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Re: Police State - Official Thread
« Reply #5325 on: September 02, 2022, 08:07:48 AM »

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« Reply #5326 on: September 13, 2022, 06:58:34 AM »
Intimidation: FBI Turns Up on Doorstep of Trump Supporter Who Wasn't Even at the US Capitol on January 6
Red State ^ | 09/12/2022 | Nick Arama
Posted on 9/13/2022, 12:34:47 AM by SeekAndFind


Tucker Carlson and Lisa Gallagher. (Credit: Columbia Bugle)

We’ve been reporting on the efforts of the federal law enforcement bureaucracy to harass and target Trump allies with reported FBI raids on the homes of supporters to execute search warrants, and the DOJ dropping subpoenas on people.

Now one New Jersey woman, Lisa Gallagher, has come forward saying that the FBI showed up on her doorstep the morning after Joe Biden delivered his “anti-MAGA” speech. Gallagher is not a “Trump ally” — she’s just a regular person and Trump supporter. She appeared on Tucker Carlson Tonight on Monday to share the story.

Tucker Carlson Discussing The FBI’s Raid Of Trump Supporter Lisa Gallagher In His Monologue

“The point was to use government agents to intimidate enemies of the Regime.”

“This is Soviet and there is no other word for it.” pic.twitter.com/GVdQ9aFSrw

— The Columbia Bugle 🇺🇸 (@ColumbiaBugle) September 13, 2022

Tucker Carlson Interviews Trump Supporter Lisa Gallagher About Being Raided By The FBI Over The False Report That She Was At The Capitol On January 6th

Lisa: “After seeing Joe Biden’s speech the night before I thought oh my God this is political, and I was frightened.” pic.twitter.com/vwNEyynGrj

— The Columbia Bugle 🇺🇸 (@ColumbiaBugle) September 13, 2022

Gallagher said she was terrified when federal agents showed up on her doorstep. She said that although she knew she had done nothing wrong, she had watched Biden’s speech the night before, so she thought this was political. She explained that the FBI agents told her they had received an anonymous tip that she was at the Capitol on January 6. She invited them into her home and showed them her calendars to show that she hadn’t been at the Capitol on that day.

Now, if this is all true, this is a frightening thing. At this point, after two years, they have to know of anyone who did anything at the Capitol on Jan. 6. Are they truly trying to chase down people because of a random tip from someone? That’s terrifying not only because of the intimidation involved from the FBI, but that anyone could now turn in someone they don’t like with such a seemingly flimsy accusation. That is the kind of thing that happens in fascist and Communist nations.

Where are the Republicans calling all this out? The Republicans have been silent since on the stories of the subpoenas and the raids. Now, this isn’t even a “Trump ally,” but just a regular person. They should be even more concerned about that kind of action. Yet they seem very quiet. You don’t stop it by being quiet. You stop it by asking questions and demanding answers. You stop it by shining a bright light on it.


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Re: Police State - Official Thread
« Reply #5327 on: September 13, 2022, 07:25:14 AM »

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Re: Police State - Official Thread
« Reply #5328 on: September 16, 2022, 07:59:17 AM »
Facebook spied on private messages of Americans who questioned 2020 election
New York Post ^ | 9/14/2022 | Miranda Devine
Posted on 9/15/2022, 11:53:52 AM by Tench_Coxe

Facebook has been spying on the private messages and data of American users and reporting them to the FBI if they express anti-government or anti-authority sentiments — or question the 2020 election — according to sources within the Department of Justice.

Under the FBI collaboration operation, somebody at Facebook red-flagged these supposedly subversive private messages over the past 19 months and transmitted them in redacted form to the domestic terrorism operational unit at FBI headquarters in Washington, DC, without a subpoena.

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Re: Police State - Official Thread
« Reply #5329 on: September 19, 2022, 08:09:21 AM »
HORRIBLE !


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Re: Police State - Official Thread
« Reply #5330 on: September 24, 2022, 02:40:34 AM »
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FBI misled judge who signed warrant for Beverly Hills seizure of $86 million in cash
latimes.com ^ | September 23, 2022 | MICHAEL FINNEGAN
Posted on 9/23/2022, 9:14:56 PM by lowbridge

The privacy invasion was vast when FBI agents drilled and pried their way into 1,400 safe-deposit boxes at the U.S. Private Vaults store in Beverly Hills.

