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FBI: Decline and Fall
American Thinker ^ | April 12, 2024 | By Ben Madison

Posted on 04/12/2024 8:37:54 AM PDT by Kazan

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To: DesertRhino

About that Zorro Ranch...

https://www.koat.com/article/jeffrey-epstein-documents-released-new-mexico-ranch/46334470


21 posted on 04/12/2024 9:17:59 AM PDT by MeganC ("Russians are subhuman" - posted by Kazan 8 March 2024)
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To: Alberta's Child
No offense, but you’d have to be a fool to think a LAWYER is suited to do anything to “fix” the FBI.

Agreed. I'd like to see General Flynn on the job.

22 posted on 04/12/2024 9:22:45 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Need to fire way more than a hundred. They need to be completely gutted. We saw the photos of all those fat young woke agents kneeling as BLM walked by. A hundred would barely touch the home office. The entire DC office needs to go along with the practice of not assigning an agent to run a field office unless they have done a rotation in DC.

They should be stripped of the civil rights division, and of all investigative powers against local police departments and government officials.

The NEW FBI should be minimal. State resources utterly eclipse what they were in the 1930s. There is little to no need for a National Police Department.
The FBI should be reduced to the very basics. Kidnapping, bank robbery, foreign spies, low end bank scams etc.
This new FBI should be lead by a law enforcement professional, not a lawyer or US Attorney or Judge. No FISA no 702.

After what they have done, they should be stripped of anything even remotely associated with politics.

Every remaining FBI employee should also be frozen, no transfers to any other agency. They should be watched with the highest scrutiny, bodycams, etc.


23 posted on 04/12/2024 9:25:06 AM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI. )
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To: Kazan

Bttt.

5.56mm


24 posted on 04/12/2024 9:31:00 AM PDT by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho have got to go. )
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To: MeganC

The local New Mexico congressman is Melanie Stansbury. She was an employee of Ghislane Maxwell. And Bill Richardson was famous for his tastes. Rumor has it that his trips to North Korea were filled with Kim providing him lots of 13 year old girls... far from prying FBI eyes.


25 posted on 04/12/2024 9:33:00 AM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI. )
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To: DesertRhino

I favor your approach.

I think the FBI is beyond salvation now.

The same problem with the DOJ. Need to put someone in charge that’s not a lawyer to clean it up.

Then there is still the IRS, EPA, Energy, Education, and other three letter acronyms....


26 posted on 04/12/2024 9:33:34 AM PDT by Pete Dovgan (Repeatedl)
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To: Tell It Right

FLYNN would be a good choice.


27 posted on 04/12/2024 9:33:35 AM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI. )
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To: discostu

True. The FBI had a carefully constructed image by Hoover designed to fool the public into believing it could be trusted.


28 posted on 04/12/2024 9:34:29 AM PDT by yuleeyahoo (“Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!” - the deep-state)
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To: Pete Dovgan

If kept, they should be a VERY closely watched bank robber and kidnapping police for a while. After a decade or two of no scandals, maybe they can be used for something else.

Ideally, they should be reduced to a small technical and coordinating unit with the mission of providing SUPPORT to state agencies. They should never have power over a state law enforcement agency.
This would also work to restore the Federalism in our republic. At the time the FBI was created, cops chasing a bank robber or killer literally stopped at the state line. States were almost like small nations. Now with so much power centralized in DC, states have waned in influence.

Clipping the FBI back should be done in a way that returns those powers to the states where they rightfully belong.


29 posted on 04/12/2024 9:40:37 AM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI. )
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To: yuleeyahoo

The Eastwood movie “J. Edgar” explores that in detail.


30 posted on 04/12/2024 9:41:22 AM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI. )
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To: Tell It Right; DesertRhino

That’s why deepstate took out Flynn first!


31 posted on 04/12/2024 9:42:26 AM PDT by A strike (There is no tyranny that cannot be justified by 'climate change')
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To: Mr. N. Wolfe

“I blame the voters”

True but, for the most part they can only vote the ballot.


32 posted on 04/12/2024 9:50:17 AM PDT by A strike (There is no tyranny that cannot be justified by 'climate change')
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To: A strike
That’s why deepstate took out Flynn first!

And they still couldn't break him. Nor did it shake his wife. Instead of begging her husband to stand down, she hit CNN with a defamation lawsuit.

Flynn
is
the
man
for
the
job.

33 posted on 04/12/2024 9:50:57 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Kazan

I would like to know how much money from govt coffers is paid to Television and Movies to make stories with the FBI in it. They just can’t quit making these series, and they show them in the most heroic light.

Regular cops though, have only Tom Sellecks show to highlight normal policing, although it does highlight some bad too.

The FBI though is shown as sparkling clean, the highest ethics, with brilliant agents and leadership. PURE PROPAGANDA.

QUIT WATCHING THEM, you are helping to perpetuate a lie. That the FBI and federal govt police are clean as a houndstooth, and only go after the bad guys.


34 posted on 04/12/2024 10:48:41 AM PDT by Glad2bnuts (“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: We should have set up ambushes...paraphrased)
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To: Kazan
The FBI has become the equivalent of the KGB.

The FBI has always been the KGB. That's why it was founded.

35 posted on 04/12/2024 11:09:55 AM PDT by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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To: DesertRhino

I could see firing the entire FBI Washington office. No transfers, immediately leave government service.

Then slowly repopulate it with field office people with a good record on actual criminal investigations.


36 posted on 04/12/2024 11:10:02 AM PDT by SauronOfMordor (Either you will rule. Or you will be ruled. There is no other choice.)
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To: MeganC

Do FBI personnel take an oath to PROTECT AND DEFEND THE CONSTITUTION?

If so the people in field offices are NOT REQUIRED to obey “ILLEGAL ORDERS”!

THEY DO SO BY CHOICE!


37 posted on 04/12/2024 12:31:38 PM PDT by 5th MEB (1)
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To: 5th MEB

Good point.


38 posted on 04/12/2024 1:43:55 PM PDT by MeganC ("Russians are subhuman" - posted by Kazan 8 March 2024)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

A bridge too far? Geez that’s so ridiculous.


39 posted on 04/12/2024 1:46:17 PM PDT by Fledermaus (Is it me, or all of a sudden have the buried trolls come out on FR like cicadas? It's all noise.)
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To: Glad2bnuts

Check out “The F.B.I.” from 1965 with Efrem Zimbalist Jr.

A Quinn Martin production!

I believe the agency funded some of the ABC show


40 posted on 04/12/2024 1:56:30 PM PDT by Fledermaus (Is it me, or all of a sudden have the buried trolls come out on FR like cicadas? It's all noise.)
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