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FBI: American Gestapoby LAWRENCE SELLIN, PHD Any government agency with law enforcement and surveillance authority that uses those powers for political purposes is the definition of a secret police, no better than the Nazi Gestapo or the Soviet KGB.There is indeed probable cause to conclude, meaning indictable offenses, that employees of the Department of Justice and/or the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), sympathetic to the Democrat Party, used the power of their offices and with the assistance of foreign nationals to influence the 2016 election in favor of Hillary Clinton, first to exonerate her and then obtain information to prevent the election of Donald Trump or to provide a basis for his impeachment should he win. There is a Cold Civil War underway in the United States to determine who should control the federal government.It is not a contest between the Democrat and Republican policies, but a battle between the entrenched power of the bipartisan political establishment, the Deep State, versus the freedom and well-being of the American people. It is a conflict between those who want to adhere to the Constitution and the rule of law and a ruling elite, who wish to continue the practices of political expediency and crony capitalism for the purposes of personal power and profit. |
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FBI: American Gestapo – Family Security Matters | ||||
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10:40 AM 12/16/2017 What is good for the FBI and its employees is not necessarily good for America! | ||||
M.N.: This graph below, from the cited article, is meaningless and misleading, just as the article itself: the overall “ideological orientation” (rated as the “conservative” for the FBI, with the score of about +1,5 on the -2 to +2 scale), in no way can be the predictor or correlate of the behaviors and actions, including … Continue reading“10:40 AM 12/16/2017 – What is good for the FBI and its employees is not necessarily good for America! “ |
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WSJ: There’s Mounting Evidence of 2016 Election Meddling Coming From the FBI – Townhall | ||||
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President Trump claims the FBI is tainted and its reputation in tatters. This graph shows he’s wrong. – Washington Post | ||||
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Former FBI official: Comey let politics creep into process | ||||
Former FBI deputy assistant director Danny Coulson speaks out about allegations of bias within the FBI on ‘The Story.’
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Former agent agrees with Trump that FBI is in ‘tatters’ | ||||
Former FBI official Kevin Brock weighs in on ‘Fox News @ Night.’
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Fox’s Lou Dobbs: We have the most corrupt FBI and DOJ in our country’s history investigating Trump – Media Matters for America | ||||
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British Intervention Into 2016 US Election – Executive Intelligence Review (EIR) | ||||
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Sessions Says Bias Concerns About FBI Are Being Taken Seriously | ||||
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The Latest: Trump slams investigators at ‘disgraceful’ FBI | ||||
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on President Donald Trump’s visit to the FBI (all times local):
8:50 p.m. President Donald Trump has unleashed a blistering attack on the FBI’s leadership. He is denouncing the bureau for its handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation, calling it “really disgraceful.” Trump says “you have a lot of very angry people that are seeing it.” The president’s broadside appears to reflect his anger over revelations that senior FBI officials exchanged anti-Trump and pro-Clinton text messages while working on last year’s Clinton probe and during special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into whether Trump associates colluded with Russian officials in the 2016 election. Trump laced into the bureau as he was departing for its training academy in Virginia, where he lavished praise on graduates of a weeks-long FBI National Academy program for law enforcement leaders from around the country.
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Trump praises police after blasting ‘sad,’ ‘disgraceful’ FBI | ||||
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump heaped praise on law enforcement while decrying anti-police sentiment in a speech to FBI academy graduates on Friday not long after he lamented the agency’s “sad” and “disgraceful” state.
In remarks to the FBI National Academy that also touched on immigration and violent crime, Trump called himself a “true friend and loyal champion” of police while noting that members of law enforcement “rarely get the recognition” they deserve. “We will protect those who protect us,” the president said, adding that those accused of killing police officers “should get the death penalty.” “Anti-police sentiment is wrong and it’s dangerous, and we will not stand for it,” he said.
Trump to FBI academy grads: I’m a ‘true friend and loyal champion’ to police 0:49
autoplay autoplay An hour earlier, speaking to reporters on the White House lawn on his way to talk to graduates of the academy in Quantico, Virginia, Trump said: “It’s a shame what’s happened with the FBI, but we’re going to rebuild the FBI. It’ll be bigger and better than ever.”
