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Can the FBI be salvaged?
Townhall.com ^ | November 18, 2021 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 11/18/2021 4:54:06 AM PST by Kaslin

The Washington, D.C.-based Federal Bureau of Investigation has lost all credibility as a disinterested investigatory agency. Now we learn from a whistleblower that the agency was allegedly investigating moms and dads worried about the teaching of critical race theory in their kids' schools.

In truth, since 2015, the FBI has been constantly in the news - and mostly in a negative and constitutionally disturbing light.

The fired former Director James Comey injected himself into the 2016 political race by constantly editorializing on his ongoing investigation of candidate Hillary Clinton's email leaks.

In a bizarre twist, the public learned later that Comey had allowed Hillary Clinton's own private computer contractor - CrowdStrike - to run the investigation of the hack. The private firm was allowed to keep possession of pertinent hard drives central to the investigation. How odd that CrowdStrike's point man was Shawn Henry, a former high-ranking FBI employee.

During the Robert Mueller special investigation, the FBI implausibly claimed it had no idea how requested information on FBI cell phones had mysteriously disappeared.

It was also under Comey's directorship that the FBI submitted inaccurate requests for warrants to a FISA court. Elements of one affidavit to surveil Trump supporter Carter Page were forged by FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith, who later pleaded guilty to a felony.

The FBI hired the disreputable ex-British spy Christopher Steele as a contractor, while he was peddling his fantasy - the Clinton-bought dossier - to Obama government officials and the media.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Government
KEYWORDS: andrewmccabe; fbi; jamesbaker; jamescomey; no; robertmueller; vdh; victordavishanson
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To: Kaslin

Nope.

The DoJ needs a full overhaul and the FBI needs to be disbanded, fully.


41 posted on 11/18/2021 5:30:22 AM PST by Howie66 (Let's Go Brandon!!)
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To: cuz1961

Clever.


42 posted on 11/18/2021 5:31:25 AM PST by BushCountry (Fun Fact: Goods made in America do not get stuck on cargo ships.)
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To: Kaslin

From VDH no less, just damn


43 posted on 11/18/2021 5:32:48 AM PST by rdcbn1
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To: Howie66

nope....been corrupt for fifty years or more....

Read....Police State by Gerry Spence....five or six stories
on the FBI and other federal agencies....


44 posted on 11/18/2021 5:34:18 AM PST by Hojczyk
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To: Kaslin

Long past history alone says absolute NO.

Deegan murder, Waco, Ruby Ridge, OK City bombing investigation so so so much more.

...and America in general, lovin it. Radio The FBi in Peace and War, later on TV, Elliot Ness and the Untouchables followed by FBI with Efrem Zimbalist Jr. While TV was showing the good side, The swamp was drowning the FBI.


45 posted on 11/18/2021 5:35:09 AM PST by wita (Always and forever, under oath in defense of Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.)
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To: ThunderSleeps

“...No. Save the forensic labs and technical groups. Transfer them to other LE agencies. Rank and file agents, give them a chance to move to other LE positions. But everyone else, particularly “leadership” should be fired, stripped of any pension, and barred from ever being involved in LE in any way. I mean they can’t even work as a radio dispatcher in nowhere Kansas. They have become corrupt to the core. Have been for years. I don’t hear of massive resignations in protest, no infighting or lawsuits or charges. So I guess they are all A-OK with what their superiors are doing. That makes them all corrupt....”

^THIS^
No more “perfumed princes”, no more college boys in coats and ties, no more little college prissies that have a “gender agenda”. Dump em all.


46 posted on 11/18/2021 5:35:12 AM PST by lgjhn23 (Pray for America....)
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To: Kaslin

It is corrupted beyond any redemption.


47 posted on 11/18/2021 5:36:20 AM PST by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: Fido969

Our system has evolved into whatever it takes to get a paycheck. The truth and justice of the American way have been squandered.


48 posted on 11/18/2021 5:40:46 AM PST by mcshot (OMG! Really? WTF! I don't think we're OK. Is that the drain I see? Oh noes!)
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To: Kaslin

The FBI use to go after communists...now....it is run by Communists


49 posted on 11/18/2021 5:42:57 AM PST by MachIV
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To: Kaslin

“For its own moral and practical survival, the FBI should be given one last chance at redemption by moving to the nation’s heartland - perhaps Kansas…”

No. It’s beyond redemption. Dismantle it. Maybe, just maybe, keep the crime lab. No, come to think of it that’s compromised, too.

The FBI is a clear and present danger to liberty. It needs to de completely destroyed.

L


50 posted on 11/18/2021 5:44:05 AM PST by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: Kaslin

Parts of it can. What is corrupt must be obliterated.


51 posted on 11/18/2021 5:45:40 AM PST by DarthVader (Not by speeches & majority decisions will the great issues th the day be decided but by Blood & Iron)
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To: Kaslin

No.
Burn it to the ground.
Plow the land with salt.


52 posted on 11/18/2021 5:49:41 AM PST by Kozak (The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. TV)
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To: Lurker

“For its own moral and practical survival, the FBI should be given one last chance at redemption by moving to the nation’s heartland - perhaps Kansas…”

Disagree, the cancer is terminal and beyond cure. The FBI, has indulged in lies, corruption, and entrapment for years. Cancel the FBI and start anew.


53 posted on 11/18/2021 5:52:47 AM PST by kenmcg (tHE WHOLE )
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To: Kaslin

FBI agents should have done prison time way back to Waco.
Waco
Ruby Ridge
‘93 attack on WTC
911
All examples of the FBI corruption and coverup.


54 posted on 11/18/2021 5:54:32 AM PST by Zathras
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To: cuz1961

AI -—> Artificial [computer] Idiocracy


55 posted on 11/18/2021 5:55:57 AM PST by Paladin2 (Critical Marx Theory is The SOLUTION....)
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To: Zathras

Don’t forget the FIB “leadership” in the Garland, Tx. Islamic shootout.


56 posted on 11/18/2021 5:57:48 AM PST by Paladin2 (Critical Marx Theory is The SOLUTION....)
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To: Zathras

And Richard Jewell, Whitey Bulger, the list goes on and on.

L


57 posted on 11/18/2021 5:59:04 AM PST by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: Kaslin

No.


58 posted on 11/18/2021 6:00:02 AM PST by Hugh the Scot
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To: Kaslin

The left will never give up their “national police force”. When CW2 takes place, let’s pray that enough Right-headed state national guards love their country more than their governmental wanna-be overlords.
MHO- DOJ, FM. When China and Russia attack The USA, the DOJ will Petain-out. There might be some (a few, a very few) that are still patriotic, but not nearly enough to matter. DOJ....KMA and FU and D. Ask me how I really feel.


59 posted on 11/18/2021 6:03:18 AM PST by centermass_socrates (Taking the long way around sometimes is sound militarily. Not advised in Bastogne.)
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To: captain_dave

“Certain parts, like the crime labs, but all supervisory levels are probably tainted.”

No. Their labs will offer whatever politically expedient results required to indict deep-state skeptical Republican, or exonerate Hunter Biden/any democrat.

any government-grant fueled or government “lab” (lets throw in the DoE labs) will provide politically expedient “research” and “data”.

Can you imagine any government lab providing evidence against a Democrat criminal, and to illustrate the point, could you further imagine any government research that states something even mildly politically inconvenient, like “the sun warms the earth”?


60 posted on 11/18/2021 6:04:27 AM PST by RFEngineer
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