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DrMaddVibe
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3 years ago

#281

MaddVibe,

1) you quoted an article based on NYT. Is it only credible on this single topic?
2) Your source was posted before today's 1/6 testimony, which revealed a lot. How do you reconcile this?

rfenst wrote:

No, I referenced a link that used the NYT as a source. The NYT isn't credible at all. It's a DNC megaphone...nothing more...nothing less. Time after time they have shown how utterly useless they are and how they are constantly on the wrong side of History. You, on the otherhand believe them to be some spigot of Truth when you actually know who and what they really are, but keep going back. That's Stockholm Syndrome!

I reconcile it as it was an inside job. It was NEVER an insurrection. It was a complete DNC inside job with all of their favorites in attendance. Useful idiots all the way down to FBI agents and can't forget Pelosi and Schumer either...all informed of what was going to happen and stood by complicit and let it happen so you could turn in to the Adam Schiff $hitshow 2.0 and tell us what we're missing.

Nobody is missing anything. The "trial" is a laughable joke to almost everyone but you and the 13% that still support the Biden Administration.

PS: All done with taxpayer dollars.

Edited by user 3 years ago | Reason: Not specified

bgz
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3 years ago

#282

^ This guy lost it, for real lost it.

(Don't worry, he's got me on ignore, he can't see this).

ZRX1200
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3 years ago

#283

It’s not a trial, it’s a made for TV poli-doc-ad…..

Stogie1020
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3 years ago

#284

It’s not a trial, it’s a made for TV poli-doc-ad…..

ZRX1200 wrote:

^This. It was already less-than-credible, but when they hired a ex-network exec to "produce" it, it lost any last fleeting shred of credibility...

HockeyDad
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3 years ago

#285

^This. It was already less-than-credible, but when they hired a ex-network exec to "produce" it, it lost any last fleeting shred of credibility...

Stogie1020 wrote:

That sums it up.

Democracy is under attack by the Democrats.

Brewha
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3 years ago

#286

Poor, poor Trump.

You guys should step up the MAGA Rat BJs and help him out….

HockeyDad
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3 years ago

#287

What is a maga rat bj?

Brewha
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3 years ago

#288

It is the origin of orange lips.

HockeyDad
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3 years ago

#289

You guys really are still obsessed with Trump!

He doesn’t even hold a political office anymore!

DrMaddVibe
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3 years ago

#290

^This. It was already less-than-credible, but when they hired a ex-network exec to "produce" it, it lost any last fleeting shred of credibility...

Stogie1020 wrote:

Pelosi dictating who could be on the panel despite GOP requests.

Lack of cross-examination

Lack of overall discovery on the entire matter. They're not even talking about everything that transpired on that day. They have blinders on and are allowing Americans to be deceived...AGAIN with their hatred of Trump. Russia, Russia, Russia, 2 impeachments that didn't have the desired outcomes so they fabricate and lie by omission to everyone again.

Scripted hot garbage.

DrMaddVibe
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3 years ago

#291

That sums it up.

Democracy is under attack by the Democrats.

HockeyDad wrote:

It always has been by them. It always has been.

DrMaddVibe
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3 years ago

#292

A Deeper Dive Into Allegations Of Sabotage Within FBI's Hunter Biden Probe

Yesterday, Senator Chuck Grassley sent this letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland and FBI Director Christopher Wray regarding allegations from “highly credible whistleblowers” about the FBI’s “false portrayal” of derogatory Hunter Biden materials as “disinformation.”

If these allegations are true, it’s a damning depiction of FBI leadership and it proves their efforts to influence the 2020 election. This is the second (if not third) straight election the FBI has meddled in, given the influence the Trump/Russia investigation - and its unlawful origins with the FBI - had over the 2018 midterms.

Grassley’s whistleblowers allege that in August 2020, FBI Headquarters “improperly discredit[ed] negative Hunter Biden information as disinformation and caused investigative activity to cease.” In fact, it was a scheme of top FBI officials. As Grassley explains:

“the allegations provided to my office appear to indicate that there was a scheme in place among certain FBI officials to undermine derogatory information connected to Hunter Biden by falsely suggesting it was disinformation.”

