Weaponization Of FBI?

[sharkman]

In April of this year, the FBI raided the home of an ABC producer.  His colleagues say they haven’t seen him since.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/fbi-raid-abc-news_producer-1234613619/

“And no one straddled both worlds quite like Meek, an Emmy-winning deep-dive journalist who also was a former senior counterterrorism adviser and investigator for the House Homeland Security Committee. To his detractors within ABC, Meek was something of a “military fanboy.” But his track record of exclusives was undeniable, breaking the news of foiled terrorist plots in New York City and the Army’s coverup of the fratricidal death of Pfc. Dave Sharrett II in Iraq, a bombshell that earned Meek a face-to-face meeting with President Obama.”

[DONKIROCK]

17 hours ago, sharkman said:

In April of this year, the FBI raided the home of an ABC producer.  His colleagues say they haven’t seen him since.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/fbi-raid-abc-news_producer-1234613619/

“And no one straddled both worlds quite like Meek, an Emmy-winning deep-dive journalist who also was a former senior counterterrorism adviser and investigator for the House Homeland Security Committee. To his detractors within ABC, Meek was something of a “military fanboy.” But his track record of exclusives was undeniable, breaking the news of foiled terrorist plots in New York City and the Army’s coverup of the fratricidal death of Pfc. Dave Sharrett II in Iraq, a bombshell that earned Meek a face-to-face meeting with President Obama.”

There is no avoiding the conclusion that the Right is being persecuted and, when possible, prosecuted by the Left.

This is fascism or authoritarianism happening right before our eyes.

Are we demonstrating the boiled frog syndrome?

[sharkman]

We sure are.  The left on this forum won't respond to this story until their main stream sources tell them what to say.  So many can not think for themselves anymore.

[Aristides]

Interesting article. Lots of questions.

But as far as the "right" being persecuted, it also said this.

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Yahoo News reported last year that in 2017, under Trump, as many as 20 U.S.-based journalists, including a Pulitzer Prize-winning Associated Press reporter, were being tracked by a special Customs and Border Protection unit. 

 

[robosmith]

21 minutes ago, sharkman said:

We sure are.  The left on this forum won't respond to this story until their main stream sources tell them what to say.  So many can not think for themselves anymore.

It is EASY to understand that YOU'RE not even making a CLAIM; only asking a QUESTION.

Let us know WHEN you have FACTS.

[sharkman]

Focus, folks. An award winning journalist had their home raided last April and has been missing since then.

The shock is that the colleagues only raised an alarm after 6 months.

Edited October 21, 2022 by sharkman

[Rebound]

4 hours ago, DONKIROCK said:

There is no avoiding the conclusion that the Right is being persecuted and, when possible, prosecuted by the Left.

This is fascism or authoritarianism happening right before our eyes.

Are we demonstrating the boiled frog syndrome?

Horseshit. 
If a jury convicts you of a crime in a court of law, it’s because you broke a law. 
 

Here’s a genius idea: Don’t elect criminals to public office!  You KNEW Trump was a criminal and a liar before you voted for him. He promised to release his taxes and didn’t. He was sued for fraud again and again, and lost. This was going back many decades.  He was well known for not paying his contractors.  
The FBI is currently being lead by a man who was appointed by Donald Trump.  This man has hire or fire authority over every employee.  

[Rebound]

1 hour ago, sharkman said:

We sure are.  The left on this forum won't respond to this story until their main stream sources tell them what to say.  So many can not think for themselves anymore.

Allow me to respond.  
This man was a producer for ABC News: THE LIBERAL MEDIA!!!!!!

Nothing MAGA about an ABC News Producer.  ABC is Fake News Media! Just ask Trump!  In all honesty, of course, I have absolutely no idea where he went. HOWEVER, there is a very rational possibility that he actually did break the law, and he knew he did, so he grabbed his go bag and ran.   

[sharkman]

47 minutes ago, Rebound said:

Allow me to respond.  
This man was a producer for ABC News: THE LIBERAL MEDIA!!!!!!

Nothing MAGA about an ABC News Producer.  ABC is Fake News Media! Just ask Trump!  In all honesty, of course, I have absolutely no idea where he went. HOWEVER, there is a very rational possibility that he actually did break the law, and he knew he did, so he grabbed his go bag and ran.   

