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after the attack in New Orleans, the terrorist attack in
New Orleans, I think, you know, there needs to be
some appreciation for, you know, the the burden that the
FBI is bearing in all of this. It's very difficult
for them. It's tough. It's a tough situation for them
to be in through no fault of their own. Obviously,
as the Associated Press reports, the New Orleans attack came
as the FBI was facing political heat and bracing for
a transition.
Speaker 1: All this poor BI, this is getting scrutiny.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the So it always astounds me when people put
forth these types of narratives that are designed to try
to elicit empathy for people or an organization that is
in a situation that it itself does or they themselves do.
I'm not this is not this is not a corollary.
I'm just saying an analogy here. As an analogy, it's
like whenever you start talking about teacher pay and trying
to figure out a way for there to be some
sort of a merit based compensation system developed to find out,
you know, which teachers are quote good, which ones aren't,
and that sort of thing, and then to reward the
best teachers in some sort of a meritocracy compensation plan.
And we are always told they cannot do that because
there's no way to gauge and to compare and to
test and to figure out and dissess and whatever.
Speaker 1: But isn't that what you guys do.
Speaker 2: It's literally what you do, right, You teach, But then
you also have to figure out whether or not the person.
Speaker 1: I was going to say passed. But I don't do
we do that anymore? I'm not even sure.
Speaker 2: So that's the analogy that I thought of when I
was reading this piece by the Associated Press, that here
is the FBI getting this you know, sympathetic piece from
the Associated Press. That's oh, they're you know, poor guys
that they're facing political heat. Yet talk to anybody that's
ever had to deal with the FBI. Right, FBI comes
knocking and they bring all the pressure down on you.
Speaker 1: Right. Look at the J six crowd.
Speaker 2: A lot of the people that went, you know, stayed
behind the velvet velvet ropes and walked on through the
capitol and they got charged with felonies. So I don't
have a whole lot of sympathy for the FBI as
an institution.
Speaker 1: I really don't.
Speaker 2: And I know that people have said, well, you know,
they're you know, good field agents and all that, but
Andy McCarthy's got a point on that too.
Speaker 1: So I think the the.
Speaker 2: Further down the the DEI path we go here, you know,
when with the rot the institutional corruption that has been
allowed to occur in these agencies, I don't know how
many of those people are left. I don't I'm not
saying there aren't any saying I don't know. And that's unsettling.
You know, people that are infected with this oppressor oppressed
victim mindset that are now walking all of the holes.
I mean, if you want an example of it, take
a look at what's happening over in the UK with
their police forces. Yeah, I mean that is it's an embarrassment.
It's an embarrassment. They don't investigate actual crimes. They devote
all their energies to tracking down people who make mean tweets.
I'm not even kidding about that. It's unreal. So the
longer you have this rot that's eating away at your institution,
though more and more likely it is that you have,
you know, staff that knows how to operate inside the rot,
and those are not generally like the best kinds of staff,
I would submit, So let's pick up this SAP story.
Louisiana's junior Republican Senator John Kennedy implored the FBI to
catch these people when he was talking about the attack
on Bourbon Street on New Year's He says, after we
get to the bottom of this, we need to tell
the American people the truth.
Speaker 1: Oh sorry, we can't do that. No, can we handle
the truth? Yes, we can handle the truth.
Speaker 2: In fact, I would submit, in this day and age,
now we're at the point where it's just best to
tell the truth because the lie will always come out
and the cover up is what does you in and
That's why the FBI is in all of the mess
that it's in is because this is what it traffics in.
It has for decades, and now you just can't keep
all of these secrets anymore and people can see what's happening.
So the comment, according to the Associated Press, appeared to
allude to, at least in part, to an FBI official's
erroneous assertion hours earlier that the Bourbon Street rampage was
quote not a terrorist event. Remember that that was their
first statement when they came out, came out and made
a statement. They were like, this is not a terrorist event.
And then like the mayor like stood up at the
podium and was like, oh yeah, it's totally a terrorist
And then the FBI had to come back and walk
get back like oh okay, I mean the ISIS flag
that is clearly visible on the back of the truck. Okay,
you got us. I find maybe a little terroristy. There
was a misstep that the FBI tried to clean up
with a follow up statement that said the bureau was
indeed investigating the Islamic State Group inspired attack as an
act of terrorism, but more broadly, the suggestion that federal
officials might obscure the truth of the investigation, and Kennedy's
warning that he would raise fresh hell if they did
reflected the uneasy position the FBI had already found itself
in by the time of last week's attack. So once again,
note the framing, right, that there's this suggestion that the
FBI might obscure the truth. That's not okay, So that
is not for the obscuring of the truth part, because
that was for the belief that they might do such
a thing. Oh my gosh, I can't believe the FBI
would do that.
