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Oopsie! The FBI "Unintentionally" Spied on 278,000 Americans

Whoops!

Whoopsie!

FBI Deputy Director Paul Abbate visibly stunned Republican Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley on Tuesday with his estimate of how many Americans the Bureau has "unintentionally" spied on.

Abbate testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee, where Hawley grilled him as to why the FBI would not commit to publicly releasing the 1023 form relating to President Joe Biden and his alleged foreign business dealings. Abbate said doing so would endanger the life of the document's source, prompting Hawley to argue the source's name could be redacted.

Abbate then said Hawley should take the source's safety "seriously."

"I also take seriously the fact that your institution has repeatedly abused its authority, has repeatedly targeted political opponents ... Your institution is the one that, according to the court, the FISA court, ran 278,000 unwarranted -- probably illegal -- queries on Americans, right? That was your institution, correct?" Hawley asked.

"With respect to the compliance incident, yes," Abbate said.

"Compliance. You characterized the unlawful querying, 278,000 times, of American citizens as 'compliance issues'?" Hawley pressed.

"We've said before, I've said, that [it's] totally unacceptable," Abbate said.

"Who's been fired for it?" Hawley asked.

"Individuals involved are handled through the disciplinary process."

"Who's been fired for it?" Hawley asked again.

"In the case of the unintentional instance, where something similar happened, we have fired people in the past."

"Wait, I'm sorry, what does that word salad mean? The 'unintentional instance'? What does that mean? Who's been fired for the 278,000 times that you improperly or illegally queried the database for American citizens?" Hawley pressed.

"When we find intentional incidents--" Abbate said before Hawley cut him off.

"Wait, you're saying that the 278,000 queries were unintentional?" Hawley asked.

"I believe that's correct."


He then changed his claim from saying that all of the 278,000 cases of illegal spying were "unintentional," to only saying that the "vast majority" of these crimes were unintentional.


"Wow," Hawley said, visibly shocked. "278,000 times, American citizens' information was queried by your agency unintentionally? That's your testimony?"

"I would want to go back and check that, Senator, but yes, my understanding is that the vast majority of the--"


"Wait, but that's different. You just said it was, you just said it was unintentional, now it's the vast majority?" Hawley asked. "Which is it? Do you know?"

"I would want to go back and check it," Abbate said. <

"So you don't know?" Hawley asked.

"My understanding is that likely all are -- were unintentional."

"'Likely all.' So first it was 'all of them,' then it was 'vast majority,' now it's 'likely all,' so 'you don't know' is the answer to the question?"

Of course no one was fired. Consequences are for the Little People who are not part of The Regime.

Video at the link.

Posted by: Ace at 12:03 PM




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Posted by: Jordan61 at June 15, 2023 12:04 PM (DRSnL)

2 I work on the assumption that everyone is being spied on all the time.

Posted by: Jordan61 at June 15, 2023 12:04 PM (DRSnL)

3 Hi Ace.
Got hung up checking out guns.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 15, 2023 12:04 PM (t/2Uw)

4 the FIB has been taken over by the greys?

Posted by: SturmToddler at June 15, 2023 12:05 PM (nXhwP)

5 Apparently legitimate hacker groups are saying they will take down the entire European banking system within 48 hours. And they are saying this is not a threat that they are going to do it it's just a warning.

Posted by: Not trying to be mean but... at June 15, 2023 12:05 PM (eYlx1)

6 Should we not have done that?

-FBI

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at June 15, 2023 12:05 PM (eYoxG)

7 Let's get Jim Jordan to roll up his sleeves and send a letter!

Posted by: Jay in PA at June 15, 2023 12:05 PM (i7Q7S)

8 Who?

Who spied on 278,000 Americans?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at June 15, 2023 12:05 PM (LvTSG)

9 Meh. I can't even work up the energy to be angry about this.

Which, of course, is exactly what the Feebs and the GOP are counting on. A worn out, tired, cynical population.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at June 15, 2023 12:05 PM (AW0uW)

10 ??

Posted by: L - very tired at June 15, 2023 12:06 PM (GshMh)

11 2 That's how I figure it. They intentionally spy on 330 million Americans. Any 'unintentional' targets are probably Dem pols and elites.

Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at June 15, 2023 12:06 PM (MvF+J)

12 I am afraid of meeting anyone from the FBI.

Mainly because I don't think I could stop myself from spitting on them and then I'll be jailed for assault.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at June 15, 2023 12:06 PM (N1DT3)

13 I'm just glad there's no historical analog to what's happening in the U.S. right now.

Posted by: Join Moron Robbie in Celebrating Groomer Awareness and Uke Hating Month! It's a bash! at June 15, 2023 12:06 PM (k1L5r)

14 I wish there was an opposition party in Washington. It would be nice

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at June 15, 2023 12:06 PM (flINI)

15 It's a gray area.

Posted by: Paul Abbate at June 15, 2023 12:07 PM (iayUP)

16 287,000 is not a mistake

Posted by: Skip at June 15, 2023 12:07 PM (N0Aj/)

17 burn

scatter

salt

nuke

lather

rinse

repeat

as necessary...

Posted by: SturmToddler at June 15, 2023 12:07 PM (nXhwP)

18 The Junta may be castrating the FBI. I'm sure the reason is pretty horrible, but it is fun to watch.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at June 15, 2023 12:07 PM (KSNKu)

19 There is now doubt in my mind the hack of DoD CaC records by the chinese was an inside job!

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 15, 2023 12:07 PM (BRHaw)

20 hiya

Posted by: JT at June 15, 2023 12:07 PM (T4tVD)

21 THE FBI HAS FREE SPEECH RIGHTS TOO!!!!

Posted by: Manly Man David French at June 15, 2023 12:07 PM (i7Q7S)

22 14 I wish there was an opposition party in Washington. It would be nice
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at June 15, 2023 12:06 PM (flINI)

Our Democracy does not allow dissent.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at June 15, 2023 12:07 PM (KSNKu)

Posted by: Marcel Marceau at June 15, 2023 12:07 PM (aD39U)

24 "Wait, you're saying that the 278,000 queries were unintentional?" Hawley asked.

"I believe that's correct."

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"NO REASONABLE PROSECUTOR!"

Posted by: ShainS -- Oppression Scientist and Your AI Interpreter at June 15, 2023 12:08 PM (+z+6a)

25 How many records did BoA turm over? Without a court order or judge review!

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 15, 2023 12:08 PM (BRHaw)

26 See how I made my comment applicable ever after ace fixes the blog?

Posted by: fd at June 15, 2023 12:08 PM (iayUP)

27 Who among us haven't unintentionally made the same mistake 278,000 times?

Posted by: gourmand du jour at June 15, 2023 12:08 PM (MeG8a)

28 I'm going to waaaaay out on a limb here and guess that approximately 278,000 of these were conservatives.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 15, 2023 12:08 PM (we8o1)

29 "Who's been fired for it?" Hawley asked.

"Individuals involved are handled through the disciplinary process."


This has become their go-to dodge. "The process" requires that they not answer your questions or do anything meaningful to malefactors.

Us: Who develops the process?
Them: Oh, we do, of course.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 15, 2023 12:09 PM (eOEVl)

30 Nice!

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 15, 2023 12:09 PM (GgE9g)

31 I work on the assumption that the government is trying to screw me all day, every day, in every way.

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 15, 2023 12:09 PM (sNvzL)

32 Wrote downstairs saw a headline yesterday evening the Eff Bee Eye video of the Jan6 bomber has been compromised and degraded.

Posted by: Skip at June 15, 2023 12:09 PM (N0Aj/)

33 If I recall the Chinese also got many SF 86 files.

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 15, 2023 12:09 PM (BRHaw)

34 Abolish The FBI.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at June 15, 2023 12:10 PM (dQWfI)

35 "It's all just grandstanding" in 3...2...1...

Posted by: Archimedes at June 15, 2023 12:10 PM (eOEVl)

36 Should we not have done that?

-FBI
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at June 15, 2023 12:05 PM (eYoxG)

[Costanza voice] Was that wrong? Because if I’d have known that kind of thing was frowned upon… I tell ya, I gotta plead ignorance here.

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 15, 2023 12:10 PM (mzzp7)

37 29 This has become their go-to dodge. "The process" requires that they not answer your questions or do anything meaningful to malefactors.

Us: Who develops the process?
Them: Oh, we do, of course.
Posted by: Archimedes at June 15, 2023 12:09 PM (eOEVl)

=========

Almost no one in Congress even lets slip the hint of a threat about limiting the growth of budgets, much less cutting them, or using the power of the purse in any way to limit FBI activity.

Why would the FBI or any government agency fear Congress?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at June 15, 2023 12:10 PM (LvTSG)

38 I work on the assumption that the government is trying to screw me all day, every day, in every way.
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 15, 2023 12:09 PM (sNvzL)

=====

Nurse gets it.

Posted by: Jordan61 at June 15, 2023 12:10 PM (DRSnL)

39 32 Wrote downstairs saw a headline yesterday evening the Eff Bee Eye video of the Jan6 bomber has been compromised and degraded.
Posted by: Skip at June 15, 2023 12:09 PM (N0Aj/)

They have the Uber tag number and license plate. It was given to a DC cop and Fed of some kind.

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 15, 2023 12:10 PM (BRHaw)

40 I see the red pill and I want it painted grey

Posted by: REDACTED at June 15, 2023 12:11 PM (us2H3)

41 35 "It's all just grandstanding" in 3...2...1...
Posted by: Archimedes at June 15, 2023 12:10 PM (eOEVl)

=======

What concrete actions is Hawley advancing in the face of these new revelations?

What coalition is he building in the Senate to impede the upcoming spending bills that fully fund the FBI's new HQ until the FBI does...anything to correct this?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at June 15, 2023 12:11 PM (LvTSG)

42 Wrote downstairs saw a headline yesterday evening the Eff Bee Eye video of the Jan6 bomber has been compromised and degraded.
Posted by: Skip

--

The only copy.

And after two and a half years no one thought to write the license plate number down.

Posted by: Join Moron Robbie in Celebrating Groomer Awareness and Uke Hating Month! It's a bash! at June 15, 2023 12:12 PM (k1L5r)

43 27 Who among us haven't unintentionally made the same mistake 278,000 times?

Posted by: gourmand du jour at June 15, 2023 12:08 PM (MeG8a)

I certainly have. I bet that I've gotten into the wrong line at the supermarket at least 278,000 times. The one that takes 20 times longer than all the other lines because of check writers, coupon clippers arguing with the checker, checker not knowing the price of produce, etc. etc.

Posted by: kathysaysso at June 15, 2023 12:12 PM (PvVvQ)

44 Hawley seems to be getting better and better at questioning and exposing these jackasses. They're starting to resemble deer in headlights. He, Cruz and Kennedy are doing yeoman work.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 15, 2023 12:12 PM (eOEVl)

45 What coalition is he building in the Senate to impede the upcoming spending bills that fully fund the FBI's new HQ until the FBI does...anything to correct this?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at June 15, 2023 12:11 PM (LvTSG)

HQ needs to be 3 offices. Director and 2 assistants.

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 15, 2023 12:12 PM (BRHaw)

46 What concrete actions is Hawley advancing in the face of these new revelations?

Not sure what he can do but Hawley is one of the few "good guys."

Posted by: It's me donna at June 15, 2023 12:13 PM (bs+z0)

47 Posted by: Archimedes at June 15, 2023 12:09 PM (eOEVl)

Sources and methods? What LAW says that protecting a source or method over rides a Constitutional power to investigate?

And where, in LAW, does it say they cannot comment on an ongoing investigation?

Hold them in contempt, until they answer.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 15, 2023 12:13 PM (oHd/0)

48 45 HQ needs to be 3 offices. Director and 2 assistants.
Posted by: rhennigantx at June 15, 2023 12:12 PM (BRHaw)

========

You want 3 offices.

You'll take their current building.

