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  Lock him up!
context: And on January 23, a bomb dropped: We learned that the latest of these is Charles McGonigal, the former head of counterintelligence for the FBI in New York, who ended up working for billionaire oligarch Oleg Deripaska, a major target in the Trump Russia investigation. McGonigal was indicted in Manhattan on charges of money laundering, violating U.S. sanctions, and other counts relating to his alleged ties to Deripaska. He was also indicted in Washington, where he was accused of concealing $225,000 he allegedly received from a New Jersey man employed long ago by Albanian intelligence. >
  
  Does everyone remember when people said Comey got pressure from the NY FBI office to come out publicly 2 weeks before the election concerning Clinton and emails? >
  
  This is what's so weird about Republicans obsession with this. They want to investigate the FBI, but they don't seem to understand that more likely than not the FBI was trying to take down dems and not necessarily Trump. Comey destroyed all hope for Hilary and handed Trump the win. Trump then turns around and fires him...I really don't understand how they cannot see two feet in front of them. >
  
  When you construct reality to align with your beliefs, it doesn't have to make sense. If there was an investigation that found the FBI did in fact help Trump get elected, they would take the headline "Crooked FBI wanted to get Trump elected" and shorten it to "crooked FBI wanted to get Trump" >
  
  Ever since this guy got indicted, I've been thinking about those stories from 2016 where a few FBI agents were saying the New York field office was "Trumplandia".
  Still blows my mind that "law and order" FBI types would be cheerleaders for a clown grifter from Queens... >
  
  Trump was rumored to have been an informant against the italian mob in favor of (you guessed it) the russian mob.
  So, it seems like the FBI office was captured by the Russian mob/organized crime.
  Old KGB joke: "Russian organized crime? Who do you think organized them?" >
  
  Giuliani’s father was an enforcer for Luchese crime family. Rudy’s whole life story has been a sham. >
  
  “His father Harold Giuliani, an often unemployed plumber and bartender, was convicted of felony assault and robbery, and served prison time in Sing Sing. After prison, he worked for his brother-in-law (Rudy’s uncle) in Brooklyn as an enforcer for a mob-affiliated loan sharking and gambling ring.” source >
  
  Feels like the news should be covering this more than say the Murdaugh story or Tom Brady retiring. It's a pretty terrifying thing to see how deep Russia had an in. If it went as high as a guy with McGonigals resources they are in a loooooong of places within the organization >
  
  I cannot help but think most news outlets are in on this shit by how much it seems like they try to look the other way whenever a real bombshell drops.
  We're doomed. >
  
  They don't want too many people feeling doomed at the same time or they will stop spending money. >
  
  I feel like most people seem afraid to spend because they have no idea why certain prices rise and fall at seemingly random times. Being more informed seems to help with that. "Oh, gas prices are high because the gas companies always raise prices when it looks like some democrats might win an election." >
  
  
  How is it possible that I knew all sorts of stuff about Donald Trump, and the FBI didn’t seem to have a clue? Or if they did, why weren’t they doing anything with it?
  
  It's because they are ok with part of the organized crime. Just look at how the Great Prohibition was handled, or how Giuliani went after some crime families but not others, or how Iran-Contra was set up. 
  Law enforcement agencies create the winners among criminals, and Trump was the front of a team on the winning side. >
  
  Whitey Bulger (Irish mob in Boston) acted as an informant against the Italian mob in Boston(and Providence/New England) with his corrupt FBI agent, which allowed him to operate with some impunity. >
  
  GOP house wants to investigate the weaponization of the federal government and misdeeds of the FBI.
  Here You Go! >
  
  No not that way! >
  
  Holy shit. Please read this article.
  I fear this will be buried but wow, this is massive, one of the biggest potential stories in modern American history.
  This is one of those times “shocking” is an apt descriptor. 
  Goes deep-and it’s astounding. >
  
  This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 94%. (I'm a bot)
  
  
  Trump Tower was a home away from home for Vyacheslav Ivankov, one of the most brutal leaders of the Russian mafia, and at least 13 people with known or alleged links to the mafia held the deeds to, lived in, or ran alleged criminal operations out of Trump Tower in New York or other Trump properties.
  On January 23, a bomb dropped: We learned that the latest of these is Charles McGonigal, the former head of counterintelligence for the FBI in New York, who ended up working for billionaire oligarch Oleg Deripaska, a major target in the Trump Russia investigation.
  A serious counterintelligence investigation would presumably have asked how the KGB began its relationship with Trump and whether Trump had been compromised first by the Soviets and later by Russia.
  
  
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  The FBI have produced data, every year, since 2014, that white nationalist groups have infiltrated every level of law enforcement…Even the FBI. >
  
  And that is probably why we aren’t seeing any justice - >
  
  It's weird how the same dudes keep coming up year after year after year, all starting with the Nixon administration.  Manafort, Stone, Giuliani (once called the "nixon" republican), the Russian Mob, Ukraine, Trump, Cohen and the list just goes on and on.  These dudes have been ratfucking democracy since the 70's and it's all tied together and it's right there out in the open, but somehow, someway, they keep on keeping on.  Really makes you wonder if there isn't something to that whole Illuminati conspiracy except it ain't the Jews, it's Christians.  Right wing white nationalistic Christians.  Or for brevity's sake, fascists. >
  
  Lot of the same players were involved in the Brooks Brothers Riot that ultimately left the country with Bush instead of Gore. >
  
  Word's been out about this pro-fascist group in the FBI for years. >
  
  Comey with his announcement of investigating Clinton but not telling the public he was also investigating Trump at the same time, imo, did it. Then a few months later he resigned/got fired because Trump wanted him to swear loyalty to him and end the Russian investigation. Turns out Comey probably shouldn't announced his Clinton investigation at all. Maybe he would've still be in his former position today if he didn't do that? >
  
