Republican CIA and FBI heads and national security officials endorse Biden

[Spike Trader]

Time to sit down and STFU.

Former Republican CIA and FBI heads join with 70 national security officials to endorse Joe Biden

The intelligence community appears to be rejecting another term of President Donald Trump.

Reuters reported Thursday afternoon that the former Republican CIA and FBI chiefs will join 70 national security officials in endorsing former Vice President Joe Biden in his bid for the presidency.

The report explained that the group is “launching a scathing indictment” of Trump, calling him corrupt and unfit to do the job.

“The 73-strong group includes retired General Michael Hayden, who served as national security director and head of the CIA; William Webster, the only man to serve as both head of the CIA and FBI; John Negroponte, the first director of National Intelligence; Michael Leiter, former director of the National Counterterrorism Center; and Mike Donley, former Air Force secretary,” said Reuters.

“Trump has demonstrated that he lacks the character and competence to lead this nation and has engaged in corrupt behavior that renders him unfit to serve as president,” they said in a statement that will appear in a full-page ad in the Wall Street Journal Friday.

“We have concluded that Donald Trump has failed our country and that Vice President Joe Biden should be elected the next President of the United States,” it goes on.

Read the full report at Reuters.

 

[gaussian]

Makes sense. His policies align with exactly what domestic intelligence agencies want. Full and absolute control of everyone:

On housing:

https://www.bostonherald.com/2020/07/27/joe-biden-out-to-wage-war-on-americas-suburbs/

On internet privacy, spying, and data:

https://www.cnet.com/news/joe-biden-views-on-tech-presumptive-democratic-presidential-nominee/

But Biden's track record tells a different story. When he was a senator, he didn't co-sponsor or support net neutrality legislation, including the 2007 Internet Freedom Preservation Act. Other prominent Democrats, including then-Sens. Obama and Hillary Clinton, were co-sponsors of that legislation, as was Sanders.

Biden also has a close relationship with Comcast executives, who've lobbied against strict net neutrality regulations. Comcast Senior Vice President David Cohen hosted Biden's first fundraiser after he announced his bid for president.

Though Warren pushed to break up big tech companies, like Amazon and Facebook, Biden has said it's too early to talk about breaking up companies and instead has leaned toward regulation as a way to curb their power.

On the 2020 campaign trail, Biden hasn't said much about data privacy. But during his years as a US senator and as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee in the 1990s, he introduced and co-sponsored several pieces of legislation to make it easier for the FBI and law enforcement to monitor communications, including the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act, which allows law enforcement to surveil communications over the internet, including voice over IP calls and other internet traffic.

On the campaign trail, Democratic candidates, including Biden and Harris, have been light on specifics as to how they'd deal with China. But Biden has made it clear he believes Trump's negotiations have hurt Americans. He says the US needs "new rules" and "new processes" to dictate trade relationships with foreign countries.

On internet speech:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/01/17/opinion/joe-biden-nytimes-interview.html

No, I can. He knows better. And you know, from my perspective, I’ve been in the view that not only should we be worrying about the concentration of power, we should be worried about the lack of privacy and them being exempt, which you’re not exempt. [The Times] can’t write something you know to be false and be exempt from being sued. But he can. The idea that it’s a tech company is that Section 230 should be revoked, immediately should be revoked, number one. For Zuckerberg and other platforms.

Don't forget his ties to the infamous 1994 crime bill.

He supported segregation.

Joe Biden is in bed with the chicoms and a friend of the intelligence agencies. He wants to regulate free speech on the internet. Any time an intelligence agency endorses a candidate it's time to run for the hills. Especially a candidate like Joe Biden who seems to want to make committing a crime as easy as walking outside.

 

[newwurldmn]

Or maybe these individuals see Trump as someone who would sellout our spies just to suck Putin’s dick.

 

[userque]

Only an idiot would want 4 more years of a clown.

 

[elderado]

Good. Now we know where to look for traitors.

 

[elt894]

Makes sense. His policies align with exactly what domestic intelligence agencies want. Full and absolute control of everyone:

On housing:

https://www.bostonherald.com/2020/07/27/joe-biden-out-to-wage-war-on-americas-suburbs/

The CIA isn't a domestic intelligence agency. And the FBI wants to control people through housing policy?

Any time an intelligence agency endorses a candidate it's time to run for the hills.

These are all retired officials, not an agency endorsement. An agency endorsement would be inappropriate and violate the Hatch act. Yet you're fine with an active police organization endorsing Trump.

On internet privacy, spying, and data:

On internet speech:

Surely you're aware that net neutrality is about actions by private corporations and has nothing to do with spying or control of people by the government.

I could post a slew of links showing Trump's terrible policies in all the areas you mentioned, like how he wants to "close up the internet" (working with Bill Gates!), let ISPs sell browsing history, repealed net neutrality, or revoke section 230. But the point isn't that you disagree with Biden on particular policies. I certainly do, and I would bet many of these officials do as well.

Trump fundamentally undermines our democracy. You've responded to that with (inconsistent) policy nitpicks.

 

[LacesOut]

Don’t forget that the FBI and CIA were complicit in spying on the Trump campaign. There are a lot of people who performed illegal acts in 2016 and beyond in our IC.
Another 4 years of Trump and they will be hammered.

 

[gaussian]

I could post a slew of links showing Trump's terrible policies in all the areas you mentioned, like how he wants to "close up the internet" (working with Bill Gates!), let ISPs sell browsing history, repealed net neutrality, or revoke section 230. But the point isn't that you disagree with Biden on particular policies. I certainly do, and I would bet many of these officials do as well.

Trump fundamentally undermines our democracy. You've responded to that with (inconsistent) policy nitpicks.

I've never said Trump was fundamentally good for the country.

I just pointed out that Biden is fundamentally worse.

If the choice is between a maverick who might dismantle the country, and a maverick who is on record with 40 years of policy for dismantling the country, I think I'll go with Trump. Trump is consistently inconsistent with his application of policy and that roll of the dice is far safer than the guy who probably forgets to change his diapers.

 

[Spike Trader]

The FBI has caught on to this crooked administration . . . . they kept this traitor in the dark of their investigations.


DOJ ‘firewall’ prevented Bill Barr from knowing of Bannon indictment

Attorney General Bill Barr two months ago fired former Southern District of New York prosecutor Geoffrey Berman, who only agreed to step down after he was assured that deputy Audrey Strauss would take over his job in an acting role.

On Thursday morning, it was Strauss who announced that charges had been filed against former Trump White House official Steve Bannon for his role in allegedly defrauding donors to a crowdfunding campaign to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.

Appearing on MSNBC, legal analyst Glenn Kirschner was asked by host Stephanie Ruhle whether Barr knew that the indictment of Bannon was imminent.

“It depends on how covert the prosecutors of the Southern District of New York wanted to be,” he said. “Sometimes, Stephanie, when we’re getting ready to indict somebody or unseal an indictment, we want to hold our cards very close to our chest.”

Kirschner then said it was possible that DOJ officials put up a “firewall” that would have blocked Barr from knowing about the case on the grounds that he had already interfered to lower the sentencing guidelines of Trump ally Roger Stone and to drop charges against former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn.

 

[elt894]

If the choice is between a maverick who might dismantle the country, and a maverick who is on record with 40 years of policy for dismantling the country, I think I'll go with Trump. Trump is consistently inconsistent with his application of policy

Trump is inconsistent on policy, but consistent on dismantling the country. What exactly in Biden's platform is going to destroy democratic institutions?