What I don't understand is if the US military thinks the guy is dead, why are you asking for $25 million dollars to fund the operation from the father of some fucking congressman?
Just get a bunch of your defense industry peeps to pay for a private contractor to do the raid. Hell, POTUS wants the raid to happen, right? What's the hold up?
What the hell do you need Don Gaetz for?
This is why I get the feeling that this might have been an FBI set-up. Why the hell would you text someone an extortion letter unless you expected it to be discovered.
I get the feeling that the former DOJ employee turned private attorney for Levinson family, and former USAF intelligence worker might have been operating as FBI informants. They were probably hoping to ensnare Don into some sort of bribery scheme, and use that to pressure Matt on something.
Instead, Matt contacted the FBI like a good boy, and now they had to open an investigation against their own informant. Then """"someone"""" leaked information about the extortion scandal to the NYT. All of the sudden, the FBI investigation into the extortion falls apart. Matt demands that the FBI release the recording of the wire they had his father wear. MSNBC starts saying that the story the extortioner claimed was being investigated was real, and was tied to an FBI investigation of someone else.
Meanwhile, this allegedly trafficked 17 year old still hasn't been proven to exist.
IDK, it's not the first time the FBI literally recruited people into committing crimes in order to convict them for it.
The thing that gets me is the attorney and the text message. If Gaetz was lying about this shit, he'd be facing a serious defamation charge right now. He went on national television and claimed an attorney at law was extorting him. If Matt's accusation was illegitimate, the first thing that the attorney should do is file a defamation lawsuit and ask to have an injunction ordered against Gaetz.
But nothing happened... Instead, the attorney accused Gaetz of being investigated for sex trafficking, which apparently the Feds deny is happening.
There's serious legal recourse for the attorney if this were the case, but he's taken almost no action.
Meanwhile, the feds just didn't say shit beyond saying that there was no open investigation into Matt Gaetz. They didn't admit to an investigation into the attorney. Which, is strange if Matt is saying that there was. He blew the investigation out into the open if it was true.
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Unless there really was no investigation into the attorney because he was an informant, and there's no such thing as launching an investigation into an informant because they did what you told them.
If they have to make a public statement: yes, there's no investigation into Matt... because the target was Don Gaetz.
A few years ago, the FBI found some islamist edgelords on a forum. They created a fake terrorist organization, radicalized them to accept terrorism as a legitimate act, gave them inert weapons to blow up a bridge or something, then arrested them.
The FBI effectively created their own terrorists and arrested them before they could carry out a terrorist attack. You know, to fight terrorism. The charges stuck, btw.
I admit this is fully speculative. But this whole thing stinks to high heaven. And the fact that Fox News had somebody on, praising how non-partisan the FBI was under Bill Barr when talking about this event seems pretty fucking suspicious.
Novak casts doubt on Gaetz’s claims that he is being extorted. “The real documents do not extort,” he writes, “And we only asked for $25 million as an estimate at first. We came way down.”
We didn't try to extort him, also the amount we were trying to extort him for ended up being much less than 25M.
Sometimes I wonder how often our enemies pretend to be stupid to trick people into going along with them.
It's times like this I realize that their just fucking retarded because no one's ever tried to hold them to account for anything. They don't even lie properly.
What I don't understand is if the US military thinks the guy is dead, why are you asking for $25 million dollars to fund the operation from the father of some fucking congressman?
Just get a bunch of your defense industry peeps to pay for a private contractor to do the raid. Hell, POTUS wants the raid to happen, right? What's the hold up?
What the hell do you need Don Gaetz for?
This is why I get the feeling that this might have been an FBI set-up. Why the hell would you text someone an extortion letter unless you expected it to be discovered.
I get the feeling that the former DOJ employee turned private attorney for Levinson family, and former USAF intelligence worker might have been operating as FBI informants. They were probably hoping to ensnare Don into some sort of bribery scheme, and use that to pressure Matt on something.
Instead, Matt contacted the FBI like a good boy, and now they had to open an investigation against their own informant. Then """"someone"""" leaked information about the extortion scandal to the NYT. All of the sudden, the FBI investigation into the extortion falls apart. Matt demands that the FBI release the recording of the wire they had his father wear. MSNBC starts saying that the story the extortioner claimed was being investigated was real, and was tied to an FBI investigation of someone else.
Meanwhile, this allegedly trafficked 17 year old still hasn't been proven to exist.
IDK, it's not the first time the FBI literally recruited people into committing crimes in order to convict them for it.
Considering the long years of "muh Russian collusion", this isn't unbelievable
The thing that gets me is the attorney and the text message. If Gaetz was lying about this shit, he'd be facing a serious defamation charge right now. He went on national television and claimed an attorney at law was extorting him. If Matt's accusation was illegitimate, the first thing that the attorney should do is file a defamation lawsuit and ask to have an injunction ordered against Gaetz.
But nothing happened... Instead, the attorney accused Gaetz of being investigated for sex trafficking, which apparently the Feds deny is happening.
There's serious legal recourse for the attorney if this were the case, but he's taken almost no action.
Meanwhile, the feds just didn't say shit beyond saying that there was no open investigation into Matt Gaetz. They didn't admit to an investigation into the attorney. Which, is strange if Matt is saying that there was. He blew the investigation out into the open if it was true.
...
Unless there really was no investigation into the attorney because he was an informant, and there's no such thing as launching an investigation into an informant because they did what you told them.
If they have to make a public statement: yes, there's no investigation into Matt... because the target was Don Gaetz.
wow, this is a new level of glow.
Not exactly, and that's kinda my point.
A few years ago, the FBI found some islamist edgelords on a forum. They created a fake terrorist organization, radicalized them to accept terrorism as a legitimate act, gave them inert weapons to blow up a bridge or something, then arrested them.
The FBI effectively created their own terrorists and arrested them before they could carry out a terrorist attack. You know, to fight terrorism. The charges stuck, btw.
I admit this is fully speculative. But this whole thing stinks to high heaven. And the fact that Fox News had somebody on, praising how non-partisan the FBI was under Bill Barr when talking about this event seems pretty fucking suspicious.
We didn't try to extort him, also the amount we were trying to extort him for ended up being much less than 25M.
... What?
WWHHHHHAAAAA??????
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Sometimes I wonder how often our enemies pretend to be stupid to trick people into going along with them.
It's times like this I realize that their just fucking retarded because no one's ever tried to hold them to account for anything. They don't even lie properly.