Reality 2,877 Posted July 26, 2022 https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/with-fbi-looking-ever-more-corrupt-director-wray-should-feel-the-heat With FBI looking ever more corrupt, Director Wray should feel the heat. It's time to fix this shlt... Major problems at a heavily politicized FBI predated the June 2017 ascension of Christopher Wray to the bureau’s directorship, but Wray has no excuse for failing to fix them in the five years since. If there is truth to even a significant portion of the allegations in a July 25 letter from Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) to Wray and Attorney General Merrick Garland, a corrupt subculture continues to exist, without effective rebuke, in some major ranks of the FBI. Grassley wrote that numerous whistleblower reports indicate Timothy Thibault, the assistant special agent in charge of the Washington field office, along with Supervisory Intelligence Analyst Brian Auten, and others, combined to help cover up apparent “derogatory information connected to Hunter Biden,” the now-president’s son. Grassley says Auten and others falsely labeled the Biden material as “disinformation,” presumably of Russian origin, and that Thibault not only ordered inquiries into other derogatory information about the younger Biden closed, quite wrongly, but also “attempted to improperly mark the matter in FBI systems so that it could not be opened in the future.” Auten already had made significant errors that contributed to the bogus allegations that then-candidate Donald Trump had conspired with Russian agents to help him win the 2016 presidential election. And Grassley in May had accused Thibault, completely apart from the Biden matter, of “likely violations of Federal laws, regulations, and [FBI] guidelines … based on a pattern of active public partisanship in his then-public social media content.” Grassley also said these agents or others deliberately tried to undermine ongoing Senate investigations, led by Grassley, into numerous suspicious activities of Hunter Biden and other Biden family members. “The FBI inquiry into Hunter Biden reportedly began as a tax investigation,” reported the Washington Examiner’s Jerry Dunleavy, “then expanded into a scrutiny of potential money-laundering and foreign lobbying.” Evidence from the younger Biden’s laptop also suggests he may have broken federal drug laws and human trafficking laws. Meanwhile, Grassley said “the volume and consistency of these [whistleblower] allegations substantiate their credibility” and that they and other reports indicate that the Justice Department and FBI are “institutionally corrupted to their very core,” with “systemic and existential problems within your agencies.” What’s worse is that the alleged and apparent impropriety of FBI agents regarding the interconnected Biden-Trump-Russia imbroglios seems to be only one part of the FBI’s malfeasance. Reports emerged in March that a 2019 internal FBI audit found FBI agents broke the rules at least 747 times in just a year and a half in high-profile investigations — and even that audit covered less than half of FBI matters listed as “sensitive” during the relevant time period. Also in March, Reps. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) and Nancy Mace (R-SC) asked the Governmental Accountability Office to review the FBI’s use of certain surveillance activities because the lawmakers had information suggesting the bureau was involved in “improper monitoring of protected First Amendment activity." Despite all this evidence of laxity and corruption, there is little attestation that the FBI has taken significant disciplinary steps against any of its errant personnel. When Wray took over the FBI, he had a stellar reputation, but after five years, there is almost no indication that he has righted the bureau’s ship. Grassley has every good reason to suspect that corruption in large parts of the FBI is “systemic and existential.” The situation at the FBI is unacceptable. Period. If Wray cannot prove by year’s end that he has taken major, effective steps to fix it, he should lose his job. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Hardcore troubadour 13,540 Posted July 27, 2022 1 hour ago, Reality said: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/with-fbi-looking-ever-more-corrupt-director-wray-should-feel-the-heat With FBI looking ever more corrupt, Director Wray should feel the heat. It's time to fix this shlt... Major problems at a heavily politicized FBI predated the June 2017 ascension of Christopher Wray to the bureau’s directorship, but Wray has no excuse for failing to fix them in the five years since. If there is truth to even a significant portion of the allegations in a July 25 letter from Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) to Wray and Attorney General Merrick Garland, a corrupt subculture continues to exist, without effective rebuke, in some major ranks of the FBI. Grassley wrote that numerous whistleblower reports indicate Timothy Thibault, the assistant special agent in charge of the Washington field office, along with Supervisory Intelligence Analyst Brian Auten, and others, combined to help cover up apparent “derogatory information connected to Hunter Biden,” the now-president’s son. Grassley says Auten and others falsely labeled the Biden material as “disinformation,” presumably of Russian origin, and that Thibault not only ordered inquiries into other derogatory information about the younger Biden closed, quite wrongly, but also “attempted to improperly mark the matter in FBI systems so that it could not be opened in the future.” Auten already had made significant errors that contributed to the bogus allegations that then-candidate Donald Trump had conspired with Russian agents to help him win the 2016 presidential election. And Grassley in May had accused Thibault, completely apart from the Biden matter, of “likely violations of Federal laws, regulations, and [FBI] guidelines … based on a pattern of active public partisanship in his then-public social media content.” Grassley also said these agents or others deliberately tried to undermine ongoing Senate investigations, led by Grassley, into numerous suspicious activities of Hunter Biden and other Biden family members. “The FBI inquiry into Hunter Biden reportedly began as a tax investigation,” reported