Posted on Jul 14, 2023
Gone in 60 seconds: At FBI director hearing, Republican conspiracies about Biden go 'POOF!'
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https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2023/07/12/fbi-director-hearing-exposes-flaw-republican-conspiracy-theories/ [login to see] 7/
"So the Republicans who want to defund and discredit the FBI, the ones who eagerly dragged the FBI director through the mud Wednesday with absurd allegations grounded in zero facts, want you, the American people, to believe this: The nation’s premier law enforcement agency has been weaponized against Republicans under a director who is a lifelong Republican and who reached his current post by being selected and confirmed to positions by two Republican presidents and two Republican-led Senate bodies."
"So the Republicans who want to defund and discredit the FBI, the ones who eagerly dragged the FBI director through the mud Wednesday with absurd allegations grounded in zero facts, want you, the American people, to believe this: The nation’s premier law enforcement agency has been weaponized against Republicans under a director who is a lifelong Republican and who reached his current post by being selected and confirmed to positions by two Republican presidents and two Republican-led Senate bodies."
Gone in 60 seconds: At FBI director hearing, Republican conspiracies about Biden go 'POOF!'
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MSgt Steve Sweeney I watched it as it was taking place... quite surprised when it was Rep. Ken Buck, R-Colo turn...
..."OK, who let a Republican ask a smart and relevant question? THAT'S NOT HOW THIS WORKS!!
But then, in less than a minute, one line of questioning made the GOP’s entire line of hooey about the FBI having it in for Republicans and being in the bag for Biden go poof.
Rep. Ken Buck, R-Colo. – yes, a Republican – began asking Wray about his career.
Buck said: “You were nominated by Republican President (George. W.) Bush for the position of assistant attorney general in the criminal division at the Department of Justice and you were confirmed by a Republican Senate?”
Wray replied: “Yes, by unanimous voice vote.”
Buck continued: “And you were then nominated by Republican President Donald Trump to be the FBI director and again confirmed by a Republican Senate for that position?”
“Yes,” Wray said. “I think there were only five votes against me and they were all from Democrats.”
Buck concluded: “According to Wikipedia, you’re still a registered Republican, and I hope you don’t change your party affiliation after this hearing is over.”
So the Republicans who want to defund and discredit the FBI, the ones who eagerly dragged the FBI director through the mud Wednesday with absurd allegations grounded in zero facts, want you, the American people, to believe this: The nation’s premier law enforcement agency has been weaponized against Republicans under a director who is a lifelong Republican and who reached his current post by being selected and confirmed to positions by two Republican presidents and two Republican-led Senate bodies."...
..."OK, who let a Republican ask a smart and relevant question? THAT'S NOT HOW THIS WORKS!!
But then, in less than a minute, one line of questioning made the GOP’s entire line of hooey about the FBI having it in for Republicans and being in the bag for Biden go poof.
Rep. Ken Buck, R-Colo. – yes, a Republican – began asking Wray about his career.
Buck said: “You were nominated by Republican President (George. W.) Bush for the position of assistant attorney general in the criminal division at the Department of Justice and you were confirmed by a Republican Senate?”
Wray replied: “Yes, by unanimous voice vote.”
Buck continued: “And you were then nominated by Republican President Donald Trump to be the FBI director and again confirmed by a Republican Senate for that position?”
“Yes,” Wray said. “I think there were only five votes against me and they were all from Democrats.”
Buck concluded: “According to Wikipedia, you’re still a registered Republican, and I hope you don’t change your party affiliation after this hearing is over.”
So the Republicans who want to defund and discredit the FBI, the ones who eagerly dragged the FBI director through the mud Wednesday with absurd allegations grounded in zero facts, want you, the American people, to believe this: The nation’s premier law enforcement agency has been weaponized against Republicans under a director who is a lifelong Republican and who reached his current post by being selected and confirmed to positions by two Republican presidents and two Republican-led Senate bodies."...
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MSgt Steve Sweeney
Leads me to believe that Republicans know the Trumpublicans in the party are not acting in good faith ... so what will the Republicans do to police their own?
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It didn’t go poof. Wray had no answer for garnering bank records from Bank America with out a warrant, no answer for declaring parents at school board meetings as terrorist and monitoring them, no answer for labeling Catholics as terrorists. It went on and on. No answer to Biden’s chat with a Russian communist party member that sounded like extortion. N answer for FBI censorship during the last election.
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MSgt Steve Sweeney
Wray had no answers for silly questions? Strange... You would think knowing he would be dealing with Trumpublicans he would have prepared more to answer silly, no-pertinent questions. How are you feeling about the "Patriot Act" now that people that call themselves "patriots" are conducting themselves as domestic terrorists?
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LTC David Brown
So mothers and fathers concerned about pornography in schools are domestic terrorists? Catholics demonstrating at abortion centers are Domestic terrorists? Not knowing what information was ILLEGALLY obtained from Bank of America on US citizens is silly? Better read your constitution you swore to defend again.
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MSgt Steve Sweeney
LTC David Brown - If they are acting like domestic terrorists and making threats like domestics terrorists and attacking U.S. installations like domestic terrorists, then call them what they are. Terrorists have kids too and are very concerned about who is influencing their children. The tactics they use are what defines them.
To which part of the Constitution and/or the oath are you referring? Are you forgetting the part where you swore to defend against ALL enemies, both foreign AND domestic... like the ones that attacked the U.S. Capitol? There was nothing in there about making excuses for them because you agree with their politics.
To which part of the Constitution and/or the oath are you referring? Are you forgetting the part where you swore to defend against ALL enemies, both foreign AND domestic... like the ones that attacked the U.S. Capitol? There was nothing in there about making excuses for them because you agree with their politics.
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