Just When I Thought the Federal Bureau of Instigation Could Stoop No Lower

 

Last week, the apartment of James O’Keefe, founder of Project Veritas, was raided by the Federal Bureau of Instigation (no relation), ostensibly searching for a diary of Ashley Biden (el presidente’s daughter). The diary, having been surrendered to law enforcement over a year ago, was not present. Two smartphones owned by O’Keefe were confiscated in the pre-dawn raid. O’Keefe was kind of surprised when shortly after the raid, a reporter from The New York Times called him up to ask how it feels.

While the diary has been published online for over a year and contains quite a few juicy tidbits regarding the, ahem, inner workings of the family Biden, we now know that the diary was a pretext. It wasn’t about the diary.

It never was.

We know this because in its hubris, The New York Times has begun publishing attorney-client communications between Project Veritas and its counsel. You read that right. The New York Times, in the middle of defamation litigation between it and Project Veritas, has received, as if by magic, privileged communication that it is now using to attempt to impugn further the reputation of Project Veritas. It looks like the FBI has leaked it to the paper.

This is the deep state.

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  1. Randy Webster Inactive
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    Ekosj (View Comment):

    Never, ever suspect that “it can’t get any worse” or that “they can’t stoop any lower”. There is always someone who’ll say “hold my beer“ and accept that challenge.

    Or as Rob Long once said (I’m paraphrasing), When you think they can’t go any lower, they always seem to find a trapdoor.

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  2. The Reticulator Member
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    Randy Webster (View Comment):

    Ekosj (View Comment):

    Never, ever suspect that “it can’t get any worse” or that “they can’t stoop any lower”. There is always someone who’ll say “hold my beer“ and accept that challenge.

    Or as Rob Long once said (I’m paraphrasing), When you think they can’t go any lower, they always seem to find a trapdoor.

    Sounds like an old-time video game, perhaps from back in the days when video games were more interesting and had less realistic graphics. 

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  3. Gary Robbins Member
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    Instugator (View Comment):

    Gary Robbins (View Comment):
    I am a Reagan Republican. I will live and die on that hill.

    Who votes and gives money to Demoncrats. Reagan would be so proud.

    Reagan proudly voted for FDR four times.  

    Reagan worked well with Daniel Rostenkowski, the Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee.

    Reagan said that those who agreed with me 80% of the time are my 80% allies, not my 20% enemies.

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  4. Gary Robbins Member
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    Bryan G. Stephens (View Comment):

    I think Federal Police power is not explicitly allowed .

    I think that you are right.  Most people these days miss this.  States can have property taxes, the Federal Govenment is limited to the provisions of the 16th Amendment which refers only to income taxes.

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  5. Chris O Coolidge
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    Gary Robbins (View Comment):

    Instugator (View Comment):

    Gary Robbins (View Comment):
    I am a Reagan Republican. I will live and die on that hill.

    Who votes and gives money to Demoncrats. Reagan would be so proud.

    Reagan proudly voted for FDR four times.

    Reagan worked well with Daniel Rostenkowski, the Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee.

    Reagan said that those who agreed with me 80% of the time are my 80% allies, not my 20% enemies.

    Let’s not invoke the name of D.C.’s most corrupt politician to be caught so far. Why were things fairly civil back then? Because that’s the way Rostenkowski wanted it, and if you wanted anything it had to go through him.

    I might also remind you that Rosty reneged on a number of things he promised Reagan. Let’s just say the two were in Washington at the same time, rather than they “worked well” together.

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  6. Fake John/Jane Galt Coolidge
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    genferei (View Comment):

    Where exactly are the “good men and women of the rank and file” of the FBI while this stuff keeps happening? Liberate them now – abolish the FBI!

    They are the ones kicking in the doors to save the country

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  7. Fake John/Jane Galt Coolidge
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    Hang On (View Comment):

    Will the Republicans have the stones to make major cuts to the American Gestapo’s FBI’s budget? It’s the only thing the American Gestapo FBI will understand.

    Then the FBI will target the Republicans as domestic terrorist 

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  8. The Reticulator Member
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    Fake John/Jane Galt (View Comment):

    Hang On (View Comment):

    Will the Republicans have the stones to make major cuts to the American Gestapo’s FBI’s budget? It’s the only thing the American Gestapo FBI will understand.

    Then the FBI will target the Republicans as domestic terrorist

    Not too long ago there was a half billion in a proposed federal spending plan to build a new FBI building to reward it for its illegal behavior wrt Trump. I presume that proposal has not been thrown away. 

