CDZ A History of FBI Screw Ups

[gipper]

Well, it is even worse than I had feared.

The FBI had as many as EIGHT people spying on the Trump campaign.

Revealed: FBI Had Multiple Informants on Trump Campaign

While the FBI may not have officially tasked sources to report on the Trump campaign, it did accept information from sources who volunteered to provide the details, the IG report relates. Also an FBI agent contacted a source to “obtain insight” into the incoming Trump administration and another source provided information on Trump campaign officials. Another source was documented as being scheduled to obtain a briefing with Trump and it wasn’t clear whether that source reported back with any information.

The section of the report about the sources has not received significant news media attention.

The largely overlooked revelations raise major questions about the longstanding claim that the FBI did not spy on the Trump campaign, showing the extent to which the agency run by James Comey maintained a bevy of informants within Trump’ orbit. This in addition to obtaining successive warrants to spy on Carter Page, the energy consultant who temporarily served as a tangential Trump campaign adviser.

A section on page 336 of the extensive report reveals the IG’s team learned during its review that the FBI maintained Confidential Human Sources (CHS’s) who had “either a connection to candidate Trump or a role in the Trump campaign.” CHS’s are utilized by the FBI to gather information on a target.

One source was described as holding a position that was redacted from the public version of the report and another source was documented whose details were also redacted.

One of these sources surrounding Trump is described as voluntarily bringing the FBI vast sums of information and documentation that the source was not officially tasked with providing. The Handling Agent for that source, described in this article as Source #1, told the IG that this source regularly provides “a ton of information on all sorts of things” to the FBI without being tasked to do so. Source #1 also brings “reams of information” to into meetings with the handling agent.

In March 2017, Source #1 voluntarily provided his/her Handling Agent with five sets of documents on a series of topics. The Handling Agent said that Source #1 provided documents and information because he/she “thought it was of interest to the U.S. government.”​

It is way past time to end the FISA court system and to break up the FBI into manageable chunks so it can be more carefully given oversight.

You’re exactly right, but we know that won’t happen. What will happen is they will get bigger and more tyrannical.

Is there any member of Congress demanding the FBI be cut down?

 

[candycorn]

b. Incinerating more than eighty men, women and children to death in Waco, Texas?

..I have to say the Waco deal was Koresh's fault..they had many days to come out ....if the authorities want to arrest you, you can't resist

The FBI was sniping at Koresh followers who tried to leave, dude.

Koresh offered to surrender many times.

..just as I thought--you don't have any credible links/etc

Because it never happened.