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Is Supporting Trump a Security Risk Per the FBI?
Empower is a whistleblower group and they have the sworn statement of an FBI agent who stated that Deputy Director Abbate told the 56 field offices in a Secure Video TeleConference (SVTC) that any criticism of the FBI’s handling of J6 would not be tolerated. Here is the meat of the affidavit:
I saw this Xeet recently and that is what started this post, but from last night to today I saw the above information and combined with this:
Here is one of the interview outlines the FBI Security Division used to question our client's co-workers about his political opinions: pic.twitter.com/VwNTWcNwNB
— Empower Oversight (@EMPOWR_us) June 11, 2024
It paints a picture that I increasingly do not like. Much has been said by the constitutionalists that the rank and file of the FBI are “good people™” and that it is just a few bad apples at the top that are messing up the FBI. That may be true, but when they are actively pushing out anyone who disagrees with them, then the FBI becomes a partisan weapon—though it appears the FBI was that already. One problem that the GOP and conservatism have faced for decades is that the left owns the bureaucracy and, as a result, they tend to slow-walk any changes and reforms when the GOP is in charge, while whole-heartedly supporting and enacting Democratic reforms.
As a result, the bureaucracy has become a political weapon wielded by the left. This is one thing that I think Vivek Ramaswamy had right in his campaign. He maintained that the goal was to get rid of most of the bureaucracy. I fully support this and would love to see a ten-year limit on gov’t service to prevent entrenched bureaucrats from being able to build empires and undermine conservative reform.
When the FBI sees support for a major political candidate as a security risk, then the FBI needs to be eradicated and broken up into two groups. One would be the police entity— we have the US Marshall Service that can perform those duties. The other is domestic intelligence/counter-intelligence which can be a much smaller Bureau— if we even decide that we don’t have a dozen other groups already doing that work.
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Disgusting. There seems to be no end to the damage that the FBI can do.
There is no end to the damage the left can and will do. Wasn’t the name of one of the evil organizations in a Bond movie “Chaos”? That is what the left wants.
It was “Get Smart,” Mel Brooks’ Bond parody. The organization was K.A.O.S..
Get Deputy Director Abbate to regale us with tales of all of the investigations and convictions his application of “all appropriate resources” led to after the Summer of 2020 riots – or find another job.
A comment from someone that I saw on a YouTube video a while back, and saved:
Heh
Leftists have always talked about how they dread a coming police state, but it gets clearer all the time that they would love a police state if they got to be the police.
I had to sit through a security clearance phone call this afternoon. I am glad this type of stuff did not come up. I could never get a clearance, because the Deep State would not like my political rantings.
Dude! Exactly! Make this thing more public than a Ricochet post, then demand to see all the arrests and sentences being served by the rioters and the damage done compared with several broken windows at the Capitol building. Congressional hearings – that would be fun.
They’ll try to duck out by hiding behind “ongoing investigations.” Make ’em do it anyway.
We don’t even need the FBI for domestic intelligence/counter-intelligence. That was historically the job of the Secret Service. It was the Secret Service that tracked down and shut down the first iteration of the KKK that emerged after the Civil War (Woodrow Wilson brought it back, using the movie Birth of a Nation as a rallying cry).
We do not and never did need the FBI. The same can be said for several other bureaus such as the ATF and DEA.
… and the Dept. of Education, and the DHS, and the EPA, and ….
hell, going to a Latin Mass or a PTA meeting is a security risk to the FBI
Well, they do probably know “which side their bread is buttered on.”
here is what Biden Admin ignores
Here Are the Kinds of People Cleared to Stay in US After ‘Full Vetting’ From Biden DHS – Twitchy
It is not so much an FBI move to the left or partisan support as it is a case of an institution putting its own interests ahead of its mission. George Soros, Antifa, and the Squad may squawk occasionally about FBI abuses but the real danger to the FBI comes from the right. The GOP (if in a big majority after a wave election) is far more likely to cut spending and make higher-ups account for themselves in front of committees now that the Soviet Communist threat has passed.
Making the middle-class center-right voters back away from questioning the agency or pushing for accountability has clearly become more of a priority than stopping foreign terrorists or reigning in Antifa. On the right, January 6 was seen mostly as a mistake by an unruly crowd even if there was sympathy with the concerns about election malfeasance. But for the Washington establishment, J6 was a righteous battle or survival between unruly normals and their rightful rulers. The FBI plant who built the mock gallows on the Capitol grounds on Jan 6 (and then went a few blocks away and changed clothes) was projecting how the regime views us disobedient normals.
Let’s hope so. From AceOfSpades today:
John Solomon: The FBI Has Imposed a Political Test for Security Clearances — Supporting Donald Trump or Questioning the Covid Vaccines Makes You a Threat to the National Security of the United States
Blow. It. Up.
Hey hey, ho ho, the FBI has got to go.
Finding a few “rotten apples” ?
More like finding a few Roaches. There are thousands for every one you find.