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By some miracle, Republicans managed to time the news cycle correctly last week. The Durham report was released, excoriating the FBI’s handling of pretty much everything since Former FBI Director Robert Muller. And, the House Judiciary Committee held additional whistleblower hearings. Things could hardly look worse for the FBI — and, the once venerable institution deserves the scorn and opprobrium being heaped on it by the bucket full.
What exists now, barely more than a year out from my retirement, is unrecognizable.
It’s deeply saddening, watching an institution designed to ferret out and prosecute the enemies of the constitution being infiltrated, compromised, and consumed by the very ideologies it was created to combat. This isn’t something to be celebrated or trivialized by silly slogans like, “the FBI should be Control-Alt-Deleted.” Unfortunately, conservative media is all too happy to propagate such fatuousness. Soundbites rule over substance.
The media industrial complex is popularizing the same spirit of demagoguery that got us into this mess in the first place. It’s so easy to fall into this trap, especially when the enemy is within the gates. The loudest voices aren’t necessarily right.
Our country is in peril, perhaps like never before. The FBI ethos has been eroded, like a once proud marble edifice pitted, cracked, and broken by the onslaught of weather and time. And, just like the processes that reduced ancient structures to rubble, a process has been at work to deconstruct our civil society and our institutions.
The problem isn’t complex, its systemic, and the cause isn’t served by celebrating the loathsome. Perhaps I’m just too old school for this particular debate, but doxxing fellow FBI street agents in the name of “whistleblowing” is inexcusable. For me, it’s nothing less than fratricide — the guilty should face a rhetorical firing squad.
Any good street cop knows, you never endanger your brothers and sisters in blue, regardless your own personal sense of bitterness or betrayal. But, in the frenetic world of social media and corporatist news, blood is in the water. And, blood sells. There’s a Biblical principle that’s apropos, whoever rolls a stone, it will be returned on him. In the vernacular, it’s “what goes around, comes around.”
All of this — the corruption of the FBI’s integrity, the doxing of street agents, the infantile calls for defunding — is symptomatic of the national corruption of character and discourse which underlies what we’re witnessing in our institutions.
It’s the very same spirit we all deplore in our morally bankrupt leadership. It’s the same insidious self-centeredness that’s at the heart of “wokeness.” The spirit that says “I’ll define myself” in vain defiance of nature.
It’s an ancient evil; the eons old rebellion of Lucifer, who nurtured the thought, “I shall be like the Most High.” None of us are above His law, and until we understand that, our republic and its institutions are doomed to an inexorable decay.
FBI leadership has been overcome by liberal hubris. Thinking their notions of politics or justice outweigh centuries of carefully constructed process. They imagine themselves to be above the law, that the constitution is living and malleable, subject to their tinkering.
There aren’t easy solutions anymore. We’re far beyond that point. The task is Homeric, and we’ve no hope for success unless we’re all pulling on the oars. It’s not enough to tweet about defunding the FBI — a simple minded platitude that has no real meaning. We all have to champion the constitution at home, in our communities, and in the national arena.
A disease is at work in the body politic, and the weaponization of the FBI is merely one of its symptoms. Coursing, at fever pitch, through the seventh floor of FBI HQ is the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Initiative. It sounds innocuous enough, however DEI is merely the newest evolution of the old racial quotas practice. It devalues those deemed to be minorities, creates schisms based on immutable characteristics or sexual preference, and replaces equal treatment under the law with a pernicious and amorphous “equity.”
On the FBI’s official website, FBI Director Christopher Wray states, “The diversity and inclusion of our workforce is something I care deeply about…because the success of our efforts impacts our operations, our culture, and our future.”
DEI will ensure a future workforce committed to the principles of political correctness and politicization. Having been inured to the philosophy of equity, taking action to influence the political power structure will seem natural and even preferable. Of course, the arbiters of equity are and will be powerful Democrats who manipulate the docile through notions of fairness — a system that favors those who support and promote Democrat hegemony.
The White House has foisted this bigoted doctrine on every federal agency and illustrates the deeply systemic nature of the problem we face.
