Gov Corruption

SamSpade

Well-Known Member
The American public WANTS to believe that the FBI is incorruptible - it's a noble, patriotic sentiment.

But most of them are too young to remember the founder and director of the FBI - J. Edgar Hoover - possibly the single most corrupt national leader of the last century. He got the FBI to do all kinds of dirty work at the behest of Washington leadership, including Presidents who were concerned about - "subversives". You know - people like - Martin Luther King.

This is the FBI, no more a noble organization than the CIA or NSA. The rank and file members just follow orders.
 

GURPS

INGSOC
PREMO Member
The American public WANTS to believe that the FBI is incorruptible - it's a noble, patriotic sentiment.


I wonder about this take now a days ... maybe in the 1980's

My observation, since the Clinton's were elected the corruption of ALL Gov agencies has grown steadily worse, now a 2nd or 3rd generation of politically motivated bureaucrats we call the Deep State ...

People no longer JUST DOING THEIR JOBS regardless of politics, now doing everything they can FOR their party

George Bush's White House had more damn leaks than the Titanic Democrats did EVERYTHING they could to sabotage Bush's Administration

Career State Dept Employees with the mind set WE KNOW BETTER, working against Bush's Agenda

- bush is just a stupid clueless [ insert insult ] We KNOW Better, we have been here the past X # of Years - Republicans are an embarrassment and do not know the PROPER WAY to handle World Affairs

10X worse with Trump

The Leadership of the EPA - we are going to transfer all of this data, all these Climate Reports / Studies dumping them in the public domain
[ of dubious nature not really based on reality ]

Another area the Progressives KNOW Better ... if you do not accept Global Climate Warming Change you are either too STUPID or SELFISH




I was trying to find articles [ I know I posted stuff here in 2016 ] but now all I can find are articles about environmentalists worried about Trump 2.0 and what the EPA is doing to protect the GREEN AGENDA both in the White House and the EPA to protect Biden's Green Legacy
[ Every last one of these idealogs needs to be fired ]


EPA Staff Move to Safeguard Work Amid Worries of Trump's Return




I did find this ...

How scientists scrambled to stop Donald Trump’s EPA from wiping out climate data



He was worried that the EPA was about to be torn apart from the inside under Trump’s leadership. Others on the email thread were concerned that vital environmental data would be taken down from federal websites and destroyed. They’d just seen brutal attacks on science in Canada — irreplaceable scientific records were dumped in the trash under conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper — and they feared that something similar could happen in the US. So Shapiro took a cue from his sister, an organizer for the Women’s March, and tried to bring researchers together to mount an offensive.

“Does anyone know of any social scientists inside the EPA that might be able to document its dismantling?” Shapiro, now an assistant professor at UCLA, wrote at the top of his note. “It seems like it could be a humble contribution of our craft — just one stopgap idea that came to mind.”

The effort sparked by the email eventually snowballed into a movement to rescue key environmental datasets and information about climate change from government websites. Shapiro and his colleagues succeeded in connecting with scientists within the EPA to document the agency’s transformation into an antagonist to environmental efforts in the US. And in some cases, the scientists were even able to mitigate the damage.

The scrappy cadre of scientists, academics, and other supporters is now a largely volunteer-based group called the Environmental Data and Governance Initiative (EDGI). Their work is far from over, despite Trump leaving office, as they work to make sure another president can’t drastically remake federal websites or destroy data in the future.
 

stgislander

Well-Known Member
PREMO Member

Were FBI Informants Among J6 Crowd? Biden DOJ Won't Deny It



The report will include the number of FBI informants who participated in the J6 protest, which Horowitz claimed he had “not made such finding.”

However, he did not deny it either.

“Do you have evidence of the number of confidential human sources that were operating on the Capitol grounds on Jan. 6?" Massie asked.

“Our report will include the information in that regard," Horowitz replied.

Massie continued to grill Horowitz, asking him if there were more than 100 undercover officials among the crowd, which Horowitz refused to answer.

“I’m not in a position to say that, both because it is in draft form and we have not gone through the classification review," Horowitz said. "And so I need to be careful."



Listened to some of the questioning on Dan Bongino's show yesterday. The IG stepped in it a few times.
 

Kyle

Beloved Misanthrope
PREMO Member
The crappy cadre of scientists, academics, and other charlatans is now a largely volunteer-based group called the Environmental Data and Governance Initiative (EDGI). Their work is far from over, despite Trump leaving office, as they work to make sure another president can’t correct federal websites or destroy false data in the future.


:fixed:
 

GURPS

INGSOC
PREMO Member



Fun fact: When Evan Gerskovich, Paul Whelan & Vladimir Kara-Murza returned to the U.S., the IRS penalized them for taxes that went unpaid while they were...stuck in brutal Russian prisons.

