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2019-02-17 Government

Former Intel Officer Tony Shaffer on How the FBI Became a Political Tool Under Obama ‐ American Thought Leaders

[EPOCH Times] Events in the 2016 elections were unprecedented. Top FBI officials knowingly used information paid for by the campaign of Hillary Clinton to obtain a FISA spy warrant on a member of the Trump campaign. Meanwhile, top Obama administration officials also spied on the campaign, using so-called unmasking requests.

Those same FBI agents, however, chose to look the other way when it came to the risks posed by Clinton’s use of a private email server. We now know that emails she send as Secretary of State through that server were automatically copied to an unknown foreign entity.

Looking ahead of the 2020 elections, the question is whether the FBI has been reformed enough to make sure political bias don’t influence investigations.

Today we sit down with Tony Shaffer, acting president of the London Center for Policy Research. He served as a Lieutenant Colonel in U.S. Army, where he was a senior intelligence officer. Today he’s also an advising producer for National Geographic and a member of the Trump 2020 advisory board.

Posted by Besoeker 2019-02-17 01:16|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Oh, FBI was political long before Obama. For example, Nixon was hardly the Evil Incarnate depicted in popular histories.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-02-17 02:16|| 2019-02-17 02:16|| Front Page Top

#2 Good article, rtwt.

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2019-02-17 07:23|| 2019-02-17 07:23|| Front Page Top

#3 Prosecutions of crimes committed by those in the cabal would help to restore the rule of law and the tarnished reputations of the DOJ and FBI. However, there are other agencies that also need a healthy look and clean-up. Enough of the "shadow government" crap by unelected, self-important bureaucrats (read as conspirators).

Posted by JohnQC 2019-02-17 09:11|| 2019-02-17 09:11|| Front Page Top

#4 Although this may be small potatoes relatively, it's worth noting the opportunity cost of this foolishness. We're up to our teeth in cybercrime, both domestic and foreign, and chasing cybercrimes down is resource-intensive. But apparently "we've" decided that extensively interviewing Trump's second cousin twice removed is a better use of DOJ/FBI resources. And the interviewers are our "top men", at least in the Indiana Jones sense of the term.

Posted by Matt 2019-02-17 14:01|| 2019-02-17 14:01|| Front Page Top

#5 The joke from the get go was that China, Russia, Ukraine, Iran, Turkey and all kinds of other bad actors have been conducting cyberwarfare activities for the past few decades ever since the Internet was invented. Baraq had eight long years to do something about it and yet he did nothing except to falsely accuse Trump of hacking the DNC email server and phishing John Podesta. Podesta, BTW, is so stupid that he deserved to get phished.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2019-02-17 14:33|| 2019-02-17 14:33|| Front Page Top

#6 Podesta, BTW, is so stupid that he deserved to get phished.

Podesta, the guy that used "Password" for his password. No one will think of that (sarc).

Posted by JohnQC 2019-02-17 15:46|| 2019-02-17 15:46|| Front Page Top

#7 Do you want to restore the FBI to health? Start by jailing McCabe and Comey, and prosecuting Rosenswine, and firing those who botched and covered for Clinton's crimes. Show the rank and file that integrity matters.

Posted by Boss Spoper5850 2019-02-17 16:22|| 2019-02-17 16:22|| Front Page Top

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