The weaponization of the FBI is only the tip of the iceberg. The agency I devoted twenty years of service to is only a shadow of its former self — compromised by the left it once sought to thwart. It’s an oversimplification to say the FBI has become an enforcement arm of the Democrat party. Though true, that statement misses the real threat, and the answer isn’t purely about changing national politics.
The FBI is one cog in a much bigger left-wing machine. All of this corruption springs from a deep state radically enhanced by the Obama administration. Now that the White House is occupied by a puppet of the leftist deep state, every other lever of national power has been co-opted.
The culture of the FBI was radically changed by former Director Robert Muller. The culture can be changed again by a director with a mandate. Everything else is a distraction. We need the head of the snake — the White House. And, at this point, the only candidate with a proven track record of exercising a mandate is former President Donald Trump.
With all due respect, it goes beyond the leadership of the FBI. And it goes further back in time than Mueller to Louis Freeh if not really to J Edgar Hoover. That only two whistleblowers came forward and essentially painted targets on their backs is telling. Where is the ENTIRE rank and file? If they resign themselves to “go along to get along” then they are all as culpable as Wray, Garland and the rest of the leadership.
No, the FBI hasn’t been corrupted. It is painfully clear that corruption IS the system itself, not just at the FBI but the entire bureaucracy in DC and at least 50% of the statehouses and legislatures. The “cogs” are the people who blindly, and worse, with eyes wide open, follow orders.
This op-ed is tone deaf to a point of dishonesty. Surely the author isn’t unaware of the FBI’s LONG, LONG history of conducting illegal operations on behalf of the political ruling class, and itself. He knows about the Hoover abuses. He knows about Whitehurst and the crime lab. He knows about the Clintons getting their hands on personnel records. He knows about Mueller and Whitey Bulger. The murder of Vicki Weaver. The targeted harassment of MLK Jr. Richard Jewell. He knows about Jay Abbott and the coverup of Larry Nassar’s rapes. He knows about the systematic altering of 302’s that’s been going on for years. He knows about the numerous terror and mass casualty attacks the bureau knew about and failed to stop (Hasan, the Tsarnaevs, the Pulse shooter, etc.) He obviously knows about Crossfire Hurricane and the Bureau running cover for Clinton & BIden to a point of criminal activity. Suppression of civil rights under the guise of “combating disinformation” — which is to say information that puts Democrats in an unfavorable light. And the endless, endless LYING.
The FBI has well-earned itself a complete abolition. They are the American Stasi. The Gestapo of the 21st Century.
Agree. What sense does it make to go for the “head of the snake” when your true intention is to replace the head with a new one? It’s still a snake. Also, who cares when and by whom the corruption became systemic? The results are being felt here and now. The author’s sympathy is understandable but as the saying goes; ‘power corrupts and absolute power corrupts, absolutely’. At this point in our history, does anyone believe Congress would be able to “oversee” a restructured FBI? Lipstick on a pig comes to mind.
“The FBI is one cog in a much bigger left-wing machine. All of this corruption springs from a deep state radically enhanced by the Obama administration. Now that the White House is occupied by a puppet of the leftist deep state, every other lever of national power has been co-opted.”
In the last few weeks I have been seeing a lot of articles about Obama being the source of the problems we currently have.
Sexualization of children under Kevin Jennings, his Education Czar
Racial division that began with Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates when Obama said the police acted stupidly, It continued with Trayvon and Ferguson.
Obama’s “hate America” apology tour and bowing to the Saudi King.
Weaponization of the CIA, DOJ, FBI and the IRS
The Russia Collusion delusion that Hilary concocted with the Obama Administration officials
If anyone needs to be arrested and tried for treason it’s him
“… infantile calls for defunding”?
Below is a list of FBI malfeasance going back a couple of decades and continuing into the present. What have they done to offset the damage? Can anyone name any crimes the FBI has solved recently? Without naming crimes the FBI created?
One of the FBI whistleblowers has said the FBI needs to be disbanded, adding, the US existed before there was an FBI, and will continue to exist without it.