Sessions: DOJ will ‘take seriously’ Trump’s concerns about FBI 2:34
autoplay autoplay Later on Friday, in response to questions from reporters, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said he did not agree with Trump’s dim assessment of the FBI. |
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Republican Trey Gowdy suggests deputy FBI director will be ousted soon | ||||
Rep. Trey Gowdy. REUTERS/James Lawler Duggan
Republican Rep. Trey Gowdy, who sits on the House Judiciary Committee, suggested in a Friday interview that FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe will be forced out at the top law enforcement agency as soon as next week. |
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Facebook admits it poses mental health risk but says using site more can help – The Guardian | ||||
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Saved Stories – 1. FBI: 8:10 AM 12/15/2017 FBI stands for FOOLS, BUNGLERS, IDIOTS. And how about it? | ||||
Saved Stories Saved Stories – None FBI stands for FOOLS, BUNGLERS, IDIOTS. And how about it? 7:12 AM 12/15/2017 After Months Of Withering Criticism, Trump Prepares To Visit FBI NPR Republicans are worried about the integrity of Mueller’s team. That’s overblown. – Washington Post Mueller needs to make a change – Washington Post Justice Department … Continue reading“8:10 AM 12/15/2017 – “FBI” stands for “FOOLS, BUNGLERS, IDIOTS”. And how about it?” |
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GOP lawmaker claims FBI purged training documents. Here’s what we found | ||||
Did the Barack Obama administration ditch FBI material used to train counterterrorism agents?
At a House committee hearing on worldwide terror threats, Rep. Scott Perry, R-Pa., claimed the former administration purged information that could “allow us to see in totality the threat that faces America.” “Just curious if you can tell me if the FBI has taken any steps to reverse the previous administration’s purge of training courses and information about Islamism, jihad, Sharia, and the Muslim Brotherhood,” Perry asked FBI director Christopher Wray at the Nov. 30 hearing. Wray said he was not aware of efforts to purge training material. “They were purged in the last administration,” Perry told him. Is that true? Perry’s office did not respond to our requests for information. We found the FBI did rescind training material during the Obama administration — but it was less than 1 percent of 160,000 pages of training documents that were found to contain information that was factually inaccurate, imprecise or used stereotypes. The review came after media reports show that training material included claims identifying “mainstream” American Muslims as “likely to be terrorist sympathizers.” The Arab American Institute said the documents “crudely” depicted Arab Americans and American Muslims “as threatening, irrational, or otherwise abnormal.” Here’s what we know about the FBI’s review and rescinded documents. Reports of anti-Muslim training material Wired in July 2011 reported that part of a January 2009 presentation for new FBI recruits said that Islam “transforms (a) country’s culture into 7th-century Arabian ways.” Additional Wired reporting in September 2011 found that during a training session at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Va., agents were told that “mainstream” American Muslims were “likely to be terrorist sympathizers; that the Prophet Mohammed was a ‘cult leader’; and that the Islamic practice of giving charity is no more than a ‘funding mechanism for combat’.” A chart in the presentation contended that the more “devout” Muslims are, the likelier they are to be violent, Wired reported. The FBI distanced itself from the messages in the training. It told Wired that the presentation had a disclaimer saying the views expressed were of the author and “do not necessarily reflect the views of the U.S. government.” An FBI press release issued a day after Wired’s report said the training segment was presented only one time and quickly discontinued. At a November 2011 Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., asked then-Attorney General Eric Holder about the training material, presenting among examples a claim that ‘‘the Arabic mind is swayed more by ideas than facts.” “It is regrettable that that information was, in fact, a part of a training program,” Holder said, adding that there was an ongoing review of training material “to ensure that that kind of misinformation” was not being used, because it could undermine and negatively impact outreach efforts. The FBI reviewed 160,000 pages of material and eventually removed hundreds of pages from its training. Less than 1 percent of the material reviewed had “factually inaccurate or imprecise information or used stereotypes,” the FBI told Wired in February 2012. A March 2012 letter from Durbin to then-FBI Director Robert Mueller expressed disappointment that the FBI would not produce a written report on the material deemed inappropriate, and that it would not be publicly shared or given to Congress. Durbin’s letter said FBI briefers shared copies of “a handful” of the material with Senate Judiciary Committee staff, but were not allowed to keep the copies. The FBI did not confirm to PolitiFact if it eliminated such material, but referred us to public source material and 2012 congressional testimony. At a May 2012 House Judiciary Committee hearing on oversight of the FBI, Mueller said 876 inappropriate training documents had been removed after a review of 160,000 documents and over 1,000 videos, but did not specify what the material said. Judicial Watch, a conservative group that litigates on public corruption and other issues, said documents it obtained through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit showed that reasons cited for the removal of material included: “Article is highly inflammatory and inaccurately argues the Muslim Brotherhood is a terrorist organization,” and “author seems to conflate ‘Islamic Militancy’ with ‘terrorism’ and needs to define the difference and use it in their analysis.” “The excised material included references linking the Muslim Brotherhood to terrorism, tying al Qaeda to the 1993 World Trade Center and Khobar Towers bombings, and suggesting that ‘young male immigrants of Middle Eastern appearance … may fit the terrorist profile best’,” Judicial Watch said. Our ruling Perry said the Obama administration purged “training courses and information about Islamism, jihad, Sharia, and the Muslim Brotherhood.” The FBI removed nearly 900 training documents containing information that was inaccurate, imprecise or depicted stereotypes, after a review of 160,000 pages and more than 1,000 videos. The review came after 2011 media reports about training material portraying Muslims stereotypically and prone to violence. Though the FBI did not publicly disclose the material it rescinded, Judicial Watch said that through a lawsuit for information, it found that removed material included references to the Muslim Brotherhood. Perry’s statement is partially accurate but leaves out important details or takes things out of context. We rate it Half True.
