NO REPUBLICANS ASKED ABOUT THIS
Posted on 07/13/2023 10:00:20 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski
FBI whistleblower Stephen Friend disputed testimony from FBI Director Christopher Wray Wednesday, saying the agency’s Joint Terrorism Task Force surveilled parents.
Wray testified before the House Judiciary Committee Wednesday during a hearing titled “Oversight of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.” During the hearing, he faced tough questions from Republicans on the committee over the targeting of parents protesting at school board meetings, the reported presence of FBI sources at the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol building and the conduct of the Aug. 8 raid on Mar-a-Lago.
“The FBI is not in the business of investigating or policing speech at school board meetings, or anywhere else for that matter, and we’re not gonna start now,” Wray told Republican Rep. Kevin Kiley of California. “Now, violence, threats of violence, that’s a different matter.”
Friend disputed Wray’s comments, citing his testimony during a May 18 hearing by the House Judiciary Committee’s Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. “The @FBI Director told @JudiciaryGOP that special agents did not conduct surveillance of school boards,” Friend tweeted Wednesday. “He lied. The Joint Terrorism Task Force in my office did it. I testified about the details in May...”
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But, hopefully all is captured in the Congressional Record.
They could charge all they want, the DOJ would drop it, or find that “no reasonable prosecutor”, etc.
I'd love to be wrong about this, but patriots will probably get the opportunity to effectively "impeach and remove" stubborn RINOs by primarying them in 2024 before we see RINOs use the wet noodle on Wray imo.
Business as usual for the fake fbi
Expect a sternly-worded letter any day now.
LOL
““The FBI is not in the business of investigating or policing speech at school board meetings, or anywhere else for that matter, and we’re not gonna start now,”
It already started yesterday.
He also lied when he said “It’s not my job to second-guess our field agents.” The hell it isn’t! You liar!
He committed perjury at least six times yesterday.
The FBI way back when.
According to friends interviewed after actress Jean Seberg’s suicide, she experienced years of aggressive in-person surveillance, amounting to constant stalking, as well as burglaries and other means of intimidation.
These newspaper reports make clear that Seberg was well aware of the surveillance.
FBI files show that she was wiretapped, and in 1980, the Los Angeles Times published logs of her Swiss wiretapped phone calls.
U.S. surveillance was deployed while she was residing in France and while traveling in Switzerland and Italy.
The FBI files reveal that the agency contacted the FBI legal attachés in the U.S. embassies in Paris and Rome and provided files on Seberg to the CIA, Secret Service and military intelligence to assist in monitoring Seberg while she was abroad.
Two weeks after Seberg’s death in 1979, the FBI admitted what it had done nine years previously.
FBI records show that Hoover kept President Richard Nixon informed of FBI activities related to the Seberg case through Nixon’s domestic affairs chief John Ehrlichman. Attorney General John Mitchell and Deputy Attorney General Richard Kleindienst were also kept informed of FBI activities related to Seberg.
At the time of the FBI’s admission of its activities, onetime columnist Joyce Haber said, “If I were used by the FBI, I didn’t know it. ... I am certainly shocked to learn that the FBI engaged in planting stories with news people.”
Romain Gary, Seberg’s second husband, called a press conference shortly after her death at which he blamed the FBI’s campaign against Seberg for her deteriorating mental health. Gary claimed that Seberg “became psychotic” after the media had reported the false story — planted by the FBI — that she was pregnant with a Black Panther’s child in 1970. Gary stated that Seberg had repeatedly attempted suicide on the anniversary of the child’s death, August 25.[11]
Aftermath-—According to FBI documents obtained via the Freedom of Information Act,[72][73] six days after the discovery of Seberg’s body, the FBI released documents admitting its defamation of Seberg, while making statements attempting to distance the agency from the practices of the Hoover era. The FBI’s campaign against Seberg was further explored by Time magazine in a front-page article titled “The FBI vs. Jean Seberg.”
Media attention surrounding the FBI’s abuse of Seberg led to an examination of the case by the Church Committee of the U.S. Senate, which noted that despite the FBI’s claims of reform, “COINTELPRO activities may continue today under the rubric of investigation.”
In his autobiography, Los Angeles Times editor Jim Bellows describes events leading up to the Seberg articles, expressing regret that he had not vetted the articles sufficiently. He echoed this sentiment in subsequent interviews.
The biggest cope is the idea that the FBI was good until it was “corrupted by Obama”.
Right.......that’s why the Seberg story needs to be told.
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