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(91,699 posts) Tue Feb 11, 2025, 12:56 PM Feb 11

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Sen. Durbin: "I'm on Senate floor revealing highly credible information from multiple whistleblowers about Kash Patel" [View all]

Senator Dick Durbin @SenatorDurbin 58m
I’m on the Senate floor revealing highly credible information from multiple whistleblowers indicating that Kash Patel has been personally directing the ongoing purge of senior law enforcement officials at the FBI.

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Sen. Durbin: "I'm on Senate floor revealing highly credible information from multiple whistleblowers about Kash Patel" [View all] bigtree Feb 11 OP

The problem is: kentuck Feb 11 #1

we'll see bigtree Feb 11 #5

Yes, but our enforcement mechanisms went limp a decade ago any have shown little interest in virility since. Magoo48 Feb 11 #16

all of this is a result of political activity, good and bad bigtree Feb 11 #19

Yes, I too believe our ultimate success or failure lies in grassroots willingness to be committed. to be inconvenienced Magoo48 Feb 11 #22

Our parents & grandparents went through WW2 and sacrificed Nigrum Cattus Feb 11 #38

Yup, the list of good personal choices for individuals is long. Growing food, buying second hand, avoiding plastics. Magoo48 Feb 11 #42

Exactly - Victory gardens were & will be again common Nigrum Cattus Feb 12 #45

so what NJCher Feb 11 #25

No matter how how we decorate it, there's no making a silk purse out of a sow's ear. Magoo48 Feb 11 #34

What should we do? NJCher Feb 11 #39

If we all had the same response Geechie Feb 11 #37

please see my post above NJCher Feb 11 #40

Glad you see it that way. It's the tone policing I object to. Way too much of it lately. nt Geechie Feb 12 #43

call it feedback NJCher Feb 12 #44

They fell asleep at the second sentence. Justice matters. Feb 11 #15

that being said, it is pretty strident for Durbin LymphocyteLover Feb 11 #18

he's presided over myriad important advances bigtree Feb 11 #20

do we always have to NJCher Feb 11 #24

Good! I detest patel! SheltieLover Feb 11 #2

"We don't give a shit." - G.O.P. BoRaGard Feb 11 #3

make them pay the political price bigtree Feb 11 #6

I am not so sure they do oldmanlynn Feb 11 #14

Maybe if Trump came for their guns they'd start caring. Callie1979 Feb 11 #32

Well, that's honestly more than I Bettie Feb 11 #4

But Patel is a brilliant author Americanme Feb 11 #7

Gotta do what you gotta do... rubbersole Feb 11 #10

Pray tell. Kid Berwyn Feb 11 #8

Patel also helped Trump steal classified documents gab13by13 Feb 11 #9

"When you're a celebrity they let you do it...." rubbersole Feb 11 #12

+1 dalton99a Feb 11 #17

I think there are enough GOP Senators who know Patel is a bad choice, surfered Feb 11 #11

The GOP doesn't care if he lied under oath during his confirmation hearings neohippie Feb 11 #13

Post removed Post removed Feb 11 #21

here we are, on our own Democratic platform bigtree Feb 11 #28

Why the fuck do the Dems have to put on a fucking show for you to give a shit? steelyboo Feb 11 #36

Well, DUH!! This is a coup. aeromanKC Feb 11 #23

not just DUH bigtree Feb 11 #30

There's a video of Patel eagerly stating he wants to tear down the Hoover building dlk Feb 11 #26

No coverage on MSNBC that I have seen senseandsensibility Feb 11 #27

"There has NEVER been a Democrat as FBI Director. sop Feb 11 #29

Proud of my Senator Alice Kramden Feb 11 #31

Side note; how am I STILL hearing trump selling his shit on satellite radio?? Callie1979 Feb 11 #33

absolutely!!! NJCher Feb 11 #41

They don't care, I don't care anymore, I'm just here to watch it burn. OverBurn Feb 11 #35