They've investigated themselves, and found themselves to be guilty. So they shut that whole thing down.

Waste of government resources uncovering real crimes like this when they should be inspecting the genitalia of their subjects in search of "nihilistic violent extremists".

It's not that I'm not surprised. It's more that this is actually expected.

Organized crime in the executive branch, FBI, CIA, etc.

This type of corruption is something that would either be exposed by the Epstein files, or could lead to exposure. The corruption runs deep and long.

Whitney Webb wrote a 2 volume book about it

She's also done a bunch of podcasts and interviews talking about it. Here's one good one.

He took the 50K, so I guess he just gets to keep it? Our DOJ is literally funding corruption.

Since laws no longer matter, why the hell are the rest of us self imposing them upon ourselves?

Inb4 “It’s the Violent Left!!1”

/s

He looks like the kind of guy that gets really angry when his kids refuse to bring the grand kids over for the holidays.

crime is legal

This is the least of the problems.

It's interesting seeing HackerNews get flooded defending actions of these awful people hurting minorities. But when they're themselves caught doing awful things again and again, things get exceptionally silent.

It's almost like a part of US propaganda mill.

This is such a weird wording. He was obviously under investigation before he accepted $50,000 from undercover FBI agents. You don't accidentally accept $50,000 from FBI agents unless you are under investigation.