His colleagues referred to him as a military fanboy, I haven’t heard of too many liberal pro military types, but you never know.   
Another side of the story is that Meek was about to release a book that he had co-authored, but upon release his name and involvement had been expunged:

 

“Even stranger, in the months before he vanished, Meek was finishing up work on a book for Simon & Schuster titled Operation Pineapple Express: The Incredible Story of a Group of Americans Who Undertook One Last Mission and Honored a Promise in Afghanistan, which he co-authored with Lt. Col. Scott Mann, a retired Green Beret. Meek even featured a picture of the soon-to-publish book in his bio on social media and frequently tweeted about his involvement. But post-April 27, the book-jacket photo disappeared from his bio, and Simon & Schuster has scrubbed his name from all press materials. The first sentence of the jacket previously read: “In April, ABC News correspondent James Gordon Meek got an urgent call from a Special Forces operator serving overseas.” Now it says: “In April, an urgent call was placed from a Special Forces operator serving overseas.” ”

[Rebound]

16 minutes ago, sharkman said:

His colleagues referred to him as a military fanboy, I haven’t heard of too many liberal pro military types, but you never know.   
Another side of the story is that Meek was about to release a book that he had co-authored, but upon release his name and involvement had been expunged:

 

“Even stranger, in the months before he vanished, Meek was finishing up work on a book for Simon & Schuster titled Operation Pineapple Express: The Incredible Story of a Group of Americans Who Undertook One Last Mission and Honored a Promise in Afghanistan, which he co-authored with Lt. Col. Scott Mann, a retired Green Beret. Meek even featured a picture of the soon-to-publish book in his bio on social media and frequently tweeted about his involvement. But post-April 27, the book-jacket photo disappeared from his bio, and Simon & Schuster has scrubbed his name from all press materials. The first sentence of the jacket previously read: “In April, ABC News correspondent James Gordon Meek got an urgent call from a Special Forces operator serving overseas.” Now it says: “In April, an urgent call was placed from a Special Forces operator serving overseas.” ”

Well, go find him, Dick Tracy. 

[WestCanMan]

6 hours ago, robosmith said:

It is EASY to understand that YOU'RE not even making a CLAIM; only asking a QUESTION.

Let us know WHEN you have FACTS.

That comment is very telling. 

You expect other people to behave like you, which would be to see something on TV or in the news that clicks with your confirmation bias, and then run around screaming: "THIS IS GOSPEL TRUTH! IT WAS IN WASHPO! CARVE IT IN STONE! GET IT TATTOOED ON YOUR FACE! NO ONE CAN EVER DISPUTE THIS!"

[WestCanMan]

The story from the WH is that no one was left behind.

5 hours ago, Rebound said:

Allow me to respond.  
This man was a producer for ABC News: THE LIBERAL MEDIA!!!!!!

Apparently a holdover from when they were a more legitimate operation. 

The book that he was writing was quite unflattering to the people who'd like you to believe that Biden didn't leave Americans and Afghan allies behind in Afghanistan. 

[Nationalist]

5 hours ago, Rebound said:

Well, go find him, Dick Tracy. 

Lol...the simple is monumental.

[Nationalist]

The FBI and the DOJ are indeed weapons of the globalist. Same with the CIA IMO.

But in less than 3 weeks, people like JD Vance and Kari Lake will begin to turn things back to fair. Oh the Tweenkies will scream and howl but...who cares anymore.

Pelosi is gonna lose her treasured gavel. I think Chucky Schumer will be out in the cold too.

What comes around...goes around.

Cold and as vindictive as the Tweenkies have been.

Enjoy the mid-terms people.

Edited October 21, 2022 by Nationalist

[robosmith]

2 hours ago, WestCanMan said:

That comment is very telling. 

You expect other people to behave like you, which would be to see something on TV or in the news that clicks with your confirmation bias, and then run around screaming: "THIS IS GOSPEL TRUTH! IT WAS IN WASHPO! CARVE IT IN STONE! GET IT TATTOOED ON YOUR FACE! NO ONE CAN EVER DISPUTE THIS!"

Yes, it is "telling" that questions are NOT claims or FACTS, just suspicion mongering.

Your juvenile hyperbolic antics notwithstanding.

