Let's just get real here for a moment. The treasonous conservative/America Hating/Republicans aren't just trying to destroy the FBI because they are investigating and indicting their Chosen One Traitor Trump. Who just got a target letter from Jack Smith for J6. They are also panicked and desperate to try to destroy the FBI to protect themselves.


“Just say that the election was corrupt + leave the rest to me and the R. Congressmen,” Trump said on the call, according to Donoghue’s notes.

Multiple treasonous conservative/America Hating/Republicans were active participants in Trump's attempted coup and armed violent deadly insurrection to try and overthrow the results of a free and fair election. And they fear the DOJ/FBI will also come after then.

And Jack Smith might not indict them for that but they fear being exposed for their treason against the United States of America just about as much. And whenever you see someone trying to defend them and Trump just know you are looking at a traitor.

 

Wow, dude! You nailed it! You refuted everything!

 

You see?
Take a propaganda agenda talking point, treat it as gospel come down from the mount chiseled into stone, and build the lies from that point. These despicables have no limit to how low they will go to spread lies.

And while we're at it, fuck the debt, eh? What's another Trillion or so tossed on top of the $32.555 TRILLION DEBT that neither Congress or the Biden crime cabal cares about?​

Senate Republicans Oppose White House Effort To Fund FBI HQ In Coronavirus Bill : NPR
Senate GOP Balks At White House Push For New FBI Headquarters In COVID-19 Relief Bill
July 28, 2020 4:57 PM ET

A number of Senate Republicans say they oppose a White House request to include money to renovate the FBI headquarters in the upcoming coronavirus relief package.

J. David Ake/AP
Senate Republicans are rejecting a White House-backed plan to tuck money for the design and construction of a new FBI headquarters into the latest coronavirus relief bill despite including the funding in a GOP proposal released on Monday.

Republicans rapidly criticized the provision less than a day after the legislation was unveiled. Democrats have accused President Trump of including the money to prevent the existing FBI building, which is across from the Trump Hotel in Washington, D.C., from being sold and redeveloped into a hotel that might compete with the Trump property.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., told reporters he does not support the funding on the grounds that it isn't related to immediate coronavirus needs.

"I am opposed to non-germane amendments," McConnell told reporters Tuesday. "When we get to the end of the process, I would hope all the non-COVID-related measures are out, no matter what bills they were in at the start."

Many Senate Republicans objected to the money despite a push from White House officials.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., included the request on the list of items they opposed immediately after reviewing the bill Monday.

"They didn't have money for food stamps, but they had money for an FBI building just so that they can diminish competition for the president's hotel," Pelosi told reporters. "I don't even think Mitch McConnell knew that was in the bill."

When asked about the issue at a Monday press conference with other Senate Republicans rolling out their bill, McConnell seemed unclear about whether or not the money was included in the legislation and then suggested reporters ask the Trump administration about it.

There has a been a long-standing fight over plans to relocate the FBI from its aging headquarters on Pennsylvania Avenue, blocks from the White House, to an updated facility. Lawmakers from Virginia and Maryland had been fighting over the future location for years before Trump abandoned plans for the move in 2018.

At the time, Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Va., requested an investigation into the canceled plans, arguing that "the Trump Organization has a long-standing and documented interest in the Hoover property."

White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin were on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, meeting with top Democratic leaders and GOP senators to discuss the legislation again and the next steps.

Meadows said the FBI building was a "pressing need" but suggested it could go in this bill or a future spending one to fund the government in the fall.

Asked how much the administration would insist it remain in the relief bill, Meadows said, "I don't see it standing in the way of a deal."

FBI Headquarters Consolidation Project: What Happened and What’s Next — FBI
FBI Headquarters Consolidation Project: What Happened and What’s Next
Statement for the Record
Statement Before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee
Washington, D.C.
August 2, 2017
Good morning Chairman Barrasso, Ranking Member Carper, and members of the committee. Thank you for the opportunity to appear before you today to discuss the need for a new Federal Bureau of Investigation Headquarters building in the Washington, D.C. area. I am pleased to appear before the committee with my colleague from the General Services Administration.

