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The FBI’s Incurable Rot - The bureau is an institution with no shame, no remorse, and no accountability. There’s no fix for that.

Posted by freedomforall 2 years, 6 months ago to Politics
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"he incurable incompetence, corruption, and moral rot of the Federal Bureau of Investigation was on full display last week.

Within a 24-hour period, some of America’s toughest female athletes recounted to a Senate committee their painful tales of how the FBI ignored evidence that team doctor Larry Nassar was a sexual predator, and a powerful attorney who colluded with the FBI to concoct one of the most animating chapters of the Trump-Russia collusion fiction was indicted for lying to federal officials.

Overlap in the two cases is more than ironic, it’s illustrative: Michael Sussman, a lawyer for Perkins Coie, the law firm that was working on behalf of the Hillary Clinton campaign, met with the FBI’s general counsel in September 2016 to plant a false story about Donald Trump’s financial ties to a Russian bank. That same month, the Indianapolis Star broke the story of how Nassar, the longtime physician for the USA Gymnastics team, had sexually abused several female gymnasts. One victim filed a lawsuit after the FBI refused to investigate complaints made to at least two FBI field offices in 2015 and 2016.

But the FBI at that time was too preoccupied with protecting Hillary Clinton to deal with a monster who had systematically raped nearly 300 female American athletes. (As Lee Smith recently noted, the FBI “has been used for a quarter of a century as the place to clean up the Clintons’ dirt.”)

Months before the 2016 presidential election, the FBI, led by James Comey, used its unchecked authority to sabotage Donald Trump. Meanwhile, elite American athletes, including Olympic gold medalists, could not get the bureau’s attention while a sexual abuser continued his rampage. Local FBI agents passed the buck and allegedly falsified reports; one agent reportedly tried to shake down a USA Gymnastics official for a job with the organization.

The FBI’s political game-playing came with irreversible human cost. According to an analysis by the New York Times, at least 40 women and girls, including some of the youngest victims, were assaulted by Nassar between July 2015, the first contact with the FBI, and September 2016. Had the Star not published its exposé of Nassar that month, which finally prompted some action by the FBI, who knows how long his depraved predation would have continued?

“If they’re not going to protect me, I want to know, who are they trying to protect?” McKayla Maroney, a two-time Olympic medalist and one of Nassar’s most frequent victims, asked the Senate Judiciary Committee on September 15.

Maroney may or may not be surprised to learn the agency assigned with protecting the most vulnerable is actually in the business of protecting the most powerful.

FBI Director Christopher Wray, hired by President Trump in 2017, publicly apologized. The “fundamental errors” made in the Nassar case, Wray told the judiciary committee, would not happen again as long as he’s head of the agency. “I want to make sure the American people know that the reprehensible conduct . . . is not representative of the work that I see from our 37,000 folks every day.” The rank-and-file, Wray insisted, perform their jobs with “uncompromising integrity.”

But Wray is wrong to claim that the Nassar case is an outlier. From the top of the command chain down, the FBI has trashed its reputation through a series of scandals. It’s not just the alarming texts between spousal cheats Peter Strzok and Lisa Page; the ambush of Lt. General Michael Flynn in the White House; Comey’s use of the shady Steele dossier to set up Donald Trump; or Andrew McCabe’s lies to his own FBI investigators.

It’s not just the other set of “errors”—17 to be exact—found in the FBI’s four unlawful FISA applications on former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page. Or the official email doctored by a top FBI lawyer cited as evidence on one of the applications. Or the fact that no one in the agency has gone to jail for perpetrating one of the greatest frauds in history on the American people.

As seen in the alleged plot to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, lowlifes populate the FBI’s rank-and-file. Richard Trask, the special agent in charge of the investigation, was arrested in July for physically assaulting and choking his wife after attending a swinger’s party. Trask was fired this month; he faces numerous criminal charges. Prosecutors decided not to use Trask as a witness after his social media account revealed numerous anti-Trump posts, including calling the president a “piece of shit.”

Defense attorneys in the Whitmer case asked the judge to delay trial for 90 days as they investigate the conduct of at least a dozen other FBI agents involved in the conspiracy. The FBI gave one informant $24,000 and a new car for his services.

Wray brags that every FBI field office is participating in the Justice Department’s “unprecedented” investigation into the breach of the Capitol. But reports of how his agents have handled more than 600 arrests do little to support Wray’s assurances of professional “integrity.” Defendants have been subjected to pre-dawn raids conducted by dozens of armed agents using military-style vehicles. I spoke with the spouse of one defendant who told me agents interrogated her about what cable news channel she watched, her views on illegal immigrantion, and who she voted for in 2020.

The FBI raided the home of an Alaska couple then handcuffed and interrogated them in separate rooms for hours until investigators realized they had the wrong suspects. A 69-year-old man in New York City suffered a heart attack as FBI agents raided his apartment with a television news crew standing by; the man never was charged. FBI agents arrested a Florida man in front of his wife and young daughter, who asked why officers were “locking daddy’s hands.” Casey Cusick was charged only with misdemeanors for entering the Capitol on January 6.

Agents seized as evidence a Lego set of the Capitol building during the raid of Robert Morss, an Army ranger with three tours in Afghanistan. Far from nefarious intent, Morss had the Lego set to use with his students as a substitute high school history teacher. (He was fired after his arrest.)

And those are just a few stories."

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All of this is unforgivable and disgusting.

