Gun-wielding FBI agents busted into Paul Manafort’s home as he was asleep in bed and even searched his wife for weapons, it was revealed Tuesday.
Agents took an unusually tough approach in executing a search warrant, dealing with potential financial crimes by President Trump’s former campaign chief, sources familiar with the July 25 raid, told CNN.
The pre-dawn, guns-blazing tactics and weapons search of Kathleen Manafort left the Alexandria, Va. couple shaken, according to CNN’s report.
Manafort is in the crosshairs of special counsel Robert Mueller, as he probes Russian interference into the 2016 presidential election.
Mueller’s dovetail investigation of Manafort stretches into potential financial wrongdoing dating back to January, 2006.
Nothing like a wife in a nightie being searched for weapons. That must be traumatic.
Contrast that with Hillary, with whom they needed to make an appointment, she isn’t sworn in, and the questioning isn’t even recorded – agents have to take notes. When they want records, they ask her to give them, she deletes what she wants before handing them over, and when they find any illegality after locating withheld records somewhere else, from pay for play, to even mishandling classified documents on a server other nations had easy access to, the attitude is, “Oh well… These things do happen. So grateful you cooperated.” Then the DNC servers get hacked, and when the FBI is assigned to investigate, the DNC merely says the FBI will have to make due with a report by a third party contractor on the DNC payroll, that says a foreign intelligence agency hacked them – and nobody is allowed to see the server. The FBI thanks them for their cooperation.
I can’t imagine what it must be like to be rank and file FBI, and have to follow orders like this. Then again, they did all manage to avoid Arkanacides, so maybe they feel lucky. Truth be told, given the Clinton history, they probably are.
Even more telling, we elected President Trump to office of President, and he is not only powerless to control the governmental machine – that machine is openly bent on destroying him and everyone who worked with him – and he can’t even lay a glove on it.
Things in this country don’t work like we were told. The sooner you grasp that and stop clinging to the illusions, the sooner you can adapt to the new normal, which may just be the old normal but bigger, more thorough, and more exposed. In some ways, I think it is good, as it will weaken the ties that bind men to the federal government, allowing the collapse to restore the more limited partnerships between states that the founders intended.
God bless President Trump and his team for taking the thankless job they’ve taken, as we spiral to the collapse.
Spread r/K Theory, because it will help when the collapse hits
“I can’t imagine what it must be like to be rank and file FBI, and have to follow orders like this.”
If they were anything other than Obongo era hires, they could have sent information to people that would have used it to attack the Deep State. None did. The FBI has been hiring and promoting whores since before Ruby Ridge and Waco. I’m sure there are patriots working for the agency, but they are too busy keeping a low profile to do anything for those that the agency heads single out for “re-education”. Hard to respect people like that.
It is so much tougher than that. You cannot attack Deep State, because if you can, Deep State knows, and they will watch everything you do so they can cut you off at the pass – and they have the resources. I will guarantee you when FBI guys retire to their bedrooms at night for intimacy with their wives there are people listening, even to that, at least sometimes. I would think even the listeners are listened to periodically, because they could become threats too.
You can’t foment a plan, or gather intelligence to act, or contact anyone without Deep State monitoring it, if you are in a position to be a threat. And God only knows what they would do to an FBI guy who began to turn in that direction.
FBI guys are professional intel, and maybe they know exactly how bad it is, or maybe they suspect. But I assume when they joined it was going to be an adventure fighting evil, and when they got in, they realized it was all much different and dystopian, but they also had enough training to realize that with the limited resources they have, they are in a corner. Acting is suicide, because it will be uncovered immediately.
So they keep their heads down and find bank robbers, and track kidnappings, and make differences where they can.
I suspect if you knew everything, you’d be much more understanding. Things are bad, but they can get much worse for these guys, and the truth is they are not in a position to act, and they know it.
Like I said, a lot has built up and is being protected by free resources. The only possibility I see is the collapse cutting resources, and some of these guys moving then while the monitoring is cut back. I have actually wondered if they are going to prop up the economy through Trump for precisely that reason. They wouldn’t want that weakness cropping up under him, when he might use it to act.
Don’t delude yourself: these filthy pigs have followed every order in the book, and they have fucked over countless Americans in the name of our owners.
It should weaken the ties to the corrupt federal government, but real Americans will always be bound to each other because of the pact our Ancestors made together in places like Lexington and Concorde, although I don’t know what that really entails. President Trump doesn’t have those same ancestors, but he is trying to do right at great personal expense. We should give him the benefit of the doubt and have patience on some things, to a point obviously. After whatever happens transpires the new pact will be to create a better government, in line with the founders intent, but with knowledge they did not possess.
All of us who enjoyed what the Founders gave us feel some debt to them, and that is our bond more than ancestry. Gratefulness and appreciation is a major mark of K, and that will hold real Americans together on some level.
But also think we will all realize a federal government is just too much power, too much money, and corrupts too completely. I expect we will fracture into states, loosely allied by treaties, but with no overarching government to tell the states what to do.
What will happen to federal Intel agencies, how they will be handled, and how they will be constrained from trying to act to take over states will be the question. If the states navigate that you’ll have freedom, if not, you’ll have exactly what we have today.
The worst, most degrading part of it, IMO, is the income tax, where we are compelled to finance our own serfdom. Paying it almost makes us complicit in their crimes. Which, I imagine, is what they intend.
Absolutely. Income tax is theft meant to make you a slave.
