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FBI Searched Jan. 6 Rioters and George Floyd Demonstrators in Spy Database
Wall Street Journal ^ | May 19, 2023 | Dustin VolzFollow and Byron Tau

Posted on 05/19/2023 2:51:04 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA

Agency used foreign spying law to gather intelligence in what one lawmaker called ‘shocking abuses’

WASHINGTON—The Federal Bureau of Investigation improperly searched a trove of intelligence gathered through a foreign spying law for information on people suspected of participating in the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol and the George Floyd protests, a court opinion released Friday showed.

Despite a lack of evidence, the FBI performed more than a dozen searches of raw foreign intelligence data related to people believed to be involved in the Capitol riot to hunt for foreign ties, the court said. Separately, three Jan. 6 searches were conducted that used more than 23,000 search terms such as an email account to look for evidence of foreign influence in relation to an unidentified group involved in the riot. The Justice Department later determined there was insufficient factual support for the searches.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: capitolriot; fbi; fbiakastasi; fbiweaponization; jan6; policestate
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In a separate incident, the bureau ran the names of 19,000 American donors to an unnamed congressional campaign through the foreign intelligence database.

This is another intimidation tactic, like raiding the homes of pro-life activists and Mar-a-Lago. The FBI needs to be defund and shuttered. Every FBI agent and administrator needs a thorough investigation with a large number landing in prison for a very long time or executed.

1 posted on 05/19/2023 2:51:04 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA
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The Left protests, the Right riots /smh


2 posted on 05/19/2023 2:53:31 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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The Libs are getting a taste of their own medicine on Capitol Hill after 4 straight years of “anonymous whistleblowers.”

Jim Jordan has no time for their whining.

https://twitter.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1659214874185175041

Elon Musk Drops Bombshell: ‘FBI Won’t Release Jan 6 Video Because It Would Show Too Many Undercover Government Agents & Informants’

https://slaynews.com/news/elon-musk-drops-bombshell-fbi-wont-release-jan-6-video-because-it-would-show-too-many-undercover-government-agents-and-informants/


3 posted on 05/19/2023 2:58:54 PM PDT by Its All Over Except ...
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To: Gene Eric

Shame on WSJ for calling 06 Jan an “attack on the US Capitol.”


4 posted on 05/19/2023 3:00:52 PM PDT by toddmoore
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To: ConservativeInPA

“people suspected of participating in the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol and the George Floyd protests”

Well, we see how useful that was for the “George Floyd” (Endless Summer) Protests.


5 posted on 05/19/2023 3:00:55 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMV.e)
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To: Gene Eric

The Right never even protested until 2009.

The Left would like you to ignore that little factoid, that “protesting” is their very lifeblood.


6 posted on 05/19/2023 3:01:39 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMV.e)
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To: the OlLine Rebel

The FBI has turned into the Gestapo!


7 posted on 05/19/2023 3:03:28 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (The Democrat Party - Dumbing Down America Since 1965.)
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To: ConservativeInPA

This is how Lavrenti Garland’s DOJ rolls.


8 posted on 05/19/2023 3:05:22 PM PDT by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Biden regime.)
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To: ConservativeInPA

They consider any opponent to be an enemy, a criminal, and a traitor.


9 posted on 05/19/2023 3:14:28 PM PDT by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Biden regime.)
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To: All

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Cue Bagpipes Barr saying Trump is unfit and he’ll be Indicted.

No questions nor answers about Joe and the nine criminals in his family.

Rinse and repeat


10 posted on 05/19/2023 3:16:03 PM PDT by AnthonySoprano (Statute of Limitations is going to elapse on Hunter Biden )
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To: AnthonySoprano
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11 posted on 05/19/2023 3:17:19 PM PDT by AnthonySoprano (Statute of Limitations is going to elapse on Hunter Biden )
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12 posted on 05/19/2023 3:18:42 PM PDT by AnthonySoprano (Statute of Limitations is going to elapse on Hunter Biden )
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13 posted on 05/19/2023 3:20:31 PM PDT by AnthonySoprano (Statute of Limitations is going to elapse on Hunter Biden )
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To: ConservativeInPA
"“people suspected of participating in the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on protests at the U.S. Capitol and the George Floyd protestsriots and attacks on businesses”"
14 posted on 05/19/2023 3:24:07 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: the OlLine Rebel
Well, we see how useful that was for the “George Floyd” (Endless Summer) Protests.

It wasn't, at least there are very few of these George Floyd burn, loot and murderers in prison. Part of that has to do with DA's. The entire justice system is broke,

15 posted on 05/19/2023 3:34:48 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA ("How did you go bankrupt?" Bill asked. "Two ways," Mike said. "Gradually and then suddenly." )
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To: ConservativeInPA

Using foreign channels? They should all stand down in shame and allow Trump to take the Oval Office. Then proceed with Nuremburg style trials.


16 posted on 05/19/2023 3:35:31 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: ConservativeInPA
Imagine if some conservative had the alacrity to go to GPT+ and ask it to scrape every public database and construct a conservative database to rival the Swamp.

Personal data, and lawfare, are the only two means by which marxists have subjugated conservatives since 2020.

Lawfare flowed from those marxist databases.

Thus if conservatives had an identical database, lawfare would then flow freely from that information.

Even. The. Score.

17 posted on 05/19/2023 3:42:27 PM PDT by StAnDeliver (Tanned, rested, and ready.)
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To: ConservativeInPA

Does this throw out the charges due to illegal use of spy ware?


18 posted on 05/19/2023 3:43:39 PM PDT by wetgundog
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To: ConservativeInPA

Prohibition gave us this Stazi-like agency.


19 posted on 05/19/2023 3:48:36 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: SpaceBar

Actually, it was enforcement of the Mann Act & the Osage murders that were the impetus to forming the FBI.


20 posted on 05/19/2023 3:51:20 PM PDT by Reily (!!)
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