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The FBI's Transformation, from National Police to Domestic Spy Agency. Part One: "Disruption"
Taibbi.Substack.com ^ | November 10, 2022 | Matt Taibbi

Posted on 11/11/2022 6:55:39 AM PST by Twotone

Late on an October morning in a quiet neighborhood near Daytona Beach, Florida. FBI agent Steve Friend sits in his kitchen, fidgeting. He’s a wiry, energetic man, built like a marathoner, not muscled up but exuding fitness, not a sitter. This is not a person meant for desk work, much less staying home all day. But as a whistleblower whose name has been all over media after a complaint about statistical manipulation and other problems in the January 6th investigations, this will be his lot for a while.

By that morning, the first rush of news stories about Friend’s case already passed. CNN and MSNBC demonized him, Fox hailed him as a hero, but the furor was beginning to die down. What a whistleblower talks about in this inevitable moment will say a lot about his or her motivation. Looking out a window into the stillness of his suburban neighborhood, Friend shook his head.

“I love my job,” he said, sighing. “I was living my best life as an FBI agent. I was coming home every day, and my kids were my biggest fan club. Like, ‘Daddy, did you put the bad guy in jail?’ And I thought, ‘Man, this is it.’”

It’s not the tone of a disgruntled malcontent, but someone who made a reluctant journey to whistleblower status, beginning with a whirlwind series of events that brought him and his family out of the Midwest to north Florida less than two years ago. He worked a child pornography detail before being transferred to the assignment that would upend his life: investigating J6. The FBI not only took Friend off vital work chasing child predators to pursue questionable investigations of people maybe connected with the Capitol riots (often in some misdemeanor fashion), they used dubious bureaucratic methods...

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: disruption; fbi; matttaibbi; spyagency; stevefriend

1 posted on 11/11/2022 6:55:39 AM PST by Twotone
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To: Twotone

We basically live in East Germany, folks.


2 posted on 11/11/2022 6:56:27 AM PST by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: Twotone

I kinda have no sympathy for FIB drones...


3 posted on 11/11/2022 6:57:00 AM PST by sauropod (Fascists also buy Comcast cable packages" - Olby - Wanna buy mine?)
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To: null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; bgill; bitt; ...

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4 posted on 11/11/2022 6:58:51 AM PST by bitt ( <IMG SRC=' 'width=50%>)
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To: Twotone

Founded by Government GANSTERS to solve a GANGSTER problem. Staffed by leftist gangsters. The only problems now is that those GANGSTERS are treating law-abiding, conservative Americans as gangsters.


5 posted on 11/11/2022 6:59:36 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: Twotone

Only democrats could make things like that happen as history has noted.


6 posted on 11/11/2022 7:05:18 AM PST by Vaduz (LAWYERS )
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To: sauropod

Doesn’t mean they don’t exist, and, are not compromising our freedoms. 🙃

Do you think if you ignore the problem, it simpy goes away?? Or, won’t ever effect you?


7 posted on 11/11/2022 7:09:47 AM PST by Jane Long (What we were told was a “conspiracy theory” in 2020 is now fact. 🙏🏻 Ps 33:12)
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To: Twotone

The FBI has become the American version of the KGB.


8 posted on 11/11/2022 7:34:28 AM PST by jimwatx
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To: Twotone

bump


9 posted on 11/11/2022 8:26:42 AM PST by PGR88
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To: Twotone

Does anyone remember Co-intelpro by the FBI?


10 posted on 11/11/2022 8:42:39 AM PST by Tom Tetroxide
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To: Twotone

Read later.


11 posted on 11/11/2022 3:24:06 PM PST by The Westerner (It was "A Republic, if you [could] keep it.")
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