The Fed Thread: FBI, CIA, NSA posts go here.

[CrimsonJazz]

Seems like everyone who runs the FBI wants to emulate J Edgar Hoover and have dirt on everybody. Someone probably should but I would say that is more appropriate for the CIA than FBI. And when you are dealing with politicians someone should be keeping an eye on them.

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

Everyone in D.C. should be watched for sure, but that especially includes bureaucracies who are often tasked with this operation. To this day, I am mildly amused over the fact that most Americans are A-OK with the United States engaging in election meddling in other peoples' countries, but get their shorts into an impossible knot over the idea of such a thing happening here. And if you think they are upset over the idea of Russia or China engaging in such behaviors, pay attention to how hard they scoff at the notion that bad-faith actors right here in the U.S. are doing it, too. Talk about whistling past the graveyard!

 

[selmaborntidefan]

It's hilarious that anyone wants to give credence to anything that comes out of the administration of, "Hey, you , go find something on this guy I hate."

We've already learned the deception practiced by Trump's lawyer on the indictment of Comey.

Over and over, "I want that guy indicted."

The latest is Pete Keg-seth now wants to call Kelly back to active duty for court-martial because of the alleged crime of telling military members not to obey ILLEGAL orders. And, of course, it's typical theatrics from Spineless Jellyfish Inc.

 

[selmaborntidefan]

Trump's legal team of Dewey-Cheatum-and-Howe loses another one.

Judge dismisses cases against James Comey and Letitia James after finding prosecutor was unlawfully appointed

Lindsey Halligan was appointed after President Donald Trump urged Attorney General Pam Bondi to prosecute the former FBI director and New York attorney general.

www.nbcnews.com

A federal judge on Monday dismissed the criminal indictments against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James after finding the prosecutor who brought the cases, former Trump attorney Lindsey Halligan, was not lawfully appointed.

U.S. District Judge Cameron Currie said that she agreed with Comey, who moved to dismiss the case on the grounds that Halligan's appointment was illegal

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Dear Don,

Sorry, no revenge gonna happen.

Sincerely,

Jim Comey

 

[Its On A Slab]

Newly Filed FBI Records
@Comey
Reveal Contents “Five Burn Bags”

Classified + Potentially Incriminating Records Date Back To 2016

Discovered April 2025
@FBIDirectorKash


•Five ‘Burn Bags”
•Records from “Mar-a-Lago search, January 06 capitol breach, the Crossfire Hurricane Investigation (Trump/Russia Collusion)”
•Copy “Classified Appendix to the John Durham Special Counsel” probe
•Original CIA referral to former FBI Director James Comey, known as a Counterintelligence Operational Lead (CIOL)
•Original CIA referral dated SEPT 7, 2016 to Comey and believed missing for several years
•CIA referral “contained certain intelligence related to the 2016 U.S. presidential election”
•CIA referral found in “storage closet adjacent to the Director’s Office”
•Comey testified “he was unfamiliar with (the CIA referral) as well as its related intelligence”

FBI Preliminary investigation opened into potential violations 18 USC 2071

•Concealment, Removal or Mutilation Government Records/Evidence

Comey Burn Bags | PDF | National Security Of The United States | Federal Government Of The United States

The document outlines the discovery of highly classified documents in 'burn bags' within a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility at FBI Headquarters, prompting an internal review. The review revealed records related to significant investigations and indicated potential misconduct...

scribd.com

“...appears to be a hasty and chaotic effort by certain employees to collect senior management officials’ records in advance of the anticipated transition of a new team of FBI executives taking control after the
presidential inauguration”

https://twitter.com/x/status/1985748065936900577

Womp womp.

Comey and Letitia James indictments get tossed.

Who'd have thunk it.

Judge dismisses cases against James Comey and Letitia James after finding prosecutor was unlawfully appointed

Lindsey Halligan was appointed after President Donald Trump urged Attorney General Pam Bondi to prosecute the former FBI director and the New York attorney general. Bondi said Monday that the Justice Department will appeal the judge's ruling.

www.nbcnews.com

 

[selmaborntidefan]

Womp womp.

Comey and Letitia James indictments get tossed.

Who'd have thunk it.

Judge dismisses cases against James Comey and Letitia James after finding prosecutor was unlawfully appointed

Lindsey Halligan was appointed after President Donald Trump urged Attorney General Pam Bondi to prosecute the former FBI director and the New York attorney general. Bondi said Monday that the Justice Department will appeal the judge's ruling.

www.nbcnews.com

Cue "but Clinton appointed de judge!"

(And then pause to note the irony of a Clinton appointed judge "helping" James Comey.....)

 

[CrimsonJazz]

A federal judge on Monday dismissed the criminal indictments against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James after finding the prosecutor who brought the cases, former Trump attorney Lindsey Halligan, was not lawfully appointed.

