ICE Whistleblower interview with CBS interrupted by government agents

Re:ICE Whistleblower interview with CBS interrupted by gover... by dsfyu404ed on Friday June 29, 2018 @02:57PM (#17426796)

Intimidation tactics like this is how these organizations operate in situations like this. It's been this way for a long time. Read up on the CIA and FBI getting in each other's way in the Hoover era. They pulled all sorts of crap like this. It's not every former administration has been standing in the way of behavior like this and now suddenly the floodgates are open and the departments in the executive branch feel empowered to oppress and intimidate anyone they see as a threat, they've been doing it all along. Maybe they're less subtle now, I dunno.

It's only now that we have a POTUS that everyone hates that people are taking notice how foul the rest of the executive branch really is.

Edit: I know that lunch hour in CA is exactly the wrong time to post something like this but please actually try and refute something I'm saying instead of mashing the downvote button like you're on Reddit. We're supposed to be able to have adult discussion around here.

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Re:ICE Whistleblower interview with CBS interrupted by gover... by acobster on Friday June 29, 2018 @03:40PM (#17427177)

Yeah, I'm not surprised by DHS at all here.

I do think it's less subtle as POTUS has made it very clear he has zero qualms with lying routinely about almost everything, and with strongarm tactics and intimidation. But the culture of secrecy, intimidation, and public misdirection has been there from the beginning, and not just by happenstance but by necessity. If you can convince yourself, as a member of DHS/CIA/FBI/etc. that whatever project you're working on (like, say, wiretapping MLK) is for National Security, then the ends justify the means.

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Re:ICE Whistleblower interview with CBS interrupted by gover... by moonka on Friday June 29, 2018 @04:49PM (#17427761)

>Edit: I know that lunch hour in CA is exactly the wrong time to post something like this but please actually try and refute something I'm saying instead of mashing the downvote button like you're on Reddit. We're supposed to be able to have adult discussion around here.

Not sure why you are sneering at CA. Californians are just as American as the rest of the country, and in this case the issue at hand was in California.

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