They rummaged through personal belongings of a jazz saxophone player, an interior designer, a retired doctor, a flooring contractor, two Century City lawyers and hundreds of others.

Agents took photos and videos of pay stubs, password lists, credit cards, a prenuptial agreement, immigration and vaccination records, bank statements, heirlooms and a will, court records show. In one box, agents found cremated human remains.

Eighteen months later, newly unsealed court documents show that the FBI and U.S. attorney’s office in Los Angeles got their warrant for that raid by misleading the judge who approved it.

They omitted from their warrant request a central part of the FBI’s plan: Permanent confiscation of everything inside every box containing at least $5,000 in cash or goods, a senior FBI agent recently testified.

The FBI’s justification for the dragnet forfeiture was its presumption that hundreds of unknown box holders were all storing assets somehow tied to unknown crimes, court records show.

It took five days for scores of agents to fill their evidence bags with the bounty: More than $86 million in cash and a bonanza of gold, silver, rare coins, gem-studded jewelry and enough Rolex and Cartier watches to stock a boutique.

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Re: Police State - Official Thread
« Reply #5331 on: September 26, 2022, 04:37:00 AM »
Did the FBI Finally Go Too Far?
American Thinker ^ | 26 Sep, 2022 | Jack Cashill
Posted on 9/26/2022, 7:35:22 AM


On reading about the Saturday arrest of pro-life activist Mark Houck, I thought the author at this alternative site had to be exaggerating. It struck me as beyond belief that two dozen or so armed FBI agents would swarm the house of a Catholic father of seven, rifles drawn, and arrest him in front of his weeping children for anything short of murder.

I have had to recalibrate my belief system. The “crime” fell quite a bit short of murder. On October 13, 2021, Houck brought his 12-year-old son with him for his weekly sidewalk counseling outside of a Planned Parenthood abortion clinic in Philadelphia. A volunteer escort at the abortion clinic reportedly called Houck’s son a “fag” among other insults and threatened him. Houck pushed the man away from his son, and the man fell. Houck, the founder of an organization that promotes Christian virtue among men, was not charged with a crime.

However petty the incident, U.S. Attorney’s Office, Eastern District of Pennsylvania, had Houck seized at gunpoint nearly a year later and bragged about the arrest. Said PR hack Jennifer Crandall in a press release, Houck “assaulted a man because he was a volunteer reproductive health care clinic escort.”

Before proceeding, this sentence needs parsing. The most problematic word is “because.” Houck has had hundreds of opportunities to assault escorts if their offense in his eyes was to be an escort. Although the press release claims two incidents on that same day with the man, Houck had no prior or subsequent altercations.

Then there is the Orwellian phrase “reproductive health care clinic escort.” Ms. Crandall is somehow fusing the “reproductive rights” euphemism favored by abortion activists with the function of the escort, whose mission, of course, is to assure that no reproduction takes place on his watch.

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Re: Police State - Official Thread
« Reply #5333 on: September 27, 2022, 12:13:40 PM »
FBI Changes Total Number of Documents Seized From Trump’s Estate
Epoch Times ^ | September 26, 2022 | By Zachary Stieber
Posted on 9/27/2022, 2:33:01 PM by Red Badger

The FBI on Sept. 26 changed the total number of documents it said it seized from former President Donald Trump’s estate.

Sixty-three additional documents or photographs without classification markings were taken from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort than previously listed by the FBI, according to an updated inventory list.

The revised inventory was submitted to the federal court in southern Florida on orders from U.S. District Judge Raymond Dearie, a Reagan appointee who was inserted into the case as a special master, or an independent third party to handle disputes and other matters.

Dearie ordered a government official “with sufficient knowledge of the matter” to submit a declaration or affidavit stating whether the detailed property inventory released on Sept. 2 “represents the full and accurate extent of the property seized from” Trump’s home in August when FBI agents executed a search warrant there.

An FBI supervisory special agent, whose name was redacted, fulfilled the order. The agent, based in Washington, said he or she leads a squad of special agents, intelligence analysts, and other personnel in carrying out counterintelligence and espionage investigations, and that their team executed the warrant.

