Politics Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee have opened an investigation of the FBI & the DOJ

For decades, the FBI ran an illegal, unconstitutional counterintelligence program known as COINTELPRO. COINTELPRO targeted Americans engaged in lawful dissent. It focused on disrupting and trying to damage labor unions, the civil rights movement, peace movement, Black Panthers, and environmentalists. It used rumors and what we would now call "fake news" to try to discredit Martin Luther King and Malcolm X, in order to prevent what the FBI called "the rise of a black messiah". The FBI destroyed livelihoods, and sometimes lives, of dissenters in media, academia, the arts, and ordinary jobs. They were actively engaged in the murders of Fred Hampton and Mark Clark.

And NOW we hear the FBI is this bastion of liberalism out to destroy the god-chosen gatekeeper of American values, Donald Trump? What fucking planet am I living in?

As Senator Claire McCaskell put it, for years the Republican Party praised law enforcement and demanded getting tougher on Russia. Now they love Russia and hate law enforcement.

 

Nothing in the Constitution authorizes the FBI. So it is a complete creation of Congress which has never been properly done. Some of the powers give to the FBI logically should require amendments to the Constitution.

For instance, you can not be forced to incriminate yourself. Thus we have the 5th amendment.
Your Spouse can not be forced to testify against you.
The we have the FBI being able to charge you with lying to the FBI?

This is clearly not within the intent of the protections we as a people have in the Constitution.

The idea that the FBI must be semi separate from the Executive branch defiles sensible organization logic.
They are or would be unaccountable to anyone this way, especially with no link to the people.

This is just a start.


Actually the same applies to the Railroad police which is the pattern used to create the FBI.
An individual has no access to due process when abused by either of these organisations.
Totally unacceptable!

 

I am amazed that liberals think Trump is an idiot. He may be an asshole. He may be uncouth. He is by no means an idiot though in my opinion.

 

Ha!
All of the above and then some more adjectives are likely need to get an adequate picture.

But then, I do not think he is necessarily the same man we get pictured from 20 years ago either.

I know I am not.

 

Now we need to add a Special Investigation of Congress Collusion with The Russians, except Congress can't investigate itself, and all our other Investigative Agencies are currently subjects of investigations of Russian Collusion themselves, and Mueller's shown a Special Counsel is out of the question...

We need someone above reproach, like the NBA Referee Association!

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...ontact-dossier-author-christopher-steele.html

 

My point exactly.

 

Secrecy seemed very important to Warner as the conversation with Waldman heated up March 29, when the lobbyist revealed that Steele wanted a bipartisan letter from Warner and the committee’s chairman, North Carolina Republican Sen. Richard Burr, inviting him to talk to the Senate intelligence panel.


Throughout the text exchanges, Warner seemed particularly intent on connecting directly with Steele without anyone else on the Senate Intelligence Committee being in the loop -- at least initially. In one text to the lobbyist, Warner wrote that he would "rather not have a paper trail" of his messages.

 

So your twisted logic is that the FBI is crooked, but anti-liberal, so that's why liberals are defending the FBI now, and we should just let the FBI continue assassinating public figures who oppose corruption?

Your post makes me dizzy.