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How the FBI Crippled Democracy in 2016 and Beyond

How the FBI Crippled Democracy in 2016 and Beyond by James Bovard   In last month’s Future of Freedom article, I explained how the 2016 presidential election made “post-truth” become the Oxford English Dictionary’s word of the year. Americans felt forced to choose between two candidates that most voters despised. The political system’s credibility plummeted […]

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New York Post: Behind Biden classified-docs fiasco is the feds’ obscene abuse of ‘secrecy’

New York Post, January 11, 2023 Behind Biden classified-docs fiasco is the feds’ obscene abuse of ‘secrecy’ By James Bovard The discovery of Obama-era classified papers in multiple locations former Vice President Joe Biden used is the White House’s latest fiasco. “How could that possibly happen? How could anyone be that irresponsible?” Biden declared. Except […]

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The Deep State Defeat of Donald Trump

The Deep State Defeat of Donald Trump by James Bovard June 23, 2021 “The Trump–Deep State clash is a showdown between a presidency that is far too powerful versus federal agencies that have become fiefdoms with immunity for almost any and all abuses,” I wrote in an FFF article a year ago. Since then, Donald […]

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The Charge of Treason and the Danger to Democracy

American Institute for Economic Research, January 6, 2021 The Charge of Treason and the Danger to Democracy James Bovard Historian Henry Adams observed a century ago that politics “has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.” Nowadays, politics seems hellbent on multiplying hatred. And few things spur hatred more effectively than tarring all political opponents […]

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