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Victor Davis Hanson: Should the FBI Run the Country?

[Private Papers] Victor Davis Hanson // National Review

Since the media would doubtless answer that loaded question, "It depends on the president," let us imagine the following scenario.

Return to 2008, when candidate Barack Obama had served only about three years in the U.S. Senate, his sum total of foreign policy experience. And he was running against the overseas old-hand, decorated veteran, and national icon John McCain‐a bipartisan favorite in Washington, D.C.

During the campaign, unfounded rumors had swirled about the rookie Obama that he might ease sanctions on Iran, distance the United States from Israel, and alienate the moderate Arab regimes, such as the Gulf monarchies and Egypt.

Stories also abounded that the Los Angeles Times had suppressed the release of a supposedly explosive "Khalidi tape," in which Obama purportedly thanked the radical Rashid Khalidi for schooling him on the Middle East and correcting his earlier biases and blind spots, while praising the Palestinian activist for his support for armed resistance against Israel.

Posted by Besoeker 2019-01-24 02:19|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ] Top

#1 No. And any attempt by the FBI, CIA, NSA, etc, should be met with immediate firings and arrests for subversion.

Posted by Glolush Whusotch4899 2019-01-24 07:54|| 2019-01-24 07:54|| Front Page Top

#2 FBI run the country? That did not go so well when they tried. Absolutely not--unless you want a police state such as the former East German Stasi. Moreover, unelected members of bureaucratic agencies should not be allowed to abuse their power by weaponizing their agency Americans (e.g. IRS, BLM, EPA, DOJ and others).

Posted by JohnQC 2019-01-24 09:40|| 2019-01-24 09:40|| Front Page Top

#3 their agency [against] Americans

Posted by JohnQC 2019-01-24 09:41|| 2019-01-24 09:41|| Front Page Top

#4 No. And any attempt by the FBI, CIA, NSA, etc, should be met with immediate firings and arrests for subversion.

The 'Deep State' puppet masters arrest themselves? Not likely.

Posted by Besoeker 2019-01-24 09:43|| 2019-01-24 09:43|| Front Page Top

#5 No. And any attempt by the FBI, CIA, NSA, etc, should be met with immediate firings (what calibre?) and arrests for subversion

The Second Amendment was not about hunting, target shooting, or even self defense...

Posted by Glenmore 2019-01-24 10:06|| 2019-01-24 10:06|| Front Page Top

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