You'll get their new, bigger than the CIA, campus.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at June 15, 2023 12:13 PM (LvTSG)

49 I work on the assumption that the government is trying to screw me all day, every day, in every way.
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 15, 2023 12:09 PM (sNvzL)

=====

Nurse gets it.
Posted by: Jordan61 at June 15, 2023 12:10 PM


Well, we are working on that.

Posted by: The Government at June 15, 2023 12:13 PM (Wnv9h)

50 Moron Robbie threw me off with the comment link hidden in the blue box.


"I am not a smart man. . . "

Posted by: Tonypete at June 15, 2023 12:13 PM (JOV35)

51 They have the Uber tag number and license plate. It was given to a DC cop and Fed of some kind.

Posted by: rhennigantx

--

Suggested correction.

Posted by: Join Moron Robbie in Celebrating Groomer Awareness and Uke Hating Month! It's a bash! at June 15, 2023 12:13 PM (k1L5r)

52 [Costanza voice] Was that wrong? Because if I’d have known that kind of thing was frowned upon… I tell ya, I gotta plead ignorance here.
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 15, 2023 12:10 PM (mzzp7)



'cause I've worked in a lot of State Security Offices, and I tell you, people do that all the time.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at June 15, 2023 12:13 PM (aD39U)

53 The FBI is a criminal organization.

Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at June 15, 2023 12:13 PM (v6kjX)

54 What coalition is he building in the Senate to impede the upcoming spending bills that fully fund the FBI's new HQ until the FBI does...anything to correct this?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at June 15, 2023 12:11 PM (LvTSG)

Forget about merely impeding. Defund the whole thing and shut it down. After that I’ll go flap my wings and fly to the moon…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 15, 2023 12:13 PM (mzzp7)

55 I'm sure the FBI was just looking at hot girls in various stages of undress when the girls "accidentally" left their webcams turned on. Innocent boy stuff

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 15, 2023 12:13 PM (OhpJy)

56 8 Who?

Who spied on 278,000 Americans?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at June 15, 2023 12:05 PM (LvTSG)


Top. Men.

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at June 15, 2023 12:13 PM (DTX3h)

57 And after two and a half years no one thought to write the license plate number down.
Posted by: Join Moron Robbie in Celebrating Groomer Awareness and Uke Hating Month! It's a bash! at June 15, 2023 12:12 PM (k1L5r)

As I said above they have the unber number and tag.

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 15, 2023 12:14 PM (BRHaw)

58 Who among us haven't unintentionally made the same mistake 278,000 times?
Posted by: gourmand du jour at June 15, 2023 12:08 PM (MeG8a)


Their use of the word "unintentional" is a tell.

They excused Hillary's criminality by saying she didn't mean to.

They go after Trump by saying he did things deliberately.

If you get hauled in and plead that you didn't mean to, they'll add lying to federal agents to your charge.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 15, 2023 12:14 PM (we8o1)

59 You can't run a social credit totalitarian state without a vast, unaccountable police state to spy on the citizens.

But don't worry-- those 278,000 Americans they spied on were all white supremacists.
And if you think that's not true, you're a domestic terrorist

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 15, 2023 12:14 PM (Et4sD)

60 Dark in here, shades of grey...

Posted by: Ann at June 15, 2023 12:14 PM (ilNea)

61 I could be wrong but I want Trump to take Josh for the next AG

make everyone in the DOJ/FBI take a polygraph

if you refuse, you're fired

if you fail, you're fired

if you pass, you're fired

Posted by: REDACTED at June 15, 2023 12:14 PM (us2H3)

62 46 What concrete actions is Hawley advancing in the face of these new revelations?

Not sure what he can do but Hawley is one of the few "good guys."
Posted by: It's me donna at June 15, 2023 12:13 PM (bs+z0)

========

Yes, in the cesspool that is DC, he is one of the good guys.

He's also getting some revelations that will be forgotten in a week by almost everyone while doing nothing to actually impede the funding of these programs.

$50 says he votes in favor of the inevitable omnibus spending bill that gives the FBI everything they want because the grandmas who bake apple pies for our boys overseas might get a cut.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at June 15, 2023 12:14 PM (LvTSG)

63 Suggested correction.
Posted by: Join Moron Robbie in Celebrating Groomer Awareness and Uke Hating Month! It's a bash! at June 15, 2023 12:13 PM (k1L5r)

ha

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 15, 2023 12:15 PM (BRHaw)

64 What concrete actions is Hawley advancing in the face of these new revelations?

What coalition is he building in the Senate to impede the upcoming spending bills that fully fund the FBI's new HQ until the FBI does...anything to correct this?


As I've said many times, there is great value in just exposing these people. Cruz mentions that he's asked all the time about abolishing the FBI. That was an insane position a few years ago, but now it's mainstream. How do you think that happened, and do you really think it will have no effect on voting patterns?

As to what else they're doing, I don't know, but I'd guess that there's lots of stuff happening behind the scenes.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 15, 2023 12:15 PM (eOEVl)

65 I always called it the Obama Chin (he does it a lot when he lies but yeah its probably deeper than that) and now that you mention it, yup.

Not that I didn't know I just hadn't put it together.

There's a sadness about them as well. Like an air of having given up.

Posted by: ... at June 15, 2023 12:03 PM (QujcH)

------------

Indeed. Billy Jeff Bubba Clinton, too, now that I think about it (but had previously chalked it up to having to live with Hillary, LOL).

Almost like watching "hostage videos" -- going through the motions sans authenticity.

Trump's greatest & most attractive asset (and rarest among pols) was his authenticity, even in his faults. "He was a freeborn man of the USA!" Good stuff ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Oppression Scientist and Your AI Interpreter at June 15, 2023 12:15 PM (+z+6a)

66 The actions of a rogue agent...in Cleveland?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 15, 2023 12:15 PM (qlgfj)

67 They have the Uber tag number and license plate. It was given to a DC cop and Fed of some kind.
Posted by: rhennigantx at June 15, 2023 12:10 PM


Before he could write it down he slipped on a banana peel and fell backward onto the spire of the National Cathedral. Tragic, really.

Posted by: The FBI at June 15, 2023 12:15 PM (Wnv9h)

68 Polygraphs are no longer considered even remotely reliable.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at June 15, 2023 12:15 PM (MeG8a)

69 Keeping the "prick" in "Oprichniki"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 15, 2023 12:16 PM (9UlRk)

70 64 As I've said many times, there is great value in just exposing these people. Cruz mentions that he's asked all the time about abolishing the FBI. That was an insane position a few years ago, but now it's mainstream. How do you think that happened, and do you really think it will have no effect on voting patterns?

As to what else they're doing, I don't know, but I'd guess that there's lots of stuff happening behind the scenes.
Posted by: Archimedes at June 15, 2023 12:15 PM (eOEVl)

========

I assume that the FBI's general lawlessness out in the open has done more to advance the Overton Window on defunding the FBI than anything Cruz says in committee.

Again, $50 says that Cruz will vote in favor of the omnibus spending bill that gives the FBI everything they want.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at June 15, 2023 12:16 PM (LvTSG)

71 Heya Jordan61!

How are things on your side of the state?

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 15, 2023 12:16 PM (F98dM)

72 "We have plans to build a railroad from the Pacific all the way across the Indian Ocean. We're gonna need pontoons, millions, billions of pontoons, and those other floaty things, pool noodles. Yep! Jill, I pooped my pants again!"

Posted by: Joe Biden at June 15, 2023 12:16 PM (PiwSw)

73 When Chuy gets excited, we go grey.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 15, 2023 12:16 PM (0SXk8)

74 Questioning like this is best done with the primary person there and his/her/it's Deputy. When you get a shitbag of word salad, just stop and shoot the asshole. Then turn to the Deputy and ask something like, "So, are you going to provide more bullsh*t, or will you answer the question?"

Posted by: Diogenes at June 15, 2023 12:17 PM (e4fEA)

75 So.... if this was over a 10 year span... they would have spied on an American 72 times a day... every day.

So, just about every 20 minutes, someone in the F'd B I is breaking the law.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 15, 2023 12:17 PM (oHd/0)

76 Their use of the word "unintentional" is a tell.

They excused Hillary's criminality by saying she didn't mean to.


Hey, anyone could have a hammer accident around their hard drive. Repeatedly.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 15, 2023 12:17 PM (eOEVl)

77 How do you "unintentionally" spy on people?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke-the Mikey candidate for public office at June 15, 2023 12:17 PM (Keyt1)

78 The Mafia should be commissioned to investigate the FBI.

Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at June 15, 2023 12:17 PM (v6kjX)

79 They know the virtual desktop sign in and ip address of the machine that made each query.

So
1. Bob the Fibber logged in on a desk and ran the query. Jail
2. Bob the idiot left his machine unlock with his id in the machine. Fired
3. Bob gave his card to someone with his password. Jail

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 15, 2023 12:17 PM (BRHaw)

80 68 I don't think polygraphs ever detected lies. They're just one of many tools interrogators can use to sweat a subject. Make em uncomfortable and frightened.

Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at June 15, 2023 12:17 PM (MvF+J)

81 79 They know the virtual desktop sign in and ip address of the machine that made each query.

So
1. Bob the Fibber logged in on a desk and ran the query. Jail
2. Bob the idiot left his machine unlock with his id in the machine. Fired
3. Bob gave his card to someone with his password. Jail

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 15, 2023 12:17 PM (BRHaw)

========

4. Bob the Fibber followed orders and is in line for promotion.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at June 15, 2023 12:18 PM (LvTSG)

82 Again, $50 says that Cruz will vote in favor of the omnibus spending bill that gives the FBI everything they want.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at June 15, 2023 12:16 PM (LvTSG)

but Cruz was the AoS fav in 2016

and you could get banned if you differed with that opinion

ace has evolved from such extreme positions

Posted by: REDACTED at June 15, 2023 12:18 PM (us2H3)

83 Who?

Who spied on 278,000 Americans?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler

The guy on First ?

Posted by: JT at June 15, 2023 12:18 PM (T4tVD)

84 And it's not just that they spied illegally on Americans, its the thousands of times they compounded the illegality by laundering that stolen information to a local DA who pretended to find out out all in their own.

That's what they need to dig into-- how many times did they pass what they learned illegally onto other agencies?
Or all the political dirt they passed onto the media and Dems.

That's what they are really hiding.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 15, 2023 12:18 PM (Et4sD)

85 How are things on your side of the state?
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 15, 2023 12:16 PM (F98dM)

=====

Nice today. Yesterday was gloomy and rainy.

Posted by: Jordan61 at June 15, 2023 12:18 PM (DRSnL)

86 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at June 15, 2023 12:14 PM (LvTSG)

Yup, they could not even punish Schiff for his Russia lies...

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 15, 2023 12:18 PM (oHd/0)

87 When Chuy gets excited, we go grey.
Posted by: rickb223

Oh, you said 'grey'! Nevermind.

Posted by: Buttigig at June 15, 2023 12:19 PM (JOV35)

88 83 Who?

Who spied on 278,000 Americans?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler

The guy on First ?
Posted by: JT at June 15, 2023 12:18 PM (T4tVD)

========

Oh, I don't give a damn.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at June 15, 2023 12:19 PM (LvTSG)

89 The Mafia should be commissioned to investigate the FBI.
Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at June 15, 2023 12:17 PM (v6kjX)

Nancy Sinatra is a left winger. Just saying

Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 15, 2023 12:19 PM (pVWRI)

90 I assume that the FBI's general lawlessness out in the open has done more to advance the Overton Window on defunding the FBI than anything Cruz says in committee.

Part of its being out in the open is a result of hearings like these. You certainly didn't hear it from the media.

Again, $50 says that Cruz will vote in favor of the omnibus spending bill that gives the FBI everything they want.