As the committee is aware, the FBI has occupied the J. Edgar Hoover (JEH) building since 1974. Since that time, the mission of the FBI has evolved, but the building itself has not kept pace. Aside from the core Headquarters staff located at JEH, the FBI also has staff in dispersed leased locations across the National Capital Region. Additionally, the building itself is literally falling apart as evidenced by crumbling facades and deteriorating infrastructure. This makes it difficult to address rapidly developing threats and collaborate across divisions and programs. Our nation continues to face a multitude of serious and evolving threats ranging from homegrown violent extremists to hostile foreign intelligence services and operatives; from sophisticated cyber-based attacks to Internet-facilitated sexual exploitation of children; from violent gangs and criminal organizations to public corruption and corporate fraud. As an organization, we must be able to stay current with constantly changing and new technologies that make our jobs both easier and harder. Our adversaries—terrorists, foreign intelligence services, and criminals—take advantage of modern technology, including the Internet and social media, to facilitate illegal activities, recruit followers, encourage terrorist attacks and other illicit actions, and to disperse information on building improvised explosive devices and other means to attack the U.S. Keeping pace with these threats is a significant challenge for the FBI. The breadth of these threats and challenges are as complex now as at any time in our history, and the consequences of not responding to and countering threats and challenges have never been greater. Fighting the current threat, and preparing for the future wave of threats, requires cutting-edge technology and the foundation for intelligence to flow in and out of the FBI seamlessly. Simply put, the J. Edgar Hoover building is obsolete, inefficient, and faces a number of security vulnerabilities.

Aside from the operational shortfalls in the current facility, we also face infrastructure limitations. Because of the manner in which the building was constructed, retrofit efforts are costly, time-consuming, and extremely disruptive. In addition, key components of the building’s infrastructure have reached the end of their useful life. Providing for those building infrastructure needs to ensure the safety of employees, as well as the integrity of their work—even in the short term—will have a cost. Security also remains a key challenge. The J. Edgar Hoover building does not meet Interagency Security Committee standards for an Intelligence Community-grade building. The building also lacks the resiliency necessary should a minor or catastrophic event occur.

That said, the FBI has worked closely with our colleagues at GSA over the past decade to design a solution that meets the needs of the Bureau while recognizing the considerable challenges of funding such a large and complex project. GSA’s Federal Building Fund is specifically authorized to provide for such unique—and clearly—governmental use-type building projects. However, the appropriations in recent years have not provided GSA full access to the rent resources collected to support capital projects such as ours.

We were very encouraged that the procurement process resulted in considerable interest—and investment—by the private sector to help secure a new Headquarters facility. This private sector interest, however, has a shelf life, and without the full funding that was requested through appropriations, FBI and GSA determined that continuing to move forward with this procurement without full funding at this time would have put the government at risk for project cost escalations and likely result in a devaluation of the Hoover property. For these reasons, FBI and GSA jointly made the decision to cancel the procurement.

At this time, GSA and the FBI are working together to meet the FBI’s short- and long-term housing needs and mission requirements. We will seek to determine what investments should be made to the Hoover Building and whether other government owned facilities and locations could be leveraged to provide for FBI support operations. We will also jointly evaluate the FBI’s current portfolio of leased space and think creatively and expansively.

The FBI understands the increasing costs of federal office space, as it leases more than 350 locations nationwide for its field and satellite offices (through GSA). However, the FBI has made concerted efforts to reduce space requirements by consolidating case files and evidence storage in centralized locations in lower cost areas and minimizing personal workspace and common areas. Also, the FBI is in the process of moving and consolidating its data centers from costly leased locations in downtown areas to owned facilities in locations that have significantly lower costs of power and infrastructure. Moving forward, we anticipate that a new Headquarters would dramatically reduce the total square footage and consolidate or eliminate the need for multiple lease locations in the National Capital Region and save tens of millions in annual lease payments.

In summary, the J. Edgar Hoover building is incompatible with what the United States expects of the FBI. To protect this nation from the rapidly developing, evolving threats we face today, the FBI needs an environment in which its highly trained, skilled workforce can collaborate across divisions and programs to fashion solutions that mitigate today’s threats. Our goal is to have built a consolidated, secure, resilient Intelligence Community-worthy facility. However, even more than that, what we need is a facility capable of meeting the increased demands of the nation’s premier intelligence and law enforcement organization for the future of the FBI. This building will address the way we will work for the next 50 or more years. In doing so, we are building the security and safety of this nation by creating an environment where the men and women of the FBI can use their significant skills and abilities to live up to the sacred trust placed in us by the American people: to protect them from harm and uphold the Constitution of the United States.

