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Government Corruption
FBI Paid Out $42 Million a Year to Confidential Human Sources – Including Thugs Who Set Up Trump, Whitmer Kidnap Hoaxers, and Others
2022-11-22
[GP] A 2021 report by Open the Books revealed that the federal government paid over $548 million to informants in recent years. That’s over half a billion taxpayer dollars.

And the FBI paid out $42 million a year to its confidential human sources.

We know a few of the more famous FBI operatives.

Stephan Halper, a crack cocaine addict, was paid over $1.05 million to spy on Trump associates and help set up the Trump-Russia hoax.
Posted by:Besoeker

#4  "Paid Informants" are like "tortured confessors" -- they will say anything the customer wants eventually.
Posted by: magpie   2022-11-22 18:04  

#3  /\ Even as stories have begun to emerge about those enmeshed in the web, the intelligence agency linkages have been absent.

From Circa 'Bay of Pigs' to roughly today, and likely tomorrow.
Posted by: Besoeker   2022-11-22 14:57  

#2  As expected, the Epstein suicide-death charade mystery has entered the memory hole altogether. Even as stories have begun to emerge about those enmeshed in the web, the intelligence agency linkages have been absent. Their mastery of public awareness management never been more apparent and has thrived under the Puppet Show.
Posted by: NoMoreBS   2022-11-22 13:00  

#1  Federal informants often commit crimes...

Or have committed crimes that were ignored or set aside, as part of a cooperative, quid pro quo arrangement. Other criminal activity is ignored to satisfy the collection requirements of Other Government Agencies (OGA).

There appears to be evidence Mini-Madoff may have provided remuneration to investigators in order to keep the flies away. Little imagination is required to assume Jeffrey Epstein provided clandestine incentives to one or more intelligence communities. The Hunter Biden travels provided a perfect venue for source requirement collection and foreign travel reporting. To assume it did not happen is classic naivety.

Care to take a guess as to how a source such as Hunter Biden might have
been compensated ?

Posted by: Besoeker   2022-11-22 06:27  

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