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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLooks to me like some in the FBI are trying to insure a fair election.
The whole Bullshit story about Hunter Bidens supposed computers really had a chance of blowing up.
But surprisingly, within a day or 2 of the news hitting the FBI has seized them and investigating them as Russian disinformation. And that information got out, which is highly unusual. Normally the FBI is mum till they have an indictment. Now this wont stop the serious nut jobs from talking about it. But they are a lost cause anyway. But it will give serious pause to not only serious news outlets but those directly involved.
Ole Rudy could end up in the Pokey if he is not careful. It would not be too difficult for the FBI to prove it was a set up especially if the repairman sings. Which you know he already is doing. And we know Rudy is careless with his commutation. If he was involved with inventing the plan he will do time.
kimbutgar
(21,055 posts)Blue_true
(31,261 posts)patriots working in US Intelligence, they wont allow this country to get screwed. Even in 2016, they basically got it right and if not for Mitch McConnell, Trump would have been exposed as a treasonous pawn.
magicarpet
(14,119 posts)Rudy is a hyper Fascist version of Lee Atwater Republican operative scum.
Lock the Nazi up,.. throw away the key.
GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)Rudy is a loon. He is not that smart.
And may be in real legal trouble. I think there are a whole host of cases the FBI are sitting on waiting till trump is gone. Why charge someone to see them pardoned.
Turin_C3PO
(13,909 posts)has been the one part of the federal government that hasnt been dismantled by Trump.
Progressive Jones
(6,011 posts)Trump can't truly harm the FBI without putting himself in danger.
In reality, Trump fears them.
moonscape
(4,673 posts)walking the line. And he got appointed earlier in the crazy, before 45 was emboldened enough to install a Barr equivalent, or else he didnt have one at the ready.
Definitely, if 45 got a 2nd term, Wray would be the 1st to go.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)Biden should retain. They have been solid.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)lpbk2713
(42,737 posts)And that will be his last big mistake.
BlueLucy
(1,609 posts)GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)So they let it leak that they suspect Russian interference to hurt Biden? That 7D chess they believe in has gone off the rails.
stillcool
(32,626 posts)different arrests of right wing terrorists, all quiet hush-hushy, and no Bill Barr in sight.
BlueLucy
(1,609 posts)Barr is hiding to get away from doing trump's dirty work. He knows Biden is going to win and doesn't want to go to prison.
Takket
(21,528 posts)he has taken what are, to me, astonishing risks to his own freedom in the name of helping drumpf. i cannot fathom why...... but the hens are about to come home to roost.
GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)He is a true Christofacist believer. He is willing to have his name smeared by history or be disbarred to achieve his goal. And what he has done so far insures the first and could potentially lead to the second.
But hes not willing to do the perp walk charged with Sedition. Hes cutting his losses.
JI7
(89,240 posts)These things made me think of the below video from not too long ago. And I hope it's true. That there are still people in place keeping a watch over things and ready to stop certain things.
I wonder how much Barr knew about these things. I wouldn't be surprised if he didn't know anything about it.
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FM123
(10,053 posts)and they are just quietly professionally going about their business while Barr is frantically cleaning up and covering up his own messes before he hears sirens coming for HIM.
Upthevibe
(8,013 posts)Thank you for this post.....
Wounded Bear
(58,601 posts)Probably didn't count on this shit getting out, but I imagine there are a bunch of FBI agents and employees that are tired of the Trump/Barr shit. I figure most of them want to get back to fighting crime and chasing terrorists and not kissing Trump/Barr's asses any more.
GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)Why not release information clearing Democratic candidates before the election. I think we know.
Drunken Irishman
(34,857 posts)Biden has to have a good answer for the questions he'll receive on it at the next debate because I guarantee they'll ask him and just saying it's propaganda isn't going to cut it.
GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)Which is totally true. Maybe add that Americans who knowingly traffic foreign efforts to affect elections are violating he law.
Remember Joe is getting briefed on security matters. He knows the score.
And I doubt there will be a final debate.
Drunken Irishman
(34,857 posts)There are two issues at play here: whether this information was provided by a foreign entity or whether it's a forgery entirely.
The latter point would make the first part easy to handle. But as it was with the DNC hacks of 2016, the HOW in the revelation took a gigantic backseat to the WHAT of the revelation. Biden just saying it's a foreign plant won't be the end of it - he will have to answer about whether the content on the laptop is legitimate or not.
But that gets into another set of questions:
1. Is this laptop even real or is the whole thing made up? If that's the case, Biden should come out and say it's all a forgery and it's not his son's laptop and therefore any e-mail would be fake and tie that into the FBI's comments.
2. The laptop is real, and they've mixed real content with fake to make it easier to hide the fake stuff.
In that case, Biden is going to have to refute one of the claims: that he urged his son to work with the Chinese to get 10% of profits off a deal.
But I suspect just saying it's a smear campaign won't suffice IF this turns into a bigger issue. Right now, it isn't. Right now, no one is focused on it. But a week from now? Who knows?
tormadjax
(164 posts)I know I'm new here but have been around. Something evil is afoot.