Federal Bureau of Investigation

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is the domestic intelligence and security service of the United States and its principal federal law enforcement agency. It is currently led by Director Christopher A. Wray, who reports to Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines and Attorney General Merrick Garland, who both report to President Joe Biden.

The FBI is not permitted to confirm or deny an investigation. ~ Brett Banner

Quotes

• The FBI is warning the public that cyber criminals are using search engine advertisement services to impersonate brands and direct users to malicious sites that host ransomware and steal login credentials and other financial information. … The FBI recommends individuals take the following precautions: … Use an ad blocking extension when performing internet searches. Most internet browsers allow a user to add extensions, including extensions that block advertisements. These ad blockers can be turned on and off within a browser to permit advertisements on certain websites while blocking advertisements on others.
  • Alert No. I-122122-PSA: "Cyber Criminals Impersonating Brands Using Search Engine Advertisement Services to Defraud Users". Internet Crime Complaint Center, FBI. December 21, 2022.
  • Reported on by Vice Motherboard and the Evening Standard.

Quotes about the FBI

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• It's hard to keep the spark alive when it is always FBI and not FBUS
  • Stephen Colbert

There is a reason that I require all new agents and analysts to study the FBI's interaction with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and to visit his memorial in Washington as part of their training. And there is a reason I keep on my desk a copy of Attorney General Robert Kennedy's approval of J. Edgar Hoover's request to wiretap Dr. King. It is a single page. The entire application is five sentences long, it is without fact or substance, and is predicated on the naked assertion that there is "communist influence in the racial situation." The reason I do those things is to ensure that we remember our mistakes and that we learn from them. ~ James Comey

• I fear God, and I fear the FBI.
  • Daniel Hernandez, as quoted in "Ladies and Gentlemen … We Got 'Em (Memes)" (December 2018), by Brian Feldman, New York

• There is no way to verify the FBI's information. It is not clear whether the agents involved were transcribing the true reality of King's private life, or creating idle gossip as part of their campaign against him.
  Alongside the tapes was the now-infamous, anonymous letter urging King to avoid embarrassment, with the words, "There is only one thing left for you to do. You know what it is. ... There is but one way out for you." It was delivered inside a manila envelope.
  The letter runs to more than 500 words, and claims to be from an African-American who supported the civil rights movement. In fact, it was written by the FBI.
  • Bill Bostock, "55 years ago, the FBI tried to blackmail Martin Luther King Jr with a 'suicide' letter. This week, newly discovered documents finally explain the sordid origin of the plan.", Business Insider, (29 May 2019)

• The FBI is not permitted to confirm or deny an investigation.
  • FBI spokesman Brett Banner as quoted in "Wisconsin Republican Party says hackers stole $2.3 million", Los Angeles Times, (October 29, 2020)

• There is a reason that I require all new agents and analysts to study the FBI's interaction with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and to visit his memorial in Washington as part of their training. And there is a reason I keep on my desk a copy of Attorney General Robert Kennedy's approval of J. Edgar Hoover's request to wiretap Dr. King. It is a single page. The entire application is five sentences long, it is without fact or substance, and is predicated on the naked assertion that there is "communist influence in the racial situation." The reason I do those things is to ensure that we remember our mistakes and that we learn from them.
  • James Comey, "Hard Truths: Law Enforcement and Racism" (12 February 2015), Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.

• Hitherto unseen FBI surveillance records reviewed by King biographer David J. Garrow in 2019 surfaced shocking allegations about King's personal life that are in stark contrast to his reputation as an icon of social justice and Christian morality. Apart from more graphic details about numerous extramarital affairs, these documents allege King participated in the rape and sexual abuse of a female parishioner by a fellow minister. "King looked on, laughed and offered advice," during the rape, according to the files. Evidence about King's true character as revealed in these FBI records has been excluded from the hagiographic treatment of his legacy embraced by Democrats and Republicans alike. Indeed, the latter seem most willing to ignore the more unsavory parts of his story to serve their own ends.
  • Pedro Gonzalez, "The Sordid Legacy of Dr. King", Chronicles, 17 January 2022

