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NY Times Now Loves The FBI: SWAT Teams, Surveillance, Pressuring Social Media All Cool

January 3, 2023 by PA Pundits - International

By Clay Waters ~ For decades the liberal press, including the New York Times, used the Federal Bureau of Investigation as a symbol of the fears of oppressive government surveillance, investigating allegations that the agency surveilled civil rights leaders and radical anti-war groups during the Vietnam War. The Times hyped myriad other civil liberties concerns […]

GOP Lawmakers Vow Probe Of FBI Raid Of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago

August 10, 2022 by PA Pundits - International

By Douglas Blair ~ Following an FBI raid Monday on former President Donald Trump’s private residence at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, Republican members of Congress are vowing to launch an investigation into what they view as a blatantly partisan political Justice Department if they retake control of the House of Representatives in November. “Since they took office, […]

Biden and His Demos Unleashed a Record Surge in Mass Violence

June 10, 2022 by PA Pundits - International

Mark Alexander ~ In 2020, Demos provoked and promoted the biggest surge in violence in decades, but now call it a “gun problem.” ~ “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” —Article Two of […]

NYT: FBI Abused Power On Clinton, But Pushes Bureau’s Trump ‘Russian Agent’ Theory

January 16, 2019 by PA Pundits - International

By Clay Waters ~ How does the New York Times (and especially reporter Peter Baker) treat accusations that the F.B.I. overstepped their authority in a politicized effort to take down a president? That depends on who is president. On the front page of Monday’s New York Times, Peter Baker’s “news analysis,” “Trump Faces ‘Nonstop’ War […]

FBI’s Previous Probes Would Have Looked Into Kavanaugh’s Drinking

October 3, 2018 by PA Pundits - International

By Fred Lucas ~ Previous FBI background checks should have determined whether Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh had a substance abuse problem, former Attorney General Michael Mukasey told reporters Tuesday. Senate Democrats initially called for an FBI investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct by Kavanaugh. After that update of six previous background investigations commenced, however, […]

The Clinton State Department’s Major Security Breach That Everyone Is Ignoring

July 23, 2018 by PA Pundits - International

By Hans von Spakovsky ~ Peter Strzok’s testimony about the email server scandal involving former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton raised headlines because of his defiant, disrespectful, and unapologetic attitude about the bias revealed in his text messages that permeated his work at the FBI. Then, there was the verbal combat between him and Republican […]

Sports Tickets, Other Freebies For FBI Leakers Raise ‘Bribery’ Issues, Legal Experts Say

June 16, 2018 by PA Pundits - International

By Fred Lucas ~ The Justice Department’s internal watchdog is investigating FBI leakers, as legal experts say revelations about gifts in an inspector general’s report this week raise new legal and ethical issues. The Justice Department’s Office of Inspector General noted that “dozens” of FBI agents had contact with the news media, and many were […]

Disgraceful: I.G. Report Finds FBI Agents ‘Improperly’ Received ‘Benefits’ From Journalists

June 15, 2018 by PA Pundits - International

By Curtis Houck ~ First reported by The Daily Caller’s Joe Simonson, the Department of Justice’s Inspector General report on the Hillary Clinton e-mail probe found on Thursday that not only were “numerous FBI employees…in frequent contact with reporters” when they shouldn’t have been, but they “improperly receiv[ed] benefits from reporters,” including food, golf trips, […]

What’s That Got To Do With A Russia Probe?

May 6, 2018 by PA Pundits - International

By Andrew Bolt ~ Finally a judge questions the “unfettered power” Robert Mueller has assumed to persecute people over issues nothing to do with his actual brief – to investigate Donald Trump’s alleged collusion with Russia. Senior United States District Judge T.S. Ellis III has been assigned one of the pending criminal cases … brought […]

Andrew McCabe, FBI’s Former No. 2, Faces Criminal Probe For Lying, Leaking

April 20, 2018 by PA Pundits - International

By Fred Lucas ~ The Justice Department’s internal watchdog has asked for a criminal probe of the FBI’s recently ousted top deputy for leaking and lying to investigators, several media outlets report. Michael Horowitz, inspector general at the Justice Department and an appointee of President Barack Obama, sent a criminal referral on Andrew McCabe to […]

The Schiff Memo Harms Democrats More Than It Helps Them

February 27, 2018 by PA Pundits - International

By Andrew C McCarthy ~ It confirms that the FBI and the DOJ relied heavily on uncorroborated, third-hand, anonymous sources in their FISA application. Maybe Adam Schiff has more of a sense of humor than I’d have given him credit for. The House Intelligence Committee’s ranking Democrat begins his long-awaited memo – the minority response […]

Russia Launches ‘Information’ War, U.S. Responds With Lawsuit And Self-Destruction

February 21, 2018 by PA Pundits - International

By Andrew C McCarthy ~ Mueller’s indictment is an ineffectual response to a provocation by Russia. The Russians are engaged in “information warfare” against the United States. That was the big soundbite at Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein’s press conference Friday afternoon, announcing Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s election-meddling indictment against 13 Russians and three Russian […]

The Clinton Dossier

February 20, 2018 by PA Pundits - International

By Daniel Greenfield ~ There were many damning revelations in the Nunes memo released by a House Intelligence Committee vote. But the most damning of them all doesn’t raise questions about process, but about motive. The memo told us that the FISA application would not have happened without the Steele dossier. The document known as […]

Did FBI Ignore Fusion’s Missing Credibility?