  The FBI in general did. Comey was and always will be the villian that gave the presidency to Trump. >
  
  It’s amazing that people still don’t remember that Jason Chaffetz leaked the letter Comey sent congress about new developments in the Clinton email case. Those details arose from a laptop that was confiscated during the Anthony Weiner investigation >
  
  If Chaffetz hadn't someone else would. The letter was sent to every member of Congress I'm sure Comey knew it would quickly become public. >
  
  Required like legally required? I don't think he was required to report it. Neither his statement to Congress or his email to FBI employees explaining why he informed Congress suggest he was legally required to report this to Congress, I think he made what he thought was the best decision at the time. From his email to employees:
  
  Of course, we don’t ordinarily tell Congress about ongoing investigations, but here I feel an obligation to do so given that I testified repeatedly in recent months that our investigation was completed. I also think it would be misleading to the American people were we not to supplement the record. >
  
  AND he didn’t disclose the investigation into Trump! >
  
  I'd have to read a lot more about that aspect of the situation to make any comments about it. I don't know enough about how it's similar or different than the Clinton email investigation. >
  
  It doesn’t matter how different or similar, you can’t comment on one candidate, being under investigation, while hiding the fact that the other candidate is also under investigation >
  
  There's lots of potential reasons why investigations can be different, I'm just trying to avoid making uninformed comments. >
  
  No, you’re trying to avoid the idea of looking partial, which is what’s getting us into this fucking mess in the first place, with the media, creating false equivalency by treating both sides the same, even though one side is obviously bat shit crazy
  We know how far the investigation had gotten, we know what the investigation knew, and eventually people went to jail due to this investigation. Can you say the same about Clinton’s emails? >
  
  This makes total sense as to why Rudy was rabidly working in Trumps favor in his election fraud scheme. Those Russian strings were being pulled and debts were becoming due. 
  Watch out for those windows and staircases my man. >
  
  If he did he didn't do so on his own. Giving up the people who he cooperated with will greatly reduce any prison sentence >
  
  Prison sentence?  For a cop?  For doing right wing shit?  In an imperialist nation?  
  Funny. >
  
  Aurora Borealis? At this time of day? At this time of year? In this part of the country? Localized entirety within your kitchen? >
  
  Yes >
  
  May I see it? >
  
  They must investigate Comey. 
  Comey was in on that, too. >
  
  they did But like with everything nothing happened. >
  
  Oleg Deripaska is the Kevin Bacon of Russia. >
  
  Sounds like we need to purge our government of every last traitor with ties to Russia.  Make it a real witch hunt- even a vague suggestion of Russian ties, get them out. >
  
  Joseph McCarthy enters the chat. >
  
  Enemy of the state. >
  
  Donnie asks Vladi and Vladi passes out the word and their man in NYC does his thing. Money is paid and received, no doubt.
  And, James Comey reports it duly to the press.
  But, Mueller sees no evil.
  But, Rod Rosenstein sees no evil.
  We're waiting to see if AG Merrick Garland can figure it out. >
  
  From everything I've seen, Merrick Garland seems to be nothing but a coward that is too scared to actually do his job. >
  
  Of course he did. And Comey handled the rest. >
  
  I have the impression that this McGonagall person will not be long among the living >
  
  Of fucking course he did. Him and the many other members of the federal government that work with russia >
  
  Fraud Business of Intimations (FBI!!!) >
  
  find a hole, put him in hole, forget about hole >
  
  Wait until you find out where this Russian double agent lives Aleksandr Poteyev
  His Wiki
  He gave up Russian sleeper agents living in the US but also gave them up with them doing very little work to infiltrate any US agencies. Reminded me of that time in The Americans on FX when that Russian lady who had a position in the USSR Government and was extracted from the USSR as a defector. Then come to find out she was a Russian spy. 
  Now the thing that will blow your mind is why on Earth has this man not been hunted by Putin. It’s not like he is hiding. If you go to a website called TruePeopleSearch and search his name and see his listed address you will understand why he has not been hunted. He is still working. Let’s just say the address is in Florida >
  
  You’re off the case, McGonigal! >
  
  Of course he did. >
  
  This is an extremely eye-opening article about just how heavily the highest levels of the FBI have been influenced by Russian corruption and organized crime for decades now. >
  
  Why does corruption from known crooks raise questions. Trump is a crook, this dude is a crook. Two crooks cooking corruption stew should not surprise anyone. Plus enough people who sit at the table with love the taste of stew, but deny eating it when confronted. >
  
  Let’s call him the “former fraudulently elected, false claimer of other side fraudulent elections failed President Mango Unchained” >
  
  Here's another question. Was he conspiring with James Comey? >
  
  Oooh that is a good question! I doubt any msm journalists will actually ask it tho. >
  
  Can you say "preponderance of evidence? >
  
  Same NY FBI that leaked over Spitzer? >
  
  So this is the face behind the rooming of the US? For money?
  I am impressed that they caught the guy, albeit 7 years too late. >
  
  The thing that’s most annoying about all this:  the CIA knows all of the facts but can’t disclose anything for fear of exposing sources still in the field. >
  
  Wow this is a major throwback to season one. 
  Anyone else remember a time when the FBI NY field office was rumbling about things around the 2016 election? I do! >
  
  Who is behind these fascist puppets is the real question. >
  
  I really really really hope Ukraine wins and Russia collapses. I am so fucking sick of Russian backed traitors ruining this country. Maybe the GOP will collapse without Russian money. >
  
  New season of The Americans is going to be good >
  
  Donald’s “low life” FBI