While the FBI leadership is doing everything in their power to paint honest, law-abiding Trump supporters as nascent terrorists eager to impose Ku Klux Klan rule across the nation, the frontline agents who are doing the interviews of “persons” of interest are coming up with nothing from the Trump folks. No evidence of planning, coordinating or executing violence.
What some are finding is that Antifa people–more than several dozen–were paid to go to Washington, DC and incite violence. But there is an unanswered question–will this evidence see the light of day? If Christopher Wray, the FBI Director, has his way it will be buried and kept from the public. He will give it the Hunter Biden laptop treatment.
I return to the question I posed as the title of this piece–Can the FBI Stop Acting Like a Modern Day Gestapo? The Gestapo was a highly politicized “police” force.
The Gestapo had the authority to investigate cases of treason, espionage, sabotage and criminal attacks on the Nazi Party and Germany. The basic Gestapo law passed by the government in 1936 gave the Gestapo carte blanche to operate without judicial review—in effect, putting it above the law.[26] The Gestapo was specifically exempted from responsibility to administrative courts, where citizens normally could sue the state to conform to laws.
I never imagined the day would come where I would be serious about comparing the FBI to the GESTAPO. But that day has come. We already have clear evidence of their criminal conduct in the cases of General Michael Flynn, Carter Page, George Papadopolous and Roger Stone. Now we learn that the FBI, without a court order, is seizing the phone records of private citizens and members of Congress without a court order. It is an organization out of control and must be reined-in.
But that requires some legislators and judges with spine–a trait sorely lacking in Washington, DC at the moment. When you have Republican Leaders like Liz Cheney endorsing this outrage and fueling the lie that Trump supporters are white supremacists that must be extirpated, how can you expect any Democrat to step forward and protest.
I leave you with one simple recommendation–if the FBI contacts you and asks to talk tell them “NO.” Refuse to cooperate in any way. The FBI is no longer your friend.
Go to any website for any of their field offices and you will find a list of “things” that local agents have done. In most cases, it is with local LEOs because FBI has Z-E-R-O HUMINT abilities – if they cannot find it on a phone or a computer, they are lost and basically not interested.
It’s amazing to read their websites – they all must have very long arms to pat themselves on the back with so much vigor.
Ten years back, I provided them with evidence of bank fraud – and was told it “would not hold up in court”. Funny, I had the signatures of the perps on the documents transferring private assets to a bank, and the IRS documents showing the bank paying taxes on these same stock certificates, along with the bank actually listing these certificates in their asset register.
The FBI is as un-salvageable as the CIA. This is why two field agents I have known for over 20 years hung it up a decade ago – they were disgusted by raw perfidy all around them – their choice of word, not mine.
I guess we should not be surprised since J. Edgar was their ‘Big Daddy”….
“once proud, respected organization.”
Just when it stopped being proud and respected would be different for different people depending on when they found out about what really goes on. All the players, left and right, have been manipulated in this way and co-ordinated in a larger scheme.
I know that the author is in the know and the facts bear out his view of what they entail. It has become an increasing problem over the decades and again corroborates the view that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. The end justifies the means and the rule of law is sidelined. We have a situation where a sort of Stasi (state security: the East German version, or worse the Gestapo (secret state police) can develop. It has been known for quite awhile that many if not most “terrorist” events in the US are in fact the result of provocations from operatives working for secret police agents.
No.
This has been #1191 in the series: “Easy answers to obvious questions.”
That it is a federal crime to lie to the FBI illustrates just how deeply this nation has strayed from its former status as a nation of free people. I would say we are well past the tipping point and what our founders established cannot be regained. If we had not passed it by November 2020, we passed it on that date.
Why no follow-up on the bloody pigs heads delivered to both Pelosi and McConnell’s homes a few nights before the “riot”, along with the oh-so-careful sprawl of “graffiti” on Pelosi’s garage door but avoiding and damage to the brick walls.