• While Republicans and Democrats have been able to selectively quote King to fit their policy and propaganda needs, what may soon be indisputable is his reputation as the vilest kind of abuser, as revealed by Garrow's 2019 research. Garrow is no right-winger eager to trash King's reputation. On the contrary, Garrow is a democratic socialist, who won a Pulitzer Prize for an earlier glowing biography of Dr. King. Garrow spent weeks poring over never-before-seen FBI documents, publishing his shocking findings in the British magazine Standpoint. They reveal the agency's surveillance of King in new detail, which began due to his connection to Stanley D. Levison, a New York attorney with Communist Party ties, who gave King $10,000 in cash over two years, or nearly $90,000 in 2021 dollars. Garrow reviewed one report showing that King's friend, Logan Kearse, the pastor of Baltimore's Cornerstone Baptist Church, brought several of his female "parishioners" to Washington. He offered King and his friends an introduction. "The group met in his room and discussed which women among the parishioners would be suitable for natural or unnatural sex acts," the report states. "When one of the women protested that she did not approve of this, the Baptist minister immediately and forcibly raped her." King "looked on, laughed and offered advice" as the minister raped the parishioner. Garrow added that the agents who captured the incident on a microphone-transmitted tape-recording "would not have had any apparent motive … to inaccurately embellish upon the actual recording and its full transcript."
  • Pedro Gonzalez, "The Sordid Legacy of Dr. King", Chronicles, 17 January 2022

• Read about Ruby Ridge. The FBI entrapped a guy into selling a shotgun with a 16” barrel. During a late night raid they murdered a 14 year old boy. Then they murdered a woman as she held a baby. Sniper shot her. She was unarmed. These are horribly evil people. Demons, all of them.
  • Mike Cernovich, Twitter, 5:43 AM · Apr 9, 2022

• Reports of the FBI being involved in Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer's kidnapping plot and of FBI agents and assets being involved in the January 6th events has collapsed whatever level of trust the public had with federal law enforcement, not to mention the mainstream media whose related coverage rarely digs deeper than the government's official line.
  • John Kline, It's Time We Get Answers About the FBI's Involvement In the OKC Bombing, The Libertarian Institute, 27 April 2022

• At the heart of Trentadue's marathon public records case certainly has the FBI worried. Someone who did manage to testify early on in the case was an Oklahoma police officer and first responder to the OKC bombing. He told the court he witnessed the FBI actually stop the beginning of the recovery process while victims were still under piles of rubble in order to remove a surveillance camera from the Murrah building. Some believe the camera would have recorded anyone else besides McVeigh who left the truck after it was parked and, in fact, did so.
  • John Kline, It's Time We Get Answers About the FBI's Involvement In the OKC Bombing, The Libertarian Institute, 27 April 2022

• The FBI and Department of Justice's war on domestic terror has been racked with controversy. Critics hold that the FBI and Department of Justice are using the pretense of fighting terrorism as a means towards the end of suppressing political opposition. A 1,000 page report released earlier this week by Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee details allegations of bias, incompetence, rampant corruption and statements made by several FBI whistleblowers that the Bureau's campaign against "domestic terrorism" is nothing more than a naked political crackdown against Constitutionally protected right-wing and religious beliefs. Among the specific charges made by over a dozen conscientious FBI agents, they contend that they were compelled by supervisors to manufacture fraudulent domestic terrorism data in order to justify increasing the federal government's power to crush legitimate political activity the powerful people disagree with.
  • Erik Striker, The FBI Plans To Lobby Congress For New Laws That Allow Them To Pursue Children As "Domestic Terrorists", The Main Street Tribune, 5th November 2022

• SNCC workers have found that F.B.I. men in the South often share the segregationist views of the people around them; this is reflected in the lack of enthusiasm which F.B.I. men show in handling civil rights cases. Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer once told an F.B.I. agent, "If I get to heaven and I see you there, I will tell St. Peter to send me on back to Mississippi!"
  • Howard Zinn SNCC: The New Abolitionists (1964)

See also

• CIA
• NSA

External links

• Encyclopedic article on Federal Bureau of Investigation on Wikipedia