Speaker 1: No way.
Speaker 2: By the way, have you heard that Facebook is now
going to follow the path of X aka Twitter x
Twitter or Twitter x.
Speaker 1: In doing community.
Speaker 2: Notes rather than the paid quote unquote journalists that do
the fact checking. Yeah, so we'll get to that too.
But yeah, this idea here that the federal officials might
obscure the truth of the investigation, which is that is
a thought that the FBI would obscure the truth of
an investigation. That is a thought that is I'm going
to just tick a wild guess here and say at
least half of America, at least half of America thinks
that the FBI lies that the FBI covers up stuff,
that they do things. And this is not a new
belief either. I am old enough to remember all of
the stories that the boomer's told about j Edgar Hoover
and MLK and all of that, right, So don't tell
me that this is some sort of a new phenomena
where all of a sudden people are like, oh my gosh,
I don't have any trust in the FBI. It's been
that way for a long time among a lot of Americans.
It has gotten worse, and it is largely, if not completely,
due too the FBI their behavior. So I have no
sympathy for them that now they're getting this kind of
scrutiny which pales in comparison to the kind of scrutiny
that they dish out on Americans for minimally supported reasons. Okay,
but the poor FBI, they are now finding itself buffeted
by suspicion and public criticism from lawmakers, especially allies of
President elect Donald Trump, and bracing for a leadership change
expected to produce dramatic upheaval at the nation's premier federal
law enforcement agency.
Speaker 1: Now think about that.
Speaker 2: Okay, So you got guys going down guys and gals
going down to Bourbon Street to investigate a terrorist attack,
and you're telling me that the thing that they're worried
about is cash ptel, then they don't need to be
doing their jobs because that's not part of their jobs.
Their job is to investigate that crime. So I'm not
sure the AP is doing the FB solid on this
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Speaker 2: Okay, I have no idea if that's a joke or not.
No idea, so, but honestly, like what is to stop us?
We changed the name of Fort Bragg, right, they changed
the names of countries all the time. You'll always be
Burma to me, right, I mean, this stuff happens, so
we'll see, all right. So the Associated Press has a
big story talking about the difficulty that the FBI, the
poor FBI is facing because they've got a new director
coming in, Cash Patel, and the FBI director now, Christopher Ray,
is planning to resign his position to make way for
Cash Pattel, and so this is a difficult time for
the FBI. And I don't know, maybe that's why they
came out initially after the attack in New Orleans where
the guy was running around murdering people, screaming something that
sounded like a Loha snack bar. And we may never
know what motivated them, but they initially came out and
said not a terrorist attack. Look, honestly, whenever you hear
car plows into crowded street partiers, there really are only
two explanations. I mean, honestly, just given the history of
these types of incidents. Number one is some sort of
gee hottist attack, and that is usually the one that
is correct. And number two, old person that forgets the
gas pedal is on the right side and the break
is in the middle or on the left side if
you don't have a stick shift, which I did see
somebody mention the other day they're thinking of restricting their
Twitter feed to only people who can drive stick so
that would be one way to clean up your timeline.
So really, like when you hear of a vehicle plowing
through pedestrians, those are really the two explanations that historically
are the case. And most of the time it's a
jihatist and that's what it looks like. This guy was
now you know, obviously in the immediate aftermath, and if
I was on the air, I would have told you
the same thing I say after all of these types
of events, whether it's a shooting, you know, a rampage
of some kind vehicular or with a weapon, I always say,
wait at least twenty four hours. You don't need to
rush in and say you know what happened, because you
don't know what happened. And a lot of people pretend
that they do know what happened, and they put it
in the phrase of I'm just asking questions, you know,
But you want to be able to keep your mind
open so when new evidence emerges, you can then plug
in the new information. If you get you know, your
brain wedded to a particular story, or it becomes more
difficult than to backtrack on that, and you don't want
to admit you were wrong and all of that kind
of things, so it's just easier to just say, well,
let's wait for more information to come in.
Speaker 1: This could have been it, this could have been it. Whatever.
