Thomas Paine is former NYPD.
He was a very tough detective and is now offered $50 for investigations because of his reputation. He’s not in it for the money however, he’s now an investigative journalist for precisely the reasons he states, to even the score and teach the knucklehead bosses in the FBI a lesson.
I don’t know anything about Thomas Paine, but if he really is a former NYPD cop with intelligence skills, then he could be a formidable foe of a corrupt FBI, etc.
The KEY QUESTION in every raid conducted by the FBI against people at home in the “Trump collusion” investigation is, WHO ORDERED THE RAIDS, WHO DIRECTED THEM, AND WHO PARTICIPATED IN THEM, AND WERE THE RAIDS ILLEGAL INCLUDING UNNECESSARY USE OF FORCE, ACTUAL OR THREATENED, ESP. AGAINST CHILDREN.
I say this as one who worked undercover with the FBI (and Congress), and was treated with professional respect, even up to the top, i.e. Deputy Director for Counter-Intelligence William “Bill” Sullivan.
I counted amongst my friends (though I didn’t know his covert position for many years), Ray Wannell, the secret Counter-Intelligence Director of Operation SOLO and other penetration and counter-ops of and against the Soviet Union and Cuba.
What has happened to the FBI and DOJ? WHO corrupted them? I know that Pres. Clinton and AG Janet Reno did in the LIUNA RICO case (See one of the most important articles ever written about the Clintons and Organized Crime at “The American Spectator, April 1997, Byron York, “Let’s Be Friends: A Mob-Controlled Union Delivers the Goods for Bill” (to the tune of $3 MILLION and received $30M+ in return).
Eric Holder was a little shit from the start. He had ambitions in the 90’s of being the Attorney General and never stopped pursuing them, at any cost.
Loretta Lynch was a tremendous disappointment to me (for professional reasons).
Comey is corrupt as is Brennan (who gave him any kind of security clearance?); Clapper turned out to be a fool, another great disappointment. Hayden, NSA, wow! The one man who we could trust, Gen. Flynn (DIA) was taken out on a fake charge and his life destroyed, on purpose (so he wouldn’t talk about the corruption he had run in to).
I know something about DIA leaders as my classmate was once its’ head - Gen. Daniel Graham (CIA, DIA, VN Intell, B-Team, SDI proponent/leader). My father-in-law was one of the top US Counter-Intelligence officers for the Army during the Cold War. He, and my wife, used to play tennis with Gen. Maxwell Taylor (who I later interviewed for a radio show I worked on for the American Security Council - small world).
I had enough friends in the intell field to fill a hotel named “Spook Central”, and that doesn’t include my friends in the FBI, NYPD and other police departments, plus private intel investigators.
Pres. Trump must totally clean out DOJ and the FBI, the CIA, DNI and other corrupted intell organizations down to the lowest rat.
If Sessions won’t do it, get someone with the balls who will. America’s survival depends on it, NOW, not later.
I hope Thomas Paine’s story is true, documents to the nth, and “names names”. If so, Congressional committees only under Republican control will have enough work to last through the 2024 election period.