The earlier inventory was performed by the agent and workers under their direction but, wanting to make sure the inventory was accurate, “I and FBI personnel working under my direction conducted an additional review and recount of the Seized materials in order to make this declaration,” the agent told Dearie.

That resulted in some “minor revisions,” the agent acknowledged.

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An Epoch Times review of the earlier and current inventory list showed the differences included 63 non-classified documents or photographs being added to the total the FBI said it seized. Additionally, the new list contains two fewer magazines/newspapers/press articles and two fewer empty folders with “CLASSIFIED” banners.

Some of the boxes seized from Trump’s home were said to contain more documents now; others were said to contain fewer.

The update, if accurate, means the government seized over 11,200 non-classified materials from Mar-a-Lago.

The agent said he or she declared, under the penalty of perjury, that they were “not aware of” any documents or other materials seized from Trump’s home that are not listed in the updated inventory, with the exception of materials taken by the government’s filter team.

That squad was focused on identifying and segregating materials they thought could fall under attorney-client privilege.

A spokesman for Trump did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The updated inventory excludes documents marked classified, based on a recent appeals court order that blocked Dearie and Trump’s lawyers from reviewing the said documents. The earlier inventory listed 103 documents with classification markings.

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Re: Police State - Official Thread
« Reply #5334 on: September 27, 2022, 03:39:05 PM »

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FBI Seized $86 Million In Raid On Innocent Americans’ Safe Boxes After Duping Judge For Warrant
The Federalist ^ | SEPTEMBER 27, 2022 | Evita Duffy
Posted on 9/27/2022, 11:42:29 AM by george76

‘The government’s theory is that having cash makes you a presumptive criminal, and I think every American should be worried about that.’

There is no denying anymore that our federal agencies have weaponized their power against the political adversaries of the left. But if you think the feds’ abandonment of all standards only affects outspoken critics of the regime, think again. More allegations of FBI corruption and hubris are coming to light after a lawsuit last week revealed FBI agents misled a judge so they could illegally seize and withhold property from innocent American citizens.

Agents took more than $86 million in cash, jewelry, and gold from 1,400 safe deposit boxes during the raid of a Beverly Hills vault company in March 2021. Lawyers representing a group of deposit box owners claim their items were illegally taken and not returned to them more than a year after the raid of the Beverly Hills, California, branch of U.S. Private Vaults.

Seizing Innocent Americans’ Assets..

This past March, a year after the raid, the owners of U.S. Private Vaults pleaded guilty to conspiracy to launder drug money. However, the hundreds of citizens whose assets were seized by the FBI are not suspected of any crimes, according to court documents.

Deposit box holders whose property was taken sued the bureau for violating their rights. Robert Frommer, a lawyer with the Institute for Justice, the libertarian, nonprofit law firm that filed the suit, said in the court papers: “We brought suit on behalf of seven clients, but we were representing a class of at least 400 people. What we’ve been trying to show for the past several months is that the government’s actions violated the search-and-seizure protections of the US Constitution in the Fourth Amendment.”

According to Los Angeles Magazine, federal agents “manhandled the personal belongings” of box holders and “made video and photo records of customers’ most sensitive documents: pay stubs, password lists, credit cards, a prenuptial agreement, immigration and vaccination records, bank statements and a will all made it into government databases, court docs show.” The feds also found cremated human remains (“we presume of a legally interred person,” LA Magazine notes) while snooping in one person’s box.

Jennifer and Paul Snitko were two of those people who kept items at the Beverly Hills U.S. Private Vaults. The couple placed wills, backup hard drives, old family watches, and Paul’s flight log in their deposit box until their personal possessions were seized during the raid. The couple kept their valuables in the vault because they live in a fire-prone area and worried they could miss taking some of their important belongings during California’s frequent fire evacuations.

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Jennifer and Paul are just two of many people who had no idea that U.S. Private Vaults might have been breaking the law since the establishment had been open for years and was a member of the Beverly Hills Chamber of Commerce.

After the raid, the feds demanded that box holders submit to an investigation before having their possessions returned. “It was scary to learn that we had to submit our personal information,” said Jennifer with tears in her eyes. “We didn’t do anything wrong.”

