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Montauk6

(9,340 posts)
Thu Sep 16, 2021, 06:03 PM Sep 2021

On the Olympic Gymnast Atrocities, let's cut the FBI a break, OK?

After all, they had such pressing issues like Hillary's emails, right?

(SMH with sarcasm at these a-holes, btw)

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On the Olympic Gymnast Atrocities, let's cut the FBI a break, OK? (Original Post) Montauk6 Sep 2021 OP
Don't laugh StarfishSaver Sep 2021 #1
+1 uponit7771 Sep 2021 #4
And they were all men. What can you expect. Srkdqltr Sep 2021 #2
There's a pattern. They got thousands of tips on Kavanaugh's... brush Sep 2021 #3
Yep - But I'll bet StarfishSaver Sep 2021 #6
You know it. brush Sep 2021 #7
True BlueJac Sep 2021 #5
 

StarfishSaver

(18,486 posts)
1. Don't laugh
Thu Sep 16, 2021, 06:05 PM
Sep 2021

You can't imagine how hard it was for them to look for something that wasn't there.

You need to go easy on them.

(just in case) :

Srkdqltr

(9,937 posts)
2. And they were all men. What can you expect.
Thu Sep 16, 2021, 06:08 PM
Sep 2021

They probably thought the doc was on to something.

 

brush

(61,033 posts)
3. There's a pattern. They got thousands of tips on Kavanaugh's...
Thu Sep 16, 2021, 06:39 PM
Sep 2021

sexual assault deeds but did just a cursory investigation, if you can call it that, of just a hurried few, and Kavanaugh is now on SCOTUS and sat on his hands as the Texas abortion bill became law.

The FBI is rapidly losing what credibility it had.

Damn. Who can we depend on?

 

StarfishSaver

(18,486 posts)
6. Yep - But I'll bet
Thu Sep 16, 2021, 07:00 PM
Sep 2021

if he was a Black nominee whom they suspected to have attended a BLM march or had taught Critical Race Theory, they'd have run that to ground, regardless the time and resources it took.

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