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"Unless evidence of violations is presented, such comments undermine the men & women of the . The FBI invites to partner in determining the source of any leaked information & working together professionally to ensure the safety & security of ongoing enforcement operations," it said.

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"The FBl is so corrupt. We will work with any & every agency to stop leaks & prosecute these crooked deep state agents to the fullest extent of the law," said.

"Making unfounded allegations calling agents corrupt is deeply irresponsible & has not been supported by any evidence to date," the FBI said in a statement on Friday.

dismisses ’s secy’s claims that called corrupt

The FBI said on Friday that allegations made against its agents labeling them as corrupt are "unfounded" & "deeply irresponsible."

The comments by the FBl appear to be in response to a social media post made by newly confirmed Secy about a report by the LA Times that cited a leaked document on an enforcement action in LA.


reuters.com/world/us/fbi-dismi

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The GAO is precisely the sort of agency that could be targeted by the admin to weed out “left wing” career employees. A similar accounting of domestic will not happen under the current regime—or it will be distorted beyond all recognition to play up the imagined threat from the reactionary bogeymen of BLM & antifa.

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, who had as a child, was the only to vote against ’s confirmation.

The 82-year-old senator has written about & publicly discussed the paralyzing disease, the effect on his life — including his childhood days confined to bed or undergoing a strict physical therapy regimen to rehabilitate his left leg — & his ardent support of lifesaving .

Despicable

insults over vote, casts doubts on diagnosis

Asked about McConnell’s bout with polio influencing his decision to vote no, Trump appeared to question his diagnosis.

“I have no idea if he had polio,” Trump said. “All I can tell you about him is that he shouldn’t have been leader.”


washingtonpost.com/politics/20

The Washington Post · Trump insults McConnell over RFK Jr. vote, casts doubts on polio diagnosisBy Brianna Tucker
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, 44, has made attacking the a personal brand — in a book called “Government Gangsters,” in a series of television & podcast interviews, & in his longtime role as a *trusted* adviser to .

Patel has vowed to clear out FBI headquarters & turn it into a museum, fire the agency’s leadership, & punish what he calls the “deep state” against Trump.

The Square One Fallacy. Why you need to know about it and how conspiracy theorists use it.

“The square one fallacy is arguing that we have no data to illuminate a particular question, that we’re starting from scratch, when there is an actual body of evidence that we are ignoring, either deliberately or cluelessly.”
#Misinformation #ConspiracyTheories #Science
mcgill.ca/oss/article/critical

Office for Science and SocietyThe Square One FallacyI recently had the chance to speak to an anti-vaxxer in person. Of course, he did not identify as such: they never do. He didn’t want to be pinned down and was just asking questions about vaccine safety. He told me that he wasn’t opposed to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. being confirmed as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services in the United States. After all, Kennedy wanted to see studies done on vaccine safety. Was I against that? Shouldn’t we know if all these vaccines are safe? I recognized on the spot that this was a very bad argument—either born of ignorance or slyness—and came up with a name for it: the square one fallacy. I was starting to hear this type of fallacious argument a lot. When I criticized one of the biggest podcasts in recent memory, The Telepathy Tapes, I was contacted by a number of well-meaning parents of nonverbal autistic children who asked me a very simple question. Shouldn’t we study this? Why are scientists afraid of doing research into this? Why has this been ignored for so long? RFK Jr. himself has invoked this argument when he has testified to his desire to move money away from research into infectious diseases and into chronic diseases, as if scientists had never thought to look into diabetes and heart disease. The square one fallacy is arguing that we have no data to illuminate a particular question, that we’re starting from scratch, when there is an actual body of evidence that we are ignoring, either deliberately or cluelessly. It’s contending that we need to study something that has already been studied, sometimes to death. It is related to (and might be a subset of) what we call “just asking questions” or “JAQing off,” when someone pretends to want to know more but ignores the answers to keep on badgering an expert with the same question, over and over. A person “just asking questions” doesn’t want to be pinned down to a specific position; they’re simply playing Devil’s advocate ad nauseum without contending with the answers provided. I did an online search and the only previous use of the phrase “square one fallacy” I could find is from a 2004 working paper by Gregory P. Magarian on the suppression of wartime political debate. We’re about to see an awful lot of this square one fallacy, as disingenuous actors and their ignorant followers argue that we have never studied things that have a large scientific literature behind them. When used deceptively, it’s often because they don’t like what the scientific evidence has to say on this topic. It’s a way to sound reasonable and unbiased when what they really want are studies that agree with them. We have many studies on vaccine safety. We also have a long history of research into psi phenomena, including telepathy, and we know enough to be skeptical of poorly done “studies” where trickery is allowed to influence the outcome. We’re not starting from square one. @CrackedScience

, ’s director nom, was paid $25k last year by a film co owned by a Russian national who also holds US citizenship & has produced programs promoting “deep state” & anti-Western views advanced by the ….

Docs…show that Patel received money from a LA-based co run by Igor Lopatonok, a filmmaker whose previous projects include a pro- campaign that received money from a fund created by .


washingtonpost.com/national-se

The Washington Post · Kash Patel was paid by Russian filmmaker with Kremlin ties, documents showBy Greg Miller

University of Bath: Memes spread conspiracy theories by uniting online groups, shows new research. “Shared photos and videos that reinforce a ‘conspiracist worldview’ have a role in building a sense of tribalism and collective opinion within online conspiracy theorist communities, according to researchers from the University of Bath’s School of Management. The study breaks new ground […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/02/06/university-of-bath-memes-spread-conspiracy-theories-by-uniting-online-groups-shows-new-research/