A few years ago I wrote an article titled "The FBI can no longer be trusted in any way, shape or form". Given the latest news about the shenanigans of the General Services Administration, I'm thinking that warning should be applied to the entire federal bureaucracy, not just the FBI or the Justice Department. Second City Cop reports:
So the feebs brought along props, used them in "evidence" photographs, then leaked the photos to the media. Laughable. And now it turns out that all those boxes of "classified" documents were:
- actually in the possession of the General Services Administration;
- packed by the GSA;
- delivered to Trump by the GSA;
- who then "tipped off" the feebs about supposed "classified" info.
. . .
Even a third-world banana republic is more competent framing people that this outfit.
There's more at the link, including a link to another article providing further details.
I hope there will one day be an in-depth investigation into any and every government employee, department, agency and entity involved in the ongoing quasi-legal persecution of President Trump, with condign punishment meted out to everyone responsible for such shenanigans. That's unlikely to happen under a Democratic Party administration, but there's always a chance that might change - one way or another.
Peter
competent and federal employer are not 2 words that go together anymore. maybe one time in the past. but not for the last 30 years or more, easy.
ReplyDeletejust look at your local DMV to see how well it works today.
and competent is not something that comes to mind.
Didn't know FedGov runs my local DMV.
DeleteThe ladies here all speak English, unlike at the VA.
There is no greater punishment for these parasites than to deprive them of their authority and access to government. Having done, we need to carefully watch who is paying them afterwards.
ReplyDeleteJust be thankful they are as incompetent as they are. If they were competent we would all be screwed.
ReplyDeleteit is readily evident that words, statutes, laws have no effect on this group of people, both in the USA and Canada. They are itching for the lawful citizens to eventually react in a means to justify their inner SA. The 'wild card' is the number and lethal ability of the weaponry held by the citizens. What they hope for is total chaos, neighbour against neighbour, family members against each other.
ReplyDeleteI was a peon in Maryland State govt. for 27 years. NO GOVT. REGULATORY AGENCY IS TO BE TRUSTED, EVER. That became a constant, through my "career." My first five years were spent in the State Capitol, Annapolis, working around the annual 3 month legislative session. I got stories!
ReplyDeleteIn addition, that picture of the classified folders spread across the floor was the FBI adding the classified covers to docs that they pulled out of boxes and arranged for the picture.
ReplyDeleteHey Peter,
ReplyDeleteIf*Knock On Wood* Trump gets elected, he needs to fire the top 3 layers of the DOJ, and pull their access to their clearance so they can't make the rounds of the talk shows. He basically has to pull a reverse coup to take back his government. He then has to find an honest "G" man/women that has the stones to finish the housekeeping that needs to be done, that will restore the faith of the American people.
I agree with MrGarabaldi - clean house one the DOJ and (as far as possible) eliminate them from the cushy post-govt jobs these types typically rotate in and out of between their stints of govt 'service'.
ReplyDeleteIt's far less than many of them deserve, but I'm pretty sure the bastinado and tarring and feathering would be considered 'cruel and unusual punishment'.
Though I was rather taken by a Heinlein throwaway (in 'Starship Troopers', if memory serves) that punishment SHOULD be both cruel and unusual - rare, but possessing enough deterrent value to cause would-be offenders to pause.
I note that some places like Singapore still take this approach, maintained since their days as British colonies.
I submit that the reason this skulduggery became known to the public is because of exactly one concern. That concern is that releasing to the public photographic images of classified documents is a very serious felony. So the spooks had to say, oh no, they weren't actual classified docs.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, recall that when the images first came out, the implication of messy housekeeping at Mar a Lago was refuted, that the photos were staged. But that story died away.
I have been wondering if in a genius move, Trump allowed this story to stew until the time was ripe. Like during a Kangaroo Court trial.
Objections made prior to the trial could possibly be thrown out.
If Trump wins, he needs to use the Constitution as the guide of who to fire. To wit, if not in the U.S. Constitution, you're fired!
ReplyDeleteEvery three or four letter agency. Certain cabinet members. All gone. Not defunded, not reorganized. Gone. Scorched Earth gone.
I used to work in SoCal and had occasion to call on the local Air Resources Board to sell computer equipment. During our meeting and *in* *our* *presence* the staff discussed how to divide up our quotes to evade their capital purchase controls.
ReplyDeleteI think it was a past article of yours here that pointed me to an IT/Corporate workforce phenomena called the Dead Sea effect. As the system becomes more bureaucratic the talented folks go elsewhere and the incompetent folks who only justify themselves based on running bureaucracy remain, and the organization becomes increasingly in able of fulfilling its original purpose. Seems like the “Dead Sea Effect” is hitting full stride in US government now.
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