Posted on 02/03/2018 9:34:49 AM PST by qaz123
If you want to see what he looks like, he was sitting behind Comey at his Congressional testimony in June 2017 (no joke!)
He's a whiner and a bitch and a Comey butt-sniffer...but he also shows the depth of the vicious juvenile BFF culture we are UP AGAINST
Sorry didn’t see your post until after I posted the same thing.
Go get your shoeshine box...
while occasional rank and file agent corruption being an acceptable statistical tolerance and you can consider the organization clean, when the the top ranked directors and managers are corrupt and surround themselves with corrupt friends to aide them in corruption, then the whole agency is corrupt.
Like they say, a fish rots from the head down.
I’m not talking about doing a Q&A on some Bosun’s Mate, who got drunk and got into a bar fight. As a former detective in a major department, I can assure that a criminal investigation can be easy and it can be impossible. I’ll give you an example:
I worked a case involving 5 yr old, who had gonorrhea so bad that it spread from her vagina to her anus. I found out about it due to the mandatory disclosure law required to teachers and medical personnel. The mother thought she just had diarrhea, or so she said. Well, after exhaustive intern views, forensic interviews and analysis done by licensed professionals, and actually begging the family members for help, I got nothing. The 5yr old wouldn’t give it up, she was that scared. Case never solved.
More, you interviewing some Gunner’s Mate, who banged some whore while on shore leaved, scared shitless over getting kicked out of the Navy is a little different than meeting an informant in the middle of the night.
So let’s not get a little too cozy on how easy it is. Sometimes it is, sometimes it’s not. But, YES, there is more paperwork than you can imagine and in the so called, Digital Age, it seems like there’s more trees being killed than ever before.
I don’t see the FBI and DOJ surviving this. Some sort of major reorg within DHS for the FBI to keep the two agenices apart.
So long, swamp creature!
People like this guy, who think there can be no wrong doing, and circle the wagons against any accusation regardless of the evidence, is the primary reason there is a Black Lives Matter movement.
Actually no - I was responsible for dealing with a Gunner’s Mate that was running guns and dope through the postal system FPO and into Japan to the Yakuza. He was busted due to failing to lock his foot locker while TAD to base for a class. MAs noted the foot locker unlocked and were required to inventory per base procedures. Found drugs, ammo, and keys to lockers off base. Pulled in the Japanese prosecutors. Every time we opened a locker off base we found more weapons, drugs, and/or keys... they were still opening lockers when he went to trial.
Also had a case where a sailor was in the car with two others who killed a fourth off base. That one made international news and Tokyo police were heavily involved not just local Japanese.
So yes - the majority of the crap we dealt with were minor infractions - just like the regular cops majority is fines, traffic violations, drunk & disorderly. But I dealt with real **&@#(& *#(@ as well. And yes some of them are nearly impossible to deal with, but investigative procedures boil down to the same process.
Whatever you do though ... stay away from admiralty law....gads.
Former Special Agent Josh Campbell has been released to the world to become another media mouthpiece as per Clinton/Obama usual directive to their minions.
The NYT piece will be followed by continuous media “expert” guest spots. Just wait.
Excellent! Worth repeating...
His feelings being painfully hurt are more important than the Constitution and the equal application of The Rule of Law.
Whaaaa Whaaaaa Whaaaaa Whaaaaaa!!!!
Mr Campbell must be a Democrat, and BTW Mr Campbell, I know you know this but it was your superiors who have politicized the FBI, not President Trump nor the Republican Congressional Oversight Committee members. Campbell is exactly the kind of agent that we don’t need in the FBI, a numb minded robot that follows orders whether legal or not. Good riddance.
It's pretty dense statutory prose, but "foreign intelligence" refers to the type of information sought, not a geographic location.
FISA is not well understood, but generally, the president/executive can do certain surveillance without a warrant. The courts will find no 4th amendment issue with warrantless surveillance, as long as the surveillance is for foreign intelligence. FISA was drafted as a reaction to the "Keith" case.
In United States v. United States District Court, 407 U.S. 297 (1972) - the "Keith" case - SCOTUS opens with:
The issue before us is an important one for the people of our country and their Government. It involves the delicate question of the President's power, acting through the Attorney General, to authorize electronic surveillance in internal security matters without prior judicial approval. Successive Presidents for more than one-quarter of a century have authorized such surveillance in varying degrees, without guidance from the Congress or a definitive decision of this Court.Later on comes a statement that suggests Congress can clarify the mess with legislation.
Given these potential distinctions between Title III criminal surveillance and those involving the domestic security, Congress may wish to consider protective standards for the latter which differ from those already prescribed for specified crimes in Title III. Different standards may be compatible with the Fourth Amendment if they are reasonable both in relation to the legitimate need of Government for intelligence information and the protected rights of our citizens.
FISA followed. There is the possibility of connection between foreign intelligence and criminal activity, and the FISA law aims to allow evidence gathered with a FISA warrant to find its way into criminal prosecution, if the government decides to undertake a criminal prosecution. But the general function of FISA is to hide an executive/court warrant relationship with the public, on the nonsensical theory that secret courts provide a meaningful check on power.
The threshold finding for obtaining a FISA warrant is that the person targeted is an agent of a foreign power. The FBI found probable cause that Carter Page is an agent of a foreign power. The definition for this is worth reading and pondering. There are two definitions for this, one for people who are not US persons, and one for everybody. Carter Page is in the "any person" section. You'll find it at 50 USC 1801(b)(2)
The point of the FISA law is to put a patina of fourth amendment legitimacy on a Big Brother type of operation. Without a certain amount of mumbo-jumbo from their overlords that claims they aren't really overlords, the people would get antsy. Meanwhile, the government is free to snoop as it wishes, the executive and courts are in cahoots to see to that.
Hey FEEBIE don’t let the door hit you in the ass. The memo had nothing to do with hard working honest agents. It had everything to do with corrupt partisan politically oriented leaders who broke laws to satisfy their own political agenda. Good riddance to you and the rest of the scum who violate their oath of office to the US Constitution.
Wray seems to have no trouble publicly defending the institution against all these "partisan attacks." I wonder if the rank and file is muzzled.
Of course he wants to leave.
House Intel Committee has said they will be releasing more information. If I were upset by that news, I would leave, too.
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