Minutes after Jennifer and Paul announced a lawsuit with the Institute for Justice, an FBI agent reached out, saying their belongings would be returned. However, other box holders have still not received their property back. And as the Institute for Justice points out, the government had no right to seize their property and force them to prove their innocence in the first place.

FBI Misleads Judge Kim to Obtain a Warrant..

Agents appeared to have gotten their warrant to raid the vault by neglecting to tell U.S. Magistrate Judge Steve Kim, who signed the warrant, that they intended to keep all the assets found in every safe deposit box containing $5,000 or more in cash and valuables.

The failure on the part of the FBI and the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Los Angeles to reveal the plan to confiscate private citizens’ belongings in the warrant application was revealed in FBI documents and depositions of agents in the aforementioned lawsuit. Agents further defied restrictions set in the warrant by Kim when they searched through box holders’ belongings for evidence of crimes. The warrant explicitly noted that it “does not authorize a criminal search or seizure of the contents of the safety deposit boxes,” but only allowed the FBI to look inside in order to identify the owners and return their property to them, Institute for Justice reported.

“The government did not know what was in those boxes, who owned them, or what, if anything, those people had done,” wrote Frommer. “That’s why the warrant application did not even attempt to argue there was probable cause to seize and forfeit box renters’ property.”

FBI Tries Skirting Judge Klausner’s Orders..

Three months after the raid, in June 2021, U.S. District Judge R. Gary Klausner issued a temporary restraining order, stopping the FBI’s attempt to keep the property it seized from 369 of the safe deposit boxes because investigators had not proven that the box owners had committed any crimes.

“This notice, put bluntly, provides no factual basis for the seizure of Plaintiffs’ property whatsoever,” stated the judge in his ruling, citing the Fifth Amendment’s protection against the seizure of property without due process.

But the FBI wants to hold onto the fortune it acquired from the raid. Last Friday, prosecutors “filed complaints to confiscate money from more box holders,” the Los Angeles Times reported.

Three months after Klausner’s ruling, the government asked a judge to let it keep $154,600 in cash from one box holder and $330,000 from another because a drug-sniffing dog alerted to the money and both owners had “applied unsuccessfully for state licenses to sell marijuana.”

U.S. attorneys suggested that shows “the funds are drug-related,” but as Los Angeles Magazine said, “at least two other vaults were used by licensed marijuana sellers… [so] the scent could have spread from any of the cash in the bank where the government was storing all of its questionably confiscated bonanza.”

The government also wants to keep $960,100 and $519,000 in cash it took from the boxes of two brothers based on its belief that one of them had “been in contact with” suspected armed robbers — an attempt their lawyer calls “an appalling and unconstitutional abuse of power.”

Prosecutors accused the owner of a box holding $900,000 of being “either a top-level drug trafficker or money launderer” because the man bundled his cash in assorted rubber bands, tape-wrapped paper, bank bands, and shopping bags.

The feds were reportedly forced to give back the $57,000 life savings of unemployed chef Joseph Ruiz after insisting there was no way he could have legally saved up that kind of cash. Ruiz proved otherwise.

As Los Angeles Magazine’s Ian Spiegelman reported, the FBI and U.S. Attorney’s Office have denied they “misled the judge or ignored conditions of the warrant, saying agents had no obligation to tell Judge Kim they planned to ransack the privately-rented boxes under the umbrella theory that every customer was a black market mastermind.” According to FBI spokeswoman Laura Eimiller, the warrants were executed legally “based on allegations of widespread criminal wrongdoing.”

U.S. Private Vaults closed down, and only the owners have been charged and fined for laundering drug money. Not one person involved has been sent to prison.

The FBI’s Laundry List of Malfeasance..

While the FBI PR team is stridently maintaining the agency’s innocence, the American people have no reason to believe them. We already know lying to judges isn’t outside the FBI’s wheelhouse after it launched the Russia collusion hoax against President Donald Trump by lying to the FISA court about the credibility of Christopher Steele, author of the debunked Steele dossier.

The FBI, under the purview of Biden-appointed Attorney General Merrick Garland, appears to have entirely discarded all semblance of integrity by now. Last Friday, pro-life activist and Catholic father of seven Mark Houck was arrested by what his wife described as a swarm of 25 to 30 FBI agents — for alleged “FACE Act” violations — at his home while his traumatized children looked on “screaming.”

