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What Will the FBI Not Do? (VICTOR DAVIS HANSON)
americangreatness ^ | 12/26/2023 | VICTOR DAVIS HANSON

Posted on 01/05/2024 6:49:03 PM PST by bitt

The FBI on Wednesday finally broke its silence and responded to the revelations on Twitter of close ties between the bureau and the social media giant—ties that included efforts to suppress information and censor political speech.

“The correspondence between the FBI and Twitter show nothing more than examples of our traditional, longstanding and ongoing federal government and private sector engagements, which involve numerous companies over multiple sectors and industries,” the bureau said in a statement. “As evidenced in the correspondence, the FBI provides critical information to the private sector in an effort to allow them to protect themselves and their customers. The men and women of the FBI work every day to protect the American public. It is unfortunate that conspiracy theorists and others are feeding the American public misinformation with the sole purpose of attempting to discredit the agency.”

Almost all of the FBI communique is untrue, except the phrase about the bureau’s “engagements which involve numerous companies over multiple sectors and industries.”

Future disclosures will no doubt reveal similar FBI subcontracting with other social media concerns of Silicon Valley to stifle free expression and news deemed problematic to the FBI’s agenda.

The FBI did not merely engage in “correspondence” with Twitter to protect the company and its “customers.” Instead, it effectively hired Twitter to suppress the free expression of some of its users, as well as news stories deemed unhelpful to the Biden campaign and administration—to the degree that the bureau’s requests sometimes even exceeded those of Twitter’s own left-wing censors.

The FBI did not wish to help Twitter “to protect themselves [sic],” given the bureau’s Twitter liaisons were often surprised at the FBI’s bold requests to suppress the expression of those who had not violated Twitter’s own admittedly biased “terms of service” and “community standards.”

The FBI and its helpers on the Left now reboot the same boilerplate about “conspiracy theorists” and “misinformation” smears used against anyone who rejected the FBI-fed Russian collusion hoax and the bureau’s peddling of the “Russian disinformation” lie to suppress accurate pre-election news about the authenticity of Hunter Biden’s laptop.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bigtech; doj; donutwatch; fbi; fbiakastasi; internet; media; secretpolice; technotyranny; vdh; victordavishanson
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To: ladyjane

I used to hear Hannity telling folks that 99.9% of the FEEBEE guys were the good guys fighting everyday for all of us folks.

So why is it the 99.9% never blew the whistle on that bad 0.01% who were scumbags?

NOT ONE OF THEM had the courage or HONOR to call out their own CRIMINALS, in my mind that makes them COMPLICIT and just as much CRIMINALS as the bad ones.

Break up the FBI into 7 man squads with precincts at any town with a population of less than 20 thousand, no more major headquarters in DC, no more 200 man task forces, no more direct connections to the political elite, no more special access to the political parties.

They are just cops, federal cops for sure but still just cops.

COPS WITH TO MUCH POLITICAL POWER——THEREFORE CORRUPT!


21 posted on 01/05/2024 8:57:42 PM PST by 5th MEB (1)
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To: texas booster

Please put me on the VDH ping list.

This man is truly an AMERICAN TREASURE!


22 posted on 01/05/2024 9:00:02 PM PST by 5th MEB (1)
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To: freepersup

In the remote chance that someone from the FIBS is monitoring this forum...

Don’t kid yourself. The FIB IS monitoring this and all other platforms such as this.

They are looking for keywords such as PTA meetings and such.


23 posted on 01/05/2024 9:00:17 PM PST by Texas resident (Biden=Obama=Jarrett=Soros)
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To: 5th MEB

They have become the political cops loyal to the communist democrats.
NKVD/KGB


24 posted on 01/05/2024 9:04:01 PM PST by Texas resident (Biden=Obama=Jarrett=Soros)
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To: Robwin; All

YES! The FBI did do this! Individually and as an ORGANIZATION!

Good Grief!

Prosecute THEM! LMAO!

Who are you going to get to prosecute these GANGSTERS?

Donald Trump has NINETY ONE Legal Actions being PROSECUTED against him at this moment! More are on the way.

Did you see a long line of whistleblowers risking their careers, pensions, annuities, dental plans, vacation pay, seniority, and direct deposit pay, in order to risk it all and do the right thing?

Me neither.

Come on man!

You might be a tad bit naive. It’s systemic in ALL of FED GOV.

DOJ, NSA, DNI, DOS, DC COURTS, ETC. ETC. ETC.

Hannity? Is this you using a cover ID?


25 posted on 01/05/2024 9:08:30 PM PST by freepersup (“Those who conceal crimes are preparing to commit new ones.” ~Vuk Draskovic~)
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To: Texas resident
Thank you for pointing that out.

In that case let me reiterate the TRUTH!

In the remote chance that someone from the FIBS is monitoring this forum, please understand that the systemically corrupt agency you work for is filled with FED GOV SCUM TRAITORS!

