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Mark Wauck's avatar

Pretty good article explaining how unique the POTUS is in our system when it comes to certain issues--like class/declass.

https://amgreatness.com/2022/08/29/one-giant-problem-with-the-fbis-mar-a-lago-raid/

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While reading comments threads on various conservative sites yesterday I was genuinely surprised to see how many rock-ribbed pro-Trump partisans are falling for the view (shared by Johnson and others) that Thibault is the sacrificial lamb/fall guy. It seems obvious to me that Thibault (who had reached retirement age) being publicly escorted out of the building, and being "reassigned to an unspecified position" (per Just The News) was political theater, all prearranged in advance between Thibault and the masters he was serving.

Are we supposed to believe that the same people who've showed a clear and constant pattern of blatant, and essentially limitless, political bias against Trump in their handling of "politically sensitive investigations" are suddenly getting the vapors because -- oh noes! -- one of their allies provided them with a putative pretext to green-light the juiciest operation of all, one that saw them raid the former president's residence to seize (and undoubtedly pore over) every scrap of his private communications?

They got exactly what they wanted. The information they will have gathered from Mar-a-Lago is a wet dream for them, because even if they have to hand it back they are now likely aware of how much he knows, how much evidence he has, about FBI malfeasance going back five years. But sure, they were simply hoodwinked into a scandalous, unconstitutional, politically biased raid on a former president's residence, after which the "investigation" proceeded apace, all because they were misled by a biased Field Office Assistant Special Agent who acted with political bias.

"Political bias in [the] handling of politically sensitive investigations" (the supposed grounds for Thibault being waltzed from the building) is a dead-accurate description of their MO over the last five years.

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