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Government Corruption
FBI whistleblowers reveal widespread effort to DISCREDIT negative information about Hunter Biden
2022-07-26
[Right Scoop] Here we go again. Thanks to multiple whistleblowers within the FBI who are said to be ’highly credible’, we now know that the FBI tried to discredit the negative and probably criminal information about Joe’s son Hunter Biden leading up to the election in 2020.
Here’s the report via Catherine Herridge:

Highly credible" whistleblowers have come forward to a senior Senate Republican alleging a widespread effort within the FBI to downplay or discredit negative information about President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, according to letters reviewed by CBS News.

"The information provided to my office involves concerns about the FBI’s receipt and use of derogatory information relating to Hunter Biden, and the FBI’s false portrayal of acquired evidence as disinformation," GOP Sen. Chuck Grassley wrote FBI Director Christopher Wray and Attorney General Merrick Garland on July 25. "The volume and consistency of these allegations substantiate their credibility and necessitate this letter."
Posted by:Besoeker

#15  The President should get 25 and each Secretary 20 and each Department head 15 no questions asked firings each year. Just like lawyers on each side get one free 'throw them off the jury' challenge in courts.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2022-07-26 15:44  

#14  Cap pensions and use a formula to actually reduce pension accrual for each month of service beyond an approved ceiling.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-07-26 15:33  

#13  The solution to the impossible Civil Service careerism problem is actually already enshrined in past government practice. Firing a career federal employee is a virtually impossible task, ask anyone who has plumbed the Civil Service Commission Regulatory Waters. They did away with the grades of GS16-18, making them the SES (Senior Exsecutive Service) supposedly a position that can be managed and removed. But below that, its a true ordeal to remove even the most inferior civil servant, God forbid a minority of any stripe. So the GS9-15 managers and staff exercise an enormous amount of policy and implementation power for every aspect of government functioning, making them the bedrock of the woke, Deep State in recent years. They can thwart conservative policies with a myriad of bureaucratic and diversionary tactics, studies, evaluations...etc.

Now, consider if you split away Management authority from rank/pay/benefits. Remember the Army Tech-5 of WWII? Paid as a Sergeant E-5, but having no NCO/command authority! You take a non-performing civil servant GS-13 and you take away management decision making, but no adverse financial or career impact. Hurt feelings, but no discernible adverse effect. You just remove them from the decision tree, not their career. Harder to claim any impact except hurt feelings and perhaps an earned reputation as an obstructionist.
Easier than getting a new civil service system at least.
Posted by: NoMoreBS   2022-07-26 15:27  

#12  The ability to fire anyone in the government, no questions asked, should be enshrined in the Constitution next opportunity.

They should all be required to submit their resignations at the beginning of each new administration. Further, all department heads of all federal departments and agencies should be required to submit a detailed justification for their department's continued existence to Congress and Congress should be required to approve said continued existence by a two-thirds majority vote.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2022-07-26 11:58  

#11  The Nixon/Ford and Reagan administrations were brief interludes as was Trump's. Remember how Democrats and their media allies hated those guys? Notice how I did not include the Bushes?
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2022-07-26 11:54  

#10  No intention of going 'Alex Jones' on everyone, but I fear all of this mischief may precede the onerous Clinton's and Barak Obama by a number of years.

I'm guessing it goes all the way back to JFK's assassination.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2022-07-26 11:52  

#9  Ref #8: I've thought that since about 1989. Somehow I usually arrive at discovery a little later than most.
Posted by: Besoeker   2022-07-26 11:45  

#8  Grassley said the FBI is rotten to the core. I agree.
Posted by: Vespasian Ebboting9735   2022-07-26 11:31  

#7  Trump had some executive order that allowed every bureaucrat to be fired no matter what level. Biden cancelled the order on day one.

The ability to fire anyone in the government, no questions asked, should be enshrined in the Constitution next opportunity.
Posted by: ruprecht   2022-07-26 11:11  

#6  GOP Sen. Chuck Grassley says a DOJ whistleblower has approached him to blow the lid on 'scheme' among FBI officials to bury negative information about Hunter Biden
Posted by: Skidmark   2022-07-26 10:37  

#5  I read this article on Revolver/Washington Times yesterday. It's a long read but worth the time.
Posted by: The Walking Unvaxed   2022-07-26 07:36  

#4  The unprecedented refusal of a Senate majority to consider the nomination was highly controversial.

They were taught by the very best before them.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2022-07-26 07:21  

#3  President Eisenhower provided an ominous warning in his departure speech. No intention of going 'Alex Jones' on everyone, but I fear all of this mischief may precede the onerous Clinton's and Barak Obama by a number of years. Hopefully we are not approaching a disastrous culminating event.
Posted by: Besoeker   2022-07-26 03:22  

#2  The wife of As of US Attorney General Merrick Garland, Lynn, advises government and nonprofit groups on voting systems security and accuracy issues (aka "the fix is in" regarding election fraud prosecution...).

President Barack Obama, a Democrat, nominated Garland to serve as an associate justice of the Supreme Court in March 2016 to fill the vacancy created by the death of Antonin Scalia. However, the Republican Senate majority refused to hold a hearing or vote on his nomination. The unprecedented refusal of a Senate majority to consider the nomination was highly controversial. Garland's nomination lasted 293 days (the longest to date by far), and it expired on January 3. Wikipedia
Posted by: Jaque Sproing1885   2022-07-26 01:35  

#1  FBI Director Christopher Wray is worth $$$$$42 Million Dollars.
Posted by: Jaque Sproing1885   2022-07-26 01:23  

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