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Agree. But how? We can’t end it until we gain control of government again. And to do that we need to demand transparency and decentralization in government. What we need is a transparency movement. #bitcoin #transparency #transparencymovement https://joshketry.substack.com/p/what-we-need-is-a-transparency-movement

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Apr 9, 2022Liked by SimulationCommander

The beginning of several articles to come, I hope. I understood that there were certain FBI agents who were aware of HRC's email tricks but were too afraid to come before Congress because of their jobs. Is that true? How can investigative journalists find out? Does anybody care that HRC violated all sorts of laws? And so we continue.

One day we must understand why Trump didn't fire the entire 7th floor. He started the clean-up but left Wray who is part & parcel of the self-serving leadership. I do believe that many of the FBI sworn officers are honorable people. I served with such people in the military so I am reasonably sure they are there. Generally such people are not overtly political and simply want to do their sworn duty. How can we account for the corruption in the Whitmer case? All of those officers should be allowed to resign or be fired.

I hope the interminable Laptop from Hell gets a full examination by the Congress and another batch of agents required to resign or get fired.

Where is that guy, Mr D or something, with a lamp when we need him? I can hope for a Trump or Trump-like person to become our Chief and act to clean up the mess created by complacency and rank incompetence.

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This is a sad, sad story. I worked with the FBI in some of its most sensitive operations between 1982 and 1986. They were always the trusted intermediary. In fact, at one point when I was working on the National Security Council Staff under Admiral Poindexter, a coworker - Oliver North - told me he wanted to introduce me to someone he thought I would like. We went next-door in the Pentagon basement's segmented secret squirrel cage, and he introduced me to my brother-in-law. North began bragging about all of his exploits, unaware that the fellow in the corner was Dave Major, a highly-credible well-known FBI agent, who took notes.

North was out on his ass not long after that.

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Friggin Bastards Incorporated

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Wait a minute... You mean "The X-Files" isn't a documentary?

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Apr 9, 2022Liked by SimulationCommander

Power corrupts. As long as they have enough power to corrupt justice, whining about them on the internet is useless. They're stronger than any of us, but not stronger than all of us. The solution is to reduce their power. They can be beaten with proper supervision. Focus on electing rational government and we'll bring them to heel.

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Apr 9, 2022·edited Apr 9, 2022Liked by SimulationCommander

It has been used as a political weapon from the outset in 1924, and it should never have been created in the first place, Its existence is a violation of the Tenth Amendment, another power grab by the centralised Federal Government, to negate various provisions of the Bill of Rights by illegal and unconstitutional acts. Too often, it has been used - especially under J Edgar Hoover, the epitome of a spiteful, unaccountable, and far too powerful federal bureaucrat - to protect and perpetuate organized crime.

"Decency, security, and liberty alike demand that government officials shall be subjected to the same rules of conduct that are commands to the citizen. In a government of laws, existence of the government will be imperiled if it fails to observe the law scrupulously. Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.

To declare that in the administration of the criminal law the end justifies the means—to declare that the government may commit crimes in order to secure the conviction of a private criminal—would bring terrible retribution. Against that pernicious doctrine this court should resolutely set its face." Olmstead, 277 U.S. at 478-79 (1927) (Brandeis, J., dissenting), cited in https://olemiss.edu/depts/ncjrl/pdf/2009%20Steiker.pdf

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Apr 9, 2022Liked by SimulationCommander

Well done! I learned some things here. Considering that most of the Republicans are likely bought, shutting down the FBI isn’t likely.

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Apr 9, 2022Liked by SimulationCommander

Pay close attention to this comment section, especially starting 8 or so hours after this post is fresh.

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Apr 9, 2022·edited Apr 9, 2022

While the discussion on the bloat of the administrative state is for another day I think we need to really assess what the problem is at the FBI and our other institutions. Despite the many mistakes of the FBI over the years it was still the premier law enforcement agency. However it no longer is because it has been politicized and dominated by elites who believe they are entitled to “reimagine” the agency to meet their enlightened agenda. We see the same thing at places like Disney that has been captured by a minority group espousing fringe view. However, they like their counterparts in government believe they are entitled to run these institutions by virtue of their moral and intellectual superiority thus making anyone questioning that an evil that needs tk be silenced or worse

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Whatsamatta? They ain't got no more Efrem Zimbalist Jrs. to run the place?

Ever notice how good Hollywood is at making us forget there was ever a J. Edgar Hoover? All that sage-smudging with Scott Glenn and Jodie Foster, and a really cartoonish Hannibal Lecter to keep folks watching through iteration and reiteration of the heroic saga. (The Lecter of the books was an extraordinary creation and the Brian Cox and Mads Mikkelsen versions were good interpretations, but they're all supporting scaffolding for the important work of mythologizing a fetid agency.)

Our civilization is being brought down by tawdriness, and really, I'd have preferred, at least, to have had the dignity of a demise at the hands of Genghis Khan, or someone.

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Apr 9, 2022·edited Apr 9, 2022Liked by SimulationCommander

The U.S. Marshalls were created in 1789 to enforce Federal law and go after interstate fugitives. FBI, DHS, CIA, BATFE, DEA, NSA, DIA, why the hell do we need multiple agencies whose "jobs" technically overlap? It cannot be for redundancy because they are all equally incompetent. Maybe just maybe, if we had specific agencies for specific things with hard limits on their authority, they might just be somewhat competent at their actual jobs!

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Apr 9, 2022Liked by SimulationCommander

J Edgar blazed a trail that they continue to follow. I am of the opinion that we need to eliminate 90% of our Federal Government agencies...

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It certainly is a political weapon and proof of the Deep State. Funny how it’s never used against leftist scum.

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Apr 9, 2022Liked by SimulationCommander

And while we're at it, let's end the Department of Education, Transportation, and Interior....to name a few.

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