{"id":2562,"date":"2019-12-28T12:22:33","date_gmt":"2019-12-28T16:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=2562"},"modified":"2019-12-28T12:22:33","modified_gmt":"2019-12-28T16:22:33","slug":"fbi-has-proven-repeatedly-that-it-cannot-investigate-itself-will-cover-up-all-corruption-and-criminality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=2562","title":{"rendered":"FBI Has Proven Repeatedly That It Cannot Investigate Itself, Will Cover Up All Corruption and Criminality"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Understanding Why There&#8217;s No FBI Whistleblowers Outlining Institutional Corruption<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n<p>To understand why there\u2019s no-one in the administrative mid-tier of the FBI acting in a whistle-blowing capacity requires a background perspective looking at the totality of corruption.\u00a0 The institutions are protecting themselves; and yes, that protection applies to the internal dynamics.<\/p>\n<p>Former DAG Rod Rosenstein was dirty.\u00a0 He might not have started out dirty, but his actions in office created a dirty mess.\u00a0 Rosenstein facilitated the McCabe operation against Trump during the May 16th, 2017,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/theconservativetreehouse.com\/2019\/10\/02\/foia-release-highlights-rosenstein-white-house-visit-with-mueller-as-a-target-interview\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">White House FBI sting against Trump<\/a>\u00a0with Mueller.\u00a0 Rosenstein also facilitated the special counsel (writ large), and provided three scope memos to expand the corrupt investigation of President Trump.\u00a0 According to the inaction of AG Bill Barr,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/theconservativetreehouse.com\/2019\/11\/28\/200-days-where-are-rosensteins-scope-memos-to-robert-mueller-or-is-one-impeachment-a-small-price-to-pay-to-preserve-the-institutions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">we\u2019re not allowed to see<\/a>\u00a0those authorizing scope memos.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theconservativetreehouse.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/07\/barr-rosenstein-sessions.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-166133\" src=\"https:\/\/theconservativetreehouse.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/07\/barr-rosenstein-sessions.jpg?w=640\" sizes=\"(max-width: 618px) 100vw, 618px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theconservativetreehouse.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/07\/barr-rosenstein-sessions.jpg 618w, https:\/\/theconservativetreehouse.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/07\/barr-rosenstein-sessions.jpg?w=150 150w, https:\/\/theconservativetreehouse.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/07\/barr-rosenstein-sessions.jpg?w=300 300w\" alt=\"\" data-attachment-id=\"166133\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/theconservativetreehouse.com\/2019\/07\/11\/doj-rolls-up-mike-flynn-jr-as-witness-in-case-against-flynn-partner-bijan-rafiekian\/barr-rosenstein-sessions\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/theconservativetreehouse.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/07\/barr-rosenstein-sessions.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"618,410\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"barr rosenstein sessions\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/theconservativetreehouse.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/07\/barr-rosenstein-sessions.jpg?w=300\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/theconservativetreehouse.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/07\/barr-rosenstein-sessions.jpg?w=618\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Additionally, despite knowing the Trump investigation held a false predicate, Rosenstein signed the 3rd renewal of a fraudulent FISA application.\u00a0 Worse yet, even if Rosenstein was caught up by corruption around him, he did nothing to stop the fraud once identified.<\/p>\n<p>Why is Rosenstein a key inflection point?\u00a0 Because Rod Rosenstein recommended current FBI Director Christopher Wray to President Trump.\u00a0 POTUS then allowed Wray, as he does all department heads, to select his deputy \u2013 Wray chose\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fbi.gov\/about\/leadership-and-structure\/fbi-executives\/bowdich\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">David Bowditch<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#x2666;Keep in mind the National Security Division of the DOJ (DOJ-NSD) was\/is the epicenter of many corrupt activities, including filing the fraudulent FISA application, manipulating interpretations of law for FARA (\u00a7901) violations, and doing all of this while denying any inspector general oversight. As FISA Judge Rosemary Collyer\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/theconservativetreehouse.com\/2019\/12\/20\/fisc-releases-previously-classified-judge-collyer-order-what-other-fisa-cases-was-kevin-clinesmith-involved-in\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recently noted<\/a>, the DOJ-NSD is positioned as a rogue legal arm of the U.S. intelligence apparatus.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theconservativetreehouse.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/04\/mccabe-and-boente.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-162631\" src=\"https:\/\/theconservativetreehouse.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/04\/mccabe-and-boente.jpg?w=299&amp;h=204\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theconservativetreehouse.