Speaker 2: But yeah, the ISIS flag was a pretty That was
a pretty big giveaway to me. But again I was
willing to maybe somebody came along and stuck it on
there after the fact, I don't know, Like the same
thing with the cooler. You hear about the cooler with
the ied in it, and some people were moving it around.
Speaker 1: They were just drunks. All right.
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phone lines and take oh this is that might be
the first call of yeah, because I don't think I
took one yesterday.
Speaker 1: Match, Welcome to the show. The first call of twenty
twenty five.
Speaker 4: How are you, hey, bat? Thank you? I'm all right, man.
Speaker 2: There is no financial reward for being the first caller
of twenty twenty five to be on the air, Okay.
Speaker 1: I'm just I want that.
Speaker 4: Should I hang up and drag him?
Speaker 1: No, it's no reward for second caller either, So.
Speaker 4: Dang it. Well, I was just going to tell you
why I have no sympathy for anybody in the FBI
being scrutinized, whether it's leadership or rank and file. Just
three quick, easy ones right off the top of my head. Trump, Russia, collusion,
awful lives told, the treatment of pro life Americans, and
collusion with the DJ awful, and then everything to do
with the racket that they ran to protect Tunner and
Joe Biden from their crimes. And the reason I, including
the rank and file, a lot of people just want
to go. Leadership. The rank and file should have either
been quitting in droves or coming out in droves to go.
This is awful. They decided to protect their jobs instead
of doing their duty of protecting the constitutions. I've got
no simply for any.
Speaker 1: Of them, all, I hear you.
Speaker 2: And it's difficult for me to argue otherwise, you know.
And now did you see this? The National Archives finally
released photos from way back in twenty thirteen, So photos
that are almost twelve years old from Joe Biden when
he was Vice president. Joe Biden's visit to China, where
Hunter Biden hitched a ride on Air Force two for
the trip.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, and it shows.
Speaker 2: Hunter and Joe meeting with Hunter Biden's business associates in China.
Speaker 4: Yeah. I would tell anybody in the FBF they couldn't
figure out that Joe and Hunter Biden were selling his
name and his positions that they all just need to
quit right now. Yeah, but I think they knew all
along time.
Speaker 2: Right, and maybe they keep it under wraps so they
could use it as leverage for whatever they Yeah, they
want to use it as leverage for I don't know,
is it for you know, funding?
Speaker 4: Is it looks like they did though, looks like they
just protected him.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Maybe maybe because they thought, you know, he's better than
the Orange Man.
Speaker 1: So well, you know, I don't know.
Speaker 4: Protect than the Orange Man's been around, so I really
don't know why.
Speaker 2: No, it's true, I got you, Mitch. I appreciate the
call sir again. No financial reward for being first caller,
because really it was my fault because I didn't really
solicit phone calls yesterday, now that I think about did
I I mean I think I gave the number out
once or twice. But yeah, so that actually did happen.
The the Joe Biden trip from twenty thirteen. This is
from AG Hamilton at the AG Report. What's most revealing
about this is that Joe Biden has extensively denied any
involvement in Hunter Biden's business dealings, despite extensive evidence to
the contrary. These photos definitively undermine those denials. Given that
Hunter Biden was engaged in influence pedaling to foreign interests
by leveraging his father's position, this should have been a
major scandal and a continuous story. Instead, it was mostly
treated as a partisan attack and dismissed until now. And
to Mitch's point, yeah, I mean, where were all of
the whistleblowers right?
Speaker 1: Not blowing whistles exactly?
Speaker 2: The Associated Press reports a former Justice Department National security prosecutor,
Cash Ptel has appeared repeatedly on podcasts before he was
selected as the director, where he has spoken of his
belief that the FBI needed a major overhaul, but he's
been less specific about how as director he would protect
the homeland.
Speaker 1: Well, why would he have done that?
Speaker 2: In the podcasts he was talking about he wrote a
whole book, by the way, but he wasn't writing it
as sort of his launching pad to be the director.
He had no idea he would be tapped for this gig.
One area he has discussed is significant reforms on how
agents and analysts make use of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
evesdropping powers or FISA powers in national security investigations. He
had spoken all of a desire to break out the
FBI's intel shops from the rest of its crime fighting activities.
A person familiar with Patel's positions, who has sat in
on his meetings with senators and who spoke to the
Associated Press on condition of anonymity to discuss the private conversations,
said that Patel wants to ensure quote, there's better intel
sharing across agencies, but is not calling for the elimination
of spy powers.
Speaker 1: So yeah, h Well, it was good while lasted.