We shall see.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 15, 2023 12:19 PM (eOEVl)

91 And where, in LAW, does it say they cannot comment on an ongoing investigation?

Hold them in contempt, until they answer.
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 15, 2023 12:13 PM (oHd/0)


They hold Congress in contempt. The entire bureaucracy holds Congress in contempt. Until, and unless, Congress stops shoveling money at them, they are not wrong to do so.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 15, 2023 12:20 PM (we8o1)

92 The guy on First ?
Posted by: JT at June 15, 2023 12:18 PM (T4tVD)

Yes but What's his name

Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 15, 2023 12:20 PM (pVWRI)

93 So
1. Bob the Fibber logged in on a desk and ran the query. Jail
2. Bob the idiot left his machine unlock with his id in the machine. Fired
3. Bob gave his card to someone with his password. Jail

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 15, 2023 12:17 PM (BRHaw)

========

4. Bob the Fibber followed orders and is in line for promotion.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at June 15, 2023 12:18 PM (LvTSG)

Besides, Bob words for the NSA... that is known...

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 15, 2023 12:20 PM (oHd/0)

94 A red state governor will have to step in and tell state law enforcement not to work with the FBI.

Posted by: mr tmz at June 15, 2023 12:20 PM (rJ48h)

95 Make sure we keep those 278,000 chair cushions, for the hounds.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at June 15, 2023 12:20 PM (7rpEJ)

96 We investigated ourselves and altered our procedures. No need to ask any more questions.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at June 15, 2023 12:20 PM (WGUfL)

97 68 Polygraphs are no longer considered even remotely reliable.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at June 15, 2023 12:15 PM (MeG8a)

well, restaurant reviews don't mean shit either but people have got to eat, right

Posted by: FIB at June 15, 2023 12:20 PM (us2H3)

98 THIRD BASE!

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at June 15, 2023 12:20 PM (aD39U)

99 How many "low level" employees do they have in Cincinnati...

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at June 15, 2023 12:20 PM (flINI)

100 We have plans to build a railroad from the Pacific all the way across the Indian Ocean.

So does anyone know what he meant ?

Posted by: It's me donna at June 15, 2023 12:20 PM (bs+z0)

101 but Cruz was the AoS fav in 2016

and you could get banned if you differed with that opinion

ace has evolved from such extreme positions


You certainly seem anxious to attain victim status.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 15, 2023 12:21 PM (eOEVl)

102 I knew someone who was fired for looking up medical records without cause. She deserved it. So do these FBI assholes.

Posted by: huerfano at June 15, 2023 12:21 PM (7zEAH)

103 I work on the assumption that the government is trying to screw me all day, every day, in every way.
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 15, 2023 12:09 PM (sNvzL)


The latest budget has a line item for 10K otters.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 15, 2023 12:21 PM (we8o1)

104 92 The guy on First ?
Posted by: JT at June 15, 2023 12:18 PM (T4tVD)

Yes but What's his name
Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 15, 2023 12:20 PM (pVWRI)

"Asdrubal"

".... huh?"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 15, 2023 12:21 PM (9UlRk)

105 What a coincidence! I’ve unintentionally ogled 278,000 women over the course of my life.

Posted by: Poplius, Roman Senator at June 15, 2023 12:21 PM (K8wm4)

106 80 68 I don't think polygraphs ever detected lies. They're just one of many tools interrogators can use to sweat a subject. Make em uncomfortable and frightened.
Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at June 15, 2023 12:17 PM (MvF+J)

They fail a lot. What they really detect is changes in heartbeat and stuff, which doesn't tell you if a person is lying or not. The idea is to see what a person's state is like when they're lying, when they're telling the truth, using obvious statements first. Then ask the real questions.

Posted by: Someguy's phone at June 15, 2023 12:21 PM (8rUBc)

107 They know the virtual desktop sign in and ip address of the machine that made each query.

So
1. Bob the Fibber logged in on a desk and ran the query. Jail
2. Bob the idiot left his machine unlock with his id in the machine. Fired
3. Bob gave his card to someone with his password. Jail

Posted by: rhennigantx


Hammoned Egger - Fired

Posted by: rickb223 at June 15, 2023 12:21 PM (0SXk8)

108 A true psychopath can pass a polygraph easily, even if guilty of 20 murders.
Conversely, an innocent person can be so stressed out that they fail.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at June 15, 2023 12:21 PM (MeG8a)

109 We have plans to build a railroad from the Pacific all the way across the Indian Ocean.

So does anyone know what he meant ?



I very much doubt he does.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 15, 2023 12:21 PM (eOEVl)

110 and you could get banned if you differed with that opinion

ace has evolved from such extreme positions

Didn't happen

Posted by: It's me donna at June 15, 2023 12:21 PM (bs+z0)

111 83 Who?

Who spied on 278,000 Americans?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler

The guy on First ?
Posted by: JT

Who?

Who let the dogs out?

Who? Who? Who? Who?

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 15, 2023 12:22 PM (KmfkL)

112 starting to think this Massie guy is a real turd

Posted by: FIB at June 15, 2023 12:22 PM (us2H3)

113 I believe "unintentional" means that you believe you won't get caught.

Posted by: huerfano at June 15, 2023 12:22 PM (7zEAH)

114 42 Wrote downstairs saw a headline yesterday evening the Eff Bee Eye video of the Jan6 bomber has been compromised and degraded.
Posted by: Skip

--

The only copy.

And after two and a half years no one thought to write the license plate number down.
Posted by: Join Moron Robbie in Celebrating Groomer Awareness and Uke Hating Month! It's a bash! at June 15, 2023 12:12 PM (k1L5r)

Wait wait wait. They filmed the Jan 6 activity using that old nitrate base they used to film silent movies?

Posted by: Darrell Harris at June 15, 2023 12:22 PM (/iWhV)

115
278k? Try 350m.

If I were one of these spooks, I'd be sorely tempted to answer a congressman by taking a dump on the table and walking out.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 15, 2023 12:22 PM (oINRc)

116 Jinx! How’s the winner of the Golden Fish today?

Posted by: Poplius, Roman Senator at June 15, 2023 12:23 PM (K8wm4)

117 Yup, they could will not even ever punish Schiff for his Russia lies...
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 15, 2023 12:18 PM


FIFY.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 15, 2023 12:23 PM (Wnv9h)

118 "The only solution now is to expand the Deep State's unchecked FISA surveillance power via a Congressional bill that's like the Patriot Act for the internet! Maybe call it the RESTRICT Act or some such nonsense ..."

/Cheap Justice Benedict Roberts, with his FISA Court Oversight powers, agrees!

Posted by: ShainS -- Oppression Scientist and Your AI Interpreter at June 15, 2023 12:23 PM (+z+6a)

119 Burn the FBI to the ground. Prosecute the brass, and salt the earth where it once stood. They are unabashed, unrepentant criminals.

It would be better for everyone if Congress took them down so the public doesn’t have to.

Posted by: Advo at June 15, 2023 12:23 PM (VHN21)

120 It's important to know the context in which this exchange took place. The subject of the hearing was the renewal of section 702 of the US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Senators will be voting yea or nay on renewing 702. The abuses listed by the FISA Court's investigation ought to noted and proclaimed for the enlightenment of the citizens of the United States. Also noteworthy is the vast silence on the subject by Propaganda Media Syndicate.

Posted by: mrp at June 15, 2023 12:23 PM (rj6Yv)

121 Senator CAT would have fun with this.

Director, who is your boss? Who do you work for?

-After some hemming and haw-ing and redirecting, finally get him to admit he works for the people.

Director, do you have contempt for your bosses?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at June 15, 2023 12:23 PM (WGUfL)

122 Polygraphs are no longer considered even remotely reliable.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at June 15, 2023 12:15 PM (MeG8a)
***

I've had probably a dozen of them over the years for security clearance purposes. I think they mostly do what they claim they do...detect evasion. And that works to keep honest subjects honest. Heh. I almost went to sleep once...it was that boring. The woman administering the test actually yelled at me.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 15, 2023 12:23 PM (e4fEA)

123 Multiply any number you hear like this by 10 and get closer.

Posted by: ... at June 15, 2023 12:23 PM (LBW8k)

124 F B I Spy With My Little Eye.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at June 15, 2023 12:24 PM (FVME7)

125 What a coincidence! I’ve unintentionally ogled 278,000 women over the course of my life.
Posted by: Poplius, Roman Senator at June 15, 2023 12:21 PM (K8wm4)

Piker. I've done more than double, and I'm not dead, yet!

Posted by: Joey Bidet at June 15, 2023 12:24 PM (9VZ9T)

126 Abbate then said Hawley should take the source's safety "seriously."

I can understand the concern. One of the whistleblowers on the Biddens' bribe and kickback case turned up mysteriously dead

Posted by: Kindltot at June 15, 2023 12:24 PM (xhaym)

127 Apropos of nothing, after cutting out many sections of drywall, I have isolated the leak in my effin PEX pipe. It is literally within the hole drilled through the sill plate between the first and second floors that is filled with foam.

Mortarforkers.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at June 15, 2023 12:24 PM (aD39U)

128 125 What a coincidence! I’ve unintentionally ogled 278,000 women over the course of my life.
Posted by: Poplius, Roman Senator at June 15, 2023 12:21 PM (K8wm4)

Piker. I've done more than double, and I'm not dead, yet!
Posted by: Joey Bidet at June 15, 2023 12:24 PM (9VZ9T)

========

ogle =/= fondle

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at June 15, 2023 12:24 PM (LvTSG)

129 It was unintentional because the training session "Do Not Spy on American Citizens" scheduled for Friday afternoon during their annual 2-week retreat in Myrtle Beach, which was canceled due to the workload caused by the J6 Insurrection Day Riot and Rebellion.

So, it's all Trump's fault.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 15, 2023 12:24 PM (Et4sD)

130 Damn. I really should learn to change my sock beforehand I go to lunch.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 15, 2023 12:24 PM (K8wm4)

131 Unintentionally lacked candor 278,000 times, but there was no malice, intent or premeditated deception.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at June 15, 2023 12:24 PM (WGUfL)

132 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 15, 2023 12:25 PM (7Q7Ca)

133 ogle =/= fondle
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at June 15, 2023 12:24 PM (LvTSG)

it can be. You know. Like Braille.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 15, 2023 12:25 PM (9UlRk)

134 This just in:

Repeal the Patriot Act now. There's nothing patriotic about it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 15, 2023 12:25 PM (7Q7Ca)

135 As I've said before: If you aren't on a list....


you aren't trying hard enough.

Posted by: pookysgirl, racking up the lists at June 15, 2023 12:25 PM (dtlDP)

136 /Cheap Justice Benedict Roberts, with his FISA Court Oversight powers, agrees!
Posted by: ShainS -- Oppression Scientist and Your AI Interpreter at June 15, 2023 12:23 PM (+z+6a)



What would you say that you do here, Justice Roberts?

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at June 15, 2023 12:25 PM (aD39U)

137 I'd sure like to know the search criteria for those queries. There had to be common keywords to bring up those thousands of names, something like Registered Republican + Gun Owner + Veteran + Social Media Comment History, something like that. They didn't pull those names from the air.

Posted by: troyriser at June 15, 2023 12:25 PM (7Cx1V)

138 134 This just in:

Repeal the Patriot Act now. There's nothing patriotic about it.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 15, 2023 12:25 PM (7Q7Ca)

=========

Don't you just love bipartisanship?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at June 15, 2023 12:25 PM (LvTSG)

139 The fib will never be disbanded. The best we can hope for is transferring the offices to Alaska, then turning the current grounds into livestock feed yards.

Posted by: Corona exile-back_in_exile at June 15, 2023 12:25 PM (3wNhr)

140 but Cruz was the AoS fav in 2016

and you could get banned if you differed with that opinion



Wrong. I was on the Trump Train before Cruz ever thought of running and I never hesitated to share the luxurious accommodations, really luxurious, spectacular even, of the Trump train with everyone.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 15, 2023 12:25 PM (0SXk8)

141 New info (from Durbin) that the 1023 is raw, unverified information. So, it could be good info, or it may be the equivalent of a malicious neighbor's gossip picked up in an FBI background investigation. A lot of the bg investigations turn up crap.