(Fixing that should be above partisan politics.)







 

Ramp Guy

Well-Known Member



Fun fact: When Evan Gerskovich, Paul Whelan & Vladimir Kara-Murza returned to the U.S., the IRS penalized them for taxes that went unpaid while they were...stuck in brutal Russian prisons.

(Fixing that should be above partisan politics.)








"Fun fact: When Evan Gerskovich, Paul Whelan & Vladimir Kara-Murza returned to the U.S., the IRS penalized them for taxes that went unpaid while they were...stuck in brutal Russian prisons. "

Did Brittney Yvette Griner face the same IRS penalty?

My guess is no.
 

GURPS

INGSOC
PREMO Member



Did you know that the federal government is spying on Americans’ purchases, credit cards, and bank accounts, even if they are innocent of any crime?

Did you know that the @USTreasury and the @FBI have surveilled financial transactions containing the terms “Trump” and MAGA,” and relating to guns and religion?

Did you know that the @SECGov has been quietly constructing a centralized database, called the Consolidated Audit Trail, designed to track every stock market transaction and the personal information of millions of Americans?

These actions are deeply unconstitutional, a violation of your 4th Amendment rights, and enable political persecution.

That’s why I just introduced the Saving Privacy Act:

Repeals the Bank Secrecy Act’s SAR and CTR reporting requirements while maintaining record-keeping provisions.

Repeals the Corporate Transparency Act. Strengthens Fourth Amendment protections, bolstering warrant requirements in the Right to Financial Privacy Act of 1978.

Repeals the SEC’s Consolidated Audit Trail (CAT) database.

Requires congressional approval for any new databases that collect personally identifiable information of U.S. citizens.

Prohibits the creation of a Central Bank Digital Currency.

Requires congressional authorization for financial regulations deemed major rules.

Institutes penalties for federal employees who illegally seek constitutionally protected financial information.

Establishes a private right of action for Americans and financial institutions harmed by illicit government activity.

Please like and share if you think more Americans should know about this grave threat to our freedom.

@CatoInstitute has a great policy analysis in the link below
 

GURPS

INGSOC
PREMO Member
🌪️🌪️ It’s come to this: FEMA’s Director of Public Affairs Jaclyn Rothenberg has locked down her Twitter account. She does not want to hear any more cranky feedback from any more upset citizens.

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As stated in her FEMA profile, “Jaclyn is a public affairs, media relations, and crisis communications strategist.” She might be a crisis communications strategist, but she’s no constitutional scholar. Abundant caselaw finds it a First Amendment violation for public officials to block citizens’ speech on social media. Maybe Jaclyn thinks that, since this is her personal twitter account, it somehow doesn’t count. But her use of FEMA’s logo on her Twitter bio page is probably sufficient to show she’s using it in her official capacity.

When danger reared its ugly head, Brave Sir Jaclyn bravely ran away…

I suspect she’ll soon reverse her hasty decision. Apart from the legal issues, the irony is deliciously thick; Jaclyn is the FEMA official in charge of crisis communications, who just refused to communicate directly with citizens during a crisis. Nyah, nyah, nyah, nyah, I can’t hear you!

Maybe Jaclyn’s crisis communications strategy of stony silence seems like a small story, but it’s representative of one of FEMA’s chief failures in Hurricane Helene’s aftermath. The fog of natural war hangs thick over the Western Carolinas, and apart from the agency’s inexcusably slow response, it’s vexedly difficult to evaluate FEMA’s overall performance given all the varying reports.

But we can see one abject FEMA failure very clearly. Unlike previous large disasters, such as 2005’s Hurricane Katrina, this time FEMA is not providing any scheduled daily press briefings where reporters might have a chance to ask uncomfortable questions. Thin FEMA reports are dribbling out in 164-character Twitter posts, a handful a day.

Jaclyn’s silence is synonymous with FEMA’s inexcusable silence. If I were in Congress, I’d be demanding FEMA’s communications director come out of her hidey-hole. Just a suggestion.





I wonder if someone will file a Freedom of Speech Lawsuit
 

GURPS

INGSOC
PREMO Member

Feds Quietly Correct Major Election Bomb Harris Doesn’t Want Blowing Up In Her Face



The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) quietly revised its crime data for 2022, less than three weeks until the Nov. 5 election and conveniently after presidential and vice presidential debates.

Vice President Kamala Harris must be breathing a sigh of relief knowing that the FBI waited until the last possible moment to correct the nation’s 2023 violent crime data report. It initially reported that the rate fell by 2.1% in 2022 but has since been updated to show it actually increased by 4.5%, proving Republicans’ claims that violent crime is plaguing the nation.







