Weaponization of government.

[Judge Roybeanbag 11819]

Aside from the fact most people who use that term have to look it up, in order to spell it.

what is it? 
 

good or bad?

[Neonmoon 38129]

The people who use talk about it are the ones doing it 

[Longhorn_Fan68 33879]

5 minutes ago, Neonmoon said:

The people who use talk about it are the ones doing it 

what my dunk friend here is trying to say is that the ones who use the phrase are also the ones who are doing it. once again, every accusation is a confession

Edited August 2, 2023 by Longhorn_Fan68

[Nivek 16946]

This was a Tahoe talking point years ago.

[Stilicho 1397]

3 hours ago, Nivek said:

This was a Tahoe talking point years ago.

Also one of Timothy McVeigh's talking points before he mass murdered 168 folks in OKC. It's a call to terrorism.

[Js1 85447]

4 hours ago, Nivek said:

This was a Tahoe talking point years ago.

I hope he choked on a donut 

[Surly Bevo 25084]

Sure the government can be weaponized.  Usually by totalitarian/authoritarian types, or ya know guys who are trying to refuse to leave office in a democracy with a 200+ year legacy of the peaceful transfer of executive power.  

[Dbeasy 15074]

5 hours ago, Judge Roybeanbag said:

Aside from the fact most people who use that term have to look it up, in order to spell it.

what is it? 
 

good or bad?

It’s what people who have committed horrific crimes say when they finally get charged. 

[GopherRock 1765]

Every Republican accusation is a confession. 

[speed817 19399]

People over at Texags has the answer you are looking for....

[Pescado_Rojo 19426]

That's what happens when the "in" group, whom laws were designed to protect but not bind, are suddenly held accountable to the laws they created but never expected to have to abide by. 

[C-Man 27235]

On 8/3/2023 at 6:25 AM, GopherRock said:

Every Republican accusation is a confession. 

Case in point: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/exclusive-a-veteran-fbi-agent-told-congress-that-investigations-into-giuliani-and-other-trump-allies-were-suppressed/ar-AA1f1TKg

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An FBI veteran said his superiors suppressed investigations of Trump, Insider can exclusively reveal.

"Are we going to do public corruption or not?" the whistleblower told Insider.

He said his boss ordered him to stop investigating Giuliani and the Trump White House.

A veteran FBI counterintelligence agent says his supervisor told him to stop investigating Rudy Giuliani and to cut off contact with any sources who reported on corruption by associates of former President Donald Trump, according to a whistleblower complaint obtained by Insider.

The agent, who served 14 years as a special agent for the bureau, including a long stint in Russia-focussed counter-intelligence, claims in a 22-page statement that his bosses interfered with his work in "a highly suspicious suppression of investigations and intelligence-gathering" aimed at protecting "certain politically active figures and possibly also FBI agents" who were connected to Russian and Ukrainian oligarchs.

The statement, which was prepared for staffers of the Senate Judiciary Committee, was apparently leaked and posted in mid-July to a Substack newsletter. Insider has independently obtained a copy of the complaint and verified its authenticity, but has not corroborated all of its claims.

In an interview with Insider, the whistleblower said he was motivated by a desire to improve the FBI, which he called "essential, as imperfect as it is," because of its sweeping power to hold "policymakers accountable, whether they're on the left or the right."

"This is a decision point," he said. "Are we going to do public corruption or not?"

Insider is withholding the name of the whistleblower because he has made claims about retaliation from the FBI, where he remains an employee, and because he is in the process of seeking whistleblower protections from Congress. 

"It's highly unfortunate that this statement wound up being leaked and published," said Scott Horton, an attorney representing the whistleblower. "We're in the preliminary stages of a confidential process. I'm unable to make any other comment." 

The whistleblower told Insider that he was finally ordered to stop investigating Giuliani and the rest of the Trump White House in August 2022, after months of what he says were persistent efforts to frustrate his work, at a meeting with three FBI supervisors at a bureau field office. Insider was able to confirm the agent's account of the meeting with a second source with knowledge of what took place.

The meeting had been called to discuss the 14-year veteran's job performance. As one of the bureau's few Russian-speaking counterintelligence specialists, he maintained a network of overseas sources that had been utilized by agents across the country to investigate everything from money laundering to political corruption, according to his statement. He said his work had been recognised with eight consecutive years of "excellent" or "outstanding" performance appraisal reports running from 2010 to 2018,  and he had been tapped to help verify information obtained by investigators working for Robert Mueller during his time as special counsel.

But in the August 2022 meeting, he was called onto the carpet to discuss "performance issues and concerns" and given suggestions for how to improve, according to the agent's account provided to lawmakers. The directions he received included a strict prohibition on filing intelligence reports relating to Giuliani or any other Trump associate.

The 2022 meeting was the culmination of what the agent viewed as a years-long effort to frustrate his investigations into potential wrong-doing by political figures in Trump's circle, stretching back to Trump's stint in the White House. In January 2022, he had filed an internal complaint under the Whistleblower Protection Act alleging "numerous acts of intelligence suppression of my reporting related ot foreign influence and the Capital riots, retaliatory acts and defamation of my own character."

 

 

[softlynow 1816]

On 8/2/2023 at 2:28 PM, Nivek said:

This was a Tahoe talking point years ago.

The warning signs that he was a piece of shit showed up all the way back on hornfans. His annual praising of Alabama celebrating a traitor to the Unites States being an obvious one.