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The FBI Unwittingly Investigates Itself!

Posted by M. C. on August 11, 2023

Today’s FBI has agents who are professional computer hackers. Today’s FBI has morphed from crime fighting to crime anticipating. Today’s FBI is effectively a domestic spying operation nowhere authorized in the Constitution. It should be defunded and disbanded.

antiwar.com

by Andrew P. Napolitano

In April of this year, the FBI began an investigation to determine who was using illegal software to spy from within the United States on persons in Mexico.

The software was illegal because its Israeli manufacturer, a company called NSO, had previously crafted other software for the FBI, which President Joseph Biden had put on a Department of Commerce blacklist. Stated differently, because NSO manufactured software that enabled the government to violate the Fourth Amendment, all NSO-manufactured products are prohibited from use in the U.S.

Yet, somehow NSO had bypassed the federal embargo on its products and someone was using at least one of those products unlawfully.

The FBI investigation determined that the user of the illegal software was: THE FBI ITSELF.

Here is the backstory.

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