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Says they are going to dismantle the FBI can they do that?
It was established by Congress right? So wouldn't Congress have to pass a bill to end it and then the Senate would have to too, right?
How does the Justice department investigate crime without the FBI?
GPV
(73,021 posts)The Unmitigated Gall
(4,499 posts)Why ferret out crime when you're a master psychopath? Better to hunt down dissidents with our shiny-new skull and bones brigade!
Intractable
(416 posts)and so many other militias who will be happy to bust some heads in the name of Trump.
I'm worried that there will be roving gangs of open-carry nuts terrorizing small towns.
onecaliberal
(35,696 posts)BlueTsunami2018
(3,952 posts)Secret Service, FBI, CIA, Homeland Security, you name it. All loyalists only, their own personal death squads.
Oh yeah, its going to be like that.
bluestarone
(18,129 posts)NEVER thought i would witness our destruction in wide view. It's like putin is able to do whatever he wants here.
Jersey Devil
(10,329 posts)He is God
Tanuki
(15,296 posts)"It was a (red) star-studded affair, the December 2015 dinner celebrating the 10th birthday of Russian TV network RT. At a luxe Moscow hotel, President Vladimir Putin and a host of Russian luminaries toasted a state-backed news channel that U.S. intelligence calls a Kremlin mouthpiece.
And next to Putin at the head table, in the seat of honor, was an American. Retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, who would later become Donald Trump's national security adviser, was already advising Trump's presidential campaign when he was paid $45,000 to speak at the gala.
"It is not coincidence that Flynn was placed next to President Putin," said Michael McFaul, U.S. ambassador in Moscow from 2012 to 2014 and now an NBC News analyst. "Flynn was considered a close Trump adviser. Why else would they want him there?"...(more)
Polybius
(17,696 posts)Yikes.