#WhitmerKidnapping#SwampRats 8/ FBI handling agents also failed to safeguard highly classified CHS material and often didn’t use secured lines of communication. All this ineptitude doesn’t come cheap to American taxpayers. Horowitz found that the FBI spent an average of $42 million annually between 2012 and 2018 on informants—and that’s paid out in cash with little to no accountability. Dan Chappel, the lead informant in the Whitmer fednapping, received at least $60,000 in cash and
#WhitmerKidnapping#SwampRats 17/ committing a crime. Absurd charges such as obstruction, conspiracy, and “parading” in the Capitol, a petty offense, are the equivalent of blowing up a jetliner or federal office building, according to the Biden regime. And propping up the phony narrative requires the use of sketchy informants, often working at the direction of equally sketchy FBI handlers.
#SwampRats 16/ “unacceptable in America. That’s not how it works. They don’t make terrorists so we can arrest them.” Unfortunately, that is precisely what’s happening in America, and it’s beyond unacceptable—it threatens national security as the FBI ignores legitimate dangers and destroys innocent lives. Further, the definition of “domestic terrorism” is statutorily vague so it can apply to minor infractions in the Capitol protest, even for those who had no intention or knowledge that they were
#WhitmerKidnapping#SwampRats 14/ This certainly was the case in the Whitmer fednapping scheme. Dozens of supervising agents, undercover employees, and informants stitched together the random group of outliers—the alleged ringleader, Adam Fox, lived alone in the dilapidated cellar of a strip mall vacuum repair shop without running water or a toilet—then organized training and surveillance trips to produce evidence before luring them to an arrest site in Ypsilanti, Michigan on October 7, 2020
#SwampRats 15/ But a Grand Rapids jury in April—Seraphin said these investigations rarely get to the prosecution stage—acquitted two men and ended with a hung jury for two others after the defense convinced jurors their clients had been entrapped by the FBI. (A second trial resulted in the conviction of the remaining defendants thanks to interference by the judge.) In a scathing closing argument during the first trial, Christopher Gibbons, Fox’s public defender, denounced the FBI’s conduct as
#WhitmerKidnapping#SwampRats 13/ The result, more often than not, Seraphin said, is the equivalent of entrapment. “There’s a moral definition that we all feel is entrapment but the legal definition is not the same. It’s predatory. People are building [their] FBI careers on predatory investigations of people who probably just need mental health care. They find the person they don’t like, then find the crime. It’s what they know, and it’s effective."
#WhitmerKidnapping#SwampRats 12/ “Informants really push to hold together groups that don’t want to be together. The FBI keeps using [informants] as a hub in a wheel,” Seraphin said. Deploying informants also allows for the introduction of FBI undercover agents, which puts in motion a multifaceted effort that ultimately involves U.S. attorneys, FBI supervising agents, intelligence analysts, and main Justice if it’s associated with a suspected domestic terror attack.
#WhitmerKidnapping#SwampRats 10/ “Some counterterrorism CHSs make hundreds of thousands of dollars,” Kyle Seraphin, an FBI whistleblower who worked in the bureau’s counterrorism division, told American Greatness by phone on Thursday. “Agents give piles of cash to their informants with five and six-figure payouts. And the informants working in criminal cases aren’t always upstanding citizens, Seraphin said. “Most are scumbags, usually. It’s rare you find one with a nine to five job.”
#SwampRats 11/ FBI agents are required to keep at least one source on the books, which often leads to problems for long-term informants. “They become needy, they call in the middle of the night, they get arrested,” Seraphin explained. “Sources are a pain in the ass.” But CHSs serve an important purpose in the modern-day FBI: to advance a political narrative beneficial to the Democratic Party and Biden regime, particularly the existence of “domestic violent extremists,” i.e., Trump supporters.
