If The FBI’s Contempt For The Law Is Not
Reined In, Its Abuses Will Get Worse
The Federalist,
by
Adam Mill
Original Article
Posted By: earlybird,
12/26/2019 9:42:33 AM
In 2018, the U.S. government filed 1,117 final applications to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act court for authority for the FBI to conduct electronic surveillance and physical searches. (Snip) The remaining 1,115 were granted.
Hours before the FISA court issued a December 17 order openly declaring that it could no longer trust any of the sworn statements the FBI had submitted to justify spying on Americans, The New York Times published an opinion article by William Webster, a former director of both the FBI and the CIA. Webster wrote, “Today, the integrity of the institutions that protect our civil order is, tragically, under assault from too many people whose job
Reply 1 - Posted by:
RuckusTom 12/26/2019 10:40:02 AM (No. 271612)
The USSA now has secret courts. That's a pretty big red flag hoisted above our country.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
fayebeck 12/26/2019 10:42:05 AM (No. 271613)
Let your heart not be troubled, those 99.9 percent of "dedicated, honest and hard working patriots" who make up the FBI will save it.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Highvoltage 12/26/2019 11:09:43 AM (No. 271640)
People like past director Webster are all part of the problem of corruption. The FBI has been idolized for so long it becomes an axiom they are a force for good when in fact the individuals are just as prone to corruption as the general population. The difference is they have policies and procedures if followed would help protect against corrupt actors in the bureau. It appears since those procedures were not followed by the upper levels of the bureau, the whole organization is now tainted and must be brought down and rebuilt. Webster has his head in a dark place of fantasy.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Daisymay 12/26/2019 11:53:42 AM (No. 271675)
I'm still waiting for President Trump to replace Christopher Wray. He is part of the group involved in the attempted Coup. He's Slippery, kind of like Rosenstein. Time to clean house! Wray will not let Trump get his hands on documents needed to prove the FBI was knee deep in trying the Coup!
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
lakerman1 12/26/2019 12:15:56 PM (No. 271686)
Here is the reality of the situation.
The U.S. has experienced a large influx of muslim immigrants over the past two decades, previously unseen.
Some of those muslim immigrants are now citizens, and while most of them are not American hating, filthy islamofascist terrorist pigs, some of them are exactly that. (Evidence is readily available to prove my point. Look for the blood at the Boston Marathon, or the homosexual nightclub in Orlando, or San Bernardino, or Memphis, or Fort Hood. or the D.C. Naval Yard.)
Someone in law enforcement at the national level, has to deal with the facts, and do the investigating..
Herr Mueller, post 9/11/01, cleansed FBI training manuals of discussions about Islam. President George W. Bush told us, two days after 9/11, that 'Islam is the religion of peace.'
This post, in some jurisdictions, would be construed to be a hate crime. But until we can have an honest discussion about the threats, the FBI will continue to bumble along, an American version of Inspector Clouseau.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
MDConservative 12/26/2019 12:47:56 PM (No. 271720)
Like the old joke...
Somebody call the cops!
We are the cops...
That's funny when they're beating up your BAD guys. Not so funny when they're whacking your GOOD guys.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
jeffkinnh 12/26/2019 2:44:29 PM (No. 271791)
"The FISA court used more accurate terminology, like “misconduct.”"
But here's the problem, this misconduct might be diminished through additional regulations or laws but it can never be stopped if there are people like Comey in charge. They decided, and still assert, that what they did was necessary, even though it violated rules and law. The sad truth is, there are ALWAYS people like Comey, Clapper, Brennan, etc, around. You cannot count on them to use dangerous tools correctly. What you can do is decide that a tool, like a secret court, is too dangerous for ANYONE to use.
Further, even if Dunham is extraordinarily successful in criminal prosecution and convictions, that deals with today's crooks. How about tomorrow"s crooks?
It is unfortunate that we might lose a useful tool for anti terrorism but this tool has spawned an assault on the presidency at a level never seen before. It perverted and corrupted our justice system in its use. Human nature is too untrustworthy to assume good intentions will prevail. They didn't. They WILL fail again.
We seek safety from terrorism and have traded off our citizen's rights against surveillance without a warrant but "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.". Due to the nature of some bad actors, we made a bad deal. We need to take our liberty back.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
JackBurton 12/26/2019 3:04:51 PM (No. 271797)
If The FBI’s Contempt For The Law Is Not
Punished with Criminal Sentencing, Its Abuses Will Get Worse
There. Fixed your headline.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
chumley 12/26/2019 8:15:37 PM (No. 271914)
Start by repealing the Patriot Act in its entirety. It was always nothing more than a federal power grab and some of us said so at the time. If so many of us regular schmos had it figured out, safe bet the entire government was fully in on it.
Second, completely repeal the FBI, ATF, NSA and restrict the CIA to foreign ops only. Laid off personnel will be ineligible for any sort of federal law enforcement for life. All records, both paper and computerized, will be completely destroyed.
Then we can start to rebuild a federal law enforcement system that respects the rights of all Americans, and can be suitably small to never again be a threat to liberty.
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Absolute power always corrupts!
Writing new procedures won't fix this.
There should have been strict oversight when any U.S. citizen was involved.
Justice John Roberts has lost all credibility and trust.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
judy 12/26/2019 11:11:35 PM (No. 271962)
So far Wray has been a complete disaster.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
MickTurn 12/27/2019 9:27:46 AM (No. 272200)
Wait for it, someday a person illegally targeted by the Fibbers Bureau of Idiots will go total Rogue or Vigilante...no telling what the outcome will be!
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Second headline: "The former CIA and FBI director’s article is a symptom of how the establishment media has become the propaganda arm of an increasingly robust U.S. authoritarian movement.”
The FISC was relying on the information provided by the FBI. It granted all but one warrant to spy. Now Webster defends the indefensible and the NYT dutifully publishes his weak and ill-considered op-ed piece.