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2022-12-05 Government Corruption

FBI warned Twitter during ‘weekly' meetings of Hunter Biden ‘hack-and-leak operation' before censoring The Post

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Posted by Besoeker 2022-12-05 01:22|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 NYP - What’s missing from the Twitter files: The truth about the FBI

Posted by Besoeker 2022-12-05 01:26|| 2022-12-05 01:26|| Front Page Top

#2 I am starting to believe that the FBI tells lies, misleads the public, ignores some crimes while participating in other crimes.

Posted by Airandee 2022-12-05 10:51|| 2022-12-05 10:51|| Front Page Top

#3 ^ No, that was the last decade. The new FBI are full thugs.

Posted by Dron66046 2022-12-05 11:33|| 2022-12-05 11:33|| Front Page Top

#4 Dron, I'm just curious, but what is the India equivalent of the FBI?

Posted by Seeking Cure For Ignorance 2022-12-05 12:08|| 2022-12-05 12:08|| Front Page Top

Ref #2: I am starting to believe that the FBI tells lies, misleads the public, ignores some crimes while participating in other crimes.

Started a little earlier for me. Waco was the validation.

Posted by Besoeker 2022-12-05 12:46|| 2022-12-05 12:46|| Front Page Top

Posted by Skidmark 2022-12-05 13:46|| 2022-12-05 13:46|| Front Page Top

#7 what is the India equivalent of the FBI?

The American FBI is more autonomous and has broader jurisdictions. In India, roles are divided among a handful of agencies.

The Indian CBI, central bureau of investigation, operates under the Prime Minister's Office at the centre and only investigates. It has its own courts and its findings are accepted by the supreme court as incontrovertible evidence. A state establishment has to ask for the centre to send in the CBI or if law and order are completely broken down, the centre can, with a writ, send them in. Now since some states are left leaning, you can understand that the right wing government at New Delhi often uses the CBI and other agencies to keep them in a short leash.

The Intelligence Bureau is the one that handles terrorism related stuff. This too is a central organization but has field offices in every state. Power to prosecute, arrest, carry out urban ops.

The Enforcement Directorate is another central organization that handles money laundering, illegal funding of banned groups or activity.

Then there's the Central vigilance commission that handles only corruption in government.

States have their own CID units that tackle organized crime, interstate crimes are handled by joint task forces between states, the IB can jump into any cases that overlap into terrorism related stuff.

State police have quite a bit of autonomy with how they wanna enforce. But state administrations are often hounded by the CBI, their chief minister's interrogated, accused of this and that, obstructed wickedly by the centre. The party in power at New Delhi uses all these agencies to weaken and disempower their opponents.

Posted by Dron66046 2022-12-05 14:02|| 2022-12-05 14:02|| Front Page Top

#8 Started a little earlier for me. Waco was the validation.

I'm so old I remember H. Paul Rico, Stevie Flemmi's first FBI 'handler' and John Connolly, who was Bill Bulger's grade school buddy in 1970's Southie and later on became (surprise!) Whitey Bulger's 'handler' shortly after he was appointed to the organized crime unit of the Boston FBI office.

Posted by Raj 2022-12-05 16:23|| 2022-12-05 16:23|| Front Page Top

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