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2021-11-19 Government Corruption
VDH - Can the FBI be salvaged?
[American Greatness] The Washington, D.C.-based Federal Bureau of Investigation has lost all credibility as a disinterested investigatory agency. Now we learn from a whistleblower that the agency was allegedly investigating moms and dads worried about the teaching of critical race theory in their kids’ schools.

In truth, since 2015, the FBI has been constantly in the news—and mostly in a negative and constitutionally disturbing light.

The fired former Director James Comey injected himself into the 2016 political race by constantly editorializing on his ongoing investigation of candidate Hillary Clinton’s email leaks. In a bizarre twist, the public learned later that Comey had allowed Hillary Clinton’s own private computer contractor, CrowdStrike, to run the investigation of the hack. The private firm was allowed to keep possession of pertinent hard drives central to the investigation. How odd that CrowdStrike’s point man was Shawn Henry, a former high-ranking FBI employee.

During the Robert Mueller special investigation, the FBI implausibly claimed it had no idea how requested information on FBI cell phones had mysteriously disappeared.

It was also under Comey’s directorship that the FBI submitted inaccurate requests for warrants to a FISA court. Elements of one affidavit to surveil Trump supporter Carter Page were forged by FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith, who later pleaded guilty to a felony.

The FBI hired the disreputable ex-British spy Christopher Steele as a contractor, while he was peddling his fantasy—the Clinton-bought dossier—to Obama government officials and the media.

Former FBI general counsel James Baker was reportedly the subject of a federal investigation. He allegedly conducted prominent meetings both with media outlets that later leaked lurid tales from the Steele dossier. He also met repeatedly with the now-indicted Perkins Coie attorney Michael Sussman.
Posted by Besoeker 2021-11-19 04:20|| || Front Page|| [8 views ]  Top

#1 At some bottom strata of the bureaucracy maybe, but the upper portions of the place need to go. It's time for limits on government employment. To much careerism.
Posted by Procopius2k 2021-11-19 07:47||   2021-11-19 07:47|| Front Page Top

#2 No. Next question.
Posted by Mercutio 2021-11-19 08:32||   2021-11-19 08:32|| Front Page Top

#3 Keep the range master, librarian, janitorial staff, lunchroom help, geeks, technical research and lab people. Fire or retire everyone else in Washington. Establish a provisional FBI leadership comprised of retired LE personnel from across the nation to initiate the rebuild.
Posted by Besoeker 2021-11-19 08:44||   2021-11-19 08:44|| Front Page Top

#4 I support Victor Hanson's proposal. Remove and rebuild it far from DC, preferably in Kansas.
Posted by Merrick Ferret 2021-11-19 08:47||   2021-11-19 08:47|| Front Page Top

#5 NO! Hell No! Shut it down and cast out ALL of their leadership.
Posted by 49 Pan 2021-11-19 10:19||   2021-11-19 10:19|| Front Page Top

#6 Why do you keep wanting to move government stuff to Kansas?
Posted by bman 2021-11-19 10:51||   2021-11-19 10:51|| Front Page Top

#7 /\/\/\ Maybe Texas would be better. . . 8^)
Posted by Old Patriot 2021-11-19 13:39||   2021-11-19 13:39|| Front Page Top

#8 #4: if i had my druthers Topeka would be the new center of govt. Or maybe Amarillo. Or Kansas city.
Irecall reading a biography of Pres TRuman on his retirement to Kansas he was noted at stopping at a large tree and speaking to it. When asked he said "I am telling it that it is doing a good job". That stuck with me and i have never withheld compliments.
Posted by irish rage boy 2021-11-19 14:08||   2021-11-19 14:08|| Front Page Top

#9 Move government to Kansas. Fort Leavenworth. Inside the walls.
Posted by Glenmore 2021-11-19 17:07||   2021-11-19 17:07|| Front Page Top

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