Houck isn’t the only prominent conservative who has received a personal FBI visit. Last month, the FBI raided the Mar-a-Lago home of former President Donald Trump. The government is also targeting the former president’s advisers and outspoken supporters, such as Rudy Giuliani, Jeff Clark, and Mike Lindell.

Last week, a whistleblower came forward alleging that the FBI is moving its agents off of child sexual abuse cases to instead pursue its Jan. 6 witch hunt. The FBI’s 2022 budget has its largest funding increase request under the category of combatting “domestic terrorism,” a label the left uses to smear its ideological opponents at will. A notable example occurred last year when the FBI launched investigations into “terrorist” parents who express concerns at local school board meetings.

Earlier this month, it was revealed that for years the FBI has been secretly pressuring Americans into signing forms that relinquish their constitutional right to own, purchase, or even use firearms.

The agency also interfered in the 2020 election by preemptively branding the Hunter Biden laptop story as Russian disinformation for Facebook (and likely other platforms) to censor.

It has yet to be seen whether the FBI will return all the savings of the innocent Americans caught up in the U.S. Private Vaults raid, or whether taking money from people with baseless allegations is a new funding tactic for the feds.

Lawyers representing the box holders are insistent this is a case all Americans need to pay attention to. “The government’s theory is that having cash makes you a presumptive criminal,” said Ruiz’s lawyer, “and I think every American should be worried about that.

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Re: Police State - Official Thread
« Reply #5335 on: November 02, 2022, 08:45:39 AM »

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Re: Police State - Official Thread
« Reply #5336 on: December 20, 2022, 10:19:38 AM »

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« Reply #5337 on: December 20, 2022, 10:30:24 AM »
Latest ‘Twitter Files’ show FBI bullied executives over not reporting ‘state propaganda’ enough
nypost ^ | 12/19/2022 | allie griffin
Posted on 12/19/2022, 1:37:03 PM by bitt

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The FBI repeatedly grilled Twitter execs about censorship on the social media platform in the summer of 2020 — insisting that the company provide more information about removing “state propaganda” from the site, according to the latest Twitter Files release.

The agency’s Foreign Influence Task Force — which deals with cyber threats — interrogated Twitter on its reporting about official state media actors’ use of the site, according to emails unearthed by independent journalist Matt Taibbi in what he dubbed the “Twitter Files Supplemental” Sunday night.

San Francisco FBI agent Elvis Chan pressured former Twitter trust and safety chief Yoel Roth in July 2020 for more information about how they prevented bad actors from using the platform, according to screengrabs of email correspondence posted by Taibbi.

Chan was not satisfied with Twitter’s indication that it “had not observed much recent activity from official propaganda actors on your platform,” the emails show.

Roth, in return, commented on the persistence of the agency, stating that he was “perplexed” by the probing inquiry.



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« Reply #5338 on: December 21, 2022, 06:07:18 AM »

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Re: Police State - Official Thread
« Reply #5339 on: December 21, 2022, 12:06:21 PM »
Clearly CIA & FBI are anti Free Speech & Anti America

Both should be disbanded.

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« Reply #5340 on: January 16, 2023, 06:18:18 AM »
Ex-Virginia police chief, cops accused of covering up sex-trafficking ring, procuring prostitutes: reports
Fox News via MSN ^ | 15-Jan-23 | Danielle Wallace
Posted on 1/16/2023, 3:46:36 AM by Erik Latranyi

The former police chief of Fairfax County, Virginia, and three ex-officers are on trial for allegedly covering up a sex trafficking ring, as one of the victims – an illegal immigrant – took the stand accusing the four law enforcement members of being clients of the prostitution enterprise they allegedly allowed to operate.

A federal jury in Alexandria, Va., this week heard testimony from a woman, identified as Jane Doe, during a civil trial against four former members of the Fairfax County Police Department: the former Chief Edwin Roessler, James Baumstark, a former captain who is now the deputy chief in Asheville, North Carolina, and officers Michael Barbazette and Jason Mardocco, FOX 5 DC reported. None of the four men have been criminally charged, and a lawyer for Roessler and Baumstark dismissed the allegations as "preposterous."

