Kantuck: Do you think ALL FBI agents are honest ? If so you think they always are looking out for the USA ? My questions to you are Do you know what agents did the investigations you mentioned ? My feeling is this I do NOT TRUST the FBI !!! Do you TRUST COMEY, McCabe or how about mister HONEST Agent Peter Strozk ? I do not feel these people did investigations with the USA 's best interest at heart. Kentuck I am not chastising you in the slightest just pointing out some times the FBI has other agendas to work for
Look, we're getting way off-topic here and yes, you are chastising me. I took offense at jeff of pa's suggestion that FBI agents are just looking to line their own pockets, when that's simply untrue and is extremely offensive to the tens of thousands of dedicated FBI agents who are working on behalf of the American people. Many FBI agents could easily get jobs in the private sector that pay more than the DOJ, so to suggest that they're working criminal investigations simply to line their pockets is a flat out falsehood.
Do I think that ALL FBI agents are honest? A: Of course not, but by far, the vast majority of FBI agents are working on behalf of the American people to get justice for victims of crime and to prevent future crimes. As NewAge suggested, there are a few bad apples in every bunch, whether it be greedy doctors committing insurance fraud or over-prescribing opiates, or whatever group you choose. That doesn't mean that ALL doctors are crooks. It's actually the opposite. The vast majority of doctors are working to provide the best treatment that they can for their patients. Same holds true for the FBI or teachers or whichever group you select. Just because a very small minority of teachers have sexual relations with students doesn't mean that ALL teachers have sexual relations with their students. Your suggestion is absurd. Please stop trying to oversimplify everything and pigeon hole entire segments of the population based upon the actions of a few bad actors. You don't trust the FBI? Fine. That's your prerogative. I do not know the agents who were involved in the investigations of the Flight 93 crash, nor the Oklahoma City bombing, nor most of the other cases that I mentioned. However, I know an FBI agent and our families would get together for dinner at least once/month prior to the pandemic. I've only seen that agent once since the pandemic began when he visited my house briefly. He's definitely straight as an arrow. I've also been to the Flight 93 National Memorial. I went there every year from 2013-2019 and have spoken with the friends and families of the victims of the Flight 93 attack, as well as the locals who were there providing moral support and food to the agents who worked that site 24 hours/day in the weeks after the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
The FBI employs around 35,000 people. How many FBI agents do you personally know and interact with on a regular basis? Jeff mentioned a guy that worked for the FBI, and who died in 1972 as his example of how corrupt the FBI is. Why didn't you ask Jeff if he knew J. Edgar Hoover? You mentioned 3 FBI employees, and all 3 were mentioned because they were involved in investigations that had obvious political implications. You asked if I trust them. I don't know the three that you mentioned, so I can't say whether I trust them or not. I highly doubt that you know any of them. Mr. Strozk obviously has credibility issues since he cheated on his wife, but he did say this in a text message (referring to the Russians): "
I think they're probably the worst" "(Censored) conniving cheating savages. At statecraft, athletics, you name it. I'm glad I'm on Team USA." I will say that I like his sentiments there... I'm proud to be a part of Team USA as well.
As for Dent's Run, I'll say this:
In post 50, FK actually alludes to 2 sets of 2 armored cars. That wouldn't be necessary if there were even 52 bars of gold weighing 50 lbs. each (2,600 lbs total). A few pickup trucks could carry that amount of weight... and even 10 agents carrying one bar at a time would only take a little over 5 trips in and out, so if the FBI was really looking to keep things under wraps and quiet, why would they want 70 agents mulling around? That's not even one bar per agent. Perhaps as GoDeep suggested, it was so that some agents could get field experience, observing an excavation. That definitely seems more likely, because it would seem to me that if you're trying to secretly make off with a load of gold, you'd want as few people "in the know" as possible... oh, wait... everybody's dishonest, so it wouldn't matter if 1,000 FBI agents were there... forgot that part. Sorry. I'm a little thick and it's sometimes hard to keep up.
Perhaps the dishonest FBI agents stole all of the gold and blew it in Dubois. The Buck's Pizza behind the Walmart at the top of the hill is amazing. If the agents were in Dubois, they'd have had to have spent a bunch of the gold on beer, pasta, pizzas, and chicken wings at Buck's. I'm serious. That place is irresistible. I plan my meal times when I in that area around Buck's. Any time that I'm even passing through Dubois and not staying overnight, I eat lunch or dinner there.
Kantuck