The context and timing is important, as this was leading up to the 2020 election. Who benefited from this scheme? Democrat candidate Joe Biden. And it appears the FBI’s scheme furthered the interests of Congressional Democrats. Here’s how that happened.

On July 13, 2020, Democrat leaders – Chuck Schumer, Mark Warner, Nancy Pelosi, and Adam Schiff – sent this letter to the FBI alleging that “Congress was the subject of a foreign disinformation campaign.” The Democrats demanded that “the FBI provide a classified defensive briefing” on the issue of foreign disinformation, and that “the briefing draw on all-source intelligence information and analysis.” Parts of that letter were leaked to tie the Congressional Hunter Biden investigation to foreign disinformation.

Three days later, on July 16, 2020, Democrat Senators Gary Peters and Ron Wyden made their own demand of an FBI and intelligence community briefing related to purported foreign interference.

According to Grassley, these Democrat efforts resulted in an unnecessary briefing from the FBI in August 2020 relating to “disinformation” – which was later leaked to the press to paint the Biden investigation “in a false light.” In other words, the FBI was more than willing to be used by the Democrats less than 3 months before the 2020 election.

Then there’s also the issue of FBI Headquarters interfering in the Hunter Biden investigation. Grassley states:

in September 2020, investigators from the same FBI HQ team were in communication with FBI agents responsible for the Hunter Biden information targeted by Auten’s assessment. The FBI HQ team’s investigators placed their findings with respect to whether reporting was disinformation in a restricted access sub-file reviewable only by the particular agents responsible for uncovering the specific information.

The FBI Headquarters team “made findings” to whether certain reporting was disinformation – and then they limited access to those findings. This begs the question: what were those findings, and did they conflict with the popular narrative, falsely peddled by the Democrats and the media and former intelligence officials, that the Hunter Biden materials were disinformation?

The FBI was reticent to share this information before the election. When then-Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe stated there was “no intelligence to support” allegations of Russian disinformation efforts tied to the Hunter Biden materials, the FBI responded they had “nothing to add at this time.” Of course, this is apparently now disproven. The FBI had something to add. They just didn’t want to share it with the American people.

And there’s still more.

In October 2020, the whistleblowers allege that “an avenue of additional derogatory Hunter Biden reporting was ordered closed at the direction of” FBI Agent Timothy Thibault.

Who is Thibault? He is a partisan, anti-Trump FBI Agent from the Washington Field Office who shared derogatory social media posts about Attorney General Barr and retweeted Lincoln Project posts insulting President Trump. Thibault has since locked his Twitter account, which is highlighted with a Ukraine flag. You can make your own judgment on that.

Back to Thibault’s actions with respect to the Hunter Biden investigation. The whistleblowers further allege that Thibault suggested the Hunter Biden information was “at risk of disinformation,” although “all of the reporting was either verified or verifiable via criminal search warrants.” Thibault allegedly also violated FBI guidelines by ordering the matter closed without a valid reason. Thibault and other FBI officials then covered these tracks, attempting “to improperly mark the matter in FBI systems so that it could not be opened in the future.”

Making matters worse - if that’s possible - we also learned from Grassley’s letter that FBI SIA ( Supervisory Intelligence Analyst) Brian Auten was handling aspects of the Hunter Biden investigation. Who is Brian Auten? He interviewed Igor Danchenko (Christopher Steele’s primary subsource), who now faces an upcoming trial with Special Counsel John Durham for lying to federal officials.

We suspect that Auten covered-up or otherwise smothered Danchenko’s lies to protect the Trump/Russia investigation (and to thus also protect the FBI’s institutional interests). Our friend Stephen McIntyre – aka ClimateAudit – has focused on Auten in the past; here’s his Auten rabbit hole. The fact that Auten is in any way involved in the Hunter Biden investigation is not a good sign, and it indicates the FBI has failed to punish its most corrupt and incompetent employees.

