I have no reason to doubt you for this and your follow-on
comments on this thread.
Having seen a lot of warnings about things that could take
place, it really didn’t look like they were doing much or
very confident about what they have done.
Let me couple this with investigations the FBI has been
involved in over the last few decades. Some of them were
beyond the pale misleading, and too many people were aware
of it. It defied logic some of the conclusions they came
up with
The most recent is the 01/06 fiasco, with people being
locked up in solitary confinement for long periods of
time, and talk of insurrection although no one was packing
heat, and many of those people were let in the front door
by staff.
There has been absolutely no mention of ANTIFA who stated
they would be there, and they were recognizable for having
been there with their customary back packs they wear at
each of their events.
The questions are, why the full court press on this as if
it was an attempt to topple the U. S. government, which
absolutely no one believes?
Why wasn’t the guy recruiting to get folks to enter the
capital, “Brian Epps?”, prosecuted? The guy was gathering
folks to do what the federal agencies were and still are
calling insurrection.?
It’s clear, and has been confirmed by the FBI themselves
at various times, they had insiders in the crowds, which
begs a further question, they were inside these groups,
and they are still pushing the insurrection theory, when
they know that to be patently false. Why?
These people have been treated like enemies of the state,
and in the traditional sense, they simply aren’t. They
have a legitimate beef regarding the 2020 election, and
they simply wanted more of an investigation into what
took place.
They took four years to investigate Trump and are now
throwing everything in the book at him, but the sanctity
of our elections didn’t reach the level of import to
check into it. No one is particularly certain the 2020
election was on the up and up.
I’ve seen interviews of family members of the family
of people in nursing homes who couldn’t even recognize
their own children, and yet they were revealed to have
been canvased and voted.
White Christians are under the gun as potential terrorists
according to government agencies. Meanwhile foreign
nationals of a military age are swarming in, some from
enemy nations against us. They are given a pass.
So I think it’s safe to say at least from my vantage
point, that I am very concerned about what has taken
place with the FBI.
I grew up with tremendous respect for law enforcement and
the FBI. Today, the FBI appears more to be a rogue agency
than a sound organization.
FISA warrants, wire tapping, raids on Trump and a lot of
other Conservative people, and zero interest in taking
Biden or his people on.
I believe these are all legitimate issues.
I don’t like having to question the soundness of federal
agencies.
The FBI, like most bureaucracies, is compartmentalized. Most of it does the daily wash that has little or no political relevance. One of these is cybersecurity, or it has at least part of an oversight role there.
Some of it is thoroughly corrupt and politicized, as you say. I agree with you completely on that.
I can only report on what I know, and I have been briefed several times by the FBI and other agencies, and I know what was happening in our business and what our own IT security people have been doing.
The frontline here btw is not the FBI, but private-company IT departments. Our guys (my guys, pre retirement) are the infantry in this fight.