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  9. Fake John/Jane Galt Coolidge
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    The Reticulator (View Comment):

    Fake John/Jane Galt (View Comment):

    Hang On (View Comment):

    Will the Republicans have the stones to make major cuts to the American Gestapo’s FBI’s budget? It’s the only thing the American Gestapo FBI will understand.

    Then the FBI will target the Republicans as domestic terrorist

    Not too long ago there was a half billion in a proposed federal spending plan to build a new FBI building to reward it for its illegal behavior wrt Trump. I presume that proposal has not been thrown away.

    Why would it?  Now that the FBI has show their willingness to their Democrat masters they will be rewarded.

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  10. kedavis Coolidge
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    Fake John/Jane Galt (View Comment):

    The Reticulator (View Comment):

    Fake John/Jane Galt (View Comment):

    Hang On (View Comment):

    Will the Republicans have the stones to make major cuts to the American Gestapo’s FBI’s budget? It’s the only thing the American Gestapo FBI will understand.

    Then the FBI will target the Republicans as domestic terrorist

    Not too long ago there was a half billion in a proposed federal spending plan to build a new FBI building to reward it for its illegal behavior wrt Trump. I presume that proposal has not been thrown away.

    Why would it? Now that the FBI has show their willingness to their Democrat masters they will be rewarded.

    Maybe the FBI will have a different reaction when that half-billion is blown on something else and they still don’t have a new building.  We’re talking Democrats, remember.

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  11. Randy Webster Inactive
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    Gary Robbins (View Comment):
    Reagan proudly voted for FDR four times.  

    Even Reagan was capable of screwing up.

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  12. Randy Webster Inactive
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    Gary Robbins (View Comment):
    Reagan worked well with Daniel Rostenkowski, the Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee

    You mean the one who got booted for essentially, fraud?

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  13. Randy Webster Inactive
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    The Reticulator (View Comment):
    Not too long ago there was a half billion in a proposed federal spending plan to build a new FBI building to reward it for its illegal behavior wrt Trump. I presume that proposal has not been thrown away. 

    A half billion doesn’t go very far these days.  I think someone put up a post the other day about a dorm that was budgeted at upwards of a billion dollars.

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  14. kedavis Coolidge
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    Randy Webster (View Comment):

    Gary Robbins (View Comment):
    Reagan proudly voted for FDR four times.

    Even Reagan was capable of screwing up.

    Reagan was actually a Democrat until 1962.  That he would vote for FDR in previous years should surprise nobody.

    Democrats before 1962 were very different, as Reagan apparently realized too.

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  15. kedavis Coolidge
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    Randy Webster (View Comment):

    The Reticulator (View Comment):
    Not too long ago there was a half billion in a proposed federal spending plan to build a new FBI building to reward it for its illegal behavior wrt Trump. I presume that proposal has not been thrown away.

    A half billion doesn’t go very far these days. I think someone put up a post the other day about a dorm that was budgeted at upwards of a billion dollars.

    These days, half a billion might- just MIGHT – cover the environmental studies for a new building.  And the resulting lawsuits.

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  16. Chris O Coolidge
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    Randy Webster (View Comment):

    Gary Robbins (View Comment):
    Reagan worked well with Daniel Rostenkowski, the Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee

    You mean the one who got booted indicted for essentially, fraud?

    As I recall, he did some jail time.

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  17. Instugator Thatcher
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    Sisyphus (View Comment):
    Actually, during the Cold War, the FBI’s counter-intelligence work was rightly feared by the Soviets.

    Nah. They had an FBI counterintelligence agent named Robert Hanssen on their payroll who kept them ahead in the game from 1976 to 2001.

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  18. Fake John/Jane Galt Coolidge
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    Gary Robbins (View Comment):

    Bryan G. Stephens (View Comment):

    I think Federal Police power is not explicitly allowed .

    I think that you are right. Most people these days miss this. States can have property taxes, the Federal Govenment is limited to the provisions of the 16th Amendment which refers only to income taxes.

    Because to most people government is government.  When you are getting screwed over by government thugs does it really matter what criminal gang they are associated with?  Add that government is increasingly entwined with the various entities playing games with each other to screw the citizens.

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  19. Richard Easton Coolidge
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    Randy Webster (View Comment):

    Gary Robbins (View Comment):
    Reagan worked well with Daniel Rostenkowski, the Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee

    You mean the one who got booted for essentially, fraud?

    10% for the big guy. Gary approves.

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  20. Instugator Thatcher
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    Richard Easton (View Comment):
    10% for the big guy. Gary approves.

    Meh, he also approves of Iran Contra.