And not a single surveillance camera on the entire block in this well-heeled San Francisco neighborhood showing the perpetrators?
The dogs that did not bark.
The Nashville bombing that destroyed a building and an RV was solved in hours. Case closed and stop asking what was in either one.
Nashville, yes. Perpetrated by A Q Warner (seriously?) the day after HRC tweeted about celebrating small-scale ways to “keep each other safe” – note the missing comma.
After Trump totally ignored Nashville, Hillary’s choice of New Years Eve poem was even more interesting. The Twitter ‘comms’ started with the WH account tweeting an Evergreen hanging 3 days before Christmas (odd, as the tree was delivered weeks before). Or maybe it’s all in my imagination.
https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/1342111976386867206
https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/1344683397680156674
https://twitter.com/WhiteHouse/status/1341471630904725505
“After Trump totally ignored Nashville”
You think Chris Wray told him the truth about that given what we know now about the FBI and January 6th?
No Fred, I do not, but others may have. The above exchange was what convinced me that Trump really was at war with the Clinton branch of the Deep State.
Barbara Ann,
I agree. That’s why I convinced a number of people in MI to vote for Trump in 2016. I see on day 36 of the new administration we’re back to bombing Syria.
Trump had solid policy ideas and the big picture.
BUT, like most “big picture” people, a terrible manager and reader of people.
Chris Christy was removed from the transition team and 6 months later Trump took his recommendation for Wray at FBI.
What’s wrong with this picture?
A “big picture” guy surrounded by incompetents and back stabbers and not willing to make the really big move.
Tweeting about the swamp does not drain the swamp.
It just shows the swamp that Trump is all bark, no bite.
Now, we have Joe dementia and his America-hating, juvenile puppet masters.
TV,
We’re screwed both coming and going.
Why do we have a president (little p)? What does a congress (little c) do besides take’s one money for their personal slush funds, why do we have a congress?
A ‘justice’ department? A ‘bureau of investigation’? Today, both are nothing more than terms with little to no meaning, no substance. Both have become nothing more than a re-run of the old Max Sennett and his Keystone Film Company’s comedy shorts.
So the only person to recommend Wray as head of the FBI was Christie? I think not.
The Spygate gang returns to government power:
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2021/02/27/joebama-put-the-gang-back-together-inside-the-doj-john-carlin-returns-as-acting-deputy-ag/
More on Biden’s Justice Department:
https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/02/garland-heralds-return-of-the-obama-justice-department-radical-as-ever/
By ANDREW C. MCCARTHY
February 27, 2021 6:30 AM
From the article:
[AG nominee Merrick Garland] emphasized that his top priority is domestic terrorism.
But not all domestic terrorism.
It is domestic terrorism as Democrats are defining it — viz., white supremacism, as instantiated by the rioting at the Capitol on January 6.
I’ve previously detailed how Democrats are laser-focused on domestic terrorism as a political narrative more than an enforcement priority.
If it were the latter, they would not be stressing white supremacism (used interchangeably with “neo-Nazism”) and soft-pedaling other iterations of insurrectionist violence —
particularly the radical Left’s still-ongoing mayhem, which dominated 2020 and is poised to surge next month when Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis cop charged with murdering George Floyd, is scheduled to be tried.
The Biden/Garland Justice Department will be in lockstep with the Democrats’ anti–white supremacism march …
…
[The] radical lawyer who ran the [Civil Rights] division during the original Obama presidency, Vanita Gupta, who is moving up in the world.
Gupta will be the Biden/Garland DOJ’s highly influential No. 3 official.
For Gupta, race is the full-field explanation for all that ails America.
Election integrity laws, such as requiring voter identification? Racist.
Broken-windows-style, intelligence-driven policing? Racist.
Police sharing of information on illegal aliens with ICE? Racist.
Police establishment of task forces against gang crime? Racist.
Police providing security at schools plagued by violence and crime? You guessed it . . . racist.