The woman testified that she was lured from Costa Rica by Hazel Sanchez to come to Virginia to work as a nanny and high-end escort who would spend time with wealthy clients but did not necessarily have to have sex with them. Instead, according to Sanchez’s 2019 guilty plea, women were forced to have sex with as many as 17 men a day, including being subjected to dangerous and degrading sex acts.

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« Reply #5341 on: January 18, 2023, 12:06:20 PM »
FBI's record of policing itself against China's spies is abysmal, new book SpyFail reveals
American Thinker ^ | 01/18/2023 | Monica Showalter
Posted on 1/18/2023, 1:41:13 PM b

The news is full of tut-tutting about the terribleness of President Trump, and now Joe Biden, supposedly mishandling a few classified documents by having them in their possession, which is usually a matter of them wanting to write their memoirs, so far as we know.

Now a new book came out yesterday by James Bamford, called SpyFail, telling us how little care the FBI has taken with its own classified documents.  Its clumsy maneuvers, bad personnel hiring practices, and misplaced priorities pretty well gave away the store of U.S. secrets targeting China.

According to BusinessInsider, which ran a long and interesting book excerpt by Bamford himself:

The FBI's website carries a stark warning. "The counterintelligence and economic espionage efforts emanating from the government of China," it says, "are a grave threat to the economic well-being and democratic values of the United States. Confronting this threat is the FBI's top counterintelligence priority." But far worse is the threat to the lives of scores of courageous Chinese agents who have volunteered to spy for the U.S. within their own country. Over the past decade, more than a dozen agents recruited by the CIA have been killed or imprisoned.

And it now turns out that it was an alleged Chinese spy within the FBI's own counterintelligence division who may have been largely responsible. A spy whose activities went undetected for upwards of two decades, until his quiet arrest in 2020. Currently in a Hawaiian jail, his little-known case is wrapped in layers of secrecy as he awaits trail. Now in his new book, "SPYFAIL: Foreign Spies, Moles, Saboteurs and the Collapse of America's Counterintelligence," author James Bamford peels back many of those hidden layers.


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Re: Police State - Official Thread
« Reply #5342 on: February 09, 2023, 10:29:52 AM »

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« Reply #5344 on: April 06, 2023, 12:00:12 PM »
The FBI interrogated a Delta pilot for an hour in his hotel bathroom, thinking he was part of a training exercise. He wasn't.
Not The Bee ^ | Apr 6, 2023 | Staff
Posted on 4/6/2023, 2:30:32 PM by Red Badger

It's a time-honored rule: When staying in a hotel, always check to make sure you've got the right room number.

That goes double if you're breaking down the door:

NY POST Tweet:

FBI agents handcuff, interrogate Delta pilot after entering wrong hotel room in training mishap https://trib.al/MIS6uvn

A Boston hotel guest was awakened in the middle of the night by federal agents who barged into his room, handcuffed him, threw him into the shower and interrogated him for an hour — before they realized they had entered the wrong room.

So it seems these consummate professional were engaged in a training exercise in which they were supposed to barge into the hotel room, toss a paid actor into the bathroom, and grill him for a while.

I don't exactly know why this is part of the FBI's training repertoire. What exactly is this supposed to teach the agents? How to interrogate a dude on the payroll? There's no field application there. It's kind of beyond me.

Also beyond me is how federal agents could do something as basically stupid as get the wrong room number. But they did:

They pushed into the room, handcuffed the pilot and reportedly put him in the shower, according to the station.

Then the agents interrogated the man, said to be in his 30s, for nearly an hour until they realized they had the wrong guy.

You just have to imagine how that poor guy felt being on the receiving end of what he imagined was a legitimate FBI interrogation.

And you just got to love picturing the other guy waiting in his hotel room for the FBI agents to show up, wondering where the heck they were.

Let's hope this guy parlays his troubles into a hefty payout from the dunderheaded FBI!

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« Reply #5345 on: April 15, 2023, 10:08:24 AM »
As usual the killers and their accomplices have not been named and are enjoying paid vacation.


Body camera footage shows police in New Mexico going to wrong address and fatally shooting homeowner

Police released body camera footage and 911 audio on Friday of officers fatally shooting a homeowner after they responded to the wrong house for a domestic violence call.