But for me, *still* investigating after FOUR years is the tipoff to a coverup.

Posted by: JM in Fla/Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at June 15, 2023 12:26 PM (duy4p)

142 72 "We have plans to build a railroad from the Pacific all the way across the Indian Ocean. We're gonna need pontoons, millions, billions of pontoons, and those other floaty things, pool noodles. Yep! Jill, I pooped my pants again!"
Posted by: Joe Biden at June 15, 2023 12:16 PM (PiwSw)

Put Kamala and Buttigieg in charge of the project. They are experts in trains.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at June 15, 2023 12:26 PM (N39Ws)

143 IRS: so, why is your return so full of errors

YOU: all the errors were unintentional. .. wait .. it seems the vast majority of the errors were unintentional

Posted by: SMOD at June 15, 2023 12:26 PM (RHGPo)

144 I work on the assumption that the government is trying to screw me all day, every day, in every way.
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 15, 2023 12:09 PM (sNvzL)


You are not wrong. Consider that every law passed infringes our rights in some way.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 15, 2023 12:26 PM (e4fEA)

145 You want 3 offices.

You'll take their current building.

You'll get their new, bigger than the CIA, campus.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at June 15, 2023 12:13 PM
*****
Then CIA will get an even more expansive campus. With AMP in every wing.

Posted by: torabora at June 15, 2023 12:26 PM (1kHeM)

146 The woman administering the test actually yelled at me.
Posted by: Diogenes

'Test' administered by Mistress Georgia Payne, no doubt.

Posted by: Buttigig at June 15, 2023 12:26 PM (JOV35)

147 What a coincidence! I’ve unintentionally ogled 278,000 women over the course of my life.
Posted by: Poplius, Roman Senator at June 15, 2023 12:21 PM (K8wm4)

That would be conservative for me

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at June 15, 2023 12:26 PM (NtVYv)

148 Jinx! How’s the winner of the Golden Fish today?
Posted by: Poplius, Roman Senator

Basking in the light of fading glory.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at June 15, 2023 12:26 PM (7rpEJ)

149 But 200,000 times it was done during Trump's administration. So it was Trumps partisan FBI who did it against his political enemies! Prosecute!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at June 15, 2023 12:27 PM (WGUfL)

150 As I've said before: If you aren't on a list....


you aren't trying hard enough.
Posted by: pookysgirl


If you aren't on a list, it's because you never existed.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 15, 2023 12:27 PM (0SXk8)

151 I'd sure like to know the search criteria for those queries. There had to be common keywords to bring up those thousands of names, something like Registered Republican + Gun Owner + Veteran + Social Media Comment History, something like that. They didn't pull those names from the air.

You forgot to start every search with "regular at AOSHQ".

Posted by: Archimedes at June 15, 2023 12:27 PM (eOEVl)

152 Guessing not a single case was them spying on an antifa or blm member.

Posted by: Rbastid at June 15, 2023 12:27 PM (rMqsK)

153 "In the case of the unintentional instance, where something similar happened, we have fired people in the past."

Do these assholes really think this is a responsive answer?

I'm all for summary executions at this point when these dissembling sons of bitches pull this crap.

Posted by: McLurkerson at June 15, 2023 12:27 PM (wNDOJ)

154 FBI - The American Stasi.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 15, 2023 12:27 PM (3PXWL)

155 “Groovy Gavin’s eco-topia” and its mélange of misbegotten eco-fables

Posted by: SMOD at June 15, 2023 12:27 PM (RHGPo)

156 Once is happenstance.
Twice is coincidence.
278,000 times is unintentional.

Posted by: Zek at June 15, 2023 12:28 PM (5FPX4)

157 How do we know all these conspiracy theories aren’t just ops being run by Big Tinfoil? Those hats ain’t gonna sell themselves, you know.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 15, 2023 12:28 PM (K8wm4)

158 Repeal the Patriot Act now. There's nothing patriotic about it.
--

You sound like someone who wants the terrorists to win.

Also a Uke Hater.

You're not a Uke Hater terrorist lover, are you?

Posted by: Join Moron Robbie in Celebrating Groomer Awareness and Uke Hating Month! It's a bash! at June 15, 2023 12:28 PM (k1L5r)

159 Are these ham & eggers at the FBI supposed to be more better than your average policeman?

The thin blue line is full of people that should not be in 'law enforcement'. Watch any of the myriad 1st amendment auditors pieces on yt. Shorts work, too for getting the attitude of coppers without the usual lengthy 'directives'. James Freeman, NC Tyrant Hunters, that NH guy is good, too.

They don't know the law and frankly they don't care. The worst of them have big attitudes, though.

Posted by: micky at June 15, 2023 12:28 PM (3byMq)

160 At some point, you think they would at least find those rouge agents in the Cincinnati office that keep doing all these illegal things.

Oh well, we better increase their budget first.

And send another billion dollars to Ukraine.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 15, 2023 12:28 PM (Et4sD)

161 200,000 counts of treason! 200,000 counts of obstruction! 200,000 counts of drinking Fresca while committing a crime! 600,000 felonies!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at June 15, 2023 12:29 PM (WGUfL)

162 "In the case of the unintentional instance, where something similar happened, we have fired people in the past."

--

And by "we" he means the federal, state, or local government at any level. Not his department.

Posted by: Join Moron Robbie in Celebrating Groomer Awareness and Uke Hating Month! It's a bash! at June 15, 2023 12:29 PM (k1L5r)

163 Speaking of games, here's one you could play. It's like Risk except with more sanctimony and less fun.

https://tinyurl.com/4kp5f6mk

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at June 15, 2023 12:29 PM (FVME7)

164 Mercutio: "Did you just bite your thumb at me?

Tybalt: "I'm just standing here biting my thumb, unintentionally."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 15, 2023 12:29 PM (9UlRk)

165 Only the House of Representatives has the power to fix this. They created the fib now it is on them to fix it but it will never happen.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 15, 2023 12:29 PM (ncXxy)

166 Trump's greatest & most attractive asset (and rarest among pols) was IS his authenticity, even in his faults.

---------

FIFM. I have always had a very bad habit of writing in passive, rather than active, voice -- and not sure why.

Posted by: ShainS -- Oppression Scientist and Your AI Interpreter at June 15, 2023 12:29 PM (+z+6a)

167 It is suicidal to continue funding this totally out of control, totalitarian, police state muscle squad called the FBI. And yet, that is precisely what the GOP continues to do. In fact, it is the only thing the GOP does. More dough for the tyrants, no matter what they do.

Posted by: The GOP, funding the police state since 2001 at June 15, 2023 12:29 PM (ExFoQ)

168 I've had probably a dozen of them over the years for
...it was that boring. The woman administering the test actually yelled at me.
Posted by: Diogenes at June 15, 2023 12:23 PM (e4fEA)

////

Yeah, staring at a blank wall in a tiny room csn have that effeevt

Posted by: JM in Fla/Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at June 15, 2023 12:29 PM (duy4p)

169 Christopher Wray needs to be buried up to his ankles in pig shit
Of course he'd be going in head first.

Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at June 15, 2023 12:29 PM (v6kjX)

170 The woman administering the test actually yelled at me.
Posted by: Diogenes

'Test' administered by Mistress Georgia Payne, no doubt.
Posted by: Buttigig at June 15, 2023 12:26 PM (JOV35)


I was a naughty...naughty test subject!

Posted by: Diogenes at June 15, 2023 12:30 PM (e4fEA)

171 148 Jinx, that inquiry was from me. I forgot to remove a sock from last thread. Hope you’re doing well.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 15, 2023 12:30 PM (K8wm4)

172 Just put a drop cloth down behind them and when they fail to answer an easily answerable closed probe question, the questioner just picks up the pistol right by the mic and starts painting the drop cloth.

Posted by: McLurkerson at June 15, 2023 12:30 PM (wNDOJ)

173 I try to back off from the ledge by looking back at our history to see the similar corruption , both local and federal that we’ve had to overcome . The latest I’ve been reading about was The Battle of Athens.

Posted by: polynikes at June 15, 2023 12:31 PM (MNhXM)

174 278,000

Add a zero to that and you'd be low-balling it. They probably checked on over 278k just for J6 alone.

27,800,000 on routine general searches. Easily.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 15, 2023 12:31 PM (3PXWL)

175 Late to the party. This is appalling.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at June 15, 2023 12:31 PM (Xrfse)

176 Wrong. I was on the Trump Train before Cruz ever thought of running and I never hesitated to share the luxurious accommodations, really luxurious, spectacular even, of the Trump train with everyone.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 15, 2023 12:25 PM (0SXk

no, it is not wrong

Gabe banned me for saying Cruz is a four flushing turd, which has prove to be correct

that is a fact

the majority of people were for Cruz

ace, himself, has never banned me

he gets hacked off at me, which I accept as a difference of opinion

but the people he has blogging for him have banned me

for the same thing that they have done

Posted by: FIB at June 15, 2023 12:32 PM (us2H3)

177 All federal agencies wanted in on Jan 6th. The only way BATFE could be involved was explosives. The Jan 5 bomber was linked to BATFE. That is why the FBI doesn't want to find him.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at June 15, 2023 12:32 PM (CecP5)

178 Just put a drop cloth down behind them and when they fail to answer an easily answerable closed probe question, the questioner just picks up the pistol right by the mic and starts painting the drop cloth.
Posted by: McLurkerson

I'm at the point where I'd support going full Genghis Kahn on them and their families.

But that would be wrong. Sort of. I think.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 15, 2023 12:32 PM (JOV35)

179 They built a lie-detector machine on Gilligan’s Island.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 15, 2023 12:32 PM (K8wm4)

180 No fucking spine on this little marmot, either.

"Why the hell would we fire them? They fucked up, they got disciplined, end of story. Next Question."

Gutless little shit-possum didn't have the guts even to stare down the paid opposition and say GFY.

Pathetic loser must not have read his copy of the script.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 15, 2023 12:33 PM (9UlRk)

181 Nice story. Now lets scream about defunding as if that'll actually happen. Then go on about dismantling or re-organizing the Deep State that'll totes go along with and obey that from the next conservative firebrand president that'll skate right through the next election without fraud being committed by the left. Then let's discuss how the new administration will force compliance and who will do the enforcing against rogue government agencies that are the ones that enforce the law backed up by leftist courts, Democrat politicians and a mainstream media setting the narrative. Let's talk about how the new conservative firebrand president and members of the administration will survive having their doors kicked in at their residence at 1am in the morning and where they'll get the coin to fend off bullshit made up crimes that'll destroy their lives and/or end up in prison.

The left is lawless. They're are criminal. We have to accept this, pushback accordingly and stay rooted in reality.




Posted by: JROD at June 15, 2023 12:33 PM (IlL6s)

182
I could be wrong but I want Trump to take Josh for the next AG

make everyone in the DOJ/FBI take a polygraph

if you refuse, you're fired

if you fail, you're fired

if you pass, you're fired
Posted by: REDACTED at June 15, 2023 12:14 PM (us2H3)



I'd add that there are 10 FIB agents who will NOT be fired, depending on how much they spill about the FIB's unconstitutional shennanigans. Watching the rest of the FIBs shivving each other to keep their badge would be fun to watch.

FIB Thunderdome

Especially when the dust settles and you fire the last 10 anyway.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 15, 2023 12:33 PM (n+4am)

183 173 I try to back off from the ledge by looking back at our history to see the similar corruption , both local and federal that we’ve had to overcome . The latest I’ve been reading about was The Battle of Athens.


the fedgov purposely murdered PA citizens because they made their own hooch

and now we're still under the abject tyranny of the PLCB

this is not new on the part of FedGov

I still blame Lincoln. evil bastard

Posted by: BlackOrchid at June 15, 2023 12:33 PM (w0NJk)

184 179 They built a lie-detector machine on Gilligan’s Island.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 15, 2023 12:32 PM (K8wm4)

Put me in a Ginger/MaryAnne Sandwich and i'll tell you anything you wanna know.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 15, 2023 12:33 PM (9UlRk)

185 re: "'Likely all.' So first it was 'all of them,' then it was 'vast majority,' now it's 'likely all,' so 'you don't know' is the answer to the question?"

We can't expect the FBI to be more competent than it is honest now can we?

"Fidelity, Bravery, Integrity" right? My guess is they're all there in roughly equal proportions.

Posted by: Simple Stevo at June 15, 2023 12:33 PM (375Ns)

186
Mistakes were made

Administrative training is being implemented

This matter is closed

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 15, 2023 12:34 PM (MoZTd)

187 It's not lying if the premise is false. Josh Hawley's figure of 278,000 isn't anywhere close to the truth.

Posted by: FBI Deputy Director Paul Abbate at June 15, 2023 12:34 PM (CaJIi)

188 175 Yes, Notorious, it is appalling that you are late. This will be reflected in your annual review.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 15, 2023 12:34 PM (K8wm4)

189 "Fidelity, Bravery, Integrity" right? My guess is they're all there in roughly equal proportions.
Posted by: Simple Stevo at June 15, 2023 12:33 PM (375Ns)

"... we stand firm against all of these horrible things."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 15, 2023 12:35 PM (9UlRk)

190 Do all of you get the feeling we're living in the They Live universe, and we're the ones with the sun glasses?

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at June 15, 2023 12:35 PM (CecP5)

191 Heh. I almost went to sleep once...it was that boring. The woman administering the test actually yelled at me.
Posted by: Diogenes
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I have a story about being deposed...for two long days. Those FBI guys got off *very* easily.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 15, 2023 12:35 PM (FSo+R)

192 181 The left is lawless. They're are criminal. We have to accept this, pushback accordingly and stay rooted in reality.

Posted by: JROD at June 15, 2023 12:33 PM (IlL6s)

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It's true. Our actual solutions at this point are extralegal.

However, since Hawley is in government with actual power, I expect him to actually try something within that paradigm other than, "See? The FBI is super bad, guys!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at June 15, 2023 12:35 PM (LvTSG)

193 Spying is the first step, breaking down doors can't be far behind. If they can do this to President Trump, they can do it to any one of us.

Posted by: Eromero at June 15, 2023 12:35 PM (Uv0D2)

194
I'm at the point where I'd support going full Genghis Kahn on them and their families.

___________

Genghis Kahn, Genghis Khan's Jewish cousin

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 15, 2023 12:36 PM (MoZTd)

195 So the FBI can spy on 278,000 people and the punishment is...err...nothing.

Now contrast that...what happens if you forget to report some income to the IRS?

Posted by: 18-1 at June 15, 2023 12:36 PM (lc5cP)

196 It's too early to have some used-to-be-corn-mash, isn't it?

Posted by: Tonypete at June 15, 2023 12:36 PM (JOV35)

197 Spying is the first step, breaking down doors can't be far behind. If they can do this to President Trump, they can do it to any one of us.

Posted by: Eromero

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I'd suggest spying is a second or third step. Gaining control of government and corporations was the first and second, and that happened back in the 70s.

It's being confirmed now by how many FBI folks are in positions of power in every major corporation.

Posted by: Join Moron Robbie in Celebrating Groomer Awareness and Uke Hating Month! It's a bash! at June 15, 2023 12:37 PM (k1L5r)

198 Now contrast that...what happens if you forget to report some income to the IRS?
Posted by: 18-1 at June 15, 2023 12:36 PM (lc5cP

Nothing happens to me...

Posted by: Joe and his grifting Family at June 15, 2023 12:37 PM (bs+z0)

199 Mistakes were made

Administrative training is being implemented

This matter is closed
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 15, 2023 12:34 PM (MoZTd)

I like where your head is at!

Posted by: Commissar Wray at June 15, 2023 12:37 PM (9VZ9T)

200 Sorry, FBI and CIA folks in positions of power in every major corporation.

Posted by: Join Moron Robbie in Celebrating Groomer Awareness and Uke Hating Month! It's a bash! at June 15, 2023 12:37 PM (k1L5r)

201 I still blame Lincoln. evil bastard
Posted by: BlackOrchid
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You say that as though an all-powerful central government is a bad thing.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 15, 2023 12:37 PM (FSo+R)

202 196 It's too early to have some used-to-be-corn-mash, isn't it?
Posted by: Tonypete at June 15, 2023 12:36 PM (JOV35)

oh, yes

I always wait until 3pm

Posted by: FIB at June 15, 2023 12:37 PM (us2H3)

203 I have a story about being deposed…


Tell me about it.

Posted by: Kaiser Wilhelm II at June 15, 2023 12:37 PM (K8wm4)

204 Trump Executive Order No 1., 2nd term.

The announcement an extensive "List". Paired with the bounties to be paid on each.

Chapter 2 of said E.O. 1/t2. Complete doxxing info for each name on the list.

Happy Hunting, y'all!

/fevereddreams



Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at June 15, 2023 12:38 PM (e6UQI)

205 Genghis Kahn, Genghis Khan's Jewish cousin
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Madeline's brother?

Posted by: Tonypete at June 15, 2023 12:38 PM (JOV35)

206 “No, we’re saying that you finding out about it was unintentional.”

That’s probably not true, though. They want us to know we’re being spied on. They want congress to know it’s being spied on. They definitely want Biden to know he’s being spied on, which is probably a losing battle.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at June 15, 2023 12:38 PM (EXyHK)

207 202 196 It's too early to have some used-to-be-corn-mash, isn't it?
Posted by: Tonypete at June 15, 2023 12:36 PM (JOV35)

oh, yes

I always wait until 3pm
Posted by: FIB at June 15, 2023 12:37 PM (us2H3)

It's 5am somewhere.

Posted by: Chronic Alcoholic at June 15, 2023 12:39 PM (zZu0s)

208 We no longer give a shat about this kind of stuff.

Posted by: THE ACLU at June 15, 2023 12:39 PM (2znMt)

209 I always wait until 3pm
Posted by: FIB at June 15, 2023 12:37 PM (us2H3)

It's 5am somewhere.
Posted by: Chronic Alcoholic at June 15, 2023 12:39 PM (zZu0s)

why I wait until 3

Posted by: FIB at June 15, 2023 12:39 PM (us2H3)

210 KAAAAHN!

Posted by: Kaiser Wilhelm II at June 15, 2023 12:40 PM (K8wm4)

211 I think I get it-
278,000 unintentional searches processed through FISA court. 278,000 lost in the noise of how many w/o fat-fingered typos.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 15, 2023 12:40 PM (3PXWL)

212 I believe that much of the present unwellness of many American minds is the low-level but constant strain of living in a Panopticon.

Between our cell phones, GPS, surveillance cameras and Google, we are tracked and monitored nearly 24 hours a day, and that data essentially stored forever.

Even for those relatively uninvolved in "politics" this must come at a spiritual and psychological cost.

Posted by: Zek at June 15, 2023 12:40 PM (5FPX4)

213 so basically the tactic True the Vote used to confirm the time and location of those perpetuating voter fraud in 2020 are now being used by our government agencies to track us

lets start mailing our phones to each other around the country

Posted by: DanMan at June 15, 2023 12:40 PM (DB6tu)

214
I always wait until 3pm
Posted by: FIB at June 15, 2023 12:37 PM (us2H3)

It's 5am somewhere.
Posted by: Chronic Alcoholic
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Hmm. Lyrics for Concrete Blonde's 'Joey' just came to mind.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 15, 2023 12:40 PM (FSo+R)

215 205 Genghis Kahn, Genghis Khan's Jewish cousin
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Madeline's brother?

Posted by: Tonypete at June 15, 2023 12:38 PM (JOV35)

KAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHNNNN! OY!

Posted by: Captain James T Kirk at June 15, 2023 12:40 PM (zZu0s)

216 Oh, Lord, send Thy Holy Asteroid . . .

Posted by: Sharkman at June 15, 2023 12:40 PM (uwFkA)

217 didn't clapper get caught lying about the nsa spying on people?

this was posted on youtube by sen wyden:

March 12, 2013 - Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) asks Director of National Intelligence James Clapper "Does the NSA collect any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of Americans?". Director Clapper answered "No, sir ... not wittingly." Later that year, it was revealed the the NSA was indeed collecting telephone metadata of millions of law-abiding Americans.

Posted by: gnats local 678 at June 15, 2023 12:41 PM (B1FKF)

218
More bullshit theatre. How many employees does the FBI have, over 100,000. That is insane.

It's a small thing, but something I noticed.

Big Time FBI Guy Abbate didn't have a wedding ring.

Wouldn't a Big TIme FBI Guy be married.

Just thought it weird.

Had a Big Time FBI Guy as a football coach all the way back in grade school. Even then at a young age, I picked up that that guy was a massive power mad fake Catholic dickhead.



Posted by: Dr.Rev. Senator Your Highness E Buzz Miller, Esq PhD MA MS at June 15, 2023 12:41 PM (UCNv1)

219 Fucking A. "That evil Lincoln is a tyrant!" cry the losers of a war they fought to literally own people.

Yeah, sure, Lincoln was a bastard and ruined the country. But don't act like the south was just a poor oppressed victim. Everyone was a piece of shit then. Just like before, and after.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 15, 2023 12:42 PM (9UlRk)

220 The National Security State IS the government now. Maybe the FBI got too uppity for the IC's taste?

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at June 15, 2023 12:42 PM (KSNKu)

221 Fuggedaboudit
But Trump!
In your face

Posted by: Alphabet soup at June 15, 2023 12:42 PM (5FPX4)

222 The useless GOPe congresscritters won't shut anything down.

"But, Biden will just veto it"
"Shut the government down then"
"Oh, no. We can't shut the government down. That would be terrible for our democracy"

...

I think it'd be hilarious to watch the fed government run along on autopilot (being shutdown) for months to just further prove the point that it needs whittling down by 90% easily.

Any and all arguments come back around to stolen elections (2020+) which falls flat because the arguments about what is happening relates directly to that.

Posted by: micky at June 15, 2023 12:42 PM (3byMq)

223 The source's life would be endangered? Who would be most likely to pose that threat? Who would be second-most likely?

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at June 15, 2023 12:43 PM (wzAuc)

224 However, since Hawley is in government with actual power, I expect him to actually try something within that paradigm other than, "See? The FBI is super bad, guys!"
Posted by: TheJamesMadison,
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I would like to see that as well. But all of the Dems are gonna stick together. And then you have mitt and lindsey and collins and murkowski and at least half a dozen more rinos who will vote with the dems.
So, how do you overcome that?

Posted by: Florida Peasant at June 15, 2023 12:43 PM (dr4Q1)

225 "Accidentally."

This country will never be back to greatness until these organizations are defunded or disbanded altogether.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at June 15, 2023 12:44 PM (d2bW3)

226 so basically the tactic True the Vote used to confirm the time and location of those perpetuating voter fraud in 2020 are now being used by our government agencies to track us


I vaguely recall a story from a few years ago where some guy was mailing bombs. They had video of him at one place but it wasn't clear enough to ID him.

So they just identified everyone at the place he mailed them via their cell phones, they cross referenced it with all the people at the other places they believed he mailed them from and then went after the person that was in all of them...and it was him.

I think they even found where he was by tracing his cell phone.

So they've been doing this for a while now. At least in that case it was a real crime but still

Posted by: 18-1 at June 15, 2023 12:44 PM (lc5cP)

227 Got hung up checking out guns.
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 15, 2023 12:04 PM


* thumbs up *

Posted by: GySgt. Hartmann at June 15, 2023 12:44 PM (a3Q+t)

228 225 "Accidentally."

This country will never be back to greatness until these organizations are defunded or disbanded altogether.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at June 15, 2023 12:44 PM (d2bW3)

Wyatt, you are a policeman. Did you ever have a positive interaction with the federales?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at June 15, 2023 12:45 PM (zZu0s)

229 The Civil War ended 158 years ago.

Just noting.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at June 15, 2023 12:45 PM (aD39U)

230 Oh, Lord, send Thy Holy Asteroid . . .

This really needs to become part of the AOSHQ canon.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 15, 2023 12:45 PM (eOEVl)

231 227 Got hung up checking out guns.
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 15, 2023 12:04 PM

* thumbs up *
Posted by: GySgt. Hartmann at June 15, 2023 12:44 PM (a3Q+t)

*flexes*

Posted by: Muscle Beach Strongman at June 15, 2023 12:45 PM (zZu0s)

232 Gabe banned me...
Posted by: FIB at June 15, 2023 12:32 PM (us2H3)


I don't believe there is a single person still on the blog who will defend Gabe. In the immortal words of some blonde cartoon chick, "Let it go".

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 15, 2023 12:46 PM (we8o1)

233 Got hung up checking out guns.
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 15, 2023 12:04 PM
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* thumbs up *

Posted by: GySgt. Hartmann at June 15, 2023 12:44 PM


Yeah, just about had coffee through the nose on that one.

Posted by: Bert G at June 15, 2023 12:46 PM (VARTN)

234 224 I would like to see that as well. But all of the Dems are gonna stick together. And then you have mitt and lindsey and collins and murkowski and at least half a dozen more rinos who will vote with the dems.
So, how do you overcome that?
Posted by: Florida Peasant at June 15, 2023 12:43 PM (dr4Q1)

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The Senate as its built now can't do much, but Hawley can build a coalition to vote against any funding. It would probably fail, but 30 Republicans standing in front of Congress saying they're perfectly willing to shut down the entire federal government in order to protect America's liberties would be quality failure theater at least.

The real action is in the House. The House alone can shut down the entire federal government by itself. Pass a budget that zeroes out the budgets of every federal agency using the power of the Speakership and Whip to get enough votes, and then go fishing for the next year as the executive either shuts down or decides to function without Congressional appropriations, eliminating the silly fiction that we have representative government anymore for all to see.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at June 15, 2023 12:46 PM (LvTSG)

235 229 The Civil War ended 158 years ago.

Just noting.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at June 15, 2023 12:45 PM (aD39U)

If you have not noticed, we have a hard time letting anything go.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Johnson Work Laptop, Paul Anka, Shelving, Busty Lesbians, Kaboom... at June 15, 2023 12:46 PM (zZu0s)

236 Oh, Lord, send Thy Holy Asteroid . . .
Posted by: Sharkman at June 15, 2023 12:40 PM


I can't find that in the Holy Book of Armaments. Is the count still Three?

Posted by: Brother Maynard at June 15, 2023 12:47 PM (a3Q+t)

237 Just a few, itsy-bitsy mistakes done by our honest ham 'n eggers agents at the FBI...

Good thing that in the end, there will be only chaos. So I've heard, anyway.

Posted by: Thrawn at June 15, 2023 12:48 PM (Rl7KJ)

238 I don't believe there is a single person still on the blog who will defend Gabe. In the immortal words of some blonde cartoon chick, "Let it go".
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 15, 2023 12:46 PM (we8o1)

Hmmm. Moo Moo?

BINO?

ChemJeff?

Whatever handle BSG is using these days?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Johnson Work Laptop, Paul Anka, Shelving, Busty Lesbians, Kaboom... at June 15, 2023 12:48 PM (zZu0s)

239 Huevos con jamon!!

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko stuff at June 15, 2023 12:48 PM (QGUa0)

240 Theater. Congress knows. It had members spied upon during O&Joe.

Decent article, +4 years old: NYT, 4/13/19, Tracking Phones, Google Is a Dragnet for the Police. The tech giant records people’s locations worldwide. Now, investigators are using it to find suspects and witnesses near crimes, running the risk of snaring the innocent.

Reuters, Factbox, 6/22/13 - Snowden latest accused by Obama administration of leaking

278,000, not accidental. Imagine, for every white supremacist hunted, phone contacts, wifi, places of worship, mail services, licenses and registrations, gyms, 'common' stores for resources including online shopping, gas stations, bank/credit union... 'Associates' accumulate.

Posted by: L - very tired at June 15, 2023 12:48 PM (GshMh)

241 I'd suggest spying is a second or third step. Gaining control of government and corporations was the first and second, and that happened back in the 70s.

It's being confirmed now by how many FBI folks are in positions of power in every major corporation.
Posted by: Join Moron Robbie in Celebrating Groomer Awareness and Uke Hating Month! It's a bash! at June 15, 2023 12:37 PM
I was suggesting what they are now doing to President Trump is the shakedown cruise to perfect the strategy.

Posted by: Eromero at June 15, 2023 12:48 PM (Uv0D2)

242 239 Huevos con jamon!!
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko stuff at June 15, 2023 12:48 PM (QGUa0)

Who would put jam on eggs?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Johnson Work Laptop, Paul Anka, Shelving, Busty Lesbians, Kaboom... at June 15, 2023 12:49 PM (zZu0s)

243 At risk of defending the FBI here, but has anyone delved into the details around the 278K number?
How much of that is similar name errors?
I mean approaching 1% of the population in illegal search is a problem, but without knowledge of the circumstances surrounding the errors it's difficult to say.

That being said, we shouldn't allow this without a specific warrant in place prior to any investigation, period. Errors logged as search errors with specifics and any intelligence is to be destroyed.

Posted by: Inogame at June 15, 2023 12:49 PM (53oGX)

244 235 229 The Civil War ended 158 years ago.

and my exact point was that; the tyranny of FedGov has a long history

shocking abuses like the poisoning of "bathtub whiskey" makers in PA happened a good while ago

I know most people don't agree about me on Lincoln but I stand by it. I don't revere him. my thoughts on him have no relation to my thoughts on the institution of slavery.

which, btw, has been revived quite well in the USA right now, hasn't it? indentured-servant illegals, wage slave neo-kulaks, sex-trafficked youths ...

Posted by: BlackOrchid at June 15, 2023 12:49 PM (w0NJk)

245 Another thing that I find interesting is that Das Kapital Vol 1 was published 156 years ago.

A real wave of the future that.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at June 15, 2023 12:50 PM (aD39U)

246 So some Federal Agencies have been hit by a Cyber attack.. Hope it's the FBI

Posted by: Joe and his grifting Family at June 15, 2023 12:50 PM (bs+z0)

247 WRONG HOLE!

Whoopsie.

Posted by: Roy at June 15, 2023 12:51 PM (qZGLz)

248 Just had a thought - Maybe the phrase "There's honor among thieves" was coined by the FIB. Concerning themselves.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 15, 2023 12:51 PM (JOV35)

249 232 Gabe banned me...
Posted by: FIB at June 15, 2023 12:32 PM (us2H3)

I don't believe there is a single person still on the blog who will defend Gabe. In the immortal words of some blonde cartoon chick, "Let it go".
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 15, 2023 12:46 PM (we8o1)

and what I always said to a woman I never knew

"OK Mom"

Posted by: REDACTED at June 15, 2023 12:51 PM (us2H3)

250 The real action is in the House. The House alone can shut down the entire federal government by itself.
++++
The house won't even censure Adam Schiff. I won't hold my breath waiting for them to do anything.

Posted by: Florida Peasant at June 15, 2023 12:51 PM (dr4Q1)

251 I'm awaiting the post on Choo-Choo Biden's new railroad venture btw!

that should be worth a laugh or two

Posted by: BlackOrchid at June 15, 2023 12:51 PM (w0NJk)

252 The markets are inscrutable again today. Barely a trend at all after 10AM.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at June 15, 2023 12:52 PM (aD39U)

253 250 The real action is in the House. The House alone can shut down the entire federal government by itself.
++++
The house won't even censure Adam Schiff. I won't hold my breath waiting for them to do anything.
Posted by: Florida Peasant at June 15, 2023 12:51 PM (dr4Q1)

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I'm not.

I don't expect Kevin McCarthy to do more than allow some theater that doesn't affect much.

However, I like to point out what the House CAN do. It's nice to highlight the distance between what McCarthy can do and what he will do.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at June 15, 2023 12:52 PM (LvTSG)

254
Posted by: Inogame at June 15, 2023 12:49 PM (53oGX)

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Good points, but if valid, why didn't Abbate make them?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 15, 2023 12:52 PM (lCaJd)

255 251 I'm awaiting the post on Choo-Choo Biden's new railroad venture btw!

that should be worth a laugh or two
Posted by: BlackOrchid at June 15, 2023 12:51 PM (w0NJk)

I wonder if you could do a pontoon railway?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Johnson Work Laptop, Paul Anka, Shelving, Busty Lesbians, Kaboom... at June 15, 2023 12:52 PM (zZu0s)

256 Gabe banned me...
Posted by: FIB


You too?

Posted by: rickb223 at June 15, 2023 12:52 PM (0SXk8)

257 the 278K number is not important
the political make up of the 278K is the key

Posted by: REDACTED at June 15, 2023 12:53 PM (us2H3)

258 At least Lincoln didn’t listen to Nickelback.

Posted by: Kaiser Wilhelm II at June 15, 2023 12:53 PM (K8wm4)

259
I truly wonder at this point with all that is being exposed, what the morale is like at the FBI. What do the average agents who work there think at this point? I have to think most of them were proud when they joined the bureau.

One can understand the desire to protect your paycheck and pension, but at some point, how do you hold your head up? Can you look someone in the eye when you tell them who you work for?

Are there surreptitious drawings of Christopher Wray on the milk cartons at the lunchroom, or can they actually look atl their spouses and kids, and say, "My boss is someone to respect and admire. I'm proud to do what I do and to work for him."

Posted by: RM at June 15, 2023 12:53 PM (0eYOS)

260 Yes, Notorious, it is appalling that you are late. This will be reflected in your annual review.

I guess that means that my promotion to AoSHQ platinum membership is in jeopardy?

Posted by: Notorious BFD at June 15, 2023 12:53 PM (Xrfse)

261 I wonder if you could do a pontoon railway?
Posted by: Aetius451AD Johnson Work Laptop, Paul Anka, Shelving, Busty Lesbians, Kaboom... at June 15, 2023 12:52 PM (zZu0s

I imagine it wouldn't do too well in heavy seas

Posted by: It's me donna at June 15, 2023 12:53 PM (bs+z0)

262 and my exact point was that; the tyranny of FedGov has a long history

"Fuckin' A."
- Daniel Shays

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at June 15, 2023 12:53 PM (AW0uW)

263 229 The Civil War ended 158 years ago.

Just noting.
------------

I'm ready for a new one.
Just sayin...

Posted by: Federico De La Playa Del Sol Con Elotes at June 15, 2023 12:53 PM (w3w+/)

264 Burn to the ground.
Scatter the stones.
Salt the Earth.
Nuke from orbit to be sure.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 15, 2023 12:54 PM (Z+LPK)

265 Sept 23, 2011 LATimes

New gaffe: Obama hails America’s historic building of ‘the Intercontinental Railroad.’

Posted by: SMOD at June 15, 2023 12:54 PM (RHGPo)

266 244 235 229 The Civil War ended 158 years ago.

and my exact point was that; the tyranny of FedGov has a long history

shocking abuses like the poisoning of "bathtub whiskey" makers in PA happened a good while ago

I know most people don't agree about me on Lincoln but I stand by it. I don't revere him. my thoughts on him have no relation to my thoughts on the institution of slavery.

which, btw, has been revived quite well in the USA right now, hasn't it? indentured-servant illegals, wage slave neo-kulaks, sex-trafficked youths ...
Posted by: BlackOrchid at June 15, 2023 12:49 PM
Me too.

Posted by: Eromero at June 15, 2023 12:54 PM (Uv0D2)

267 I ... don't think I ever interacted with Gabe, so I cannot proudly wear the badge. I just avoided the gay threads and that seemed to be the only time he was engaged anyway.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Johnson Work Laptop, Paul Anka, Shelving, Busty Lesbians, Kaboom... at June 15, 2023 12:54 PM (zZu0s)

268 Someone cut up a bunch of vinyl 278K window stickers.

Worst case scenario, people will think you're into ultra-ultra-ultra marathons.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 15, 2023 12:54 PM (9UlRk)

269 Gabe banned me...
Posted by: FIB


You too?


You got better.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 15, 2023 12:54 PM (eOEVl)

270 It's sickening. These guys are making hangings great again.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at June 15, 2023 12:54 PM (DZDR7)

271 OK, no more socks for me. I consistently forget to change them in time.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 15, 2023 12:54 PM (K8wm4)

272 258 At least Lincoln didn’t listen to Nickelback.
Posted by: Kaiser Wilhelm II at June 15, 2023 12:53 PM (K8wm4)

=========

It's an important point in his favor.

However, William Henry Harrison will always be America's greatest president. He did the least damage.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at June 15, 2023 12:54 PM (LvTSG)

273 They were just Inspecting Female Bodies.

Posted by: wth at June 15, 2023 12:54 PM (v0R5T)

274 I guess that means that my promotion to AoSHQ platinum membership is in jeopardy?
Posted by: Notorious BFD at June 15, 2023 12:53 PM (Xrfse)


Remove the Stone of Shame, attach the Stone of Triumph!

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at June 15, 2023 12:55 PM (aD39U)

275 New gaffe: Obama hails America’s historic building of ‘the Intercontinental Railroad.’


meanwhile, Slow Joe speaks of the Incontinental Railroad

Posted by: BlackOrchid at June 15, 2023 12:55 PM (w0NJk)

276 I imagine it wouldn't do too well in heavy seas
Posted by: It's me donna at June 15, 2023 12:53 PM (bs+z0)

But get this: a suspended monorail. Think about it.

Nah.

I'd much prefer Airships. Damn, I want to fly in one.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Johnson Work Laptop, Paul Anka, Shelving, Busty Lesbians, Kaboom... at June 15, 2023 12:55 PM (zZu0s)

277 I truly wonder at this point with all that is being exposed, what the morale is like at the FBI. What do the average agents who work there think at this point? I have to think most of them were proud when they joined the bureau.

I honestly don't think most of them give a shit.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at June 15, 2023 12:55 PM (AW0uW)

278 Of course no one was fired. Consequences are for the Little People who are not part of The Regime.

Consequences are always for the little people. Pick any hierarchical formation and this is true. Children suffer consequences but not their parents. Bottom tier employees suffer consequences but not management. Average citizens suffer consequences but not politicians or law enforcement. Even when the consequences suffered more justly rest with the authority figures above the little people. Even if the authority figure is the sole wrongdoer. There's no justice, only power. And as George Carlin famously said, power does what it wants.

Posted by: You want justice? That's cute. at June 15, 2023 12:55 PM (fE1zA)

279 indentured-servant illegals, wage slave neo-kulaks, sex-trafficked youths ...
Posted by: BlackOrchid at June 15, 2023 12:49 PM (w0NJk)

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interns.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at June 15, 2023 12:55 PM (wzAuc)

280 re 250: i think the resolution is being reintroduced without what massie et al objected to. we shall see. i'm sure mitt will campaign against it

Posted by: gnats local 678 at June 15, 2023 12:55 PM (B1FKF)

281 Is there any legal recourse for the 278,000 Americans whose privacy was violated? If so, notify them so they can start a class action lawsuit..

Posted by: An un-sharpened pencil at June 15, 2023 12:55 PM (FjlUt)

282 Tempting day to sell stock losers in your portfolio.

Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at June 15, 2023 12:55 PM (MvF+J)

Posted by: Calvin Coolidge at June 15, 2023 12:56 PM (aD39U)

284 257 the 278K number is not important
the political make up of the 278K is the key
Posted by: REDACTED at June 15, 2023 12:53 PM (us2H3)

Agreed.
The nature of the instances are very important to understand.
This just has the feel of cat chasing the laser pointer.

Doesn't help that I can no longer trust anything I read or hear. (present company excluded of course)

Posted by: Inogame at June 15, 2023 12:56 PM (53oGX)

285 Unintentionally - the Pete Townsend defense.

Posted by: Darth Randall at June 15, 2023 12:56 PM (1EvpE)

286 How many illegal immigrants has the FBI spied on?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 15, 2023 12:56 PM (UucCz)

287 Oh, right, apparently we're going to build a Pacific Railroad from the West Coast across the Indian Ocean.

They only way that's possible is via Minecraft or some kind of hovertech on the UFOs we supposedly have.

Posted by: Thrawn at June 15, 2023 12:56 PM (Rl7KJ)

288 Walk me thru the steps of "inadvertently. "

What "search key" was inadvertently hit?

There is no such key.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at June 15, 2023 12:56 PM (HmHHo)

289 Are there 'Agents' or are they all 'Special Agents'?

Posted by: Tonypete at June 15, 2023 12:56 PM (JOV35)

290

New Marvel Movie ? Starring Joe and Hunter

Aquatrain !

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at June 15, 2023 12:56 PM (NtVYv)

291 I guess that means that my promotion to AoSHQ platinum membership is in jeopardy?
Posted by: Notorious BFD at June 15, 2023 12:53 PM (Xrfse)

Platinum? Luxury!

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop, Navel Lint level member at June 15, 2023 12:56 PM (zZu0s)

292 Abolish The FBI.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at June 15, 2023 12:10 PM (dQWfI)
.......

It's a start. Baby steps.

Posted by: wth at June 15, 2023 12:56 PM (v0R5T)

293 243. That being said, we shouldn't allow this without a specific warrant in place prior to any investigation, period. Errors logged as search errors with specifics and any intelligence is to be destroyed.
Posted by: Inogame at June 15, 2023

You're not wrong, but... 1st step might be to 'take it under advisement.' 2nd step, 'as deemed appropriate,' to possibly begin FY 2050. ('...' government jargon oft used for drinking games.)

Posted by: L - very tired at June 15, 2023 12:56 PM (GshMh)

294 289 Are there 'Agents' or are they all 'Special Agents'?

Posted by: Tonypete at June 15, 2023 12:56 PM (JOV35)

You know, 'special'.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop, Navel Lint level member at June 15, 2023 12:57 PM (zZu0s)

295 i think the resolution is being reintroduced without what massie et al objected to.

Which was what?

Posted by: Archimedes at June 15, 2023 12:57 PM (eOEVl)

296 NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW

(except for the FBI, the Dept of Justice, the Deep State, and anyone they decide to protect or coopt by holding blackmail material over their heads)

Posted by: Its always the exceptions to the rule at June 15, 2023 12:57 PM (sh1GZ)

297 The FBI was investigating Michael Corleone, and accidentally typed in Joe Blow, or someone else's name 278,000 times. Totes understandable.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at June 15, 2023 12:57 PM (CecP5)

298 CNN: “Several” US federal government agencies have been hit in a global cyberattack that exploits a vulnerability in widely used software. The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency “is providing support to several federal agencies that have experienced intrusions” affecting vulnerable software exploited by the hackers, Eric Goldstein, the agency’s executive assistant director for cybersecurity, said in a statement on Thursday to CNN. “We are working urgently to understand impacts and ensure timely remediation.”

.. the election must be sooner than I thought

Posted by: SMOD at June 15, 2023 12:57 PM (RHGPo)

299 Are we really surprised considering Trump put Christopher Wray in charge of the FBI?

Everyone seemed to know he was a Deep State stooge, except Trump.

Posted by: Blago at June 15, 2023 12:58 PM (cOFom)

300 New Marvel Movie ? Starring Joe and Hunter

Aquatrain !


More like aqua brain. AmIRite?

Posted by: Archimedes at June 15, 2023 12:58 PM (eOEVl)

301 Yeah, that guy is here.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at June 15, 2023 12:58 PM (aD39U)

302 295 i think the resolution is being reintroduced without what massie et al objected to.

Which was what?


the amount of the fine, which was kind of ridiculous

Posted by: BlackOrchid at June 15, 2023 12:59 PM (w0NJk)

303 I honestly don't think most of them give a shit.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at June 15, 2023 12:55 PM


I think they're probably stoked.

"We can do whatever the fuck we want? Sweet!"

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 15, 2023 12:59 PM (Wnv9h)

304 267 I ... don't think I ever interacted with Gabe, so I cannot proudly wear the badge. I just avoided the gay threads and that seemed to be the only time he was engaged anyway.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Johnson Work Laptop, Paul Anka, Shelving, Busty Lesbians, Kaboom... at June 15, 2023 12:54 PM (zZu0s)

I'm pretty sure that I never engaged with Gabe, just said I thought Cruz was a cocksucking four flusher

the same way I would describe any cocksucker that supports the Ukraine war

but the world needs idiots, I guess

Posted by: REDACTED at June 15, 2023 12:59 PM (us2H3)

305 I mean, come on. Who wouldn't want to stand on the bridge of an airship? Wearing a pea coat with the collar turned up. Jaunty hat. Captain's Chair.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop, Navel Lint level member at June 15, 2023 12:59 PM (zZu0s)

306 "I have a story about being deposed...for two long days. Those FBI guys got off *very* easily."

Yup. A good lawyer with an angry client and an unlimited budget can make a deposition pretty miserable.

Posted by: RM at June 15, 2023 12:59 PM (0eYOS)

307 141 New info (from Durbin) that the 1023 is raw, unverified information.

But for me, *still* investigating after FOUR years is the tipoff to a coverup.
Posted by: JM in Fla/Ill

Except the info was provided by CHS that the FBI has used and paid for years.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at June 15, 2023 12:59 PM (HmHHo)

308 "Luckily for us all the accidents were disfavored right-wingers," he explained. "Consequently there is no reason for alarm and we promoted those responsible."

Posted by: sven at June 15, 2023 12:59 PM (X0I7i)

309 FAIL, BRITANNIA: UK motorists warned of wearing jeans this summer or risk £1,000 fine and licence points.

I'm not making this up. See Insty.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 15, 2023 12:59 PM (eOEVl)

310 Anyone seen Gabe and Paul in the same room?

Posted by: Miss Issippi at June 15, 2023 01:00 PM (Ja2sq)

311 You know what will solve this problem?
87,000 new IRS agents.

Posted by: wth at June 15, 2023 01:00 PM (v0R5T)

312 No comment:

@Breaking911
·
1m
DEVELOPING: US government agencies hit in global cyberattack, extent of impact unknown - CNN

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 15, 2023 01:00 PM (jzzG8)

313 292 Abolish The FBI.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at June 15, 2023 12:10 PM (dQWfI)
.......


yeah, start the fuck over

Posted by: REDACTED at June 15, 2023 01:00 PM (us2H3)

314 311 You know what will solve this problem?
87,000 new IRS agents.
Posted by: wth at June 15, 2023 01:00 PM (v0R5T

Armed

Posted by: It's me donna at June 15, 2023 01:00 PM (bs+z0)

315 Sept 23, 2011 LATimes

New gaffe: Obama hails America’s historic building of ‘the Intercontinental Railroad.’

Posted by: SMOD at June 15, 2023 12:54 PM (RHGPo)

--------

At least he didn't say "Incontinentia Buttocks."

Posted by: ShainS -- Oppression Scientist and Your AI Interpreter at June 15, 2023 01:00 PM (+z+6a)

316 I guess that means that my promotion to AoSHQ platinum membership is in jeopardy?

Flatinum (cardboard) should be good enough for anyone.

Posted by: Bill Gates at June 15, 2023 01:01 PM (dNNCD)

317 Posted by: REDACTED at June 15, 2023 12:59 PM (us2H3)

What does "four flusher" mean? Someone with diarrhea?

