely to hide favor-trading related to her now-obsolete corrupt foundation, it was a potential felony. In that illegal server, the FBI would find 100 emails containing classified information, 65 marked “Secret,” 22 marked “Top Secret,” and over 2,000 emails that would be retroactively marked classified. Many felonies. Unlike Trump, who had the power to declassify any document he wished, Hillary could not. And as numerous experts pointed out, the chances that those documents were intercepted by foreign powers were quite high. No one’s home was raided by the FBI.
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No, but there's plenty of non-violent ways to protest them. You can shun them. avoid them. mock them. refuse to serve them or their families. Let the world know that its no longer a respectable job for young people and that much of the public dislikes them. Leftists have been very good at doing this via street art, media, comedy, etc... We all have seen it in action.
Its how Stasi and KGB employees eventually came to be viewed. It won't be overnight, but it won't take long either to change views.
The FBI has become the American Stasi.
It needs to be disbanded.
I don’t.
They are a garbage agency that I have no respect for and I know they can arrest me and cancel my or your rights for no reason whatsoever.
They are political goons that setup people and move the ball however they want—no rules.
They are the firemen who sets fires and then brag at how brave and good they were at putting it out.
FBI = goons. Work there? You’re a goon.
Agree. Since Wray is complaining about death threats, I am extra careful how I post at this moment. Don’t want to help them make excuses for further abuses..
Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. is spinning in his grave.
Oh, GMAFB.
“Trust”???
They lost ALL credibility over FISA. The entire organization needs to go, along with DHS.
One can only hope he has staff with an effective plan.
They are supposed to be building some sort of facility in lower southeast Michigan. Not looking forward to that.
https://www.monroenews.com/story/news/2021/10/15/construction-begins-fbi-training-center/8450573002/
They started it October 2021.
FBI goons.
The FBI is an embarrassment to all Americans.
It’s hard for me to picture any modern politician getting rid of any alphabet agency or even reducing their budgets in the era of the 24 news cycle and media disaster porn. Our screen culture society has become conditioned to be 100% risk adverse. There’s just too many ways the agency can retaliate. No one wants to be the pol who cut the security budget and is then invariably blamed when something terrible happens..or is allowed to happen.
Freegards
The FBI having Hunter Biden's laptop showing all of the felony criminal actions of the entire Biden family in the last 10 years does not get their homes raided and does not get them put in prison for life where they belong!
But oh Trump exposed the FBI's dealings with Hillary, the DNC, the MSM, Comey, Brennan, etc. Creating the whole phony "Russian Collusion" pile of BS!.....
He's got to be taken out for it??? ..... imho
Agree. We should at least be getting rid of the worst people in these agencies, but Manchin and Sinema just voted to double the size of the IRS. One would think that Garland just lost his chances to be on SCOTUS, but the senate could be a problem in the midterms.
I have no doubt the FBI have people on FR.
They are America’s state security agency, after all.
Some of the Ukraine posters, for example, are almost like bots in their focused and regular postings and uniform replies.
The Raid proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that the whole thing is a setup to get a reaction. Timing is ironic.
30yr Anniversary of Ruby Ridge just around the corner. Remember, Vicki Weaver was shot by Lon Horiuchi, a FBI sniper at Ruby Ridge. Horiuchi opened fire and the bullet struck Vicki Weaver in the face while she held her infant daughter behind the front door of the cabin. FBI also murdered 14yr old Sammy Weaver who was SHOT in the back.
FBI has the taste for American Blood. Watch your Six !!
Corrupt since ruby ridge and Waco!
I agree. I also noticed how similar their replies are.
Pretty much all intelligence agencies monitor chats like this one. Had a roommate whose father was tasked with reading newspapers written in Hindi and Farsi.
He would write a summary and send anything interesting up the chain. Small town newspapers, city newspapers, etc.
So yes the whole world knows the DOJ has gone into the toilet.
We Have No Reason To Trust The FBI
Yeah the sane noticed that in 2020
The consensus has grown since 2020.
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