Farmington Police officers killed Robert Dotson, 52, when he answered the door with a handgun on April 5 at about 11:30 p.m., police initially said.

The newly released videos show the unidentified officers immediately opening fire after Dotson opened the door with the gun. Officers opened fire again after a woman was heard in the video screaming. Police previously said the woman, Dotson's wife, returned fire to the officers. She was not injured.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/04/15/new-mexico-police-release-body-cam-showing-fatal-shooting-wrong-address-robert-dotson/11670184002/

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« Reply #5346 on: April 27, 2023, 03:12:32 PM »
Jordan says FBI should be kicked out of probes into US citizens flagged in FISA investigations

Brooke Singman
Thu, April 27, 2023

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan argued Thursday that the FBI should no longer play any role in looking into American citizens who get flagged during investigations into non-U.S. citizens, in light of evidence that a substantial portion of these FBI "queries" are made in error.

The subcommittee on Crime and Federal Government Surveillance held a hearing on how to fix the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), and how this law "designed to protect Americans has been weaponized against them."

Section 702 of FISA allows the government to conduct targeted surveillance of non-U.S. persons located abroad to acquire foreign intelligence information. When U.S. citizens are flagged as part of these investigations, the FBI takes over the process of querying them for possible security reasons.

However, both Republicans and Democrats used the hearing to note that these FBI queries have become a problem. For example, Ranking Member Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., said that last year alone, the FBI used "personal identifiers" to query U.S. citizens "nearly 3.4 million times," while other lawmakers pointed out that up to 30% of those queries were conducted "in error."

In the subcommittee hearing, Jordan questioned Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz and other witnesses about how many Americans have been queried as part of 702 investigations into non-U.S. citizens, but they said they had no answer.

"And then approximately 10,000 people at the Justice Department have the ability to query this incidental collection database without any probable cause," Jordan said. "And we know, as Ranking Member Nadler said earlier, there were 3.4 million queries of this database and 30% of those were in error."

Jordan said a "simple" solution would be to "require probable cause if you’re going to query this database on American citizens," something that witness Sharon Franklin, the chair of the U.S. Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, said she supported.

"How about if we just get the FBI out of the business altogether—what if the FBI can’t query this database? " Jordan asked. "If the FBI can’t query this database on American citizens?"

https://news.yahoo.com/jordan-says-fbi-kicked-probes-174853520.html

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Re: Police State - Official Thread
« Reply #5347 on: April 29, 2023, 02:28:40 PM »
Is the FBI censoring content on social platforms at the behest of a foreign regime?


How The FBI Helps Ukrainian Intelligence Hunt ‘Disinformation’ On Social Media

The Federal Bureau of Investigation pressures Facebook to take down alleged Russian “disinformation” at the behest of Ukrainian intelligence, according to a senior Ukrainian official who corresponds regularly with the FBI. The same official said that Ukrainian authorities define “disinformation” broadly, flagging many social media accounts and posts that he suggested may simply contradict the Ukrainian government’s narrative.

“Once we have a trace or evidence of disinformation campaigns via Facebook or other resources that are from the U.S., we pass this information to the FBI, along with writing directly to Facebook,” said llia Vitiuk, head of the Department of Cyber Information Security in the Security Service of Ukraine.

"We asked FBI for support to help us with Meta, to help us with others, and sometimes we get good results with that,” noted Vitiuk. “We say, 'Okay, this was the person who was probably Russia's influence.'"

Vitiuk, in an interview, said that he is a proponent of free speech and understands concerns around social media censorship. But he also admitted that he and his colleagues take a deliberately expansive view of what counts as “Russian disinformation.”

“When people ask me, ‘How do you differentiate whether it is fake or true?’ Indeed it is very difficult in such an informational flow,” said Vitiuk. “I say, ‘Everything that is against our country, consider it a fake, even if it's not.’ Right now, for our victory, it is important to have that kind of understanding, not to be fooled.”

https://www.leefang.com/p/how-the-fbi-helps-ukrainian-intelligence

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Re: Police State - Official Thread
« Reply #5348 on: May 16, 2023, 10:32:22 AM »
FBI and CIA need to go away.   So far 2 elections in a row they rigged it. 

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« Reply #5349 on: May 16, 2023, 10:40:34 AM »