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J. Edgar’s Ghost

Sisyphus
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A couple of years back, I published a post here that some of you may recognize, If the FBI Asks, Do You Answer? (behind the paywall), where I said:

[On previous occasions] I was presented with natural law enforcement concerns and engaged the situation respectfully and constructively. I am not sure I could do that today. The sheer dishonesty of the FBI’s public conduct suggests any trust in the FBI pursuing its law enforcement mission is misplaced. So, if the FBI asks, do you answer? Do you tell the truth? Do you dummy up? Do you lawyer up?

The FBI under Director Christopher Wray has conducted an unprecedented and wholly unnecessary and unwarranted raid of an ex-President's personal home and, failing to find the evidence they sought, manufactured and photographed "evidence" on site to share with the media. And so, the following caught my eye today:

Adam Schiff, of course, was a lead figure in Congress' J6 Kangaroo Court Hearings that seized the J6 evidence, conducted extraordinarily questionable hearings, and then destroyed all of the evidence so that the plentiful exculpatory evidence gathered could never be seen again. Who better to rise up on his hind legs and demand that free Americans submit voluntarily to the traditional authority of the FBI and its (current) director Christopher Wray.

I want to thank Adam Schiff. His epic lack of self-awareness in this moment which he has helped create but in no way comprehended. He has, by his endorsement, reminded us why this FBI is in no way a trusted instrument of this great nation. When history sent to central casting a call for a clueless rage clown to underscore the moment, Rep. Adam Schiff answered the call. Again and again.

And thanks to Laura Loomer, for so clearly and ably explaining the joke. It would obviously be an own goal to submit in any way to these weaponized institutions crafted at the hands of Biden, Wray, and many, many others before they are properly sanitized.

I grew up in DC, and it was almost always a snooze. But now that town is lit!!! Have a great weekend.

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  • Chris O@ChrisO
    Sisyphus (View Post):
    When history sent to central casting a call for a clueless rage clown to underscore the moment, Rep. Adam Schiff answered the call. Again and again.

    I just love "clueless rage clown," there is so much at work in those three words.

    When this short (except to those of us who lived through it) era is done and the history books decide upon an exemplar of the constant efforts to deceive the public, will it be Schiff? He makes a strong case.

    Who knows? We may see another strong case involving him soon related to the public sharing of classified material.

  • Sisyphus@Sisyphus
    ReplyingtoChris O

    Chris O (View Comment):

    Who knows? We may see another strong case involving him soon related to the public sharing of classified material.

    I think the casual treatment of classified material is too widespread to be dealt with this way. There are many Biden garages in this country. There are many security officers who tried to make a stand and were lucky if they kept their pensions. Rules are something for lesser people in many, many circles. (Others take the rules with deadly seriousness and safeguard the republic with all of the tools at their disposal. These are the people we should find and honor and elevate.) I don't think one needs that stick when it comes to the Schiff pinata, there is a whole forest of sticks to hit this one with.

  • Sisyphus@Sisyphus
    ReplyingtoChris O

    Sisyphus (View Comment):
    I think the casual treatment of classified material is too widespread to be dealt with this way. There are many Biden garages in this country.

    Chris O (View Comment):

    And likely far too many items deemed ‘classified.’ Regardless, the DoJ could just announce or leak that a file is open on the matter.

    When the FBI marked documents they found at Mar-a-Lago with classification markings and then photographed them as evidence, they actually classified them by applying the marking, giving them now actual classified documents in Mar-a-Lago. Of their own making. I do not know if they added the documents to their security log to record their action, as procedure usually requires.

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