Speaker 2: There's no question that each action by the FBI is
magnified at a time when its work in public statements
are so intensely under the microscope as a result of
politically charged investigations, as well as the aftermath of controversial
decisions like a Justice Department memo directing the FBI to
address threatening rhetoric at school board meetings and a sense
withdrawn Field Office memo that warned of potential Catholic extremists.
Chris Piota, a former executive assistant director of the FBI
who retired in twenty twenty, said he believed that the
FBI had become distracted in recent years by political and
social agendas versus addressing the actual emerging threat environment. No,
some imperfect communication on the first day after the New
Orleans terrorist attack did color public perception of the response,
says the Associated Press. Some imperfect communication is what they
call it. That's like the in artful words. I may
have been in artful in my words. Now, yeah, you
were bassing, like you just were spouting crap. That's not
in artful. It's not imperfect communication. You flat out said
it's not a terrorist attack, and then within minutes the
mayor is up there like, oh yeah, it's a terrorist attack.
Speaker 1: That's not imperfect communication.
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more transparent. I mentioned the coolers with the bombs in
them down on Bourbon Street. And this was the original
confusion over whether or not the attacker down there had accomplices,
and I'm still not sure he didn't, but the ones
that were spotted on the cameras messing around with coolers.
According to TMZ, because this is the world we live
in now, TMZ has the federal sources that say that
the confusion started when investigators looked at surveillance video from
the Bourbon Street area noticed three men and a woman
peering inside two coolers in which the attacker had planted
homemade bombs. The sources told TMZ that investigators ultimately determined
these people were not terrorists at all. Rather, they were drunks.
They were just checking the coolers to see if there
was any alcohol in them, and they said they now
believe the people had no clue that they were staring
at explosive devices, possibly because they were drunk. So that's
the update from TMZ. John, Welcome to the show.
Speaker 1: Hello John.
Speaker 5: Yo, Hey, Happy new year. Yes sir you too, Hey,
lest caller just positive the question about why they Biden
was allowed to remain in office, and I.
Speaker 6: Mean, take your pick, amiable Dunce idiot, a full useful idiot,
and because he was a puppet for the left whoever
was calling the shot, so he was very useful to
keep in that position so that they could get their agenda.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, absolutely, But also don't overlook at the FBI
and whatever the leadership team is motivated by. They have
their own incentives for keeping that kind of a figurehead
in place too, because if they've got stuff that they
want done, whether it's budgetary or more power or whatever. Right,
they want to know everything about everybody so they can
use it against anybody at any given time when they
need to use it to get what they want to.
Speaker 6: Well, I wonder who the true puppet master is because
then it's a collusion certainly between those that are using
Biden and then making deals with the FBI so that
the FBI gets what they want. So, I mean, it's
intriguing who is the master behind all this.
Speaker 2: I don't think it's one person, I really don't. I mean,
I've heard it referred to as the blob, right that
there are so many people in different positions of power
that seek to protect their own power and influence and income. Right,
So I think they are just a lot of different people,
but they all sort of unite in their incentives to
keep themselves right in power, and they work with people
that are also incentivized by those same things.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's like a NonStop cancer.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's rotting. Yeah, the institutional rot is. It's
it is pervasive, and it is infecting the entire society.
Speaker 1: So John, I appreciate the call. And this isn't new either.
Speaker 2: Kirk points out, let's not forget Ruby Ridge, Waco, j
Edgar Hoover had extensive files on political enemies as well, right,
and what was the point of having all of those files?
Speaker 1: Extortion?
Speaker 6: Right?
Speaker 1: I mean that's the whole thing.
Speaker 2: Like, if you're the FBI and you know that Joe
Biden is compromised, what do you do with that information?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 2: Do you bust him, take him out and stop the
damage or do you and do you have the hubris
and arrogance to think that you can basically just monitor
all of the dealings and such and then you can
use him through that leverage because you know all of
these secrets and you just say like, look, we know
that you're jammed up, we know that you're compromised by
you know, Barisma Ukrainians, corrupt oligarchs over there, the Chinese.
Speaker 1: Right, we know all about this stuff. So here's what
you're gonna do.
Speaker 2: You're gonna do xyz for us, right, and if you
think that juice is worth the squeeze, I think you
do that.
Speaker 1: That's what Hoover was.
Speaker 2: Keeping all the files for extortion basically, not for money
that I'm aware of. Maybe there's some budgetary you know,
extortion going on there to get more funding for the agency,
but also to protect it and to make it feared.
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