Posted on 08/06/2022 10:03:09 PM PDT by 11th_VA
Meet Brian Auten. The FBI analyst is hardly a household name, but whistleblowers who contacted the office of GOP senator Chuck Grassley say he was behind an August 2020 report that FBI officials used as part of a "scheme…to undermine derogatory information connected to Hunter Biden by falsely suggesting it was disinformation."
Auten’s report also caused the FBI "to cease" investigative activity into the younger Biden, according to a letter Grassley sent the Justice Department and FBI.
The whistleblower allegations are the latest evidence of politicization at the FBI. Grassley, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said the allegations, if accurate, show the FBI and Justice Department are "institutionally corrupted to their very core."
Auten was a key figure in Crossfire Hurricane, the counterintelligence investigation into Donald Trump’s potential ties to Russia. The Justice Department inspector general said in a December 2019 report that an FBI intelligence analyst who has since been identified as Auten "failed to advise" others at the FBI about inconsistencies in the Steele dossier, the controversial report the bureau used to investigate Trump...
Auten, an expert on Russia, pushed aggressively for surveillance warrants against Trump adviser Carter Page, according to the inspector general. He urged colleagues at the FBI in a Sept. 19, 2016, email to obtain Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrants against Page based on information in the dossier...
Auten also took part in several interviews in which the FBI withheld information that undercut the theory that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia. Auten and his colleagues failed to disclose that dossier author Christopher Steele, in an Oct. 3, 2016, interview, said that a purported source of his dossier was a "boaster or embellisher." ...
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Thanks for that post ... this guy needs some exposure ...
He can’t be a Christian, and do evil things. Maybe he is a CINO.
Hmmm ... Just like Nellie Ohr ... I wonder if he has a short wave radio license ... Someone can probably check that ...
Behold the face of treason.
Was thinking the same damn thing.
OK - I checked, and there is a Brian Auten with a Radio License BUT, he’s in “Rapid City, SD 57703,” so let’s not jump to any conclusions. Lot’s of Brian Auten’s in this country.
Corrupt and Dishonorable DOJ/FBI bump for later...
One of Mueller’s “Benedict Arnolds”?
Has he ever been to Comet’s Pizza?
Flush twice
Just did a search on the PHC site, couldn’t find him listed, but I bet it is the same guy.
He may no longer be associated w/PHC (you know, sometimes those “bios” are not updated) or he may not be on the PHC site because he is an adjunct prof.
Very interesting, though, that the often WOKE TGC has him as a writer. Has he written much on that site?
TGC stuff sometimes has good stuff—Kevin DeYoung is a biblical pastor who contributes...but I am very concerned about the left wing turn that group has taken the last few years.
He has some pieces on ‘Christian Nationalists’;
Some other writings suggest he is an expert in counter insurgences - he seems to see anyone against TGC as part of the ‘counter insurgency.’
Check out THIS piece about the Christian Dark Web.
https://mereorthodoxy.com/evangelical-dark-web/
For countering the evangelical dark web particularly, these steps will need to be taken.
[1] Demand citations and evidence for every assertion. Demand context for every pull quote. Fact check every infographic. Force them back to original sources (books, dissertations, etc.) at every possible juncture.
[2] Question all characterizations every time (e.g. if they say someone is a “socialist” or “cultural Marxist,” always make them define the term and support the assertion with evidence).
[3] Interrogate the interrogator: research, write and post accurate stories about the individuals and groups in the “evangelical dark web” (e.g. what things have they been involved with in the past; previous attempts at this type of activity; how do they get their funding?)
[4] Host college and young career fellowship content analysis viewing parties. Get some food, a copy of the upcoming “social justice infiltration” video, a local speaker familiar with 20th century US evangelical history, political theology, and/or the history of ideas, and slowly walk the audience through the video itself. Discuss framing, the quality of evidence and argumentation, and the backgrounds of the documentary’s backers, hosts, and talking heads.
[5] Fight the temptation to get certain outlets or personalities to do battle on your behalf. A critique of the “evangelical dark web” by the Gospel Coalition, ERLC, the New York Times, Washington Post, or the Southern Poverty Law Center, or a byline by Emma Green, Peter Wehner, John Fea, Warren Throckmorton, et. al. will backfire and easily become ammunition for the next round of attacks.
Did we ever learn the name of the FBI agent that told Peter Strzok their office was closing out the General Flynn investigation, because they found no evidence against him? This was the same agent Strzok asked not to close the case (”CROSSFIRE RAZOR”), until he met with his superiors. And we all know what happened next.
Hate to say this, but this guy has the face of a real PERVERT.
No real man smiles that way. It’s hideous.
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