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The FBI investigated an American nonprofit at the behest of the Russian government with no charges of criminal wrongdoing, according to FBI documents reviewed by The Washington Times, which revealed a decades-old covert investigation.

It has been more than 18 years since the Russian inquiry and subsequent FBI investigation into the MacArthur Foundation. FBI documentation shows that America’s top investigative agency followed instructions from Russia’s Interior Ministry (MVD).

Patrick Eddington, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute who first obtained the records in a lawsuit against the bureau over access to government records, called the FBI investigation “completely insane.”

“The FBI should never, if ever, have been in the business of being an errand boy for homeland security or law enforcement organizations of a hostile foreign power without a clearly defined and stated criminal record,” Mr. Eddington said.
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“The FBI Chicago Division conducted an investigation into the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Chicago, IL, USA in response to the MVD’s request for assistance,” according to an FBI record obtained for the Cato Institute has been published.

Mr. Eddington asked if the Russians were the only country that had asked or encouraged the FBI to investigate Americans.

The FBI declined to answer questions about its MacArthur Foundation investigation and whether it investigates other Americans without allegations of wrongdoing at the direction of foreign governments.

The FBI’s willingness to investigate Americans without providing a clear explanation for its actions is not limited to its investigation of the MacArthur Foundation. The FBI investigated the conservative group Concerned Women for America in 2016, found nothing to investigate, and told Senator Chuck Grassley, an Iowa Republican, in December 2021 that it did not need to explain its actions.

More information about the federal government’s actions could come to light after control of the House of Representatives passes to Republicans when the new Congress meets in January. The incoming majority has put the FBI in its investigative crosshairs, and Rep. Michael Turner, an Ohio Republican who will chair the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, said he will open an investigation into alleged use of intelligence by the Biden initiate government against Americans.

The Russian embassy in Washington did not respond to a request for comment on this story.

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@DavidSacks explains how the FBI was using a tool called “ teleport” to communicate with Twitter. They were able to send instructions that deleted after 10 days and they weren’t able to take a screenshot of the communication.

FBI Director Wray: "The level of collaboration between the private sector and the government, especially the FBI, has made significant strides."

This is not good.

In fact, this is the LITERAL DEFINITION of fascism.
The government works hand-in-hand with private companies to enforce government rules. The nationalization of private industry.

We thought that Elon Musk's Twitter files were a big revelation, but they don't care. Chris Wray literally went to Davos to BRAG about his work in collaborating with private organizations like Facebook, Twitter, etc. in order to enforce unconstitutional rules.

NEW YORK, Jan 23 (Reuters) - A former top FBI official was arrested over the weekend on accusations he worked for sanctioned Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska, prosecutors said on Monday.

Charles McGonigal, who led the agency's counterintelligence division in New York before retiring in 2018, faces four counts including sanctions violations and money laundering.

Federal prosecutors in Manhattan say McGonigal, 54, received concealed payments from Deripaska, who was sanctioned in 2018, in exchange for investigating a rival oligarch in 2021. He is also charged with unsuccessfully pushing in 2019 for the lifting of the sanctions on Deripaska.

On Saturday afternoon, former FBI agent Charles McGonigal, who was head of counterintelligence in the New York Field Office and a part of the investigation into supposed ties between Trump and Russia, was arrested over his alleged ties to Russia.

CBS reports that McGonigal was arrested over "his ties to Oleg Deripaska, a Russian billionaire who has been sanctioned by the United States and criminally charged last year with violating those sanctions." ...

54-year-old McGonigal, who retired in 2018, was arrested at JFK airport after arriving in the US from Sri Lanka.

McGoniga "is charged with violating US sanctions by trying to get Deripaska off the sanctions list," reports CBS.

According to the DOJ, in 2021 McGonigal and Shestakov agreed to investigate a Russian rival of Deripaska and allegedly received payments for their efforts. They are accused of forging signatures and receiving their funds from Deripaska through shell companies.

I'm just gonna leave this new video for ya that apparently shows Ray Epps helping to breach a Capitol barricade on J6

On Saturday afternoon, former FBI agent Charles McGonigal, who was head of counterintelligence in the New York Field Office and a part of the investigation into supposed ties between Trump and Russia, was arrested over his alleged ties to Russia.

