We Have No Reason To Trust The FBI

[scruffy]

They've become a Neo-Marxist goon squad, soon to be supplanted with 80,000+ gun toting IRS agents.

Unless this totalitarian trend turns around, our Republic is finished!!

It doesn't turn around by itself

It has to be turned around

 

[scruffy]

The republic is gone. The question is can we restore it without massive bloodshed? Do we have the courage to take up arms against the Nazis who have seized the nation?

I doubt it will come to that.

 

[scruffy]

Not unless a segment of true Patriots in our military revolt.

The military is Deep State and they all have purple hair now

 

[scruffy]

A single bad FISA warrant isn’t a reason to abolish the FBI anymore than the death of George Floyd is a reason to abolish the Minneapolis police department.

We're not talking about a single bad FISA warrant

 

[scruffy]

Well groomed by the MAGA-cult.

Shut up, troll.

 

[Batcat]

We Have No Reason To Trust The FBI​

If Republicans were doing any of this, Democrats would be calling it authoritarian. And they’d be right.

We Have No Reason To Trust The FBI

If the FBI under Republican control was doing any of this, Democrats would be calling it authoritarian. And they'd be right.

thefederalist.com

9 Aug 2022 ~~ By David Harsanyi

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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All of this is an effort to cobble together disparate events and statements to create the perception that Republicans led a concerted “coup” against the government. It seems to me, and perhaps I’ll be proven wrong, this raid is part of that partisan effort. We’ll soon find out. But you don’t have to be a fan of Trump — and I’m not; he acted recklessly and unpresidential on Jan. 6, to say the least — to see how these precedents are dangerous or how they corrode trust in institutions. Either you uphold the law for all politicians, as you would the rest of us, or you don’t.
Of course, if Republicans were doing any of this, Democrats would be calling it authoritarian. And they’d be right.

Commentary:
The FBI lost ALL credibility over their misuse of FISA laws. The entire organization needs to go, along with the other 17 agencies.
The FBI under Comey and Wray have become an embarrassment to all Americans.

It took decades after J. Edgar Hoover for the FBI to get the great reputation it had. The upper levels of the FBI had to play political games, so now that good reputation is gone. It will take decades to regain it once more if it ever happens.

 

[scruffy]

So you still believe in political solutions.

I don't.

I believe in SOCIAL solutions.

Personal solutions

One on one solutions.

Voting is not a solution, it's only an expression of preference

 

[BackAgain]

I started to argue then realized, YES we should always have a healthy suspicion of the government. So

I am so damn old that I remember when the libs were all about never trusting the government. True story.

Now that conservatives express concern about an invalid governmental intrusion into the lives of the people, for some reason the liberals have changed their tune. Now, the libs are all for the FBI.

AND THIS IS DESPITE THE FACT THAT WE NOW KNOW THAT THEY HAVE LIED EVEN TO OUR “secret” COURT.