{"id":57725,"date":"2024-12-21T12:50:58","date_gmt":"2024-12-21T17:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=57725"},"modified":"2024-12-21T12:50:58","modified_gmt":"2024-12-21T17:50:58","slug":"hang-on-help-is-on-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=57725","title":{"rendered":"Hang On, Help Is On The Way"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Friday, Byron York posted an article at The Washington Examiner<\/a> about Kash Patel, President Trump’s choice to run the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). The article notes that Kash Patel was once targeted by the FBI because he uncovered some of their malfeasance.<\/p>\n

The article lists some of the political acts of the FBI during the Trump years:<\/p>\n

1) Opened investigations on presidential candidates. …FBI investigations of both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton in 2016. The big difference between them was that the then-FBI director, James Comey, planned to exonerate Clinton before interviewing her or other key witnesses in the email case. There was no such intent to exonerate in the Trump investigation.
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2) Deployed undercover agents and confidential sources to spy on a candidate\u2019s advisers.<\/strong><\/p>\n

3) Hired a campaign opposition researcher under the guise of intelligence gathering.<\/strong><\/p>\n

4) Presented false opposition research to a court as a basis for wiretapping a candidate\u2019s adviser.<\/strong><\/p>\n

5) Used false opposition research to brief the president of the United States.<\/strong><\/p>\n

6) Ambushed the president-elect with false opposition research.<\/strong><\/p>\n

7) Sought to include false opposition research in intelligence community products.<\/strong><\/p>\n

8) Ambushed the national security adviser with wiretap information on the pretense of a Logan Act violation.<\/strong><\/p>\n

9) Misled\/stonewalled Congress on the investigation of the president.<\/strong><\/p>\n

10) Misled the president about the investigation targeting him.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article also notes:<\/p>\n

Many of the other examples<\/span>,\u00a0numbers 2 through 10, refer to the Trump-Russia investigation, in which bureau leadership unleashed the FBI on an enemy \u2014 the presidential candidate and then President Trump. Democrats cheered them on from Congress, where they hoped a Trump-Russia special counsel investigation, led by a former FBI director, would give them a case for impeaching Trump. (It didn\u2019t, but Democrats quickly changed gears and impeached Trump for something else.)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Another thing the FBI did<\/span>\u00a0was stonewall the congressional leaders who had the authority and responsibility to oversee the FBI. When in the final months of the 2016 campaign and the first months of Trump\u2019s presidency members of Congress began to realize how intensely the FBI had targeted Trump, they wanted to know what was going on. They had a right to know. But the FBI and the Justice Department told them to get lost.<\/strong><\/p>\n

One of those congressional investigators was Kash Patel<\/span>,\u00a0who at the time was working for then-Rep. Devin Nunes, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee. Patel was looking into the provenance of the Steele dossier, which was the compilation of false and incendiary allegations that, among other things, Trump was involved in a \u201cwell-developed conspiracy\u201d with Russia to fix the 2016 election and that Russian intelligence had hidden camera video of Trump engaged in kinky sex with prostitutes in a Moscow hotel.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Please follow the link to read the entire article. It reminds us of the reasons that the FBI has to be cleaned up and reformed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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