FBI Planning to Build New Headquarters Building TWICE THE SIZE of Pentagon – Republicans Need to Stop This

'Two FBIs': Whistleblowers accuse DC HQ of trampling Constitution, field offices
Twitter Files show agency's mission is now "a perversion of the First Amendment," 33-year veteran says. ...

Rep. Colin Allred (D-Texas) mocked retired FBI agent and whistleblower Thomas Baker for describing the Jan. 6 riot as "crimes" rather than "domestic terrorism," while Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) dismissed law professor Jonathan Turley's analysis of the Twitter Files as "opinion" because he never worked at Twitter. ...

The former FBI agents and whistleblowers affirmed GOP portrayals of the bureau as increasingly politicized and centralized in D.C., running roughshod over field offices and rank and file.

"Personally, it breaks my heart" to see this "culture rot," said Baker, a 33-year veteran still "closely engaged" with the FBI, who faults former Director Robert Mueller for remaking the bureau as an "intelligence-driven agency" that threatens liberty across the ideological spectrum.

The Twitter Files show the agency's mission is now "a perversion of the First Amendment," he said, telling Rep. Harriet Hageman (R-Wyo.) that "we wouldn't be having this discussion today" if FBI Director Chris Wray had publicly pledged the bureau would not use speech alone as a predicate for investigations.

Congress should rein in the CIA and NSA as well for "reverse targeting" practices that spy on Americans by finding foreign close contacts the agencies can portray as the real targets, Baker said. Rep. Dan Bishop (R-N.C.) noted the Twitter Files include a request from "the fort," passed through FBI Special Agent Elvis Chan, to restore Twitter's data feed to the Fort Meade-based NSA.

Former Miami Special Agent Nicole Parker joined the FBI from a hedge fund after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and "held out as long as I could" before leaving in disgust last fall. She broke down in tears as she described her field work in the Parkland shooting and her fear of testifying.

There are now "two FBIs," Parker said, citing a shift in recruiting practices and lowering of eligibility requirements that has transformed a "calling" into "merely a very dangerous and high-risk" job. Honorable agents now just "work hard and stay off the radar" to claim their pension. ...

"The government has a long history of lying to us" and is now working through "their arms in media and Big Tech" to control what Americans can see and say, contrarian former Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard warned. "They think we're too stupid to think for ourselves."

The ex-Democrat said America increasingly resembles a "banana republic" that threatens challenges to the establishment. Her Google Ads account was "mysteriously suspended" after a presidential primary debate that prompted widespread searches for Gabbard's campaign, and she showed up on the debunked "Hamilton 68" dashboard of supposed Russian bots.

Survey data show Americans increasingly view the FBI itself as politicized and a threat, according to George Washington University's Turley, who said he's nearing 60 appearances before Congress as both a Democratic and GOP witness.

The Boston office of the FBI finally got something right, and I salute them for doing so.

The above is a sentence I never dreamed I would be writing, but there’s a first time for everything, and this is it.

This unanticipated turn of events unfolded this week during a Congressional hearing under the new Republican majority.

A former FBI intelligence analyst from Boston testified that after the Jan. 6 disturbances, the Boston office adamantly refused to conduct improper investigations on American citizens whose only crime was (or might have been) being a supporter of Donald Trump.

George Hill is a 64-year-old whistleblower — 26-year military veteran, five years with the National Security Agency (NSA) and more than a decade with the FBI as an intelligence analyst.

What Hill told Congress wasn’t a complete surprise, given the recent breathtaking corruption of the FBI (there I go again!). But Hill’s story did lay out some local angles of the FBI/Democrat conspiracy against the Constitution in greater depth than was previously known.

And I repeat, the Boston FBI office refused to have anything to do with it. Fantastic news!

https://fortune.com/2023/02/18/fbi-civil-war-gold-dents-run-pennsylvania-lawsuit-dennis-parada-finders-keepers-detectorist/
The judge has yet to rule.

Parada said he will keep asking questions until he gets satisfactory answers.