#WhitmerKidnapping#SwampRats 9/ personal items for roughly seven months’ work; the bureau even compensated Chappel for a loss after selling his home. Two months after six men were arrested for conspiring to kidnap Whitmer, an FBI agent handed Chappel an envelope with at least $23,000 in cash, presumably for a mission accomplished. (Agents could point would-be informants to financial incentives as a reason to become a source.)
https://x.com/tristanleavitt/status/1798792804744704244 Ironically, Goldman was one of the foremost Members arguing during the hearing that if one side of the Committee received information, the other side was entitled to it as well.
https://x.com/tristanleavitt/status/1798792931286888539 Goldman later said: “We’re in the dark, and that’s not how Congress works. That’s not how Committees work.” Then he asked me if it was how things were supposed to work.
I pointed out to him that it’s actually fairly common for whistleblowers to only talk to one side or the other, a point he seemed to concede.
But what is NOT common is an agency sharing information with a personal congressional office that it doesn’t share with anyone else.
https://x.com/tristanleavitt/status/1798792601774297188 But Marx later thanked the FBI official for “sending over those documents,” which he said were “very helpful to the Congressman.” So it sounds like it was more than just this letter.
https://x.com/tristanleavitt/status/1798792517858808085 Did Goldman’s staff get an advance copy of the letter of the May 17 smear letter? Maybe. Goldman certainly referenced it plenty in the hearing, including a portion the FBI completely made up about having warned Marcus Allen not to pass around information (which was literally part of his job).
https://x.com/tristanleavitt/status/1798791547246289344 The letter included a number of allegations about Marcus Allen the FBI did not even ask about in his clearance suspension interview. Some were a simple misunderstanding, and some were outright false and made up out of whole cloth, as he made clear in the May 18 hearing.
https://x.com/tristanleavitt/status/1798791454325981301 That same day as the FBI Congressional Affairs official handling Weaponization issues chatted with Goldman’s staff, that FBI office sent a letter to the Committee detailing allegations against Empower clients Marcus Allen and Steve Friend. (Steve Friend was also notified the same day that his clearance was revoked, with timing that as he pointed out was clearly “dubious.”)
https://x.com/tristanleavitt/status/1798787818237644928 The House Democrat report was released my second day as @ EMPOWR_us president after leaving my position on @ USMSPB two days earlier, where I adjudicated whistleblower cases. I had never seen anything so mangle the concept of whistleblowing as their report.
https://x.com/tristanleavitt/status/1798787513877979572 But in the meantime, on 3/2/23, House Democrats released a bunch of the interview transcripts in a smear report on the FBI whistleblowers. For instance, the report claimed @ JusticeOIG had rejected Steve Friend's disclosures—a claim the OIG soon corrected.
https://x.com/TrumpDailyPosts/status/1793422364291805509 "They’re gonna get special prosecutors and they're gonna go after the Biden family like they’ve never gone after anyone. And they’re going to find stuff. And then they’re going to go after Merrick Garland. They’re going to go after Mayorkas. They're not gonna stop. And that’s why they're scared… You’re never going to see anything like what they’re going to do in 2024.”
“The Office of Personal Management made it so that career civil servants cannot be reclassified as political appointees so that they can’t be fired and replaced”
The Biden Admin “Just issued a new rule that prevents him from overhauling the federal workforce if he returns.
That's right, the bureaucracy is preserving itself.
The FBI knew Colorado grocery store shooter Ahmad Alissa before he executed his attack. The FBI took no action. https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/03/23/us/boulder-colorado-shooting The FBI knew in advance of the Pulse Nightclub shooter (Omar Mateen) and were tipped off by the local sheriff. The FBI knew in advance of the San Bernardino Terrorists (Tashfeen Malik). The FBI knew in advance of the Boston Marathon Bombers (the Tsarnaev brothers) tipped off by Russians. The FBI knew in advance of the Parkland High School shooter (Nikolas Cruz).
