{"id":257346,"date":"2022-08-13T07:32:40","date_gmt":"2022-08-13T07:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=257346"},"modified":"2022-08-14T06:50:05","modified_gmt":"2022-08-14T06:50:05","slug":"the-american-gestapo-a-k-a-fbi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=257346","title":{"rendered":"The American Gestapo A.K.A. FBI"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Paul Craig Robert \u2013 paulcraigroberts.org Aug 11, 2022<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Addendum: Try to imagine President Reagan\u2019s Attorney General sending FBI agents into former president Jimmy Carter\u2019s home. \u00a0Reagan would have instantly fired the attorney general and FBI director. \u00a0Try to imagine any FBI agent carrying out the assignment. \u00a0Such an assignment would have destroyed their faith in the agency, and they would have resigned.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s latest remarks: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/trump-doj-and-fbi-asked-to-lock-record-storage-in-june_4657256.html?utm_source=News&amp;utm_campaign=breaking-2022-08-11-1&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;est=Bd%2FxsWi%2FaGMdbhGW8Bv0pPR5joMuilboB8dinQyun0tb5wUsBg1bIw%3D%3D\">https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/trump-doj-and-fbi-asked-to-lock-record-storage-in-june_4657256.html?utm_source=News&amp;utm_campaign=breaking-2022-08-11-1&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;est=Bd%2FxsWi%2FaGMdbhGW8Bv0pPR5joMuilboB8dinQyun0tb5wUsBg1bIw%3D%3D \u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>The American Gestapo a.k.a. FBI<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Paul Craig Roberts<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>What kind of Justice Department official would sign off on a FBI raid on a former US president\u2019s home when the president is fully cooperating with the spurious \u201cinvestigation\u201d of him?<\/p>\n<p>What kind of judge would issue the warrant and then hide it from view by sealing it?<\/p>\n<p>What kind of FBI agent would invade a president\u2019s home instead of resigning over the assignment?<\/p>\n<p>Clearly, none of these people are good people.\u00a0 They are not people we can have any confidence in.\u00a0 These are not people we would let our sons and daughters marry.\u00a0 These are very bad people.\u00a0 Yet these very bad people are in control of our lives.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us-judge-in-florida-approved-search-warrants-before-fbi-raid-of-trumps-resort_4652659.html?utm_source=News&amp;utm_campaign=breaking-2022-08-09-3&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;est=6QhpzAW6DqNcjfUaYwWS4zjNViC%2BVvCV8pknpDsCwyI9ySq3z%20\">https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us-judge-in-florida-approved-search-warrants-before-fbi-raid-of-trumps-resort_4652659.html?utm_source=News&amp;utm_campaign=breaking-2022-08-09-3&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;est=6QhpzAW6DqNcjfUaYwWS4zjNViC%2BVvCV8pknpDsCwyI9ySq3zwmjPg%3D%3D<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The FBI and the Biden regime are the most corrupt organizations on the face of the earth. \u00a0 Have the corrupt president and FBI director\u2013Donald Trump\u2019s own appointee\u2013succeeded in creating the impression that the former president is a criminal suspect, or have Biden and the FBI discredited themselves in the eyes of the people.\u00a0 Here is one of Trump\u2019s attorneys explaining that no one knows a legitimate reason for the armed invasion of Trump\u2019s home.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/real-story-of-fbis-10-hour-raid-on-trumps-home-interview-with-president-trumps-lawyer_4653734.html?utm_source=News&amp;utm_campaign=breaking-2022-08-10-3&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;est=lVxXb9y11LDspYAN4VwDvTARUwnjrScx%2BT7Nwq7Hd%20\">https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/real-story-of-fbis-10-hour-raid-on-trumps-home-interview-with-president-trumps-lawyer_4653734.html?utm_source=News&amp;utm_campaign=breaking-2022-08-10-3&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;est=lVxXb9y11LDspYAN4VwDvTARUwnjrScx%2BT7Nwq7HdaG%2BIbeRz4CYPQ%3D%3D<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The corrupt FBI has had a corrupt judge seal the \u201cprobable cause\u201d justification for the search warrant, which probably means that there is no probable cause.\u00a0 Why else seal the justification for an unprecedented event that makes the United States government look precisely like a third world gangster state?<\/p>\n<p>Marc Ruskin, a 27-year veteran of the FBI and a former federal prosecutor told the Epoch Times that he was stunned and dismayed by the FBI\u2019s \u201cdisregard for traditional norms and apparent lack of concern with the appearance of impropriety.\u201d That the FBI permitted itself to be used so blatantly politically \u201cis indicative of an abandonment of even a veneer of independence and objectivity.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/fbi-trump-home-raid-improperly-intrusive-circumstances-indicate_4653940.html?utm_source=Morningbrief&amp;utm_campaign=mb-2022-08-10&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;est=3c6uOZSQrxpGPhoao35vwpuynEbJdesfcR9OFKIBhIJZNIP4IQFJ4g%3D%3D\">https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/fbi-trump-home-raid-improperly-intrusive-circumstances-indicate_4653940.html?utm_source=Morningbrief&amp;utm_campaign=mb-2022-08-10&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;est=3c6uOZSQrxpGPhoao35vwpuynEbJdesfcR9OFKIBhIJZNIP4IQFJ4g%3D%3D<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The FBI has clearly devolved into a Nazi Gestapo. Further emphasizing their total disrespect for law and process, the Biden Gestapo accosted a US Representative, Scott Perry (R, PA) while he was traveling with his family and took away his cell phone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis morning, while traveling with my family, 3 FBI agents visited me and seized my cell phone. They made no attempt to contact my lawyer, who would have made arrangements for them to have my phone if that was their wish. I\u2019m outraged \u2014 though not surprised \u2014 that the FBI under the direction of Merrick Garland\u2019s DOJ, would seize the phone of a sitting Member of Congress,\u201d Perry said in his statement. \u201cMy phone contains info about my legislative and political activities, and personal\/private discussions with my wife, family, constituents, and friends. None of this is the government\u2019s business.\u201d\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/2022\/08\/breaking-joe-bidens-fbi-apprehends-gop-rep-traveling-family-seizes-phone-raiding-president-trumps-home-last-night\/\">https:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/2022\/08\/breaking-joe-bidens-fbi-apprehends-gop-rep-traveling-family-seizes-phone-raiding-president-trumps-home-last-night\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Biden regime and its Gestapo FBI have committed so many crimes that they have no alternative but to prevent the November elections.\u00a0 It is a simple matter of self-preservation. Watch for the Biden regime to contrive an event to justify federal control over the November election.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"yWXBXntifL\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paulcraigroberts.org\/pages\/donate\/\">Donate<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Donate&#8221; &#8212; PaulCraigRoberts.org\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paulcraigroberts.org\/pages\/donate\/embed\/#?secret=x2D5WXaHwf#?secret=yWXBXntifL\" data-secret=\"yWXBXntifL\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paulcraigroberts.org\/2022\/08\/11\/the-american-gestapo-a-k-a-fbi\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Biden regime and its Gestapo FBI have committed so many crimes that they have no alternative but to prevent the November elections.  It is a simple matter of self-preservation. 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