“I will stick at this until the end, until I know everything that happened to that gold,” he said. “How much, where it went to, who has it now. I gotta know.”

In an interview with Fox News’s Bret Baier last Tuesday, FBI Director Chris Wray said, “The FBI has for quite some time now assessed that the origins of the pandemic are most likely a potential lab incident in Wuhan.” Like so much else in America’s tortured, distractable life these days, the meaning larded into that that utterance went clear over the collective heads of just about everybody.

What was the key part of that statement? “For quite some time now….” Gee, really? Like, how long? One year? More than that? Maybe since March 2020? And you didn’t say anything, Mr. FBI Director? You didn’t do a thing to dispel the Covid-19 miasma that swaddled Washington DC like a smallpox blanket of yore? The question of where the novel coronavirus came from has been a ferocious national controversy since late 2019, you understand. Several government agencies, including the CIA and all the offices under the gigantic National Institutes of Health (NIH) – including the NIAID run for decades by Dr. Anthony Fauci — plus the FDA and CDC, tucked into the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)… all of these outfits have pretended to not know the true origin of Covid-19 for over three years. And the FBI Director, who could have shed some authoritative light on the matter by stepping up to a podium and weighing in, just let all that chaos roll?

And by-the-by, let’s not forget that the whole time Chris Wray knew with moderate certainty that Covid-19 came from the Wuhan virology lab, he was in charge of a batallion of FBI agents assigned to managing Twitter, Facebook, and Google — that is, the apps that comprise the digital Public Square — to make sure that anyone who opined about Covid coming from the Wuhan lab got censored, banished, cancelled, reputationally destroyed.

So, why did Mr. Wray make this statement on Tuesday… “The FBI has for quite some time now assessed…” Probably we’re hearing the old Modified Limited Hangout strategy, a venerable ruse, which is when a criminally culpable government throws the public a bone of admission about something that is common knowledge anyway — the thing everybody knows — while pretending that they were in on the common knowledge all along — which just adds another layer of perfidy to the giant matrix of lies laid down by US agency officials in this disgraceful episode of US history.

What Mr. Wray left out of his statement this week is any hint that a gang of US scientists and doctors under Dr. Fauci were directly and intimately involved in the activities at Wuhan that produced the virus that killed millions around the world, and led to the warp speed production of a “vaccine” mere weeks after the organism appeared — which will probably end up killing and maiming more people than the disease itself.

It happened also this past week that a team of distinguished medical warriors including Drs. Martin Makary of Johns Hopkins, Martin Kulldorff of Harvard, and Jay Bhattacharya of Stanford testified before the opening session of the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic. Dr. Makary began his remarks stating boldly: “The greatest perpetrator of misinformation during the pandemic has been the United States government….”

…. Misinformation that…

Covid was spread through surface transmission
That vaccinated immunity was far greater than natural immunity
That masks were effective. Now we have the definitive Cochrane review. What do you do with that review? Cochrane is the most authoritative evidence body in all of medicine and has been for decades. Do you just ignore it and not talk about it?
That myocarditis was more common after the infection than after the vaccine. Not true, it is 4-28 times more common after the vaccine.
That young people benefit from a booster, misinformation. Our two top experts on vaccines quit the FDA in protest over this particular issue, pushing boosters in young, healthy people. The data was never there. That’s why the CDC never disclosed hospitalization rates among boosted Americans under the age of 50.
That vaccine mandates would increase vaccination rates. A George Mason University study shows that it didn’t. It did one thing, it created “Never-Vaxxers” who are now not getting the childhood vaccines they need to get.
Over and over again, we’ve seen something that goes far beyond using your best judgment with the information at hand. We’ve seen something that is unforgivable, and that is the weaponization of medical research itself. The CDC putting out their own shoddy studies, like their own study on natural immunity looking at one state for two months, when they had data for years on all 50 states. Why did they only report that one sliver of data? Why did the salami slice the entire database? Because it gave them the result they wanted.

The same with the masking studies. The data has now caught up in giant systematic reviews, and public health officials were intellectually dishonest. They lied to the American people.”