the Washington Examiner’s Jerry Dunleavy, “then expanded into a scrutiny of potential money-laundering and foreign lobbying.” Evidence from the younger Biden’s laptop also suggests he may have broken federal drug laws and human trafficking laws. Meanwhile, Grassley said “the volume and consistency of these [whistleblower] allegations substantiate their credibility” and that they and other reports indicate that the Justice Department and FBI are “institutionally corrupted to their very core,” with “systemic and existential problems within your agencies.” What’s worse is that the alleged and apparent impropriety of FBI agents regarding the interconnected Biden-Trump-Russia imbroglios seems to be only one part of the FBI’s malfeasance. Reports emerged in March that a 2019 internal FBI audit found FBI agents broke the rules at least 747 times in just a year and a half in high-profile investigations — and even that audit covered less than half of FBI matters listed as “sensitive” during the relevant time period. Also in March, Reps. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) and Nancy Mace (R-SC) asked the Governmental Accountability Office to review the FBI’s use of certain surveillance activities because the lawmakers had information suggesting the bureau was involved in “improper monitoring of protected First Amendment activity." Despite all this evidence of laxity and corruption, there is little attestation that the FBI has taken significant disciplinary steps against any of its errant personnel. When Wray took over the FBI, he had a stellar reputation, but after five years, there is almost no indication that he has righted the bureau’s ship. Grassley has every good reason to suspect that corruption in large parts of the FBI is “systemic and existential.” The situation at the FBI is unacceptable. Period. If Wray cannot prove by year’s end that he has taken major, effective steps to fix it, he should lose his job. No, no, no. Just the other day, Mooney assured us this was a right wing conspiracy. Sorry. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
vomit 502 Posted July 27, 2022 Corrupt police? Ya Kidding! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BunnysBastatrds 2,039 Posted July 27, 2022 Fart Barf & Itch incompetence rearing it’s head again. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
KSB2424 3,096 Posted July 27, 2022 13 minutes ago, vomit said: Corrupt police? Ya Kidding! Police are the boots on the ground, in harms way handling the day to day maintenance of law and order in everyone's neighborhood, town, and cities. Ensuring no person gets robbed, raped, murdered, assaulted and keeping the peace. FBI is a federal domestic agency that gathers intelligence and is an arm of the Department of Justice and the Attorney General. That is today's social studies Ted Talk. One is directly tied to big donor government officials, the other is your neighbor, your cousin or kids friends mom or dad. 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Cruzer 1,993 Posted July 27, 2022 The FBI today has nothing on itself circa 2000/2001. That unit discraced a nation, got many souls killed. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Hardcore troubadour 13,540 Posted July 27, 2022 18 minutes ago, Cruzer said: The FBI today has nothing on itself circa 2000/2001. That unit discraced a nation, got many souls killed. Nah. This version is plenty disgraceful. And gets people, mostly kids, killed too. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Cruzer 1,993 Posted July 27, 2022 1 minute ago, Hardcore troubadour said: Nah. This version is plenty disgraceful. And gets people, mostly kids, killed too. Nah, doesn't hold a candle. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
vomit 502 Posted July 27, 2022 9 hours ago, KSB2424 said: Police are the boots on the ground, in harms way handling the day to day maintenance of law and order in everyone's neighborhood, town, and cities. Ensuring no person gets robbed, raped, murdered, assaulted and keeping the peace. FBI is a federal domestic agency that gathers intelligence and is an arm of the Department of Justice and the Attorney General. That is today's social studies Ted Talk. One is directly tied to big donor government officials, the other is your neighbor, your cousin or kids friends mom or dad. And they are all prone to corruption and many guilty of it. You put someone in this position, human nature says they will take advantage of it. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Hardcore troubadour 13,540 Posted July 27, 2022 2 hours ago, vomit said: And they are all prone to corruption and many guilty of it. You put someone in this position, human nature says they will take advantage of it. It’s not widespread Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RLLD 3,763 Posted July 27, 2022 12 hours ago, vomit said: Corrupt police? Ya Kidding! Wait a second, are you suggesting that January 6th might not be legit?? That sounds treasonous..... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Hardcore troubadour 13,540 Posted July 27, 2022 Vomit punching down again. The subject is the FBI but he’s more concerned with some cop on patrol. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lod001 1,310 Posted July 27, 2022 I'll believe it when the FBI house is cleaned. Until then they will shoo off the corruption accusations like you swat a fly. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Reality 2,877 Posted August 10, 2022 It's all a sham, question every bit of it. They don't care, there is nothing they can't get away with. And 'centrists' will defend it. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TimHauck 2,043 Posted August 11, 2022 Maybe discussed in the other thread, haven’t really read it 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Cdub100 3,606 Posted August 11, 2022 2 hours ago, TimHauck said: Maybe discussed in the other thread, haven’t really read it Thank you for bringing this to our attention (((fellow Trump voter))) 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Masshole 642 Posted August 11, 2022 11 hours ago, TimHauck said: Maybe discussed in the other thread, haven’t really read it Even those who favor Trump have and will acknowledge that probably the worst aspect of his administration was its selection of personnel. Made many, many bad choices with who they put in important positions. See "Bolton, John" and "Scaramucci, Anthony" as examples. . . Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Hardcore troubadour 13,540 Posted August 11, 2022 7 minutes ago, Masshole said: Even those who favor Trump have and will acknowledge that probably the worst aspect of his administration was its selection of personnel. Made many, many bad choices with who they put in important positions. See "Bolton, John" and "Scaramucci, Anthony" as examples. . . Amazing how many snakes he hired. They obviously said what they had to to get the job. Trump got boxed in with Wray after firing Comey. Should have fired Comey from jump. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sean Mooney 1,427 Posted August 11, 2022 Maybe Trump purposely hired stupid people for whatever reason you guys can concoct in your head. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lod001 1,310 Posted August 11, 2022 Trump is the only one that cam fix this but has to get reelected and go scorched earth day one. Too many that he hired were in fact part of the swamp. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Hawkeye21 2,066 Posted August 11, 2022 Remember when Trump drained the swamp? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sean Mooney 1,427 Posted August 11, 2022 2 minutes ago, Hawkeye21 said: Remember when Trump drained the swamp? Bingo..Just further proof he is one of them rather than the antithesis. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
edjr 6,008 Posted August 11, 2022 Anything and everything that goes political or woke, will become an abject failure. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
avoiding injuries 1,265 Posted August 11, 2022 10 minutes ago, Hawkeye21 said: Remember when Trump drained the swamp? Seriously. It isn’t like he had anything else going on or people trying to undermine him from before he took office. What a centrist view of it all. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Hawkeye21 2,066 Posted August 11, 2022 5 minutes ago, avoiding injuries said: Seriously. It isn’t like he had anything else going on or people trying to undermine him from before he took office. What a centrist view of it all. Disliking Trump does not make a person left, center or right. When will this ever get through people's heads? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Horseman 1,593 Posted August 11, 2022 1 hour ago, Sean Mooney said: Maybe Trump purposely hired stupid people for whatever reason you guys can concoct in your head. You've never hired someone who turned out to be a dud? Oh right, what was I thinking. Life losers are never in the position to hire someone. You should ask your boss, he knows what it's like. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Hardcore troubadour 13,540 Posted August 11, 2022 11 minutes ago, Horseman said: You've never hired someone who turned out to be a dud? Oh right, what was I thinking. Life losers are never in the position to hire someone. You should ask your boss, he knows what it's like. Fire! 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Hardcore troubadour 13,540 Posted August 11, 2022 The FBI is mostly made up of college boys that never got their hands dirty. But they don’t question orders. The modern proletarian guard. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sean Mooney 1,427 Posted August 11, 2022 28 minutes ago, Horseman said: You've never hired someone who turned out to be a dud? Oh right, what was I thinking. Life losers are never in the position to hire someone. You should ask your boss, he knows what it's like. Cry for me again about "horrible red herring ad hominem attack posters" here. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Hardcore troubadour 13,540 Posted August 11, 2022 I once had to escort two FBI faegs to the roof of a housing project. They actually requested it. Puzzies. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Horseman 1,593 Posted August 11, 2022 Libs think it's some sort of gotcha that the guy who made hundreds of millions of dollars from the phrase "you're fired" doesn't have a perfect hiring record. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
craftsman 1,045 Posted August 11, 2022 3 hours ago, Horseman said: You've never hired someone who turned out to be a dud? Oh right, what was I thinking. Life losers are never in the position to hire someone. You should ask your boss, he knows what it's like. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TimHauck 2,043 Posted August 11, 2022 18 hours ago, Cdub100 said: Thank you for bringing this to our attention (((fellow Trump voter))) I never said I thought he was doing that bad of a job. 5 hours ago, Horseman said: Libs think it's some sort of gotcha that the guy who made hundreds of millions of dollars from the phrase "you're fired" doesn't have a perfect hiring record. But he didn’t fire this one… 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Horseman 1,593 Posted August 11, 2022 18 minutes ago, TimHauck said: But he didn’t fire this one… You have to be the boss to do the firing dumb ass.....just wait for it. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BufordT 383 Posted August 11, 2022 The FBI employs about 35,000 people. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TimHauck 2,043 Posted August 11, 2022 35 minutes ago, Horseman said: You have to be the boss to do the firing dumb ass.....just wait for it. So your claim is this guy was doing a fine job for 2.5 years? Trump fired plenty of people in less time than that while he was president dumb ass Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Horseman 1,593 Posted August 11, 2022 19 minutes ago, TimHauck said: So your claim is this guy was doing a fine job for 2.5 years? Trump fired plenty of people in less time than that while he was president dumb ass Can't you read? My claim is that he's going to get fired. Wait for it. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TimHauck 2,043 Posted August 11, 2022 1 hour ago, Horseman said: Can't you read? My claim is that he's going to get fired. Wait for it. But Trump didn’t Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Reality 2,877 Posted September 30, 2022 Targeting conservative employees, awesome. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites