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"How does an authentic movie about military or FBI failures get made without the cooperation of those resource gatekeepers?"

I agree there are complexities here, but at the risk of sounding glib, do it the way Hillsdtale College does-- without federal money/help.

Worth noting too is that with computer generated effects as are used all over the place now, the Pentagon help in providing props becomes decreasingly important.

I was not aware Hillsdale college produces TV shows and movies. What would those titles be [/glib]?

The fact so many producers of TV shows and movies believe availing themselves upon these resources help them sell their product seems to suggest they find the resource to be a valuable, and perhaps critical, one, so much so that they are willing to cede script control which, as I understand it, is considered a Big Deal in those circles.

And though we’ve been learning of a lot of ridiculous spending these days, one presumes the formerly woke DoD and the Deep State organs like the FBI has become wouldn’t spend money on these sorts of liaisons if they didn’t anticipate commensurate returns.

Indeed as I noted elsewhere, while recovering from a Whipple procedure, chemo, titanium plate inserted in foot, et al, I perused a lot of TV, noting a TON of FBI-themed shows like these:

https://www.imdb.com/find/?q=fbi&s=tt&ttype=tv&ref_=fn_ttl_pop

The few I watched—all were pretty bad IMO—presented the FBI heroically. Money well spent, I guess.
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Some Animals are More Equal than Others
« Reply #151 on: February 07, 2025, 04:31:00 PM »
Dox DOGE whiz kids? Why not? Hound those that walked through doors help open by Capitol Police on Jan. 6? Just following orders. Have their names exposed so their friends, family, neighbors, and peers know they were part of this unequally applied putative law enforcement effort? Hell no:

Trump admin agrees not to publicly release names of FBI agents on Jan. 6 probes
FBI agents seek job protection
•The Hill News / by Ella Lee / Feb 7, 2025 at 1:27 PM

The Trump administration agreed Friday not to publicly release the names of FBI agents who played a role in investigations tied to the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack without providing two days' notice. 

Sixteen FBI agents who worked on the probes sued the government soon after the agency’s Tuesday deadline to turn over responses to a survey about employees’ work on the more than 1,500 cases stemming from the riot. They claimed the review laid the groundwork for retaliation following President Trump’s vows for retribution against his perceived political enemies. 

“Once this happens, if this happens, the damage is irreparable,” Margaret Donovan, an attorney for the FBI agents, said during a hearing Thursday.   

As part of the agreement, the Justice Department (DOJ) said the government would not disseminate the list of names to the public “directly or indirectly” pending the outcome of the lawsuits without giving two days' notice, at which point attorneys for the FBI agents could argue for a temporary block on its ability to do so.   

The deal was not easily reached.   

Justice Department lawyers on Thursday insisted that the DOJ itself had not authorized the public release of the names and had no plan to, nor had it given a formal go-ahead to share the list of names with other government entities.   

But when asked to represent that other government entities — like the White House or the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) — would not publicly share the names if they gained access, the government lawyers demurred.   

“I’m not in a position to make representations,” DOJ lawyer Jeremy Simon said. 

“Why?” pressed U.S. District Judge Jia Cobb. “You’re the attorney for the U.S. government.” 

The agreement, which Cobb approved Friday afternoon, would not stop the Justice Department from disseminating the list to other government entities, though it appears those entities would also be bound not to publicly release the names without notice.   

The FBI agents will file their motions for a preliminary injunction by Feb. 24 and the government will file its opposition by March 14. A hearing on the preliminary injunction was set for March 27.

Lawyers for the FBI agents sought to bar any government entity from releasing the names, noting that Trump and acolytes like billionaire Elon Musk, who spearheads DOGE, had already publicly shunned government employees in recent weeks.   

They also said that pardoned Jan. 6 defendants have expressed excitement on social media about the release of the FBI agents’ names, suggesting “horrendous” risk would follow the publication of the agents’ information.   

“Do we really want to wait until one person gets injured when someone shows up at their house? Is that the way we really want to go?” said Mark Zaid, another attorney for the agents. 

The government said any such risk is “entirely speculative.” Simon noted that the Justice Department officials collecting agents’ information were following the president’s executive order to weed out “weaponization” in the federal government.   

“I understand they don’t agree with that executive order, but that is not something they’ve contended is unlawful,” Simon said. 

FBI agents were directed to fill out a 13-question survey about their roles in the Capitol riot cases by Monday, asking them to define their roles in the Jan. 6 cases and whether they conducted surveillance, collected evidence, arrested individuals or testified in court. That information was due to be turned over to DOJ by Tuesday at noon. 

In an apparent act of defiance, acting FBI Director Brian Driscoll returned the survey with only agents’ unique identifier codes, instead of their names. 

Zaid said that decision marked the “last roadblock” in place to protect the employees’ physical safety and reputations. DOJ leadership called the move “insubordination” in an email to all FBI agents.

In court filings Friday, the parties notified the court that the FBI had given the DOJ a record pairing the unique identifiers with corresponding names. However, the terms of the agreement encompass that list, as well.

Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove, a former personal attorney for President Trump, said Wednesday that the DOJ would not target FBI employees who “simply followed orders and carried out their duties in an ethical manner” on Jan. 6 cases. 

The lawsuits followed a purge of dozens of DOJ and FBI officials, including the five highest career positions at the FBI, agents who worked on Trump’s two criminal cases and approximately two dozen prosecutors who worked on Jan. 6 cases.   

Chris Mattei, an attorney representing the FBI Agents Association, said the order ensures FBI agents can “continue to do their jobs without fear of public exposure or retaliation.”

Updated at 1:05 p.m. EST

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5133075-trump-fbi-names-jan-6/



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Turnabout is Fair Play, Especially when One Side Played so Unfairly
« Reply #154 on: February 17, 2025, 03:42:56 PM »
It’s difficult to feel much sympathy for malign weasels such as these FBI supervisors:

One big issue with the FBI

TOM KNIGHTON

FEB 17, 2025

Photo by Jack Young on Unsplash

President Donald Trump isn’t playing around with the FBI. Many have claimed that he’s engaging in retribution for him being prosecuted, for his supporters being prosecuted over January 6th, and so on.

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To be fair, they may have a point. I just don’t care about it all that much after years of Democrats doing the same thing to anyone who disagreed with them.

And it seems that many of those “purged” from the FBI were just the kind of people who liked to do that sort of thing.

Democrats have cast the Trump administration’s ouster of eight senior FBI leaders as a “purge” and act of “retribution” from a weaponized Justice Department, some likening it to President Nixon’s “Saturday Night Massacre.”

But former colleagues of the terminated “G-men” say this narrative is backward. FBI officials, past and present, have marshaled significant evidence via whistleblower complaints and testimony indicating that several terminated leaders routinely used their offices for partisan purposes.

These include allegations that at least two of the fired officials, Jeffrey Veltri and Dena Perkins, manipulated the security clearance review process to personally and professionally punish conservatives, COVID-19 vaccine skeptics, and Jan. 6 whistleblowers who reported suspected bureau malfeasance, and retaliated against those who came to the whistleblowers’ defense.

A third, Timothy Dunham, is also alleged to have improperly suspended security clearances.


And let’s understand, these accusations weren’t just fabricated by Republicans, though I know some morons would likely claim they were.

No, these are based on real people with real experiences being the victim of such things.

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) read numerous accounts of alleged misconduct perpetrated by these and other officials into the record this morning as the committee considered the nomination of Kash Patel for FBI Director.

One subordinate of the three terminated individuals, a former supervisory special agent in the Security Division, “SecD,” from which Veltri and Perkins hailed, and whom Dunham oversaw, told the committee:

I witnessed abuses committed against multiple employees by FBI senior leaders, particularly by Jeff Veltri and Dena Perkins. I also saw SecD retaliate against five of its own employees for protesting these unlawful practices. Because I spoke out against these abuses, Perkins and Timothy Dunham suspended my security clearance, costing me my job and continuing employment, totaling approximately $700,000 in lost wages and retirement benefits.

Another former FBI official, Marcus Allen, told the committee that Veltri and Perkins “caused the suspension of my security clearance because I questioned whether the FBI Director was truthful to Congress and whether the FBI was obeying the law and Constitution in the January 6, 2021 investigations.” What followed left “financial and emotional damage to me and my family will never be completely restored.”

A third, Special Agent Garret O’Boyle, who has been indefinitely suspended without pay for well over two years in alleged retaliation for whistleblowing, told the committee that Veltri, Perkins, Dunham, “and other leadership up to Christopher Wray, are responsible for what happened to me and my family.”