[Rebound]

3 hours ago, Nationalist said:

The FBI and the DOJ are indeed weapons of the globalist. Same with the CIA IMO.

But in less than 3 weeks, people like JD Vance and Kari Lake will begin to turn things back to fair. Oh the Tweenkies will scream and howl but...who cares anymore.

Pelosi is gonna lose her treasured gavel. I think Chucky Schumer will be out in the cold too.

What comes around...goes around.

Cold and as vindictive as the Tweenkies have been.

Enjoy the mid-terms people.

Congress does not control the FBI. REPEATING: FBI DIRECTOR WAS APPOINTED BY TRUMP.  
 

Not that facts can enter your thick skull. You never respond to that simple fact. But you’re so dumb that you think Congress can tell the FBI what to do. 

Edited October 21, 2022 by Rebound

[Nationalist]

6 hours ago, Rebound said:

Congress does not control the FBI. REPEATING: FBI DIRECTOR WAS APPOINTED BY TRUMP.  
 

Not that facts can enter your thick skull. You never respond to that simple fact. But you’re so dumb that you think Congress can tell the FBI what to do. 

Less than 3 weeks now.

[Rebound]

2 hours ago, Nationalist said:

Less than 3 weeks now.

Guess what? Biden will remain in charge of the Executive branch.  The dickshits in the GOP will bang on a bunch of pots and pans and threaten to de-fund the FBI. Then watch what happens when there’s no law enforcement of bank robberies and kidnappings and bank fraud and a zillion other crimes.  
 

And you still haven’t responded to the simple fact that the Director of the FBI WAS APPOINTED BY TRUMP.

Edited October 21, 2022 by Rebound

[WestCanMan]

13 hours ago, robosmith said:

Yes, it is "telling" that questions are NOT claims or FACTS, just suspicion mongering.

Your juvenile hyperbolic antics notwithstanding.

Again, you're just wrong.

Someone went missing several months ago, so a thread was posted. 

Many similarities between the FBI and KGB have come to light in the past few years, this is just another one, if it turns out to be what actually happened. 

There may be another reasonable explanation put forth one day, but it's not unreasonable to consider that the FBI may have done this considering their penchant for engaging in criminal conduct. 

[Nationalist]

1 hour ago, Rebound said:

Guess what? Biden will remain in charge of the Executive branch.  The dickshits in the GOP will bang on a bunch of pots and pans and threaten to de-fund the FBI. Then watch what happens when there’s no law enforcement of bank robberies and kidnappings and bank fraud and a zillion other crimes.  
 

And you still haven’t responded to the simple fact that the Director of the FBI WAS APPOINTED BY TRUMP.

Guess what? Biden's last 2 years will be a looong lame duck session.

In the meantime...he'll get to watch his son...get roasted. Which of course will lead to the obvious question...

'Who exactly IS "The Big Guy"?'

Enjoy...

[Hodad]

The article was interesting enough, but the thread has (predictably) gone off the rails into fantasyland.

It seems the not-so-subtle implication now is that the FBI is"disappearing" notable journalists by showing up for a daytime raid with police and sirens and lights for all the world to see. I know that's how I would conduct all my super secret illegal ops. -- Especially for journalists, whose colleagues definitely won't ask questions.  ?

He's not missing or vanished. He's obviously in touch with his lawyer, who commented on the damn story. Meek knows what was seized and he knows that whatever it is is a big problem and has chosen to make himself scarce. Maybe it's just classified docs. Maybe it comes with a side of kiddie pics or some other extracurricular. Who knows. -- Maybe he's staying with family in the countryside, or maybe he's sipping top shelf vodka with Edward Snowden at Putin's summer house. Who knows?

There are plenty of questions about what Meek was up to and what he's doing now, but none of them implicate the FBI in any negative way. That's just fantasy.

 

[robosmith]

3 hours ago, WestCanMan said:

Again, you're just wrong.

Someone went missing several months ago, so a thread was posted. 

Many similarities between the FBI and KGB have come to light in the past few years, this is just another one, if it turns out to be what actually happened. 

There may be another reasonable explanation put forth one day, but it's not unreasonable to consider that the FBI may have done this considering their penchant for engaging in criminal conduct. 