The FBI finally admits in the new data that there were thousands more murders, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults under the Biden-Harris administration — something former President Donald Trump has repeatedly brought up throughout his 2024 campaign.

Trump argued in his September debate against Harris that crime rates were rising, adding that the FBI was using fraudulent data to sell the American people a lie about the growing violence in our cities. “President Trump, as you know, the FBI says overall violent crime is coming down in this country,” ABC News’s David Muir said, “fact-checking” Trump.
 

GURPS

INGSOC
PREMO Member

Our Current Government Is No Longer Constitutional

By Molly Slag


September 17 was Constitution Day, a day set aside for American patriots to commemorate the moment 237 years ago, when delegates to the Constitutional Convention signed that document. It’s all the day when a prominent Philadelphia matron, Elizabeth Willing Powel, ambushed Benjamin Franklin as he left Constitution Hall. Spying Franklin, she pounced with the interrogatory, “Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?” This is the famous question to which Franklin uttered his famous response: “A republic, if you can keep it!”

Today’s patriots commemorate this brief colloquy precisely because of the chilling fact that we haven’t “kept” that republic. Since at least WWII, we have let the republic slip through our fingers with the exponential growth of the administrative state.
In Washington Goes to War, David Brinkley details how the DC bureaucracy exploded during the war, aided in no small part by FDR’s New Deal. Today, notwithstanding that the Constitution makes the federal government a republic and, in Article IV Section 4, guarantees that each of the 50 states is a republic, in all 51 jurisdictions, the republican form has been eclipsed by the administrative bureaucracy that dominates the federal and state governments.
 

GURPS

INGSOC
PREMO Member
'Tax the rich!'

'Make the wealthy pay their fare share!'

How many times have we heard some iteration of those sentences? Far too many. Government in general, but the Left in particular, think they're entitled to the wealth earned and held by others. Because reasons.


So they argue with a straight face that raising taxes on the rich is a panacea that will balance budgets and pay for their extravagant spending.

Except it never, ever works. In part, because spending far outpaces tax revenue but also because the wealthy they target are free and rich enough to go elsewhere and take their money with them.

The same thing happened recently in Norway:











 

GURPS

INGSOC
PREMO Member

The 2024 choice on regulation: Trump wants America unleashed, Harris wants it strangled



The asphyxiating climate has gotten so deadly that JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon just blasted it at a bankers’ conference in New York City: “It’s time to fight back. I’ve had it with this s–t.”

So has pretty much everyone else.

No one incarnates this willed stagnation better than Harris fave and current Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan.

Khan’s fought from the start to hamstring people like Elon Musk — visionaries actually pushing American tech and industry ahead into the future.
The tech titan bought Twitter in 2022; the FTC then began a campaign of blatantly targeted regulatory harassment against the Tesla founder.

Of course, this was political in nature: Khan simply dislikes Musk’s views and wanted to use her power to punish him for them.

But it’s part of a pattern with her of taking big swings against big companies for the sin of their success (though, thank God, she usually whiffs them).

She went after Meta for buying VR company Within, and failed.

She did the same when Microsoft bought gaming major Activision Blizzard.

But the insidious power of the regulatory state is such that Khan doesn’t even need to win in court: She and her biz-hating cronies reportedly celebrate the dozen-plus deals preemptively abandoned by big firms scared of the federal onslaught as “victories.”

Wrong, wrong, wrong.

Those are failures.

The blob doesn’t know how to innovate.

The blob doesn’t know how to engineer.

Can you imagine where we’d be today if the FTC and FCC and the whole rest of the alphabet soup had strangled, say, Intel or Apple or any Nvidia in the cradle?

The more than 2,000 federal agencies include the likes of the Indian Arts and Crafts Board, the Stakeholder Engagement Division at Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the Defense Department Office for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.

The federal workforce grew from 2.07 million in 2015 to 2.18 million in 2022, a 5.3% jump, and that doesn’t include the military, intel agencies or the ever-growing ranks of “Beltway bandit” private contractors.

Worse, these faceless, gray-souled tinpot tyrants don’t restrict themselves to stupid interventions in industry.

The same cadres come up with and enforce the nonsensical DEI mandates that have spread like a virus through the federal government itself and almost as widely in the private sector (though happily there has been real pushback there, with John Deere and other big names backing off).

The Biden-Harris administration implemented a whole of government DEI push early in office; it has embraced again and again the most extreme rules around gender identity and race, and has done everything it could to make sure that big name companies got the idea as well.

And that’s to say nothing of its effort to stifle and strangle free speech.

Those range from trying to set up a literal Ministry of Truth — the abortive Disinformation Governance Board — to leaning hard on social-media platforms in efforts to suppress viewpoints they disapprove of.
 
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