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So as it turns out, the frustration for not investigating the capital insurrection, and all the funny business leading up to it (and everything between) was in fact real. How anyone can justify not starting an investigation immediately when the capital is violently stormed is beyond me.

Sure, going after the peons is all fine and good, but it was clear as day for a long time nobody was doing jack about Trump and Co. Corruption, and now we have it straight from the horses mouth. Lovely times in this clumtry.

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Not only did the complaint and other documents reviewed by Insider say the agent's superiors ordered him to stop working on these leads, but they also said the superiors ordered, in early 2022, that the FBI informant who had provided the best intelligence on Giuliani's activities be "closed" — cut off from further FBI contact. The statement said the order came from the FBI's Foreign Influence Task Force, a headquarters-based unit established by Director Christopher Wray in 2017 and charged with combating foreign influence.

Oh look. It was projection all along.

But- but- but- something something Hunter Biden something Twitter!

"It's highly unfortunate that this statement wound up being leaked and published," said Scott Horton, an attorney representing the whistleblower. "We're in the preliminary stages of a confidential process. I'm unable to make any other comment."

"I'm glad you did this good thing. Also, fuck you if you don't want it public yet, we're publishing it."

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This is the best summary I could come up with:

A veteran FBI counterintelligence agent says his supervisor told him to stop investigating Rudy Giuliani and to cut off contact with any sources who reported on corruption by associates of former President Donald Trump, according to a whistleblower complaint obtained by Insider.

The whistleblower told Insider that he was finally ordered to stop investigating Giuliani and the rest of the Trump White House in August 2022, after months of what he said were persistent efforts to frustrate his work, at a meeting with three FBI supervisors at a bureau field office.

As one of the bureau's few Russian-speaking counterintelligence specialists, he maintained a network of overseas sources that had been utilized by agents across the country to investigate everything from money laundering to political corruption, his statement said.

Further up the chain of command, bureau leadership — perhaps intimidated by Trump's "deep state" rhetoric and his treatment of former senior FBI personnel such as James Comey and Peter Strzok — has resisted investigating the former president.

Some FBI agents were reportedly satisfied by an assertion made by Trump's legal team that he'd turned over all his classified documents, and wanted to close the Mar-a-Lago government records investigation down.

The glimpse of one field office provided by the new whistleblower could be more indicative of a risk-averse bureaucracy struggling to balance its law-enforcement duties with its increasingly fragile public image than a politically motivated cover-up.

I'm a bot and I'm open source!

Replace Merrick Garland. At this point, he is complicit and should be treated as such.

This is why we need unbiased and nonpoliticized Inspectors General.

I get that you want to dunk on the person from the other side doing the same thing but that's exactly the issue...if everyone is always leaking that X or Y investigation was suppressed, we won't know what was actually suppressed vs what was abandoned because it wasn't worth investigating.

We need structures in place to report to those in charge of Congressional oversight with enough unbiased information that it can be determined whether there was wrongdoing. Everything else is just playing politics.

"The call is coming from inside the White House!"