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In reply to the discussion: Another Dem just arrested by FBI. Robert Mueller(R-BushFamilyFixer) set up stings in cities all [View all]Octafish
(55,745 posts)108. Long BFEE string from Dallas to ABSCAM to Rove firing US Attorneys...
...if they don't target Democrats, they don't get happy retirements.
FBI and the rest of the secret state police services are supposed to report to the executive. Since at least the presidency of Jimmy Carter, they haven't.
Agents for Bush
The 1980 Campaign
by Bob Callahan
Covert Action Information Bulletin
George Bush owed his recent political fortune to several old CIA friends, chiefly Ray Cline, who had helped to rally the intelligence community and started "Agents for Bush."
Bill Peterson of the Washington Post wrote in a March 1, 1980 article, "Simply put, no presidential campaign in recent memory perhaps ever has attracted as much support from the intelligence community as (has) the campaign of former CIA director George Bush."
George Bushs CIA campaign staff included Cline, CIA Chief of Station in Taiwan from 1958 to 1962; Lt. Gen. Salm V. Wilson and Lt. Gen. Harold A. Aaron, both former Directors of the Defense Intelligence Agency. Also included were retired Gen. Richard Stillwell, once the CIAs Chief of Covert Operations for the Far East, and at least 25 other retired Company directors, deputy directors and, or, agents.
Angelo Codevilla, informed a congressional committee that was "aware that active duty agents of the CIA worked for the George Bush primary election campaign.
Ray Cline claimed that he had been promoting the pro-CIA agenda that Bush had embraced for years, and that he had found the post Church-hearings criticism had died down some time ago. "I found there was a tremendous constituency for the CIA when everyone in Washington was still urinating all over it," Cline said. "Its panned out almost too good to be true. The country is waking up just in time for Georges candidacy.
In July 1979 George Bush and Ray Cline attended a conference in Jerusalem. (with) leaders of Israel, Great Britain and the United States. The Jerusalem Conference on International Terrorism was hosted by the Israeli government and most of Israels top intelligence officers were in attendance.
The Israelis were angry with Carter because his administration had recently released its annual report on human rights wherein the Israeli government was taken to task for abusing the rights of the Palestinian people on the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
The Republican delegation was led by George Bush. It included Ray Cline and Major Gen. George Keegan (former USAF intelligence chief) and Harvard professor Richard Pipes.
Looking for a mobilizing issue to counter the Carter-era themes of détente and human rights, the Bush people began to explore the political benefits of embracing the terrorism/anti-terrorism theme.
Ray Cline developed the theme that terror was not a random response. but rather an instrument of East bloc policy adopted after 1969 when the KGB persuaded the Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union to accept the PLO as a major political instrument in the Mideast and to subsidize its terrorist policies by freely giving money, training, arms and coordinated communications.
Within days after the conference the new propaganda war began in earnest. On July 11, 1979, the International Herald Tribune featured a lead editorial entitled "The Issue is Terrorism," which quoted directly from conference speeches.
SOURCE: Covert Action Information Bulletin No.33(Winter 1990) "The Bush Issue"
ONLINE(scroll down for excerpts):
http://mediamayhem.blogspot.com/2004_04_11_archive.html
Jebthro's got all the cards from the secret government in his hand.
PS: Did you see who hosts a BFEE thread? Probably will be used as evidence, hopefully not against me.
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Another Dem just arrested by FBI. Robert Mueller(R-BushFamilyFixer) set up stings in cities all [View all]
blm
Mar 2014
OP
Quite frankly if they didn't do stupid things, they would not worry about a sting
yeoman6987
Mar 2014
#66
On average, everyone commits at least four felonies a day and don't know it.
Savannahmann
Mar 2014
#96
Can you point to a single case where a person was charged with a felony for throwing away
pnwmom
Mar 2014
#100
I am all for someone who is truly corrupt getting nailed. It's the STING aspect targeting minority
blm
Mar 2014
#7
Point is that some did come forward to FBI under Mueller about Christie - apparently Mueller didn't
blm
Mar 2014
#44
Yes, that's all I was saying. I wasn't defending Mueller. I was showing gratitude
totodeinhere
Mar 2014
#84
That's not only NOT TRUE, it's a rightwingfuck mindset. Wonder what it's doing here. nt
ChisolmTrailDem
Mar 2014
#106
Not the point - It's the FBI targeting minority officeholders for stings while allowing
blm
Mar 2014
#13
NOT the point I was making in my post which was about who Mueller CHOSE to go after.
blm
Mar 2014
#81
If who is targeted is immaterial then you apparently dont mind if they target only
rhett o rick
Mar 2014
#85
You are missing the point. Investigations shouldnt be politically motivated. nm
rhett o rick
Mar 2014
#98
Doesn't matter - my point is that minority officeholders were TARGETED for stings while the
blm
Mar 2014
#10
LOL. You tried to be clever with someone who thinks Obama's is one of the weakest WH in modern era.
blm
Mar 2014
#102
You are deliberately avoiding the point - FBI was alerted to Christie and Mueller IGNORED it.
blm
Mar 2014
#30
Baloney. If Christie was a Dem the allegations alone would've started an investigation.
blm
Mar 2014
#35
Only NOW he's being investigated. People said they alerted FBI to Christie and no investigation came
blm
Mar 2014
#25
I'm perfectly clear. Mueller's FBI did NOT investigate Christie even when allegations were made
blm
Mar 2014
#46
THERE'S MY POINT!!!! Where are all the red state, red county stings? How did FBI miss Christie?
blm
Mar 2014
#14
How do we know there haven't been stings in repub strongholds and they produced no results?
uncommonlink
Mar 2014
#18
Pass up high-end corruption like Christie&Co while setting up stings of minority officeholders?
blm
Mar 2014
#22
The Christie investigation is still ongoing and may yet produce criminal charges,
uncommonlink
Mar 2014
#24
Time for Octafish. Remember: Mueller 'fixed' BCCI cases at the Justice Dept. for Poppy Bush.
blm
Mar 2014
#32
These widespread arrests of minority officeholders smells like an opening act for Jeb2016.
blm
Mar 2014
#72
Not true. Senate shut down BCCI investigation after the Dec 1992 report, but, Kerry actually rented
blm
Mar 2014
#82
Baloney - Anyone who thinks Obama had complete control over Robert Mueller has no clue about BFEE.
blm
Mar 2014
#47
I'm not sorry. I just feel that blacks betraying their base is much worse crime because of the
kelliekat44
Mar 2014
#50