February 13, 2018 by PA Pundits - International

By Lt. Colonel James G. Zumwalt, USMC (RET) ~ A popular weekly television show, running from 1957-1963, was the Western “Have Gun, Will Travel.” Its star was a hired gun named “Paladin.” But he was not your typical hired gun. Paladin was driven by a moral compass that had him fighting for truth and justice. […]

FBI: American Gestapo

December 20, 2017 by PA Pundits - International

By Lawrence Sellin Ph.D. ~ Any government agency with law enforcement and surveillance authority that uses those powers for political purposes is the definition of a secret police, no better than the Nazi Gestapo or the Soviet KGB. There is indeed probable cause to conclude, meaning indictable offenses, that employees of the Department of Justice […]

New York Times Defends Mueller Against ‘Drunk…Conspiracists’ At Fox News

December 15, 2017 by PA Pundits - International

By Clay Waters ~ Robert Mueller is the liberal New York Times‘ new favorite prosecutor. (Being criticized by Donald Trump and the Republican Congress will do that to you.) Reporters Nicholas Fandos and Charlie Savage praised deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein’s defense of Mueller in “Firm Defense of Mueller As Republicans Attack.” And a Times lead […]

Watergate Was Nothing Compared To This

December 14, 2017 by PA Pundits - International

By Tom McLaughlin ~ First thing every morning I skipped down two flights of stairs to get the Boston Globe because I couldn’t wait to read the latest developments in the Watergate scandal then bringing down the Nixon Administration. Familiar as I still am with those details, they pale by comparison to abuses of power […]

FBI Agent On Trump Probe: “F Trump”

December 14, 2017 by PA Pundits - International

By Andrew Bolt ~ There are many reasons to dislike Donald Trump. But there are even more to detest his enemies, seemingly attempting a coup of the bureaucracy against him: The “F Trump” emails of an FBI agent investigating first Hillary Clinton and then the Trump team are shocking: “There’s no way [Trump] gets elected […]

Nothing About Collusion

December 8, 2017 by PA Pundits - International

By Dr. Michael Ledeen ~ While working with General Michael Flynn on The Field of Fight, I interviewed many of his former colleagues in order to better understand my co-author. Virtually all of them described a man who cared deeply about the truth and presented it in circumstances that were certainly not favorable to him. […]

How Can Trump Trust This Witch Hunt?

December 6, 2017 by PA Pundits - International

By Andrew Bolt ~ Something stinks to high heaven: The FBI agent who was fired from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation team for sending anti-Donald Trump text messages conducted the interviews with two Hillary Clinton aides accused of giving false statements about what they knew of the former secretary of state’s private email server. […]

What The Flynn Plea Means

December 2, 2017 by PA Pundits - International

By Andrew C McCarthy ~ There’s less to the news than meets the eye. Former Trump-administration national-security adviser Michael Flynn is expected to plead guilty today to lying to the FBI regarding his conversations with Russia’s ambassador to the United States. Flynn, who is reportedly cooperating with the investigation of special counsel Robert Mueller, is […]

Democrats, FBI, Both Behind Report Claiming Trump Hired Hookers

June 26, 2017 by PA Pundits - International

By Andrew Bolt ~ Remember the excited media reporting of a report claiming Trump conspired with Russia and even hired hookers to urinate on his bed? Turns out it was the work of operatives paid by the Democrats in the vilest example so far of faked news – and the FBI paid, too: The Senate […]

The Disconnect In The Search For Russia-Gate

June 18, 2017 by PA Pundits - International

By Roger Aronoff ~ It appears that Special Counsel Robert Mueller has realized that the investigation he has been chosen to oversee is a dead end. As a result, he is moving past investigating the possibility of collusion during last year’s presidential election between President Donald Trump and/or his associates and people with ties to […]

The FBI’s Pathetic Track Record On Terrorism

June 15, 2017 by PA Pundits - International

By Cliff Kincaid ~ Former FBI Director James Comey has finally admitted publicly that President Donald Trump has not been under investigation, after months of deliberately leaving the impression that he was. Now the issue becomes whether Trump somehow obstructed justice in trying to save one of his subordinates, a decorated military veteran who ran […]