On second thought, maybe I don't want to know.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke-the Mikey candidate for public office at June 15, 2023 01:01 PM (Keyt1)

318 At least he didn't say "Incontinentia Buttocks."

And you know he would say "butt-ocks" like Forrest Gump.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 15, 2023 01:01 PM (eOEVl)

319 310 Anyone seen Gabe and Paul in the same room?
Posted by: Miss Issippi at June 15, 2023 01:00 PM (Ja2sq)

I think the word is "booth"

same booth

Posted by: REDACTED at June 15, 2023 01:01 PM (us2H3)

320 yeah, start the fuck over
Posted by: REDACTED at June 15, 2023 01:00 PM (us2H3)

Why?

If two police departments need to coordinate on something, they can damn well send and email.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 15, 2023 01:01 PM (9UlRk)

321
I imagine it wouldn't do too well in heavy seas
Posted by: It's me donna
----

See: Tay bridge collapse

There was a train on it at the time.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 15, 2023 01:02 PM (vNC/Y)

322 Frank Church, call your office.

Posted by: Queequeg the Harpooner at June 15, 2023 01:02 PM (9X60i)

323 FAIL, BRITANNIA: UK motorists warned of wearing jeans this summer or risk £1,000 fine and licence points.

I'm not making this up. See Insty.


Huh? Good grief. The funhouse just gets funner.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at June 15, 2023 01:02 PM (Xrfse)

324 When are we going to man up and do what needs to be done and nuke Cincinnati in order to rid ourselves of these troublesome low level federal staffers?

Posted by: Stu Podaso at June 15, 2023 01:02 PM (ZOfsy)

325 Gabe was a heterophobic bigot. He also tried to groom my newt but I put a stop to that right quick.

Posted by: The newt's fine now. at June 15, 2023 01:02 PM (fE1zA)

326

The World Is Saved!!!

Biden muscles Ticketmaster, SeatGeek to scrap hidden ticket fees after Taylor Swift debacle

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 15, 2023 01:02 PM (63Dwl)

327 A "four flusher" used to be a phony US currency of $4.
A joke, in other words. I have a few around somewhere, with my face on them.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at June 15, 2023 01:02 PM (MeG8a)

328 What does "four flusher" mean? Someone with diarrhea?

On second thought, maybe I don't want to know.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke-the Mikey candidate for public office at June 15, 2023 01:01 PM (Keyt1)

Huh. I am surprised. I thought it would be a gay ref, but no. Poker.

"Four flusher is a term for a person who makes empty boasts or bluffs, especially in poker, or a welcher, piker, or braggart."

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop, Navel Lint level member at June 15, 2023 01:02 PM (zZu0s)

329 If two police departments need to coordinate on something, they can damn well send and email.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 15, 2023 01:01 PM (9UlRk)



They could both use the FBI Lab. It's the Gold Standard.

Wait....

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at June 15, 2023 01:02 PM (aD39U)

330 What does "four flusher" mean? Someone with diarrhea?

On second thought, maybe I don't want to know.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke-the Mikey candidate for public office at June 15, 2023 01:01 PM (Keyt1)

although I hate this

GIYF

Posted by: REDACTED at June 15, 2023 01:03 PM (us2H3)

331 New gaffe: Obama hails America’s historic building of ‘the Intercontinental Railroad.’

In my defense, I've always thought that "Trans" means 'fake'.

Posted by: Barack Obama at June 15, 2023 01:03 PM (CaJIi)

332 Poker? I barely know her.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at June 15, 2023 01:03 PM (aD39U)

333 No comment:

@Breaking911
·
1m
DEVELOPING: US government agencies hit in global cyberattack, extent of impact unknown - CNN

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 15, 2023 01:00 PM (jzzG

--------

China, most likely. And why not? Would there be consequences when they own The Junta, Deep State, the Oligarchs, and much of Congress (other than being rewarded yet again)?

Posted by: ShainS -- Oppression Scientist and Your AI Interpreter at June 15, 2023 01:03 PM (+z+6a)

334 298 I guess it's CL0P: https://tinyurl.com/5d4yrmpy

Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at June 15, 2023 01:03 PM (MvF+J)

335 325 Posted by: The newt's fine now. at June 15, 2023 01:02 PM (fE1zA)

I am certain he is squeeing over the new Ford Maverick.

Posted by: sven at June 15, 2023 01:03 PM (X0I7i)

336
DEVELOPING: US government agencies hit in global cyberattack, extent of impact unknown - CNN
Posted by: weft cut-loop

=========

Prediction: MSM expert speculates that Trump's "stolen classified documents" are at the root of this.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 15, 2023 01:03 PM (lCaJd)

337 313 292 Abolish The FBI.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at June 15, 2023 12:10 PM (dQWfI)
.......


yeah, start the fuck over
Posted by: REDACTED at June 15, 2023 01:00 PM (us2H3)

No, no no...abolish the FBI is just fine without anything further.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy had it completely right at June 15, 2023 01:04 PM (fE1zA)

338 Huh.. wonder if the hack is going to result in the loss of records.. like warrantless search records.. or DNC server data.

Posted by: Inogame at June 15, 2023 01:04 PM (53oGX)

339 317 Fen, I believe it comes from poker. Someone who cheats, I think.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 15, 2023 01:04 PM (K8wm4)

340 299 Are we really surprised considering Trump put Christopher Wray in charge of the FBI?

.. last bit of advise Trump took from Chris Christie

Posted by: SMOD at June 15, 2023 01:04 PM (RHGPo)

341 Are there 'Agents' or are they all 'Special Agents'?

Posted by: Tonypete at June 15, 2023 12:56 PM (JOV35)

You know, 'special'.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop, Navel Lint level member

"Special agent" means the opposite of what you might think. A general agent can do whatever needs doing on behalf of his principal. A special agent has only specific, enumerated powers he can perform on behalf of his principal.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at June 15, 2023 01:05 PM (FVME7)

342 Nood Ryno

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 15, 2023 01:05 PM (jzzG8)

343 Poker? I barely know her.
Posted by: G'rump928

Liquor up front.
Poker in the rear.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at June 15, 2023 01:05 PM (ZOfsy)

344 301 Yeah, that guy is here.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at June 15, 2023 12:58 PM (aD39U)

He is? Holy shit, where?!

Posted by: Frantically looking left and right at June 15, 2023 01:05 PM (fE1zA)

345 298 334 Story is from Jun 7? Anyway, the advisory sez to do all the stuff you're sposed to do anyway:

"Take an inventory of assets and data, identifying authorized and unauthorized devices and software.

Grant admin privileges and access only when necessary, establishing a software allow list that only executes legitimate applications.

Monitor network ports, protocols, and services, activating security configurations on network infrastructure devices such as firewalls and routers.

Regularly patch and update software and applications to their latest versions, and conduct regular vulnerability assessments."

Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at June 15, 2023 01:06 PM (MvF+J)

346 Poker? I barely know her.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at June 15, 2023 01:03 PM (aD39U)
........

Are you against one night stands?

Posted by: wth at June 15, 2023 01:06 PM (v0R5T)

347 In one of the Clancy books, Ryan is not being given information on a particular project. Greer (?) who is dying, says something like "You're in a confirmed position. You have to know everything in case you are called before Congress to testify."

When I was young and naive, that was a serious moment. Now it shatters the suspension of disbelief.

Posted by: Chuck C at June 15, 2023 01:06 PM (xttsV)

348 FAIL, BRITANNIA: UK motorists warned of wearing jeans this summer or risk £1,000 fine and licence points.

I'm not making this up. See Insty.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 15, 2023 12:59 PM (eOEVl)

----------

Out: 15-minute cities.
In: £1,000 jeans.

Posted by: ShainS -- Oppression Scientist and Your AI Interpreter at June 15, 2023 01:06 PM (+z+6a)

349 Senator Hawley, either do something about it or STFU! I am so sick of you and Senator Grassley, Senator Blackburn and the whole worthless GOP. You're all TALK! What else is new?!?!?

Posted by: Tracy at June 15, 2023 01:07 PM (J5v/V)

350 will obama or biden tomorrow make a statement in honor of bloombergs day?

Posted by: gnats local 678 at June 15, 2023 01:07 PM (B1FKF)

351 Here in Illinois we just had a hospital put out of business by a ransomware attack. They couldn't recover, couldn't do billing.

Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at June 15, 2023 01:08 PM (MvF+J)

352 > 226 So they've been doing this for a while now. At least in that case it was a real crime but still.

Yeah that was here in Austin/Pflugerville. At the time I thought it was a clever use of technology. Now I'm horrified.

(The happy ending was the guy blew himself up in his car with one of his own bombs after the cops surrounded him.)

Posted by: sharksauce at June 15, 2023 01:13 PM (l6DYb)

353 UK motorists warned of wearing jeans this summer or risk £1,000 fine and license points

£1,000 fine for wearing jeans? Hail Britannia!

Posted by: George Will at June 15, 2023 01:14 PM (xttsV)

354 I had a run in with Gabe. I had an idea to balance the budget. All federal employees, including Congress and the President will be paid after all other budgetary concerns are addressed and their salaries cannot be paid for with borrowed money. And you can't pull the old, we borrowed money for the defense budget or Social Security trick. No, if you take in 4 trillion in taxes then that is all you have to spend. And if you can't pay for all the things the government spends money on, then you don't get paid.

Gabe took offense at the idea.

Posted by: Darth Randall at June 15, 2023 01:14 PM (1EvpE)

355 Hawley should have asked "Forget about punished. How many of those agents have been promoted?"

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at June 15, 2023 01:14 PM (CecP5)

356
"Special agent" means the opposite of what you might think. A general agent can do whatever needs doing on behalf of his principal. A special agent has only specific, enumerated powers he can perform on behalf of his principal.


In government speak a special agent is somebody authorized to carry firearms.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at June 15, 2023 01:18 PM (CecP5)

357 Apparently legitimate hacker groups are saying they will take down the entire European banking system within 48 hours. And they are saying this is not a threat that they are going to do it it's just a warning.

This doesn't sound like a compelling reason to convert into a digital currency system.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at June 15, 2023 01:20 PM (YXHzG)

358 If I was unintentionally spied on will I get a wriien apology and a check, but mainly a check?

Who’s much do stealing his line?

Posted by: Goatweed at June 15, 2023 01:23 PM (0Q/6W)

359 Damn they continue to circle the wagons don't they?

Posted by: Sphynx at June 15, 2023 01:25 PM (P6qMv)

360 In the latest Gallup Poll 69% of Americans thought that abortion should be always or almost always legal.
Is this a winning issue for conservatives?

Posted by: Paul at June 15, 2023 01:25 PM (QS9/x)

361 They spy on an ALL Americans. Those 278,000 are the ones they admit to.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 15, 2023 01:30 PM (ynpvh)

362 I think I will pass on the rear poker option.

Posted by: Sphynx at June 15, 2023 01:30 PM (P6qMv)

363 Hawley: "You're her father. How did your underage daughter get pregnant?"
FBI: "She was unintentionally inseminated nocturnally via unprescribed perambulatory paternal processes."
H: "In English, please."
FBI: "I happened to be walking by her bedroom and my penis fell into her, apparently..."
H: "Fell into her? Repeatedly?"
FBI: "Yes. But it will never happen again."
H: "Isn't that what you said the previous four times she became pregnant?"

Posted by: red speck at June 15, 2023 01:39 PM (Ny/Va)

364 Putting that on my Facebook. "# 4587 of 278,000"

Posted by: Stacy0311 at June 15, 2023 01:51 PM (bA3Ln)

365 How do you have an "unintentional" query of a database? A query is, by definition, something one does by intention. Is this like, say, butt-dialing your phone - an agent butt-queried the database?

Posted by: Nemo at June 15, 2023 02:12 PM (S6ArX)

366 I'm sure that if someone committed a federal crime 278,000 times unintentionally, the FBI would cut them a break.

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