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FBI Launches Internal Investigation Into Its Own Twitter Account (thinkprogress.org)
An anonymous reader shares a report on ThinkProgress: The FBI has launched an internal investigation into one of its own Twitter accounts. The account at issue, @FBIRecordsVault, had been dormant for more than a year. Then on October 30 at 4 a.m., the account released a flood of documents, including one describing Donald Trump's father Fred Trump as a "philanthropist." But it wasn't until two days later, when the account tweeted documents regarding President Clinton's controversial pardon of Marc Rich that the account began to attract significant attention. The account has not been active since that tweet. ThinkProgress has learned that the FBI's Inspection Division will undertake an investigation of the account. Candice Will, Assistant Director for the FBI's Office of Professional Responsibility, said she was referring the matter to the FBI's Inspection Division for an "investigation." Upon completion of the investigation, the Office of Professional Responsibility will be referred back to the Office of Professional Responsibility for "adjudication."
Whoever controlled that account acted in a blatantly partisan manner and needs to be fired. Its pretty simple. I am sure there is a job waiting for them at Breitbart or Fox News, so I don't feel bad in calling for their immediate termination.
Sure...I trust the FBI to tell the truth about their own wrongdoings. (Oh wait...maybe not.)
Is that what you call it, "controversial"? I'd sure hope that pardoning a convicted criminal at the last possible moment in exchange for a couple of million in "donations" is more than just "controversial". What does Bubba need to do in order for people to finally admit he has no moral compass? Publicly behead someone?
Perhaps its time to investigate:
1. Electronic voting, all those open Wifi connections, and crap Windows 95 based terminals with exposed USB ports. Do you really want Putin to choose the next president?
2. Encryption, NSA allowed zero day exploits to go unpatched, and there has been an undermining of encryption. This has made USA less secure and it needs to be fixed. Quit talking shit about Syrian terrorists blowing up babies and start considering all those REAL political, business and industrial secrets that have been exposed to nasty foreign powers and their puppet agents.
3. Baltic states in particular have online voting and a large Russian population among which agents could be hidden. That's very very foolish. They need to look at the soldiers Russian planted in Ukraine to shit stir and realize their online voting is a liability, not an embrace of modern technology. It would be trivial to rig an election in Latvia the way its rigged in Russia.
from releasing real documents about the Clintons' criminal activities!
I swear there's been a secret coup and The Onion has taken over the world.
How can I believe you when you tell me what I don't want to hear?
They want our next ruler to be rump which will destroy our lives. The FBI is crooked. That is why they investigated the already most investigated person in history. It was a waste of money since she's already been investigated, but Republicans love throwing money away.
including one describing Donald Trump's father Fred Trump as a "philanthropist."
Let the hate run through you, young Jedi!
MWahahaha~!
Bumbling, uncooridnated, impulsive, and just plain stupid. All the qualities of Fife but without the charm.
After that, it's up for review by the Department of Redundancy Department.
The whole point of distribution of power is to not have an office responsible for adjudicating itself.
Read the PDF attached to it, it alleges corruption from fake donors including Trumps father. It's a trap, pretending to be Pro Trump while actually revealing a bunch of embarrassing corruption information about his father allegedly bribing politicians to get construction contracts.
"Bizman ply pols with donations", it claims they bribed officials of Mayor Koch's leadership to get building contracts for Trump Construction Co. "Cozy relationship... Leichters report comes at a time when prosecutors and other municple critics have blamed some of the cities corruptions scandals on the cozy relationship between those with money and those with political power....strong controls over donations need to be enacted to stop this corruption...."
"philanthropist" is sarcasm.
Somebodies having a laugh and you lot fell for it.
#jamescomey: I want to be the most powerful person in DC to wear a dress.
#inspectorclouseau: You fooel! She wears a paintsuit.
FBI launches investigation into FBI investigation-launches. Investigators are investigating where to investigate investigators for the investigation. They're thinking Buffalo.
If it weren't for deadlines, nothing would be late.
Looks like the FBI has disclosed that not only was Clinton's email server almost certainly hacked, but the hacking got so blatant that even Clinton's own part-time staff who did the incompetent setup of a Microsoft Exchange server were able to figure out that something was going on and shut it down temporarily while she was still using it.
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/g...
AntiFA: An abbreviation for Anti First Amendment.
Senator Reid — a Slashdot veteran? Why are you calling yourself "sh00z"?
While on the subject of Hatch Act, perhaps, you should look into John Podesta's BFF — who tipped her campaign before, and whose son joined the campaign openly — "investigating" Hillary Clinton?
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
Are we really at the point where trying to expose criminals is itself a crime? What the fuck is going on?