But the FBI has a long history of injustice, bias, and MURDER of innocent Americans.
And the guilty within the FBI have rarely if EVER been punished for their crimes.

Shut it down and execute the traitors.
SOURCE URL: https://amgreatness.com/2021/09/20/the-fbis-incurable-rot/


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    Posted by Dobrien 2 years, 6 months ago
    I have written very recently about how sick I am of people like Hannity who claim that the rank and file are terrific and it’s just a few bad apples at the top. Bull$hit. I would never work for a corrupt company or agency period. These so called rank and file could end this corruption in a day. If the majority resigned all 35,000 of those “good people” up and quit the jig would be up.
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    • Posted by mccannon01 2 years, 6 months ago
      I've seen those posts and I heard Hannity say he had friends and relatives in the ranks and he says they are good folks. However, IMHO, it's the folks in the ranks that pull the triggers and set up the shams at the behest of the big wigs. If the rank and file said "No. I'm not doing any unconstitutional crap!" the FBI would hold onto a much better reputation.
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      • Posted by JohnWesley 2 years, 6 months ago
        We are in such a bad place. Our military follows orders--they do not understand what are illegal orders and only do as told. The FBI, and down to our local cops, follow orders because not to means loss of pensions and their excessive pay.
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  • Posted by mccannon01 2 years, 6 months ago
    Growing up I held the FBI in high esteem and respect. They were the hands down good guys. Now I shake my head and mutter "WTH" with discouragement.
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    • Posted by $ allosaur 2 years, 6 months ago
      Me too. Me dino recalls watching a FBI TV show way back during the Sixties in which everybody drove Fords. Now I like to call that agency "FiBI."
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      • Posted by mccannon01 2 years, 6 months ago
        Yep, Efram Zimbalist Jr. in the "FBI".
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        • Posted by 2 years, 6 months ago
          His character in B5 was closer to the truth about the FBI.
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          • Posted by mccannon01 2 years, 6 months ago
            Agreed, FFA! I think of B5 as one of the last series that actually was any good along with the single season "Firefly".
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            • Posted by 2 years, 6 months ago
              I saw the actor that played Sheridan's father playing one of the 'evil white men' in an episode of Cold Case.
              I have watched 23 episodes and an 'evil white man' was the villain in 21 of 23 episodes.
              Not a hint of any good in white businessmen. (The lead character is an extremely smart, good female cop, of course.)
              Talk about brainwashing the public!
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              • Posted by mccannon01 2 years, 6 months ago
                I've never seen an episode of "Cold Case", but white people and especially white males are made to look foolish, stupid, or evil most of the time now. Noticing the ads on platforms like Netflix and Hulu, white actors are used less and less and when they are it isn't usually a good character. Rather odd for a country that has roughly 75% white people.

                Starting years ago I started calling the "Lifetime" movie network the "Three Movie Channel" because the themes were all the same: 1) White guy mean to women, 2) White guy mean to children, 3) White guy mean to black people. OK, there may be a fourth movie: White guy mean to all at once. One time there was a movie that had a white female murderer and I couldn't believe they were showing a non white male killer, but in the last 5 minutes of the movie it was revealed her jail bird father (yep, the white guy) was so mean to her growing up that she became what she did. So, even if the perp isn't a white guy, there has to be shown an evil white guy causing the problem. WTH!
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                • Posted by JohnWesley 2 years, 6 months ago
                  It seems as though for the past year I can enjoy only old, old, shows and movies because all of the new stuff, shows and advertising, features blacks in leading roles. It is as if whites don't exist.
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                  • Posted by mccannon01 2 years, 6 months ago
                    "It is as if whites don't exist." Like I said above, it's rather odd for a country that is roughly 75% white people. I don't so much mind POC in leading roles, but deliberately disparaging white people at every possible moment is disgusting.
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                • Posted by 2 years, 6 months ago
                  We go from series to series, and after less than a season every time I have to declare "I can't stand another episode!"
                  It's all propaganda demonizing the people who have worked hard and succeeded in making the civilization better for everyone.
                  When the people of merit stop producing the climax of Atlas Shrugged will have arrived.
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  • Posted by DrZarkov99 2 years, 6 months ago
    The problem we're now faced with is where to find a federal agency that isn't corrupt that has the authority to conduct legal action against the FBI. The DOJ is itself a rotten morass of political thugs.

    Earlier, I would have called for martial law to clean up the DC mess, but watching Milley spout his line of crap reminded me that our military leaders are themselves corrupt political animals. The whole governmental structure is foul and in need of replacing.

    Have we reached the point where we need to look to the Declaration of Independence, and its insistence on the right of the people to remove an unjust government? Things seem to be moving in that direction.
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    • Posted by Dobrien 2 years, 6 months ago
      Lots of facts related to your conclusion with this research. https://patelpatriot.substack.com/

      Q has posted this a half a dozen times since initially
      May 15 , 2018
      PEOPLE [UNITED] HAVE THE POWER.
      That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, -That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their DUTY, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
      Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
      Q
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  • Posted by $ katrinam41 2 years, 6 months ago
    You will never see how that boat leaves the basement. I don't watch much new TV and haven't for years, but made an exception for NCIS: Hawaii. It has promise, but the characters need a lot of development. Mark Harmon is my age, in far better shape, and the fact that the agents are always butting heads with other agencies is the other reason I watch the original series. If only the honesty and (mostly) objectivity were there in real life alphabet agencies like the FBI. I totally agree, ffa. Shut it down and execute the traitors.
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