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  21. The Reticulator Member
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    kedavis (View Comment):

    Maybe the FBI will have a different reaction when that half-billion is blown on something else and they still don’t have a new building. We’re talking Democrats, remember.

    This FBI is owed a lot by them. The DOJ is not going to let the others forget. It has ways to make them remember.

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  22. Instugator Thatcher
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    The Reticulator (View Comment):
    It has ways to make them remember.

    Ve haf vays of making you talk.

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  23. Chris O Coolidge
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    Instugator (View Comment):

    The Reticulator (View Comment):
    It has ways to make them remember.

    Ve haf vays of making you talk.

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  24. kedavis Coolidge
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    Chris O (View Comment):

    Instugator (View Comment):

    The Reticulator (View Comment):
    It has ways to make them remember.

    Ve haf vays of making you talk.

    The rack is funnier.

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  25. EDISONPARKS Member
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    Richard Easton (View Comment):

    Randy Webster (View Comment):

    Gary Robbins (View Comment):
    Reagan worked well with Daniel Rostenkowski, the Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee

    You mean the one who got booted for essentially, fraud?

    10% for the big guy. Gary approves.

    The 10% for the big guy meme came from that phony Hunter Biden laptop Russian dis-information campaign designed to try and dupe Biden voters into believing the Biden Family are dirty rotten corruptocrats.

    It would be a cold day in hell before anyone puts one over on those sharp Biden voters like Gary.

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  26. Chris O Coolidge
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    kedavis (View Comment):

    Chris O (View Comment):

    Instugator (View Comment):

    The Reticulator (View Comment):
    It has ways to make them remember.

    Ve haf vays of making you talk.

    The rack is funnier.

    Yeah, but it takes them a long time to tie it on. This one was quicker.

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  27. Bryan G. Stephens Thatcher
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    EDISONPARKS (View Comment):

    Richard Easton (View Comment):

    Randy Webster (View Comment):

    Gary Robbins (View Comment):
    Reagan worked well with Daniel Rostenkowski, the Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee

    You mean the one who got booted for essentially, fraud?

    10% for the big guy. Gary approves.

    The 10% for the big guy meme came from that phony Hunter Biden laptop Russian dis-information campaign designed to try and dupe Biden voters into believing the Biden Family are dirty rotten corruptocrats.

    It would be a cold day in hell before anyone puts one over on those sharp Biden voters like Gary.

    Exactly! 

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  28. Barfly Member
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    Terry Mott (View Comment):

    Hang On (View Comment):

    Will the Republicans have the stones to make major cuts to the American Gestapo’s FBI’s budget? It’s the only thing the American Gestapo FBI will understand.

    I’m going with, “No, they won’t have the stones.”

    Wait another year or two for the left to really trash the economy. When interest on the debt consumes all our taxes, we’ll have no choice but to inflate our way out. When the IMF and World Bank say we have to be less profligate, they’ll come to their senses and start sacrificing these broken agencies.

    Nah, you’re right. What am I thinking – when things start getting tight, the FBI will be their Sword and Shield.

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  29. kedavis Coolidge
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    Barfly (View Comment):

    Terry Mott (View Comment):

    Hang On (View Comment):

    Will the Republicans have the stones to make major cuts to the American Gestapo’s FBI’s budget? It’s the only thing the American Gestapo FBI will understand.

    I’m going with, “No, they won’t have the stones.”

    Wait another year or two for the left to really trash the economy. When interest on the debt consumes all our taxes, we’ll have no choice but to inflate our way out. When the IMF and World Bank say we have to be less profligate, they’ll come to their senses and start sacrificing these broken agencies.

    Nah, you’re right. What am I thinking – when things start getting tight, the FBI will be their Sword and Shield.

    How loyal would the FBI be if they’re not being paid, or being paid with worthless “money?”

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  30. Terry Mott Member
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    kedavis (View Comment):

    Barfly (View Comment):

    Terry Mott (View Comment):

    Hang On (View Comment):

    Will the Republicans have the stones to make major cuts to the American Gestapo’s FBI’s budget? It’s the only thing the American Gestapo FBI will understand.

    I’m going with, “No, they won’t have the stones.”

    Wait another year or two for the left to really trash the economy. When interest on the debt consumes all our taxes, we’ll have no choice but to inflate our way out. When the IMF and World Bank say we have to be less profligate, they’ll come to their senses and start sacrificing these broken agencies.

    Nah, you’re right. What am I thinking – when things start getting tight, the FBI will be their Sword and Shield.

    How loyal would the FBI be if they’re not being paid, or being paid with worthless “money?”

    Then their loyalty will be to whoever makes the best offer.

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