Again, let us know when you have FACTS rather than just questions and suspicion mongering.

[robosmith]

3 hours ago, Nationalist said:

Guess what? Biden's last 2 years will be a looong lame duck session.

In the meantime...he'll get to watch his son...get roasted. Which of course will lead to the obvious question...

'Who exactly IS "The Big Guy"?'

Enjoy...

You know a couple of years ago, I knew a bunch of posters who were sure there was going to be a Kraken and had a meltdown when they found out Trump lied to them. LMAO

[Rebound]

3 hours ago, Nationalist said:

Guess what? Biden's last 2 years will be a looong lame duck session.

In the meantime...he'll get to watch his son...get roasted. Which of course will lead to the obvious question...

'Who exactly IS "The Big Guy"?'

Enjoy...

Who is going to prosecute Hunter Biden?

[WestCanMan]

51 minutes ago, Hodad said:

The article was interesting enough, but the thread has (predictably) gone off the rails into fantasyland.

DAMMIT! That's CNN's job!

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It seems the not-so-subtle implication now is that the FBI is"disappearing" notable journalists by showing up for a daytime raid with police and sirens and lights for all the world to see. I know that's how I would conduct all my super secret illegal ops. -- Especially for journalists, whose colleagues definitely won't ask questions.  ?

The FBI was there, but only the Arlington County police vehicles were marked. Whatever other agencies were involved in the raid chose to remain unidentified. 

That's pretty legit, right? 

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The first thing Meek’s neighbor John Antonelli noticed that morning was the black utility vehicle with blacked out windows blocking traffic in both directions on Columbia Pike. It was just before dawn on that brisk April day, and self-described police-vehicle historian Antonelli was about to grab a coffee at a Starbucks before embarking on his daily three-mile walk. He inched closer to get a better vantage, when he saw an olive-green Lenco BearCat G2, an armored tactical vehicle often employed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, among other law-enforcement agencies. A few Arlington County cruisers surrounded the jaw-dropping scene, but all of the other vehicles were unmarked, including the BearCat. Antonelli counted at least 10 heavily armed personnel in the group. None bore anything identifying which agency was conducting the raid. After just 10 minutes, the operation inside the Siena Park apartment complex — a six-story, upscale building for D.C. professionals, with rents fetching about $2,000 to $3,000 a month — was over.

It's pretty standard now that anyone in North America who does anything that meets the disapproval of our fascist governments they're banned from social gatherings, they get their bank accounts seized, and/or they get their computers and related equipment seized, a ridiculous number of heavily-armed officers swarm their home (and if it has any political value the police will even bring reporters with them), they get jailed for months without a trial, they lose their jobs, they're banned from social media, they're banned from communicating/associating with other non-criminals, etc.

This isn't happening to people who make things up about Trump, but if you tell the truth about covid, the Bidens, mandates, Ukraine, Afghanistan, etc you're a target for federal cops or even black flag police forces. 

People smashed into stores, looted them, burned them down, and assaulted civilians and cops with impunity for months in support of M Brown, a violent thug who was portrayed as a gentle giant by the MSM, and there were very few arrests. Entire communities were destroyed, still nothing happened to the criminals who did all that.  

But god forbid someone gives you the diary that Biden's daughter lost, or you donate $50 to some truckers who are going to Ottawa to protest against fascism, or you push someone away when they're verbally harassing your child, or you yell at a PTA meeting after the school board puts a rapist in the bathroom with your daughter and she gets beaten up and sodomized. You're suddenly a terrorist.

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He's not missing or vanished. He's obviously in touch with his lawyer, who commented on the damn story.

Just because he's not charged with anything yet doesn't mean that he's not inside of a cell.

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Meek knows what was seized and he knows that whatever it is is a big problem and has chosen to make himself scarce. Maybe it's just classified docs. Maybe it comes with a side of kiddie pics or some other extracurricular. Who knows. -- Maybe he's staying with family in the countryside, or maybe he's sipping top shelf vodka with Edward Snowden at Putin's summer house. Who knows?

You talk about fantasyland and then you go making a random, scurrilous comment like "maybe he had child pornography"? 

I've seen some pretty disgusting Biden/Trudeau apologists here, but it's some next-level shiznit to throw baseless accusations on top of one's bullshit excuses.