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David Perlmutter's avatar

So the federal agents really do behave like assholes all the time....

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Dave Emanuel's avatar

I wouldn't say all the time, just most of the time. A police lieutenant I know told me personally about the typical scenario I mentioned and he said that was typical. In one case, he said that a suspect they were trying to apprehend escaped because the FBI agents weren't aware of the various escape routes and wouldn't listen to the local police officers.

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David Perlmutter's avatar

I only know what I hear on radio and see on television. If they're not acting badly in fictional stories, they're briefing the media as if they're reciting lines from a blackboard. (That goes for the local ones, too, sometimes).

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Alexander Scipio's avatar

It’s a long time past to realize that “general police powers” are reserved, not delegated…

… and to grasp that USSS wants him dead. I’m up for any other logical explanation for the erasing of Butler radio traffic…

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Dave Emanuel's avatar

A lot of bureaucrats, Representatives and Senators want him dead because he is a threat to their current mode of operation which is riddled with incompetence and corruption.

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Alexander Scipio's avatar

Yup. Do you see ANY explanation other than culpability in USSS erasing all their (normally recorded) radio traffic from Butler, or the stonewalling of the investigation by the FBI?

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Dave Emanuel's avatar

Most likely to cover-up of their intentional incompetence.

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Alexander Scipio's avatar

If it were only once, I’d tend to agree. But - again and again?

Ian Fleming: “Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.”

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Ransom Stoddard's avatar

Congress contributed to the hubris and incompetence of the FBI by passing so many laws that are intrusive and unjust as well as laws that usurp local authority. For example, Congress has no jurisdiction over murder in the states except for a few exceptions, including mass shootings, but Congress has passed laws enabling the FBI to stick its nose into local investigations and cases.

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