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/04\/mccabe-and-boente.jpg?w=299&amp;h=204 299w, https:\/\/theconservativetreehouse.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/04\/mccabe-and-boente.jpg?w=598&amp;h=408 598w, https:\/\/theconservativetreehouse.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/04\/mccabe-and-boente.jpg?w=150&amp;h=102 150w\" alt=\"\" width=\"299\" height=\"204\" data-attachment-id=\"162631\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/theconservativetreehouse.com\/2019\/04\/17\/the-doj-and-fbi-influence-of-dana-boente\/mccabe-and-boente\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/theconservativetreehouse.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/04\/mccabe-and-boente.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1224,834\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"mccabe and boente\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/theconservativetreehouse.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/04\/mccabe-and-boente.jpg?w=300\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/theconservativetreehouse.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/04\/mccabe-and-boente.jpg?w=640\" \/><\/a>FBI Director Wray selected the former head of DOJ-NSD to become the lead lawyer for the FBI, chief legal counsel\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/theconservativetreehouse.com\/2019\/04\/17\/the-doj-and-fbi-influence-of-dana-boente\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dana Boente<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So from Rosenstein we got: Chris Wray, David Bowditch, Dana Boente and another dubious DOJ recommendation, DC U.S. Attorney Jessie K Liu (<a href=\"https:\/\/theconservativetreehouse.com\/2019\/04\/14\/the-corruption-and-influence-of-jessie-k-liu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ref. Awan Bros and James Wolfe<\/a>).\u00a0 Keep this in mind moving forward.<\/p>\n<p>Another career corrupt-o-crat to come out of the DOJ-NSD, who was also involved in the fraudulent legal filings was the lead lawyer for the division, Michael Atkinson.<\/p>\n<p>Atkinson was moved from DOJ-NSD to become the Intelligence Community Inspector General (ICIG).\u00a0 Yes, the same IGIC who manipulated the rules and regulations to allow the hearsay Ukraine CIA \u201cwhistleblower\u201d, Eric Ciaramella.<\/p>\n<p>What we end up with is a brutally obvious, convoluted, network of corrupt officials; each carrying an independent reason to cover their institutional asses\u2026 each individual interest forms a collective fraudulent scheme inside the machinery of the FBI apparatus.<\/p>\n<p>The motive behind the DOJ\/FBI effort to cover for Senate Intelligence Committee Security Director James Wolfe\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/theconservativetreehouse.com\/2019\/08\/11\/ag-bill-barrs-other-problem-the-2018-doj-and-fbi-coverup-to-protect-the-senate-intelligence-committee\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">unlawful classified information leaks<\/a>, is connected to this network and expands into the SSCI Chairman (Richard Burr) and Vice-Chair Mark Warner.<\/p>\n<p>Security Director Wolfe was working on instructions from inside the committee itself; his leak of the FISA application to journalist Ali Watkins was in alignment with the intents\/motives of the SSCI in March 2017.\u00a0\u00a0 Dirty politicians corrupting staff.<\/p>\n<p>The DOJ and FBI didn\u2019t charge James Wolfe with the leaking of classified information because it would have exposed\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/theconservativetreehouse.com\/2019\/10\/20\/durhams-trail-leading-to-ssci-ali-watkins-never-slept-with-james-wolfe-it-was-a-cover-story\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">corruption within the SSCI<\/a>.\u00a0 Wolfe was prepared to call the senators in his defense\u2026. this could not be allowed.\u00a0 The SSCI has oversight over the intelligence community to include the FBI, DOJ, DOJ-NSD, CIA, ODNI etc.<\/p>\n<p>How does all of this corruption come together?\u2026.\u00a0 More importantly how does this level of institutional corruption create the inability of FBI whistle-blowers to come forward?<\/p>\n<p>&#x2666; The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence is the approver for any nominations for any executive appointed position involving the intelligence community.<\/p>\n<p>If the senate intel committee wants to block the nomination, likely adverse to their interests, they can\u2026 simply, they don\u2019t take it up. (See Trump\u2019s attempt to appoint Representative John Ratcliffe as ODNI as an example.)<\/p>\n<p>However, along with approving Wray and Bowditch, the SSCI also approved former DOJ-NSD legal counsel Michael Atkinson to become Intelligence Community Inspector General.\u00a0 Who would an honest intelligence whistle-blower have to go through?\u00a0 Dirty Michael Atkinson.<\/p>\n<p>The same dirty Michael Atkinson who was the top legal counsel to the head of the DOJ-NSD when the corrupt DOJ-NSD agency operations were ongoing. See how the whistle-blower block works?<\/p>\n<p>Aligned interests \u2013 The Senate Intel Committee uses the placement of Atkinson to block any whistle-blower action that would be adverse to their interests.\u00a0 Whistle-blowers ain\u2019t stupid, they know what surrounds them.<\/p>\n<p>Senator Mark Warner and Senator Richard Burr are dirty.\u00a0 So too is ICIG Atkinson, FBI Director Chris Wray, FBI Deputy Director David Bowditch and FBI Legal Counsel Dana Boente.<\/p>\n<p>&#x2666; Robert Mueller was dirty.\u00a0 Rod Rosenstein was dirty.