“Ensuring that they no longer work at the FBI is not retribution; it’s responsible leadership.”


This is absolutely vile.

It’s not like they were sympathetic to terrorist groups. I suspect this bunch would have been fine with that, so long as they were the right terrorist groups.

No, they held different opinions about domestic politics and how the bureau should operate.

What’s more, this is just this one little part of the bureau. What else are we going to find down the road? What else have they managed to hide from the world where we’ll never see it?

The ATF was already a big issue so far as federal law enforcement went, but the FBI is probably even worse when you look at all the ways they can hurt the average American.

I’d like to believe that they wouldn’t go quite that far, but look at all the people they prosecuted for January 6th. They didn’t just go after people who got destructive or violent. They went after anyone who set foot inside the Capitol that day, including journalists reporting on the incident.

If you run afoul of the FBI, as it currently sits, they can and will destroy your life. The process is the punishment. They can and will ruin you if they decide it’s worth it. Just paying attorney fees is more than enough to accomplish that, but the hit your reputation will take is also at play here.

They don’t have to convict you to ruin your relationships, your standing in the community, or anything of that sort.

At least some will figure you just got lucky rather than that you were innocent, and just how many will likely depend on the charges.

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So even if Trump is motivated by revenge, I really can’t feel that bad about it. I watched Obama use the IRS to punish conservatives by holding up non-profit status for groups on the right and I watched Biden (or whoever used him as their own personal Bernie) use the FBI to crack down on his opponents, including the raid of Donald Trump’s home.

Turnabout is fair play, in this case, and if it’s going to happen no matter how much one tries to take the high ground and the media won’t acknowledge that’s happening, then why play nice?

Getting rid of the problem children who are screwing with anyone who won’t toe the line, though, isn’t remotely the same thing as what all we’ve seen from the left over the years.

So no, I’m not upset over it. I just wish it wasn’t warranted.

https://tomknighton.substack.com/p/one-big-issue-with-the-fbi?r=2k0c5&triedRedirect=true

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Bongino Deputy FBI Director
« Reply #155 on: February 23, 2025, 05:53:02 PM »
Perhaps misfiled, but some parades a gonna be rained on even harder still:

#BREAKING: Dan Bongino named deputy FBI director by Trump.
Bongino joins Kash Patel.



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Kelly to Comey: We are Coming for You
« Reply #158 on: February 26, 2025, 03:26:30 PM »

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Is the "Kelly" of the subject line an error?

Anyway, though a bit of a loose cannon sometimes IMHO Flynn was head of the DIA if I remember correctly, so he would not be unfamiliar with how skullduggery games are played , , ,


