FBI Director Christopher A. Wray is under fire as revelations about political bias at the highest level of the FBI have roiled the bureau. Several rank-and-file agents wonder how Wray can survive when it appears that he has lost control of the FBI.
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‘Completely out of control’: FBI whistleblowers sound alarm on massive corruption
Many Americans view the FBI with suspicion, not respect, these days.
After all, its agents and officials were integral to the now-debunked Russiagate collusion conspiracy that the bureau created, along with Democrats, against President Trump.
Then, of course, there was the recent FBI raid on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home, in which agents purportedly searched for government documents that Trump already had promised they could have if they asked.
Judge orders unsealing of redacted affidavit in Trump search
A judge on Thursday ordered the Justice Department to make public a redacted version of the affidavit it relied on when federal agents searched the Florida estate of former President Donald Trump to look for classified documents.
The directive from U.S. Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart came hours after federal law enforcement officials submitted under seal the portions of the affidavit that they want to keep secret as their investigation moves forward. The judge set a deadline of noon Friday for a redacted, or blacked-out, version of the document.
FBI: Trust Us, We Swear We Got It Right This Time!
Five summers ago in August 2017, FBI counterintelligence agents were still working the last of four ill-gotten FISA spy warrants used to investigate former Trump campaign advisor Carter Page. Then, earlier this month, the FBI counterintelligence team executed a search warrant on the Mar-a-Lago home of former President Trump. The latest of many terrific reports from Paul Sperry of RealClearInvestigations raises the possibility that many of the same agents were involved in both investigations.
Despite illegally using of one of the most intrusive surveillance weapons in their toolbox for a year, the Bureau discovered no wrongdoing by Page, who held onto his presumption of innocence throughout the ordeal. It’s now fair to say the FBI and the media managed the clumsy and legally needless trick of proving Page innocent after stomping on his civil liberties, putting his life under a microscope, and yet still finding nothing.
Whistleblower claims FBI leaders ordered staff not to investigate Hunter Biden laptop
The FBI deliberately dragged its feet on the Hunter Biden investigation and told agents not to look into the Hunter Biden laptop, according to new whistleblowers who spoke with Sen. Ron Johnson.
Johnson, R-Wisc., sent a letter to DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz on Tuesday bringing forth the new whistleblower claims.
‘Recently, my office heard from individuals with knowledge of the FBI’s apparent corruption,’ Johnson said.
Trump-appointed judge will handle request for ‘special master’ instead of Reinhart
Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart, who approved the initial warrant the FBI used to search Donald Trump’s Florida home, will not handle the former president’s request to appoint a “special master” in the case.
U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, a Trump appointee, will decide the issue. Cannon was confirmed by the Senate in 2020 in a 56-21 vote, according to the Epoch Times. Cannon has already made one ruling in the case, declining to allow filings from two of Trump’s attorneys for not following the rules that apply to lawyers not yet certified in the district.
FBI field offices: ‘Completely out of control’
FBI whistleblowers accused bureau management in different field offices of corruption, cover-ups and retaliation against rank-and-file agents who attempted to expose it, The Washington Times has learned.
Current and former FBI leaders at the bureau’s offices in Miami, Salt Lake City, Buffalo, New York, and Newark, New Jersey, are facing whistleblower complaints that the supervisors.
Killing the FBI?
We grew up watching Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. and The FBI on TV.
I understand that it was a TV show, but where is Efrem when we really need him? I remember walking around Washington, D.C. on the day J. Edgar Hoover died in 1972.
He wasn’t perfect, but I had positive thoughts about the FBI when I got the news of his passing.
Think The FBI Deserves The Benefit Of The Doubt? This Laundry List Of Corruption Should Make You Think Again
Can the FBI be trusted? A Federalist analysis of agency lies over the last decade is an unequivocal no.
53 percent of Americans see the FBI as ‘Joe Biden’s personal Gestapo’
“Among Republicans, a staggering 76% agree with the Roger Stone quote that there is ‘a group of politicized thugs at the top of the FBI who are using the FBI . . . as Joe Biden‘s personal Gestapo.’ About half (49%) of independents and a sizable 37% of Democrats also view the FBI as Biden’s Gestapo, while 72% of liberals disagree,” Devine wrote.
“Liberals are happy because a politicized agency is coming after their ideological enemies, particularly their bête noire, Trump. It’s a stark turnaround from the days of decrying the FBI’s efforts to target Martin Luther King. The Left has discarded any pretense of caring about civil liberties or injustice and instead sneers at conservatives who they claim are the ones who have jettisoned their core principles and now are ‘anti-cop.’ ”
‘Biden’s Gestapo’? Trump Raid Hurts Voter Trust in FBI
Last week’s raid by the Federal Bureau of Investigation on former President Donald Trump’s home has damaged the FBI’s standing with Republican and independent voters.
A new national telephone and online survey by Rasmussen Reports finds that 44% of Likely U.S. voters say the FBI raid on Trump’s Florida home made them trust the FBI less, compared to 29% who say it made them trust the bureau more. Twenty-three percent (23%) say the Trump raid did not make much difference in their trust of the FBI.
Well, We Now Know Who The “Leaker” Was Regarding The FBI Raid On President Trump
For the longest time, we were told that an informant on the inside of Mar-a-Lago, someone close to President Trump, alerted authorities he was holding onto super secret classified documents. Well, that’s not the half of it. Actually, the person isn’t tied to Mar-a-Lago, and they certainly are not “close” to Trump, but this person is close to Hillary, of course. Washington Times reports that the Aug. 8 search of former President Donald Trump’s home and the unprecedented criminal investigation into his possession of White House documents all began with David Ferriero, the now-retired national archivist who alerted the Justice Department after finding classified information in boxes he retrieved from Mar-a-Lago.
h/t Mom
Show me Trump and I’ll show you the crime
Just as the American mainstream media have become the propaganda arm of the Democratic party, so the once great FBI resembles little more than its private enforcement arm.
Attorney General Merrick Garland’s raid on Mar-a-Lago represented no more than an application of the principle that guided Stalinist Lavrentiy Beria, ‘Show me the man and I’ll show you the crime’.
REPORT: FBI Was After Documents Trump Believed Would ‘Exonerate’ Him From Russia Conspiracy
The FBI collected all of the documents that were government property and used concerns about classified documents to justify the raid, but agents were looking for Trump’s personal stash containing documents related to Russian collusion accusations against him, fearing that he would “weaponize” them, Newsweek reported. One former Trump official said he may have planned to use the documents to help in a presidential run in the coming term.