Where the productive man dreams of the things he might create if only left alone by his fellows, the Progressive dreams of the world he could create if only the lives and property of his fellows were at his disposal.
This evil stems from the desire for power to rule over other men.
Yes, and the income tax is ultimately what makes the Deep State possible in the first place.
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“… he is not only powerless to control the governmental machine – that machine is openly bent on destroying him and everyone who worked with him…”
This is exactly why I don’t believe all this 4D chess talk. He runs the FBI. He can fire these people.Would he get impeached…maybe but he could then spend the next two years screaming to everyone in high heaven that there;s been a coup by the deep State. He could collect the names and addresses of all these deep State actors, where they work, who they hang with and post it on the net. Even if they’re blackmailing him he could scream the whole thing is Photoshop and catty on. It’s possible, with the severe hatred that they’re ginning up for the government, to turn over the WHOLE ENTIRE government from top to bottom. I mean Mayors Sheriffs, dog catchers., the whole lot. Even the left would be willing to get in on this. Maybe it would be leftist but they would be mostly be new and possibly willing to make some kind of deal to save the country from destruction.
The Deep State is beyond imagination, and this is far from their first rodeo, so the idea they have all these weaknesses they have never addressed, and you just take them out with a simple killshot is not realistic. They have probably been bumps in the past where somebody headed toward a weak point, and they have noted and addressed those, removing that threat. I mean for those guys, with what they are doing, they cannot afford exposure and they will do anything to avoid it. No action or measure is too extreme.
I’ve only had a peek at their machinery, but you have to picture something like Management in Burn Notice, only fueled by trillions in Heroin profits out of Afghanistan and trillions more from the US budget, and after six or seven decades of recruiting blackmailable individuals throughout every agency and throughout the private sector, purging from every position of power anyone not under their thumb, and infiltrating their people everywhere. I suspect the spook who wrote Burn Notice based Management on what he had actually seen in real life. Have a house fire, and the Fireman who comes can be one of them. Go to the ER, and the nurse treating you can be one of them. Stop at a McDonalds, and the guy getting your burger can be one of them. Get a hotel room, and they may own the guy at the counter and the maid. Your accountant, your electrician, your landscaper, even your lawyer I imagine, could all be one.
Look at the power. They planted classified documents on a CBS News Reporter’s computer to frame her and imprison her, and how much news coverage has that gotten? She is even suing, with a lawsuit which could expose it all, if things worked the way we were taught. And yet reporters won’t cover such a gross attack on their profession because Deep State has all the US editorial positions, and the US News executives are either owned, or know not to fuck with them – and they know that lawsuit will go nowhere. The media will happily live under that threat because they are either owned too or they know, and are terrified. Michael Hastings was the one guy who wasn’t, and he might have found a weak spot, and you saw what happened to him.
But Trump should just release all he knows? Twitter would ban him before he could Tweet it, because they would know it was coming. The media wouldn’t cover it. Mentions of it on the internet would be deleted as fast as they were posted. Anybody who could get word out would be shut down. The entire internet could be shut down due to an accidental outage, as they mopped up everyone who would be a threat. Trump’s only option would be Russia and their infrastructure, but you see how they blocked that avenue. He’d be accused of being a traitor, if he wasn’t killed before he executed the plan. And that assumes Trump even has a Deep State playlist to release, which I am assuming he has been completely blocked out of anyway.
Trump can’t tell who in the FBI is one of them and who isn’t, and even if he could, he fires the entire FBI and he has numerous NSA and CIA coming at him from another direction, and while he fights that battle, the more mundane aspects of the national collapse continue, and the USA is lost there.
He is in a rough spot, and I suspect he has decided that destroying the Deep State is not worth the effort or the risk, so his plan is to stiff arm them as he tries to make the overt aspects of government work and not fall apart, so regular Americans have it as good as they can. You do the good you can. Dying for no reason serves no purpose.
Plus, I have no doubt if he became a real threat, they would take him out, and they probably have their people installed in SS in the Presidential Protective Detail, and even the White House Kitchen, which means it would not be difficult. Don’t forget, everybody thinks Breitbart’s heart problems were just chance, and he died of natural causes, and the US government never paid any attention to him. And what do we hear of Trump’s health habits? He doesn’t eat well, he has two scoops of ice cream, and porterhouse steaks, and so on.
I’ve said it before, this nation does not work the way you were taught in civics class. Most of that is just Kabuki theater, designed to keep everyone thinking they have some measure of control. Adapt to that reality now, because it will make your movements through the machine easier, and less bothersome later when it all comes out and we make the transition to a less covert oligarchic regime – something I suspect will be coincident with the economic collapse, and which could be getting set up sooner than we think.
I suspect the turmoil of the collapse is being undersold, even on this site. There is going to be a lot going on, and massive changes in everything we have adapted to and grown to expect. It will be the most shocking, amazing, life-altering period, probably augmented and sped by technology. I expect something like the collapse of Rome, only all compacted into a decade long period.
The question is where all the Americans who want, or even expect, freedom fit in, and what will happen to them. I really have no idea, but it could be fifty-fifty for us, or worse from what I see.
Yes…I agree. Frustration. I do see this.
“…He is in a rough spot, and I suspect he has decided that destroying the Deep State is not worth the effort or the risk, so his plan is to stiff arm them as he tries to make the overt aspects of government work and not fall apart,…”
This too.
Thats not a sign of proof. If i had an undercover agent, i would treat him exactly like that.