Worse yet, the FBI never reported the sexual assaults to local law enforcement… and to top it off, the rank and vile FBI agents lied during the investigation of their conduct, and the DOJ under AG Bill Barr, and now under AG Merrick Garland, refused to prosecute the FBI liars. The FBI knowledge of the shooter, Malik Faisal Akram, who was known as Faisal Akram, was confirmed by The Daily Mail.https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10411809/How-did-British-terrorist-gunman-visa-enter-US.html
Akram ranted, prior to his travel to the U.S, that he wished he had died in the 9/11 terror attacks. He was a regular visitor to Pakistan, and reportedly a member of the Tablighi Jamaat group set up to ‘purify’ Islam. To say the U.S. intelligence system knew Faisal Akram would be an understatement. The FBI was also fully aware of the Boston Marathon bombers, the Tsarnaev brothers, before they executed their plot. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-explosions-boston-congress-idUSBREA2P02Q20140326
In July 2021, the DOJ OIG produced an absolutely damning Inspector General investigation of FBI conduct in the rape and sexual assault of U.S. Gymnasts, revealing how FBI agents facilitated Nassar’s sex crimes by taking no action despite numerous witness statements to them. PDF 👇🏽 https://oig.justice.gov/sites/default/files/reports/21-093.pdf
who are we kidding? If Republicans were in charge of the Senate Judiciary, Reform/Oversight, or Intelligence committees, do we really believe that anything would be different? Before responding to that cynicism, remind yourself, they were for four years, January 2015 through January 2019, Republicans in charge of oversight. It was exactly when Republicans were in charge of Main Justice and FBI oversight that Main Justice and FBI were targeting political candidate Donald Trump.
Grassley was admitting what has been visible for years. Senator Grassley is telling the corrupt DOJ-FBI leadership that people in the organizations are outlining the detailed behavior of their corrupt leadership. However, with zero oversight involved, and with Democrats in charge of all committees that would be responsible for such oversight, and with institutional media in alignment and agreement with the corrupt institutional intents of the DOJ/FBI, the frustrating question becomes, “and“?
It was in June 2022, when Senator Chuck Grassley sent a letter, pdf here 👇🏽 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EuxPN1hOA9pnSuCLazVexCKzAzY32Dqj/view to Attorney General Merrick Garland and FBI Director Chris Wray, notifying them of whistleblower allegations from within the FBI that senior leadership in both Main Justice and FBI are involved in a coordinated effort to cover up criminal activity related to Hunter Biden.
The U.S. Dept of Justice and FBI are now political institutions that have abandoned their originating mission in order to become the domestic equivalent of the Soviet-era FSB. Their joint targeting mechanisms have been redesigned to support the interests of corrupt DC politicians, specifically the interests of Democrats.
The modern FBI is the police agency of a weaponized U.S government, with a direct and purposeful mandate to keep the American people under control through strict surveillance and a violent police state.
The raid on Mar-a-Lago, just like the Robert Mueller investigation, was part of a long standing coverup operation. The FBI was looking for what Trump took with him as evidence of the weaponized system that targeted him. The FBI wanted that back. The FBI was willing to use deadly force to get it back if that’s what it took. https://www.declassified.live/p/fbi-authorized-use-of-deadly-force
Remember, the objective of the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago was to resecure what they perceived as physical evidence President Trump controlled showing how the DOJ and FBI action in 2016 was targeting him using the power of their law enforcement and intelligence agencies. In the background, the origination of all the DOJ/FBI/IC targeting goes back to the ’15/’16 FBI exploitation of the NSA database; this is not a contested discussion issue – it’s just continually forgotten. https://theconservativetreehouse.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/fisa-abuse-error-rate-v2.jpg
The FBI was using their access to the NSA metadata of all Americans, to conduct surveillance on political candidates that might be a threat to the power structures that exploited the secrets within the electronic records of all Americans. https://theconservativetreehouse.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/fisa-abuse-contractors-v2.jpg The FBI was, almost certainly still is, conducting domestic surveillance and tracking Americans just like the German Stasi or Soviet KGB. It’s still happening, but we are not supposed to talk about it, or something.