"The department also has a policy of not taking unnecessary action close in time to Election Day that might influence an electionâ(TM)s outcome. These rules have been followed during Republican and Democratic administrations."
So I guess it was "necessary" for the FBI to leak, four days before the election that George (H. W.) Bush was himself in-the-know on Iran-Contra?
Clinton's campaign made great hay with this particular October Surprise. That was the election where Clinton displaced Bush, denying him a second term and giving us the FIRST Clinton Presidency.
Ross Perot pulled down more than three times the difference between Clinton and Bush. Clinton was 7% short of a popular-vote majority.
Any bets on whether at least a third of Perot's votes, or at least enough of those (plus conservative voters who just didn't vote for president) to flip a few states and their electoral votes, were people who would have voted for Bush but were disgusted by this and voting for Perot as a protest?
Bantam Dominique roosters crow a four-note song. Once you've heard it as "Happy BIRTHday" you can't NOT hear it that way
WaPo is owned by Bezos, you won't find anything whatsoever that could jeopardize HRC's presidential run there.
But on the substance of your accusation, Barack Obama is campaigning for Hillary on taxpayer dime. Is that not a violation of the Hatch Act? If not, explain.
You mean like the POTUS who's currently campaigning for Clinton on taxpayer dime and time?
If you're trying to rig an election at the voting booth, you're doing it wrong.
(As Black Box voting points out) rigging it at the central server is more effective. But rigging the voting machines mean that it's harder to determine (in jurisdictions where this test is possible) by comparing the counts posted at the precincts to the totals posted centrally.
Of course attack-in-depth gives a cheating organization more opportunities to make an election come out "correctly". For instance: Motor-Voter (mail-in registration), plus no-excuse-required absentee mail-in voting, plus inadequate or nonexistent checks for eligibility (or existence) of the purported voter, makes it trivial to generate as many extra votes as you want. (I recall the discovery that more than three thousand "voters" were voting from one address in Berkeley. ("We're just serving as a mail drop for homeless people." Really? Thousands of them?)
There are lots of other ways to do this, too. Especially if you can get your organization's members who have achieved positions as judges to block any checking of of voter eligibility as "discriminatory voter intimidation".
Bantam Dominique roosters crow a four-note song. Once you've heard it as "Happy BIRTHday" you can't NOT hear it that way
He and his wife did donate substantial amounts of money, mostly to hospitals and medial research groups. He did do several jacka$$ things (like refusing to rent to black people) but unlike his son, he understood that philanthropy meant giving money to other people, not yourself.
> It's apparently not that automatic if it's quiet for years, and then starts spitting out tweets oddly relevant to the election.
The bot was broken and they finally fixed it.
As for the docs, that's what people requested via FOIA and those are the docs they had. You don't think that lots of people would FOIA the candidates and people related to them? How does it feel to find out that reality is not magically biased in your favor? Do you really think that with the Clinton Foundation selling influence to everyone that you can separate Hillary and Bill? Heck, Chelsea is in on it too. Or should I call her "Diane Reynolds" using her alias?
Also, funny thing about Vince Foster... turns out the gun he used to commit suicide went missing and his suicide note basically says Clinton did nothing wrong. Just how do you lose the gun from a suicide?
Behind all the fake tinsel we now find the real tinsel.
Care killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back.
They are FOIA requests, it will just be long winded tall tales from a slanted perspective that will reveal nothing useful and just be a distraction of one form or another. Ultimately, everyone here claims its a bot, so a big drama over nothing.
Everyone looks for a conspiracy, spies under the bed, hackers deep in networks, when sometime things are just very simple. Perhaps its a lesson, don't overwork devs.
"one describing Donald Trump's father Fred Trump as a "philanthropist."
Wow. Nobody mentioned that his granddad, after having fled the military service, opened a whorehouse in Klondike and meemaw was the Madam?
At least that's documented by German newspapers.
Ahh yes, ThinkProgress.org...that bastion of non-partisan journalism. I'm surprised they didn't blame Scott Walker for the tweets.
There was no need for you to destroy your reputation with the public by basically announcing a new investigation that had thus far gone nowhere. This stuff leaks from your organization anyway, but at least you could have said you were following protocol by not announcing you had no actual evidence yet (let alone no subpoena). You're a LAW & ORDER MAN, right? Well, you used to be.
Good luck with that Apple thing, by the way.
You're not keeping up with the news, Baier retracted that story the next day. Turned out the sources were Rudi Giuliani and James Kallstrom, not the FBI.
If you have not seen it, food for thought.
The Hillary Clinton Takeover of the United States (Coupe and Counter Coupe):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ov5kvWSz5LM