The letter from Grassley comes after CNN reporting on July 20 that:

The federal investigation into Hunter Biden's business activities is nearing a critical juncture as investigators weigh possible charges and prosecutors confront Justice Department guidelines to generally avoid bringing politically sensitive cases close to an election, according to people briefed on the matter.

There are some clues in the CNN report that suggest members of Biden’s DOJ are trying to serve President Biden by protecting his son.

First, current DOJ officials – including those at DOJ headquarters – have debated whether prosecution of Hunter Biden for tax and firearm charges should be put-off until after the 2022 midterms. But as CNN observes, federal prosecutors have brought politically-charged cases against Trump attorney Michael Cohen and Republican Congressman Chris Collins just before the 2018 election.

Second, this suggests that there is at least some supervision of the Hunter Biden investigation by top-level DOJ officials appointed by Biden. CNN reports that the investigation has entered its final stages and that “prosecutors have narrowed their focus to tax and gun-related charges.”

If Hunter Biden is indeed charged with those “narrow” crimes, it’s going to be essential to determine who made that call. After all, there is more than enough evidence to charge Hunter Biden with violating the Foreign Agent Registration Act. (Bijan Rafiekian, of the Flynn Intel Group, faced similar charges for far-less egregious conduct.) Recall previous New York Times reporting that:

there has been debate within the Justice Department over whether the available evidence proves that Mr. Biden intended to violate FARA, which the government must prove in order to secure a criminal conviction.

As we have observed, this misstates the law on FARA. One must ask whether the DOJ is making it intentionally difficult to prosecute Hunter Biden for his FARA violations and his schemes to enrich himself, and to manipulate his political connections, as he furthered the interests of his foreign clients.

This gives us another question: who is making these prosecuting decisions – is it the career prosecutors, or is it Main Justice?

If Hunter Biden escapes the FARA charges, or if he isn’t indicted before the upcoming elections, I think we can safely assume Main Justice is pulling some strings. And that’s a scandal in its own right.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/deeper-dive-allegations-sabotage-within-fbis-hunter-biden-probe

Gone are the days of believing this alphabet gang was doing some kind of good. When you do a real hard look...Capone, Whitey...pick a topic...guns...drugs...they've been an EPIC FAIL.

The FBI really is the SS of the DNC. There isn't a single person with a functioning brain that would deny it.

Speyside2
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3 years ago

#293

Man, you sure do get a woody for calling out Dems. Rember, James Comey won the election for Trump by breaking sop for the fbi when he announced the Hillary investigation was still open 5 days before the election. I agree the FBI has never been what it should be. I disagree when you say the problems are one sided. The Biden family is innocent until proven guilty. The Trump family is innocent until proven guilty. You cannot selectivly choose to apply the law.

DrMaddVibe
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3 years ago

#294

Speyside2 wrote:

You're selective memory is failing.

Comey left his flank wide open and Operation Crossfire Hurricane was in danger of being exposed then. He had to pretend he was actually doing his job when in fact he kicked the can down the hallway to allow breathing room.

You can believe what you want, but the facts are the facts.

If you have some other collaboration with the GOP and FBI PLEASE let me know.

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DrMaddVibe
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3 years ago

#295

and the beat goes on...

Meet the FBI Analyst Behind The Decade’s Biggest Political Disinformation Campaigns

An intelligence analyst behind the FBI’s botched Trump-Russia collusion probe is now accused of using the bureau’s authority to discredit reports about Hunter Biden’s criminal activity months before the 2020 presidential election.

Meet Brian Auten. The FBI analyst is hardly a household name, but whistleblowers who contacted the office of GOP senator Chuck Grassley say he was behind an August 2020 report that FBI officials used as part of a "scheme…to undermine derogatory information connected to Hunter Biden by falsely suggesting it was disinformation."

Auten’s report also caused the FBI "to cease" investigative activity into the younger Biden, according to a letter Grassley sent the Justice Department and FBI.

The whistleblower allegations are the latest evidence of politicization at the FBI. Grassley, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said the allegations, if accurate, show the FBI and Justice Department are "institutionally corrupted to their very core."