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Representative Says the Obama administration purged “training courses and information about Islamism, jihad, Sharia, and the Muslim Brotherhood.” |
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Trump says Americans are ‘very, very angry’ at FBI before he pledges his support – Los Angeles Times | ||||
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Sessions says FBI ‘functioning at a high level’ after Trump criticism | ||||
Attorney General Jeff Sessions defended the FBI’s work Friday hours after President Trump said its reputation was ‘in tatters’. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
Attorney General Jeff Sessions defended the FBI Friday, hours after President Donald Trump ripped the bureau’s leadership and suggested that its reputation was “in tatters.” |
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Court rules against FBI in reporter impersonation document fight | ||||
A federal appeals court has sided with reporters in a court fight over documents that began after an FBI agent pretended to be an Associated Press journalist while investigating bomb threats at a Washington state high school. |
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The Trump-Putin War on American Intelligence Is in Overdrive | ||||
In my last column, I criticized the anti-Trump resistance for its excessive zeal in exposing Russian espionage, observing that counterintelligence work driven by politics and emotion rather than facts and discipline is bound to go wrong. At worst, we run the risk of a new wave of McCarthyism, with meandering witch-hunts for Kremlin agents (most of them imaginary) instead of serious counterspy efforts. |
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Trump and Putin Are Attack American Intelligence, FBI | ||||
President Donald Trump on the South Lawn of the White House on December 15, 2017. Alex Wong/Getty Images
In my last column, I criticized the anti-Trump “resistance” for its excessive zeal in exposing Russian espionage, observing that counterintelligence work driven by politics and emotion rather than facts and discipline is bound to go wrong. At worst, we run the risk of a new wave of McCarthyism, with meandering witch-hunts for Kremlin agents (most of them imaginary) instead of serious counterspy efforts. |
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Collusion Doesnt Have to be Criminal to be an Ongoing Threat | ||||
During the hearing with Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein on Wednesday, some members of the House Judiciary Committee did not try to conceal their attempt to discredit and derail Special Counsel Robert Muellers investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia during the 2016 election. The way that the Russia investigation has been framed has made it easy for them to do that: Its legitimacy appears to rest on finding a smoking gun of criminality a simple yes or no on whether any of the cast of characters in this saga commited a serious federal offence. (Photo Credit: BPA via Getty Images) |
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2:13 PM 12/15/2017 President Donald Trump said that there was tremendous anger over the FBIs disgraceful behavior | ||||
M.N.: And this is absolutely correct and the truth, regardless of his own problems. But it is more than that: the FBI’s behavior is not just “disgraceful”, it is plainly and overtly CRIMINAL in many instances, about which we simply do not know or do not know enough, and in various areas. We do have to … Continue reading“2:13 PM 12/15/2017 – President Donald Trump said that there was tremendous anger over the FBI’s disgraceful behavior” |
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Anger grows as Puerto Rico misses power restoration deadline | ||||
Nine of Puerto Rico’s 78 municipalities remain entirely without power, and thousands of businesses have closed. The lack of electricity and other ongoing problems have sparked an exodus to the U.S. mainland, with more than 130,000 Puerto Ricans fleeing the island. |
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Today’s Headlines and Commentary | ||||
President Donald Trump said that there was tremendous anger over the FBIs disgraceful behavior, criticizing the Bureau just before he appeared at its training facility in Quantico, Virginia, to praise the nations police officers, according to the Washington Post. Its a shame what happened to the FBI Trump told reporters as he prepared to depart for a ceremony at the FBIs National Academy, where more than 200 law enforcement officers graduated from a training program.. ICYMI: Yesterday on Lawfare Philip Carter explored how changing norms surrounding civilian-military relations as a result of the Trump administration may apply in the future. Email the Roundup Team noteworthy law and security-related articles to include, and follow us on Twitter and Facebook for additional commentary on these issues. Sign up to receive Lawfare in your inbox. Visit our Events Calendar to learn about upcoming national security events, and check out relevant job openings on our Job Board. |