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SDNY FBI hiding/hid Epstein documents
« Reply #161 on: February 27, 2025, 04:28:08 PM »
Just Facts
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An informant has told Attorney General Pam Bondi that FBI officials in New York have failed to disclose “thousands of pages of documents related to the investigation” of Jeffrey Epstein, despite orders to release them.
Here are disturbing facts about what FBI officials in NY did in this case:
Two days after Epstein’s arrest in 2019, the Department of Justice sent a letter to a judge arguing that he should be denied bail. The letter, co-signed by Maurene Comey (daughter of Jim Comey), reveals that a search of Epstein’s New York residence on the night of his arrest found:
• “an extraordinary volume of photographs of nude and partially-nude young women or girls.”
• “compact discs” in “a locked safe” with “hand-written labels” like “Girl pics nude” and “Young [Name] + [Name].”
Maria Farmer, a victim of Epstein who reported him to the FBI in 1996, told CBS News that Epstein’s mansion in New York was loaded with hidden cameras. Describing a surveillance room with a large number of monitors, she said, “I looked on the cameras, and I saw toilet, toilet, bed, bed, toilet, bed.” She also said the house was “videoed, all the time,” and when she asked Epstein “What do you do with this?” he replied, “I keep it. I keep everything in my safe.”
Incredibly, after the feds cut open Epstein’s safe, they abandoned its contents and left the home unguarded. When they came back four days later, the contents of the safe were gone. These facts only came to light in 2021 during the sex trafficking trial of Ghislaine Maxwell, not because the Department of Justice disclosed them to the public.
The official transcript of the sixth day of the trial—obtained exclusively by Just Facts—shows that the search team leader of Epstein’s home, FBI Special Agent Kelly Maguire, testified under oath to the following:
• The FBI executed a search warrant of Epstein’s mansion on the day of his arrest (July 6, 2019), but the warrant limited what could be searched and seized, so the agents obtained a broader warrant on July 7, which they executed that day.
• Under those two warrants, agents located Epstein’s safe, cut it open, and found in it “binders that contained CDs,” “external hard drives,” “jewelry,” “loose diamonds,” and “large amounts of U.S. currency and passports.”
• Instead of seizing all of this evidence, the FBI agents placed it on the top and side of the safe, took a picture of it, and left it completely unguarded.
• The alleged reason why they didn’t seize the contents of the safe is that they didn’t “have legal authority to seize all of the CDs that day”—even though they had already obtained a second broader warrant.
• Evidencing that the warrant didn’t exclude all CDs, Maguire was asked, “Now, at the time you observed these CDs on the safe, did you have legal authority to seize all of the CDs that day?” and she replied, “No, not all of them.”
• When Maguire returned to Epstein’s house on July 11 with a search warrant that gave her “legal authority” to seize what they left behind, she “observed that all of the items” shown in the “photograph that I had previously seen were missing.”
• Maguire then had a 3-way phone call with an “associate of Mr. Epstein named Richard Kahn and his legal counsel named Andrew Tomback.”
• Within 30 minutes of “that telephone conversation, Richard Kahn came to the residence of Jeffrey Epstein” and “brought all of those items” back to Maguire “in two suitcases.”
• Maguire said that the contents of the suitcases “appeared to be all of the items that had been previously located in the safe,” but she “didn’t look at what was on any of these CDs” before Epstein’s associates took them.
Just Facts shared the facts above with a veteran police detective and asked for his thoughts. The detective, who has been involved in the execution of more 100 search warrants, replied:
• “This is unprecedented in my experience and violates basic protocols.”
• “There is no apparent reason why a warrant in a child sex trafficking case would prohibit a search team from seizing items from a safe, especially CDs labeled with the names of potential victims.”
• “Even if the warrant was so oddly restrictive, law enforcement has a duty to guard the evidence until another warrant is obtained to seize it.
• “FBI agents, who are highly trained and heavily resourced to handle such matters, undoubtedly know that you don’t abandon evidence.”
Adding to the stench of a cover up, the person who took the contents of the safe (Richard Kahn) is not merely an “associate” of Epstein but is heavily implicated in his crimes. A 2021 civil complaint filed by the government of the U.S. Virgin Islands states that Kahn and another person named Darren Indyke:
• were “the indispensable captains of Epstein’s criminal enterprise, roles for which they were richly rewarded.”
• “organized, controlled, and directed almost every aspect” of Epstein’s dealings.
• were “officers in virtually every corporate entity that Epstein created to fund and conceal his activities.”
• “directed, approved, enabled, and justified millions of dollars in payments that fueled the Epstein Enterprise’s sex trafficking.”
• helped create “a steady supply of vulnerable female children”—including “numerous girls between the age of 12 and 17 years old”—who were placed “into sexual servitude in service of Epstein’s desires, and those of his associates.”
• are the co-executors of Epstein’s estate and continue to “engage in a course of conduct aimed at concealing the criminal activities of the Epstein Enterprise.”
• have “approved the release” of funds from Epstein’s estate to “pay for the legal fees and costs of persons” who allegedly “participated in the criminal activity of the Epstein Enterprise.”
To this day, the federal government hasn’t revealed the names of the people that were written beside the “young” females on the CDs in Epstein’s safe. Again, this is where Epstein kept the footage from his hidden cameras, according to Maria Farmer.
The FBI is also keeping other information under wraps. After Epstein died, Farmer told CBS News that the FBI “failed” her by not acting on the complaint she filed in 1996 and added, “They are trying to pretend I do not exist. I want my report and I want it printed out so I can show everyone how much they failed. I don’t know if I’ll ever get it. We’ve been requesting it forever.”
Bondi’s Letter
https://x.com/bennyjohnson/status/1895195194947183047
Hyperlinks to the primary sources of all the facts above are available at https://www.justfactsdaily.com/federal-report-on-the...



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 :x :x

Either deep staters were onvolved  Epstein's prostitution ring or they are taking bribes.

or something to do with rumors Espstein was an FBI informant.

possible ala Edgar Hoover digging dirt on important people.


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Or the Mossad.