U.S. District Judge Cameron Currie said that she agreed with Comey, who moved to dismiss the case on the grounds that Halligan's appointment was illegal

Did the judge give a shout-out to Aileen Cannon?

But seriously, they'll just appeal with a different prosecutor. The judge left that avenue open as far as I can tell.

 

[Bamaro]

Did the judge give a shout-out to Aileen Cannon?

But seriously, they'll just appeal with a different prosecutor. The judge left that avenue open as far as I can tell.

And it will be thrown out for other reasons, as it should.

 

[CrimsonJazz]

And it will be thrown out for other reasons, as it should.

It will be, but not as it should. This scumbag is guilty as hell, but so is everyone else in D.C.

 

[CrimsonJazz]

JUST IN - FBI arrests a man in investigation of pipe bombs placed in DC on eve of Jan 6 — AP

https://twitter.com/x/status/1996573663370338607

Patsy time! Don't tell me; let me guess.......Richard Jewell?

 

[selmaborntidefan]

Donald Trump never can get anything done past the accuse stage.

That's because ACCUSING someone is the easy part.
FINDING GUILTY is a high enough bar that the man with the low intellect and high BMI can't do it.
And when he's told by actual lawyers who would know, he gets mad and continues hitting his head against the wall.

It's almost like all those years of stiffing lawyers so none of the good ones will work for him was......incredibly short-sighted and stupid.

'Egg on their face.' Trump's revenge prosecution failures embarrass DOJ

In trying to prosecute critics of President Donald Trump, the Justice Department has failed dramatically, stunning legal experts and ex-prosecutors.

www.usatoday.com

Dismissed indictments; two grand juries refusing to issue new charges; a judge blocking key evidence from being used for a fresh case: in trying to prosecute key targets of President Donald Trump, the Justice Department has faced failures on a scale rarely seen in federal prosecutions.

The most dramatic recent setback was a second federal grand jury's refusal on Dec. 11 to indict New York Attorney General Letitia James, after an earlier grand jury rejected the Justice Department's proposed charges last week. Abbe Lowell, a prominent lawyer who represents James, described the repeat failure as "unprecedented."

Shortly before that, earlier indictments against James and former FBI Director James Comey were thrown out, and a judge ruled that the DOJ can't use evidence – at least for now – that was key to its first indictment against Comey.

The latest developments exacerbate the mounting struggles Trump administration lawyers have faced in trying to prosecute Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James. The president called for prosecuting both of them, as well as Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) in a Sept. 20 social media post.

"This is an embarrassment," Neama Rahmani, a former federal prosecutor, told USA TODAY. "The last thing you want to be as a prosecutor is to be on the defensive, and that's exactly what's happening here."

 

[CrimsonJazz]

Interesting...

Florida Federal Grand Jury begins today/Jan 12.
Courthouse Aileen Cannon

Via Chief District Judge Cecilia Altonaga

Last month, former CIA Director John Brennan's lawyer wrote to the same Judge and confirmed Brennan "is a target of grand jury investigation..." into the 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment about Russian activities during the 2016 election.

In the same letter, Brennan’s lawyer accused the Trump Justice Department of venue shopping, with a preference for Judge Cannon's courtroom.

https://twitter.com/x/status/2010808925218636132

 

[CrimsonJazz]

CIA files reveal plans to manipulate minds through covert drugging

A newly released CIA file has exposed a top secret program that developed methods to control behavior using drugs in food, cigarettes and even vaccines.

www.dailymail.co.uk

A newly released CIA document reveals a chilling blueprint to manipulate minds through covert drugging experiments.

The report, added to the CIA's reading room in 2025, details the government's once top-secret Project Artichoke that ran from 1951 to 1956, focusing on behavior control, interrogation techniques and psychological manipulation.

Those of us already familiar with MKULTRA aren't the least bit surprised by this, but.....

The document was declassified in 1983, but has resurfaced on social media, where users are shocked to see the CIA discussing methods for 'drugging entire populations.'

It's incredible to me that there are still people wandering around who could possibly be "shocked" by this.

 

[Bamaro]

Can you say hypocrite:

 

[TIDE-HSV]

I'd throw this out: Brett (Bamanation) has repeatedly stated his dislike for "megathreads." The 500 post limit was an effort to limit them. I've pointed out that they create themselves. As long as the Ukraine war goes on, it's inevitable that there will be a thread dealing with it. (At least one.) The only thing holding these agencies together is that they're all federal. However, the issues they spin off are myriad and will tend to create their own threads.

To explain Brett's point, he says that megathreads are off-putting to new and casual readers. Some people look at them and, if they're not daily readers, just don't bother to open them because they think they'll never catch up. That said, I have nothing against giving this thread a chance...