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.
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Exactly. The FBI is not getting “burned.” They are intentionally using these sources and then backing off when they get caught.
They are poor babes in the woods as easily fooled as a puppy you fake throwing a ball to. Oh, why do those meanies do that to the dewy eyed FBI?
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
“Southern Poverty Law Center”
No they don’t. They get exactly what they asked for and blame the source when they get caught fabricating evidence they asked for.
*BZZZZT!!!* ERROR
*BZZZZT!!!* ERROR
*BZZZZT!!!* ERROR
They ARE the liberal sources.
It wasn’t a misstep.
FIB could have easily solicited echoed input from any number of Marxist NGOs for plausible deniability that it was generated by political hack Meritless Garland.
Its really hard to believe the proposition that the US Government’s main investigative and counter-intel agency relies on public media and political-advocacy groups as evidence and “source-material.”
In fact, it sounds like total BS
This does not account for raids on all GOP supporters
and phone calls to all Democrat supporters saying “pretty please with sugar on top can you bring us in the evidence we need to convict you- and no sneaky deleting it or smashing it with hammers!”
Not to mention the folks "in there" looking to manipulate them folr political purposes.
The FBI appears to be filled with woke idiots who enjoy lying to people.
Three blunders that left America’s premier law enforcement agency reeling with a black eye.
“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”
Hey moron.... they are not “falling for it”.
The word is “institutionally LAZY” policing.... sort of like “journalists” relying on Twitter posts for their “research”.
The new gen take a knee for... George Fentanylhead Floyd is the “woke” idiocy that passes for a formally world reknowned investigative organization. Now just... thugs.
This is nothing new. BTW, the SPLC is based in Alabama. The FBI also relies on the notorious ADL. This has been going on since at least the Clinton administration, maybe even Bush1 or Reagan.
In 1999 the Clinton administration issued the Project Meggido Report predicting that the extreme right and white nationists were going to be the biggest threat facing the nation as Y2K approached. Of course, it was total nonsense. The ONLY attempted terrorist attack was an Algerian trying to plant a car bomb in Seattle. But, the Clinton administration didn’t want to hear anything about Islamic terrorism.
https://irp.fas.org/eprint/megiddo.pdf
https://www.fbi.gov/news/speeches/the-fbi-and-the-adl-working-together-to-fight-hate
To be fair it completely backfired when Giuliani embeds found out and demanded Reinhold Niebuhr actually investigate.
You can’t “burn” these people. To get burned, you have to care about what at least some people think about you. The FBI has absolutely zero respect for what the average American thinks about them, so it is impossible that they could be “burned” or even shamed. And there will be no accountability, no matter what anybody says.
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