For emphasis- FED GOV SCUM TRAITORS!

26 posted on 01/05/2024 9:11:51 PM PST by freepersup (“Those who conceal crimes are preparing to commit new ones.” ~Vuk Draskovic~)
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To: Texas resident

LMAO! Mockery!

Rules for Radicals PROUD!

High Five Tex!


27 posted on 01/05/2024 9:16:15 PM PST by freepersup (“Those who conceal crimes are preparing to commit new ones.” ~Vuk Draskovic~)
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To: bitt

Support citizens rights.


28 posted on 01/05/2024 9:22:08 PM PST by If You Want It Fixed - Fix It ( )
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To: Robwin

“The FBI did not do this. It was identifiable people within the FBI. Find out who they are and then fire them. Also prosecute them if what they did violated any law.’

You’re probably too young to remember Harry Truman; he had a saying that obviously our current Dear Leader does not concur with - The buck stops here. Said more plainly, one can delegate authority but not responsibility.


29 posted on 01/05/2024 9:26:59 PM PST by Rembrandt (-a sure sign a Dem is lying - his lips are moving.)
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To: bitt

Sean Hannity keeps telling us that the field agents are good guys. These same field agents have raided Mara Largo and many conservatives in SWAT type raids. Who are the good guys in the FBI? If I were an agent I would refuse to do such and full well knowing I would be fired.

I for one think, the FBI should be destroyed with the exception of its forensics labs to assist law enforcement agencies. It should then be recreated under total strict supervision of Congress and total openness to the public.

The good the FBI has done is now much less than the bad it is doing right now today. It must be destroyed and recreated for good. Today it is evil.

Ten years ago if I was questioned by an FBI agent I would have totally cooperated as I thought them honest. Today I would say, “ I will speak to you when my lawyer is at my side, I do not trust you.”


30 posted on 01/05/2024 9:35:38 PM PST by cpdiii (cane cutter-deckhand-oilfield roughneck-drilling fluiids tech-geologist-pilot-instructor-pharmacist)
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To: cpdiii
I for one think, the FBI should be destroyed with the exception of its forensics labs to assist law enforcement agencies.

Forsenics labs should be under the Secret Service.

All other FBI agents can get a job working for TSA at airports so they'll stay busy.

But yes, I think it's time to dismantle the FBI. Many of their functions can be handled by different alphabet agencies in D.C.

31 posted on 01/05/2024 9:43:39 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: Robwin
Find out who they are and then fire them. Also prosecute them if what they did violated any law.

Yeah, Wray and Garland will get right on that.

32 posted on 01/05/2024 11:01:06 PM PST by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Re-imagine the media!)
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To: null and void

Don’t it make you wan to puke?


33 posted on 01/05/2024 11:20:59 PM PST by .44 Special (Taimid Buacharch)
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To: bitt


Defund the FBI. SHUT DOWN THE FBI !


34 posted on 01/06/2024 1:18:17 AM PST by Candor7 (Ask not for whom Trump Trolls,He trolls for thee!)<img src="" width=500</img>,<a href="">tag</a>)
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To: Candor7

Have you seen Trump’s latest statements supporting the increased funding of the FBI? Sometimes I don’t understand how there can be such an apparent disconnect between what Trump supporters want, and what Trump’s actual positions are.


35 posted on 01/06/2024 1:24:51 AM PST by Golden Eagle (It is far easier to fool people, than to convince them they’ve been fooled.)
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To: Liz
Survey takers asked respondents: ‘Do you think it is true or false that FBI operatives organized and encouraged the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021?’

I wonder if this question was asked with AND to lower the numbers of people believing that the FBI had a nefarious part in the incursion into the Capitol ? It should’ve been asked as two separate questions because more people probably thought that the FBI encouraged the attack without actually organizing the attack.

36 posted on 01/06/2024 5:04:00 AM PST by Freee-dame
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To: Robwin
No man, who is not inflamed by vain-glory into enthusiasm, can flatter himself that his single, unsupported, desultory, unsystematic endeavours are of power to defeat the subtle designs and united Cabals of ambitious citizens. When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents, by Edmund Burke

37 posted on 01/06/2024 5:10:32 AM PST by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: .44 Special

Nah, I’ve got a strong stomach.


38 posted on 01/06/2024 5:23:35 AM PST by null and void (I identify as a conspiracy theorist. My personal pronouns are told/you/so.)
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To: grumpygresh

Sage advice.


39 posted on 01/06/2024 6:03:23 AM PST by bigfootbob (Arm Up and Live Free!)
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To: bigbob

The FBI was BORN as a corrupt organization. The concept was to use criminal methods against criminals.


40 posted on 01/06/2024 6:06:38 AM PST by Lazamataz (In order to prevent tyranny, Democrats have decided who I can and cannot vote for.)
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