What the group describes about the FBI relationship with Antifa is exactly what CTH have previously discussed. There is no way for Antifa to operate as a domestic extremist group, without the expressed support and willful blindness of the FBI. Quite simply if the FBI wanted to stop the violent and extremist activity of Antifa, they could do that easily.
b. ADVOCATE for bold administrative action and FBI leadership change based on an assessment of the potential harm to the American people who, based on the Key Findings in this Report, are more vulnerable to exploitation and attack by highly motivated violent criminals, terrorist organizations, and our Nation’s adversaries because of the deteriorating trust in today's FBI. /end
6. The Key Findings detailed in the section below are followed by recommendations for an immediate, bi-partisan response by the appropriate Congressional Committees responsible for oversight of the U.S. Department of Justice and the FBI to:
a. IDENTIFY the extent of the damage to inter-agency information sharing and cooperation between local law enforcement and the FBI using historical documentation found in the FBI’s own self-inspection records.
4. The Sources and Sub-sources also include active-duty and retired veterans of the FBI who had direct access to and first-hand knowledge of the information provided.
5. Analysis of the information generated ten (10) Key Findings that point directly to a real-time, critical impact on Public Safety and National Security.
5. Analysis of the information generated ten (10) Key Findings that point directly to a real-time, critical impact on Public Safety and National Security.
2. This Report is a first-of-its-kind analysis of both solicited and unsolicited information collected from local law enforcement officers who as respected and experienced veterans of small, medium and large local law enforcement agencies shared their opinions of today’s FBI with unprecedented candor.
3. Beginning in February 2024 and continuing through June 2024, the Alliance received detailed, anecdotal reporting on local law enforcement’s disturbing loss of trust in the FBI - in direct correlation with the public’s unfavorable views of the FBI - from more than 30 independent, highly credible law enforcement Sources and Sub-sources.
1. This Report on Local Law Enforcement’s Loss of Trust in the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Critical Impact on Public Safety and National Security is being presented to the American people for full transparency and review by a National Alliance of retired and active-duty FBI Special Agents and Analysts in consultation and close coordination with trusted local law enforcement partners.
7. Today's tone-deaf FBI disregards the value of retired FBI special agents. 8. The new generation of sub-standard FBI special agents. 9. FBI management is too transitory and obsessed with self-promotion. 10. The FBI's cult of narcissism begins at the FBI Academy.
https://x.com/JMichaelWaller/status/1816587198315012201 The report's 10 key findings, submitted to Congress, reveal an FBI that's out of control and unreformable. 1. Local law enforcement officers do not trust the FBI. 2. No more actionable, substantive information sharing with FBI. 3. FBI National Academy graduates are troubled by the bias. 4. Crisis of confidence in FBI-led task forces. 5. The FBI is isolated and unresponsive to local law enforcement. 6. Local law enforcement officers feel disrespected by FBI special agents.
A system that hates its own citizens and abhors any form of populism — the reaction of citizens to the failures of their leaders.
We were founded as Constitutional Republic. But our current system is a hollow shell of that founding vision. That needs to change or our Founders' original vision is lost. The system understands this. And so it reacts.
https://x.com/themarketswork/status/1803469056785412574 We hear these arguments all too often. Trump is too divisive, creates too much chaos. Not worth the trouble. But the reason we have the chaos is because a corrupt establishment system is reacting from fear ~ fear of change, ~ loss of control. ~ Loss of Power. The chaos is coming FROM the establishment. It doesn't matter if it's Trump — anyone intending to upset the DC power structure would be attacked in exactly the same way. And with the same ferocity and vitriol.