\u00a0 All of the special counsel lawyers including Andrew Weissmann and Brandon Van Grack (Flynn prosecutor) are dirty.\u00a0 Additionally Mueller\u2019s lead FBI Agent David Archey, who was promoted after the corrupt special counsel investigation to be the head of the Virginia FBI field office, dirty.<\/p>\n<p>FBI official David Archey, like ICIG Michael Atkinson, conveniently put into a place where\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/theconservativetreehouse.com\/2019\/11\/03\/why-john-brennan-peter-strzok-and-doj-needed-julian-assange-arrested-and-why-uk-officials-obliged\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">he can run cover<\/a>\u00a0for FBI operations that might expose dirty DC and Virgina-based FBI activities.\u00a0 See how that works?<\/p>\n<p>Try telling me with all we know about the Mueller investigation how anyone on the special counsel assignment was participating in a fraudulent investigation without knowing.<\/p>\n<p>Special Agent Peter Strzok, dirty.\u00a0 FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith, dirty.\u00a0 FBI Lawyer Lisa Page, dirty.\u00a0 FBI media spox Michael Kortan, dirty.\u00a0 James Comey, Andrew McCabe and James Baker, dirty-dirty-dirty.\u00a0 Fortunately all of these are fired\u2026 but what about Supervisory Special Agent Joseph Pientka (SSA1)?\u00a0 Pientka clearly outlined as dirty by IG Horowitz report on FISA abuse, and yet still employed; still providing cover.<\/p>\n<p>So what exactly does that make Horowitz?\u00a0 Perhaps lead corruption polisher who comes in willfully blind behind the Bondo application team?<\/p>\n<p>That, all of that, in its brutal totality, is why we have not seen any honest FBI whistle-blowers come forward.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s no-one for them to blow the whistle to\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Every day we spend outraged about what the DOJ and FBI did in 2016 and 2017, is one less day that AG Bill Barr is not being held accountable for all of this current DOJ and FBI corruption that stares him in the face when he brushes his teeth each morning.<\/p>\n<p>If we had a functioning\u00a0<em>Fourth Estate<\/em>\u00a0none of these corrupt officials could survive investigative media scrutiny.\u00a0 Unfortunately the\u00a0<span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">corrupt administrative state doesn\u2019t\u00a0<em>*play*<\/em>\u00a0the press, it actually involves the press\u2026. it absorbs the press\u2026 it attaches the press viability to its own position\u2026. it makes the press part of the corrupt process.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">The press cannot turn against the corrupt administrative state without exposing their own culpability, participation and lack of credibility\u2026\u2026 It\u2019s a protective circle.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theconservativetreehouse.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/07\/nunes-on-doj-and-fbi.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-166142\" src=\"https:\/\/theconservativetreehouse.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/07\/nunes-on-doj-and-fbi.jpg?w=640&amp;h=276\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theconservativetreehouse.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/07\/nunes-on-doj-and-fbi.jpg?w=640&amp;h=276 640w, https:\/\/theconservativetreehouse.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/07\/nunes-on-doj-and-fbi.jpg?w=150&amp;h=65 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src=\"https:\/\/theconservativetreehouse.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/08\/barr-bagpipes.jpg?w=640&amp;h=426\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theconservativetreehouse.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/08\/barr-bagpipes.jpg?w=640&amp;h=426 640w, https:\/\/theconservativetreehouse.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/08\/barr-bagpipes.jpg?w=150&amp;h=100 150w, https:\/\/theconservativetreehouse.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/08\/barr-bagpipes.jpg?w=300&amp;h=200 300w, https:\/\/theconservativetreehouse.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/08\/barr-bagpipes.jpg?w=768&amp;h=512 768w, https:\/\/theconservativetreehouse.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/08\/barr-bagpipes.jpg 1024w\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" data-attachment-id=\"169324\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/theconservativetreehouse.com\/2019\/08\/26\/request-for-stay-doj-stalls-for-more-time-before-forced-production-of-comey-memos\/barr-bagpipes\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/theconservativetreehouse.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/08\/barr-bagpipes.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1024,682\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"barr bagpipes\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/theconservativetreehouse.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/08\/barr-bagpipes.jpg?w=300\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/theconservativetreehouse.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/08\/barr-bagpipes.jpg?w=640\" \/><\/a>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/theconservativetreehouse.com\/2019\/12\/25\/understanding-why-theres-no-fbi-whistleblowers-outlining-institutional-corruption\/\">https:\/\/theconservativetreehouse.com\/2019\/12\/25\/understanding-why-theres-no-fbi-whistleblowers-outlining-institutional-corruption\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Understanding Why There&#8217;s No FBI Whistleblowers Outlining Institutional 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