Auten was a key figure in Crossfire Hurricane, the counterintelligence investigation into Donald Trump’s potential ties to Russia. The Justice Department inspector general said in a December 2019 report that an FBI intelligence analyst who has since been identified as Auten "failed to advise" others at the FBI about inconsistencies in the Steele dossier, the controversial report the bureau used to investigate Trump.

Auten’s involvement in the Hunter Biden saga, which was not previously known, is likely to come under scrutiny because of his involvement in the Trump-Russia probe. Auten took part in the Hunter Biden matter even though he was seemingly referred to the FBI’s disciplinary office for investigation because of the inspector general’s findings. FBI Director Christopher Wray testified in February 2020 that every FBI employee mentioned in the inspector general’s report, which accused the FBI of "significant" abuses of the foreign surveillance process, was referred to the Office of Professional Responsibility for investigation. It is unclear whether Auten faced any discipline.

Auten, an expert on Russia, pushed aggressively for surveillance warrants against Trump adviser Carter Page, according to the inspector general. He urged colleagues at the FBI in a Sept. 19, 2016, email to obtain Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrants against Page based on information in the dossier. The Justice Department watchdog criticized the FBI for failing to verify Steele’s allegations before citing them in the spy warrant. The Justice Department has invalidated two surveillance warrants granted against Page because of FBI malfeasance.

Auten also took part in several interviews in which the FBI withheld information that undercut the theory that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia. Auten and his colleagues failed to disclose that dossier author Christopher Steele, in an Oct. 3, 2016, interview, said that a purported source of his dossier was a "boaster or embellisher." Auten conducted a January 2017 interview with Steele’s primary source, Igor Danchenko, in which Danchenko said aspects of the dossier appeared to be exaggerated or inaccurate.

Grassley did not disclose details of Auten’s report on Hunter Biden. He asked Attorney General Merrick Garland and Wray to provide copies of the documents.

Auten’s assessment about Hunter Biden came two months before the New York Post published documents from Biden’s abandoned laptop. Allies of Joe Biden, including more than 50 former national security officials, quickly dismissed the report at the time as Russian disinformation, but forensic analysis has confirmed the authenticity of the emails. Hunter Biden disclosed in December 2020 that he had been under investigation since 2019 for tax evasion and foreign lobbying.

The FBI press office told the Washington Free Beacon that the bureau "declines to comment on personnel matters." Both the bureau and the Department of Justice confirmed receipt of Grassley’s letter to CBS News.

Update July 26, 5:34 p.m.: This piece has been updated with a response from the FBI.

https://freebeacon.com/latest-news/meet-the-fbi-analyst-behind-the-decades-biggest-political-disinformation-campaigns/

This is so easy.

ZRX1200
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3 years ago

#296

I thought it was two agents doing this.

It’s cool though, really smaht people hate Cheeto so this is all cool, it doesn’t how unelected people act if the ends justify the means. Get over it man……they’re making the country better it’s the modern compromise!

The people burning their heads in the sand because orange man bad are sadly hilarious, and they are part of the problem.

Mr. Jones
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3 years ago

#297

The J. EDGAR HooVer bldG ....

Is T.H.E. BIGGEST R.A.T.S. NEST AND CRiminAL compounD on the entire Globe....

I know this as a f.a.c.t.

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DrMaddVibe
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3 years ago

#298

ZRX1200 wrote:

Silly...The mere notion that there's no "whistleblower" should tell you that it's a top-down structure. You're either all in or you're dead. When the machine is done with you, you get a cush job that doesn't require much or you get to write a book that nobody ever reads (see hush money) but it ends up on the best seller list for weeks and they payout millions for the rights to tell the story.

But hey...the FBI is going after the DNC too![frypan] [frypan] [frypan] [frypan] riiiight.

8trackdisco
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3 years ago

#299

Haven't read any of the prior 318 posts, but to answer the OP, based on what mR. joNEs has been suggesting, I would say my endorsement of the organization would be a couple degrees cooler than lukewarm.

But to Jonesie's point, we don't know how many near disasters have been nixed by their good work.

ZRX1200
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3 years ago

#300

They did great in Waco.

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