While discontinuing the procurement is disappointing, the need for a facility that meets the mission requirements of the FBI has not abated. Chairman Barrasso, Ranking Member Carper, and committee members, I thank you for this opportunity to testify on the new FBI Headquarters project. We appreciate your interest and support. I am happy to answer any questions you might have.

FBI — Proposal for a New Consolidated FBI Headquarters Building

‘It’s a mess’: Republican senators deride key proposals in GOP virus package - POLITICO

‘It’s a mess’: Republican senators deride key proposals in GOP virus package

Democrats also lambasted the GOP’s plan.

Sen. Lindsey Graham said he would support stripping the FBI funding out of the final bill. | Drew Angerer/Getty Images

By ANDREW DESIDERIO, MARIANNE LEVINE and HEATHER CAYGLE

07/28/2020 02:00 PM EDT

Updated: 07/28/2020 06:20 PM EDT

Senate Republicans complained on Tuesday about key provisions in the GOP-authored coronavirus relief bill one day after its unveiling, as Democrats panned the proposal as a non-starter.

The jockeying on Capitol Hill underscores how far apart both parties remain — and the treacherous path Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell faces as he confronts internal GOP divisions and kicks off negotiations with Democrats.

“It seems to me that Sen. McConnell really doesn’t want to get an agreement,” Speaker Nancy Pelosi said after an hour-long meeting in her office with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and White House chief of staff Meadows Tuesday afternoon.

The group will meet again tomorrow but Pelosi didn’t sound optimistic about reaching a deal anytime soon.

“What we’re doing now is really airing our differences — this discovery and understanding where there might be opportunity or not,” Pelosi added.

Meadows, as he and Mnuchin left McConnell’s office Tuesday evening, said he believes the negotiations are in the “second inning.” Mnuchin added that both parties were still “in the beginning” of the talks, saying he and Meadows were then headed to the White House to brief the president.

Meadows said Democrats are holding firm on the $600 in increased weekly federal unemployment benefits and $915 billion in additional state and local aid.

On the other side of the Capitol, GOP senators rattled off several concerns with the $1 trillion package in public remarks and during a private lunch with senior Trump administration officials on Tuesday. Their gripes with the bill ran the gamut, from frustrations at the price tag to the process by which the bill was written and released. There were even objections over an unrelated provision the White House sought that allocates nearly $2 billion in funding for the construction of a new FBI headquarters in downtown Washington, D.C.

“I have members who are all over the lot on this,” McConnell acknowledged. “This is a complicated problem. We’ve done the best we can to develop a consensus among the broadest number of Republican senators — and that’s just the starting point, that’s just where we begin in dealing with the other side and with the administration.”

Senate Majority Whip John Thune (R-S.D.) encouraged members at the lunch to communicate with one another internally before speaking publicly, according to an attendee.

In addition to the group of fiscal conservatives that opposes another round of relief cash, new factions are emerging over other aspects of the GOP’s opening offer, including increased flexibility for state and local governments.

 

Ok. Any more current information available on this?

 

As usual the point zooms right past the genius.

 

State AGs warn Biden AI order could centralize control over tech, be used for ‘political ends’
The officials expressed their concerns to Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo.

Adam Shaw Fox News Read entire story here.

A coalition of state attorneys general is warning that an executive order signed by President Biden last year on artificial intelligence could be used by the federal government to "centralize" government control over the emerging technology and that that control could be used for political purposes -- including censoring alleged "disinformation."

"The Executive Order seeks—without Congressional authorization—to centralize governmental control over an emerging technology being developed by the private sector. In doing so, the Executive Order opens the door to using the federal government’s control over AI for political ends, such as censoring responses in the name of combatting ‘disinformation,’" the coalition of 20 attorneys general, led by Utah AG Sean Reyes, said in a letter to Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo.

Biden signed the order in October, which established new standards for AI safety and included moves to protect privacy and protect workers and consumers. Specifically, it requires developers to share safety test results and other information with the government.

"In accordance with the Defense Production Act, the Order will require that companies developing any foundation model that poses a serious risk to national security, national economic security, or national public health and safety must notify the federal government when training the model, and must share the results of all red-team safety tests," the White House said at the time. "These measures will ensure AI systems are safe, secure, and trustworthy before companies make them public."