In a pair of jaw-dropping interviews on Thursday following his resignation from Overstock.com, the company he founded twenty years ago, Patrick Byrne revealed his collaboration with the FBI as an informant, including involvement in surveillance of the 2016 presidential campaigns including multiple Republicans … and of the Hillary Clinton campaign, too.
In both interviews Byrne fingered Peter Strzok as the person responsible for sending the men from the FBI who visited him, but in the second, he stated that higher-ups, entities he would only identify as “X, Y, and Z” – people whose names you would know, directed the program.
Conrad73: FBI acting in the best hallowed tradition of J.Edgar Hoover! It is still his Quasimodo!
remember bush sr.weed n seed program the FBI ran the program to beat folks at will/rodney king the FBIs agenda,the dem speaker then confronted the FBI n then they had dirt on him n retired/dirt from the CIA,its coming back now to help dems n start a civil war/sos!
(1:27) High-Ranking FBI to Release Intel on Wray A powerful contingent in the Federal Bureau of Investigation want Director Wray to step down and plan to begin releasing damaging insider intelligence to further that goal.
What type of dirt do they have on the embattled FBI director?
According to federal insiders, it’s not pretty and some of it promises to cast Wray in a very bad light. Specifically, FBI insiders who are disgruntled with Wray’s leadership say there is dirt on Wray’s connections to the FBI and Special Counsel’s probe of Trump’s alleged connections to Russia.
CossackCat: (1:27) High-Ranking FBI to Release Intel on Wray A powerful contingent in the Federal Bureau of Investigation want Director Wray to step down and plan to begin releasing damaging insider intelligence to further that goal.
What type of dirt do they have on the embattled FBI director?
According to federal insiders, it’s not pretty and some of it promises to cast Wray in a very bad light. Specifically, FBI insiders who are disgruntled with Wray’s leadership say there is dirt on Wray’s connections to the FBI and Special Counsel’s probe of Trump’s alleged connections to Russia.
There are numerous issues with the deployment of FBI special agents to work on crowd control issues. One example occurred several days ago and was recorded in a TikTok video that showed 10-15 FBI Special Agents, patrol the streets in Washington D.C. Those agents were confronted with a much larger group of protestors who asked the special agents to “take a knee.”
The FBI special agents did just that. All of them.
Without knowing what the Special Agents were thinking, their personal belief system, nor their political opinions, what option did they have but to take a knee, said a source familiar with the incident.
“It is unlikely that they would have incited violence had they not kneeled – but they did not know that for sure. And, were they willing to risk their lives, and the lives of those protestors who could have been injured or killed if violence escalated,” questioned a retired senior FBI agent who spoke to this reporter.
@sonnywithnochances THE FBI KNEELED WITH US IN DC!!!! #blacklivesmatter #blm #georgefloyd
original sound – sonnywithnochances
Inside the Tactical Operations Center, the tensions are also high, as Barr and FBI Director Christopher Wray have had numerous disagreements with the use of FBI agents out in the field, noted the source.
The source noted a number of reasons why the use of the FBI Special Agents is problematic:
Tactically, FBI Special Agents do not receive any training in riot control, crowd dynamics, or crowd-based non-lethal force tactics. Unlike the Metropolitan Police Department of Washington, DC, the FBI does not have a “Quick Response Force” capability if some of their patrolling Special Agents were to run into a dangerous scenario that required additional resources. This was evident earlier this week when a group of Special Agents were deployed to Lafayette Square and, as the protests increased in size and changed location, they were essentially stranded for over 6 hours. The FBI’s Deadly Force Policy, located here, purposely does not include any reference to a “use of force continuum”. The Deadly Force Policy is the governing guidance that all FBI Special Agents adhere to during operations. Without proper training in riot control tactics and the equipment with which to do so, the only default that these Special Agents have is contained in the words of the policy: “FBI special agents may use deadly force only when necessary – when the agent has a reasonable belief that the subject of such force poses an imminent danger of death or serious physical injury to the agent or another person.” When you have a small group of armed law enforcement officers, greatly outnumbered by protestors, it only takes a few violent acts (typically undertaken by agent provocateurs, Antifa, criminals, etc) before law enforcement will respond. When you have no other option at your disposal other than lethal ammunition in your assigned service weapon, the consequences will be deadly.
There are numerous issues with the deployment of FBI special agents to work on crowd control issues. One example occurred several days ago and was recorded in a TikTok video that showed 10-15 FBI Special Agents, patrol the streets in Washington D.C. Those agents were confronted with a much larger group of protestors who asked the special agents to “take a knee.”
The FBI special agents did just that. All of them.
Without knowing what the Special Agents were thinking, their personal belief system, nor their political opinions, what option did they have but to take a knee, said a source familiar with the incident.
“It is unlikely that they would have incited violence had they not kneeled – but they did not know that for sure. And, were they willing to risk their lives, and the lives of those protestors who could have been injured or killed if violence escalated,” questioned a retired senior FBI agent who spoke to this reporter.
@sonnywithnochances THE FBI KNEELED WITH US IN DC!!!! #blacklivesmatter #blm #georgefloyd
original sound – sonnywithnochances
Inside the Tactical Operations Center, the tensions are also high, as Barr and FBI Director Christopher Wray have had numerous disagreements with the use of FBI agents out in the field, noted the source.
The source noted a number of reasons why the use of the FBI Special Agents is problematic:
Tactically, FBI Special Agents do not receive any training in riot control, crowd dynamics, or crowd-based non-lethal force tactics. Unlike the Metropolitan Police Department of Washington, DC, the FBI does not have a “Quick Response Force” capability if some of their patrolling Special Agents were to run into a dangerous scenario that required additional resources. This was evident earlier this week when a group of Special Agents were deployed to Lafayette Square and, as the protests increased in size and changed location, they were essentially stranded for over 6 hours. The FBI’s Deadly Force Policy, located here, purposely does not include any reference to a “use of force continuum”. The Deadly Force Policy is the governing guidance that all FBI Special Agents adhere to during operations. Without proper training in riot control tactics and the equipment with which to do so, the only default that these Special Agents have is contained in the words of the policy: “FBI special agents may use deadly force only when necessary – when the agent has a reasonable belief that the subject of such force poses an imminent danger of death or serious physical injury to the agent or another person.” When you have a small group of armed law enforcement officers, greatly outnumbered by protestors, it only takes a few violent acts (typically undertaken by agent provocateurs, Antifa, criminals, etc) before law enforcement will respond. When you have no other option at your disposal other than lethal ammunition in your assigned service weapon, the consequences will be deadly.
WTF! Do you only believe in conspiracy theories. Watch your back - Jimmy Hoffa is alive and looking for you. He an Elvis were seen at a McDonald's eating a banana sandwich!
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In both interviews Byrne fingered Peter Strzok as the person responsible for sending the men from the FBI who visited him, but in the second, he stated that higher-ups, entities he would only identify as “X, Y, and Z” – people whose names you would know, directed the program.
INTERVIEWS: 1 & 2 are on the following link.
Founder of Overstock.com resigns, goes public about his role in FBI surveillance of presidential campaigns