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Well… that is one way to spin it.

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LOL? General Flynn was pleading guilty to perjury. I suppose you think that means that anything he says should be trusted. A smarter interpretation is that when Flynn lied to the FBI he knew he was going to be caught, since he was hiding phone calls with the Russian Ambassador that, given Flynn’s previous jobs, he knew were monitored. So I conclude General Flynn perjured himself on purpose with the FBI. Why he did that. Of course we don’t know, but it seems likely he was covering something bigger than his inappropriate phone calsl to the Ambassador. So when he stands before a federal judge, suddenly we are to believe this man is a paragon of truth telling?

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Flynn is pleading guilty to lying to the FBI because they have much worse charges on him if he doesn’t.

Remember, he retroactively registered as a foreign agent for Turkey and reported $600,000 that he earned just months before that he left off of his financial statements.

Anyone with a brain can see that Flynn is dirty and when this is all said and done he will be the one getting off easy.

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No one said paragon of truth telling except for you. But to suggest that he would intentionally perjure himself a second time before a Federal Judge, for his prior perjury, only serves to make him look even worse. Which kind of takes away from your earlier proclamations regarding General Flynn being mistreated. Sounds to me like he is being treated very appropriately, as a habitual criminal.

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Of course Flynn is dirty… that’s the point of the post you are responding to. But the thread is about the trustworthiness of the FBI… and Flynn’s guilt or innocence has nothing to do with whether the FBI is trustworthy, or my basic argument, which is that our country (and budget) would be better off without the politically compromised FBI.

We elected Donald Trump to disrupt the status quo. Spending billions to maintain corrupted agencies embodies the status quo. Let’s make real changes in Washington.

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I take exception with the assumptive stance that the FBI is politically compromised. And if we did disband the Bureau, then who would take on the role of counterintelligence investigations? This is the premiere investigative body in the entire world for counterintelligence. And you are suggesting they be disbanded because what? They are biased against people who break the law?

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As soon as Obama and Hillary are in jail he will, until then he’ll keep silent.

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You keep waiting for that to happen my man.

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Well. There’s still zero progress towards that.

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Well that is just fantastical. He already stated under oath in a court of law before a Federal Judge. Are you also saying he perjured himself again and lied to the Judge under oath? Man, you guys really have a low opinion of the General. Lol

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This is a strange claim to make since almost every public statement made by the FBI before Election Day 2016 did Clinton harm.

No word on the investigation happening into the Trump campaign… but days before the vote there is a feckless reopening of the email investigation that yielded nothing.

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I have a high opinion, especially knowing it was Gen. Flynn that warned Obama about the creation of Islamic State with weapons from Benghazi and he did nothing. To me it looks like Obama helped create IS to displace millions of people in Syria to Europe.

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Why such a high opinion? Flynn disgraced himself with his inability to be honest.

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Even the bad cop Comey said he didn’t believe he meant to lie.

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Who cares what Comey said or didn’t say. Remember what Trump said when he fired him?

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Any honest liberal in this group knows that the FBI has displayed a consistent hostility to social justice groups throughout its history. In the past two years, our esteemed host has extensively documented the FBI’s corruption regarding right wing populist politicians.

You suggest that the FBI has a role in counterintelligence. What role? President Trump was offered a clear choice in Helsinki regarding whether he would rely on Vladimir Putin as a source for counter-intelligence or the FBI and the President told the entire world that the KGB’s information is more credible.

Conservatives know that the FBI is hostile to them. Liberals know the FBI is hostile to them and the President, who can access much more data than you or I, trusts the KGB more than the FBI. Sure the FBI claims to be premiere in counterintelligence, but look at their performance!

I am suggesting that they be disbanded because they have outlived their usefulness as an effective agency of law enforcement and because any effort to reduce the size (and cost) of government requires meaningful action.

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That he fired Comey because of how unfair he was to Hillary during the campaign?

Or

That he fired Comey because of the whole Russia thing?

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No. Consider all the whining about Flynn being set up by the FBI and tricked into lying, that he lost his house and became indigent.

Then remember, it was Trump who unceremoniously fires Flynn, taking away his one source of income after he had to give up lobbying business, for lying.

The whiners need to remember that fact.

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Well that’s just not true.

Big fan of liars I see though. That’s cool. I bet you love President Trump then. Lol

Qanon people are fascinating.

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Well that just isn’t true at all.