1. Wen Ho Lee (Accused spy, falsely said by FBI to have failed polygraph)
2. Richard Jewell (falsely accused of bombing Atlanta Olympics)
3. Tsaernev Brothers (Boston Marathon Bombers – Russia warned FBI that Tamerlan Tsarnaev was a follower of Islamic extremism)
4. Anthrax Case (FBI falsely accused Steven Hatfill of having sent anthrax through the mail)
5. Stoneman Douglas high school shooter (FBI failed to act on a tip that he had made threats to shoot up a school)
6. Orlando night club shooter (FBI investigated man who eventually shot 50 people to death, but could find no reason to keep him under suspicion)
7. Ruby Ridge (FBI sniper killed mother holding child, then FBI attempted cover-up)
8. Withholding evidence leading to wrongful conviction of four men, three of whom were sentenced to death (To protect mob informant Whitey Bulger. Two of the men died in prison before the FBI’s misconduct was remedied by a court).
And don’t forget, in connection with #8, FBI Agent John Connolly who basically worked for Whitey Bulger and facilitated Bulger’s (and his minions’) decades long murder spree.
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9. Esteban Santiago (killed five people in a 2017 attack at the Fort Lauderdale Airport, had been investigated and ruled not a security threat by FBI)
10. Zacarias Moussaoui (FBI headquarters blocked agents who wanted to investigate Moussaoui, a conspirator in the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center)
11. 1993 World Trade Center bombing (FBI had advance knowledge of bombing, and bungled a plan to substitute harmless powder for explosives)
12. Surveilled and falsely accused journalist of collaborating with terrorists (James Rosen had obtained information from a government contractor on North Korea’s intent to do nuclear and ballistic missile tests)
13. Raid on Branch Davidian compound in Waco (FBI killed dozens of men, women, and children. Destroyed evidence immediately afterward by bulldozing the site, and lost evidence collected by others.)
14. January 6th “Insurrection” (FBI Failed to arrest some individuals inciting the public to enter the capitol, and other individuals in the capitol during Jan 6 “insurrection”, all captured on video)
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15. Gretchen Whitmer kidnapping (FBI funded and encouraged a conspiracy to kidnap and kill the Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer)
16. Considered planting child porn on a person’s computer (Sharyl Atkisson testified before a congressional committee that, after she wrote about Benghazi and Fast and Furious, a federal agent told her the FBI planned to infect her husband’s computer with child porn. Testimony in an unrelated court case revealed the FBI had actually done that to someone else.)
17. College gymnast molester Larry Nassar (FBI officials made false statements and failed to conduct a thorough investigation of abuser of dozens of college gymnasts)
Congress contemplating issuing a Contempt of Congress order against Wray is emblematic of the weakness of GOP lawmakers in DC addressing the issue of the corrupt FBI. Does anyone believe for one second that Wray feels intimidated by that? Hell no.
“Any good street cop knows, you never endanger your brothers and sisters in blue, regardless your own personal sense of bitterness or betrayal.”
This is precisely the false, substitute ethics that enable and entice the corrupt evildoers in the first place…
“The proper formulation would be, “Don’t you dare, ever, step out of line against the people we serve, or you will find all the rest of us your sworn enemies.”
A code of omerta within law enforcement is the diametric, absolute opposite of ‘protect and serve’… At that point, no government-minted badge is sufficient to distinguish law enforcement from mafia. Mafia is a fraternity, law enforcement must actually function as an absolute public trust–not merely wrap itself in the mantle thereof…
The FBI should be disbanded and *everyone* in it banished from law enforcement and any government position for life. Yes, that’s extreme, but the FBI is a political enforcer in the pattern of the NKVD/KGB. There can be no hope of having a free society if such an agency is allowed to exist, and no, you cannot reform people who have gone down this path.
Totalitarians like Wray only respect the barrel of the gun.
And since no one will give it to him………..he will continue to lord over innocent Americans and destroy the country.
He is no different from the KGB directors of the Soviet era.
And this comment by J.J. Sefton earlier hits the nail on the head:
“That only two whistleblowers came forward and essentially painted targets on their backs is telling. Where is the ENTIRE rank and file?”
Will we have another Ruby Ridge/Waco incident again?
If you just retired a year ago, how many years or decades did you go along with it for your pension?