We no longer have a truly free country or truly free markets. We haven't had either in decades. Free Speech is now a question rather than a statement of fact. This shift represents a colossal transfer of wealth and power to the "system" — and the establishment elite in DC. They will say and do anything to retain that power and the Trillions of dollars that come with it. It's not Trump that's doing the damage. It's a corrupted, out-of-control establishment that's reacting to protect itself.
https://x.com/CollinRugg/status/1798700227723149625 Former deputy director of the FBI Andrew McCabe says his friends in the intelligence community are considering fleeing the country because they are terrified of what Trump will do.
Good. If they did something wrong, they should be terrified.
“It’s terrifying. It's frightening. I have a lot of conversations with former colleagues, people who are or were in the intelligence community.”
https://x.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/1799100026754564485 Your FBI took a battering ram to our journalists homes and through violence, confiscated our reporter notebooks, contents of which magically wound up in the hands of the New York Times. Andy, maybe what you fear is who you are. Maybe you are what it is that you hate.
More recently, the FBI executed a search warrant on the home and office of Project Veritas and the founder James O’Keefe. While the raid was taking place, a New York Times reporter called O’Keefe to ask him about his thoughts on getting raided. The same New York Times journalist, a few days later, then begins writing about the confidential attorney-client privileged information illegally retrieved then leaked by the FBI during their raid.
[At this point, I am increasingly convinced by evidence there are elements within the FBI that are enablers involved in sex trafficking, human smuggling, abduction, counterfeiting, and money laundering as part of their operational mission.]
The FBI didn’t make a mistake or drop the proverbial ball in the Olympic gymnast case, they intentionally and specifically maintained the sexual exploitation of teenage girls by doing absolutely nothing with the complaints they received. This is not misconduct, this is purposeful. Then, as if to apply salt to the open wound of severe FBI politicization, what did the FBI do with the Hunter Biden laptop?
And of course, the FBI still had 13 extra agents available to rush to a NASCAR racetrack to investigate a garage door pull-down rope that might have been perceived as a noose; but the serial rape of hundreds of teenage girls, eh, not-so-much effort – even when they are standing in front of the FBI begging for help.
Journalists from the USA were walking around the compound after 48 hours, but it took the FBI another two weeks before the first investigator arrived…. All evidence long destroyed. Then, there’s the entirety of the FBI conduct in “Spygate”, the demonstrably evident FBI operation to conduct political surveillance against Donald Trump using their investigative authorities;
and the downstream consequences of a massive institutional effort to cover up one of the biggest justice department scandals in the history of our nation. The original effort against Donald Trump used massive resources from the DOJ and FBI. Heck, the coverup operation using the Mueller/Weissmann special counsel used more than 50 investigative FBI agents alone.
Have we forgotten the Atlanta “Olympic Park Bombing”, and the FBI intentionally setting up transparently innocent, Richard Jewel? What about the FBI failing to investigate the assassination of U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens in Benghazi. Did we forget when Robert Mueller’s FBI waited 19 days after the Benghazi attack before showing up at the compound?
Remember how sketchy everything about that was, including the child-like perpetrator telling a judge later that he was trying to walk back his guilty plea, because he was tricked into signing a confession for a crime he did not create. https://www.scribd.com/document/405195016/Cesar-Sayoc-Letter-to-Judge
Yes, you read that correctly, the FBI took the terrorists to the event and then watched it unfold. “An FBI trainer suggested in an interview with “60 Minutes” that, had the attack been bigger, the agency’s numerous ties to the shooter would have led to a congressional investigation.”
The FBI knew in advance of the Fort Hood shooter (Nidal Hasan), and the FBI knew in advance of Colorado grocery store shooter Ahmad al-Aliwi Alissa. The FBI took no action. The case of the first recorded ISIS attack on U.S. soil was in Garland, Texas in 2015. The FBI not only knew the shooters (Elton Simpson and Nadir Soofi) in advance, BUT the FBI ALSO took the shooters to the venue and were standing only a few yards away when Simpson and Soofi opened fire.