FBI And Other Agencies Paid Informants $548 Million In Recent Years With Many Committing Authorized Crimes

Forbes ^ | Adam Andrzejewski

[nathanbedford]

DEA paid at least $237 million

Mostly framing Trump

When an agency like the FBI spends more than 1/4 billion dollars to make cases against ordinary citizens it is not much of a leap to make a case against the president of the United States.

The line is fine between enforcing a law against ordinary citizens using and selling drugs and entrapping those same citizens. Once the FBI or any other agency gets into the game to this extent, it is only a question of time until it turns on more important citizens -and for political motives.

$237 million is just one more milestone in our inexorable march toward our drug war Afghanistan.

[aces]

Viva la france

[aces]

No one does, Come Lord

[who_would_fardels_bear]

The same could be said of the FBI, the CIA, and the NSA. All agencies that have often gone rogue.

[Widget Jr]

Re #6: No. Same here. This had been building for years. The 2020 election was the big reveal of how deep the corruption has become.

[littleharbour]

$548 million will buy plenty of false flags

[waterhill]

Not yet...

[Flick Lives]

Many informants were authorized to commit “crimes” with the permission of their federal handlers. In a four-year period, there were 22,800 crime authorizations (2011-2014).

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The FBI using taxpayer money to pay people to commit crimes. This is like a sick analog to “firemen” in “Fahrenheit 451” burning books.

[Peter ODonnell]

FBI = Far Better Insurrection

The article claims that the plot to kidnap the Michigan governor was largely the work of FBI plants, and questions whether said plot would even have materialized without their active organization.

It also states that two agents were embedded in the Capitol so-called insurrection.

What is the point of this sort of activity? It induces people with a weakly formed wish to carry out some action into more concentrated action. How does that help the United States? Why are the weak followers guilty and these organizers patriotic citizens? It makes very little sense.

And there are real crimes being committed by really bad people. How interested is the FBI in any of those activities? We see little evidence of any interest whatsoever, they seem determined to look the other way.

There is a very selective approach to law enforcement.

[Who is John Galt?]

What is the point of this sort of activity? It induces people with a weakly formed wish to carry out some action into more concentrated action. How does that help the United States? Why are the weak followers guilty and these organizers patriotic citizens? It makes very little sense.

IMHO, it makes perfect sense: an agency that essentially controls a 'criminal group' ("weak followers" + Feds) can dial up a crime anytime they want, and then bust the perpetrators. To the politicians, the supposed 'criminal conspiracy' is a threat, and the preordained arrests remove the threat, which justifies a bigger budget, more authority, & more manpower for the agency. All of that equals power, plus prestige and wealth for those who wield it.

And there are real crimes being committed by really bad people. How interested is the FBI in any of those activities? We see little evidence of any interest whatsoever, they seem determined to look the other way.

Leftists/progressives are generally less constrained by legal or fiscal limitations than are conservatives: they therefore tend to authorize bigger budgets & increased bureaucratic authority when in control of the federal legislative, executive and judicial branches. The lack of such constraints can also promote the rise of such persons within agency management (like "pond scum" rising to the surface of the swamp).

End result - the people running the federal apparatus will go out of their way to prosecute nominal 'conservatives', while completely ignoring real leftist criminals; they have no desire to interrupt their progressive 'money & power gravy train' by antagonizing leftist politicians, or impairing their chances for reelection...

[dinodino]

How much was Ray Epps paid, the POS?

[Vaduz]

KGB winks

[Bassfisher2022]

And they are certainly monitoring this site and compiling dossiers on posters. Consider the posters who are always saying “come and take it’, “I’ll meet them with lead”, “water the tree of liberty”....those are trigger words that get you watched and tracked...and don’t think for a minute if “they” wanted records from the owner of this site that he wouldn’t turn them over in a heartbeat. He isn’t going to go to prison for anybody posting here....bet on it.

Lots of armchair commandos but they will fold real quick when a gun is shoved in their face.

[TigersEye]

Ray Epps is dead?

Not yet. But when he does commit suicide #RayEppsDidntKillHimself .

[dadfly]

i agree.

basically, when we are talking about humanity. Lord Acton had it right: power, and especially power mixed with some amount of unchecked authority, corrupts.

so what is an informant. basically a spy. the gov’t puts a spy in the field, it’s an automatic grant of power without authority, because a careful definition of authority implies voluntary consent or grant of authority by the subject under potential coercion, in my view. we my FRiend are the ones potentially being coerced by the informant.

so i would argue initially that the use of such by our gov’t against us, informants is illegal under the Constitution.

two, i would argue that the violation of our own law, makes this practice immoral in the eyes of the Lord.

three, it’s immoral because you are encouraging the corruption of the legitimate authority (the federal officers involved). and of course you are corrupting the individuals involved who are taking the money and lying to entrap others (irregardless of their moral state or even crimes).

all in all, it’s a corrupting, illegal, immoral, stupid, and ineffective, practice that has created untold harm to law biding citizens and law enforcement in this nation. the massive cost in tax payer money is the smallest fault in the whole thing. the few crimes that may have been stopped by this practice aren’t worth even the moral corruption created, let alone all the physical damage created to innocents caught up in the deceptions.

[Kevmo]

Now that’s thinking ahead.

[TigersEye]

Thanks! This is why conservatives meme so much better than liberals.
We think ahead. Libs don’t even think. :)