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Home Front: Politix
Why the FBI is hard to trust
2017-06-25
[Wash Times] Can anyone with a modicum of common sense trust the Federal Bureau of investigation? The answer to that question is a resounding "no." The claim that the FBI strives to be above politics is today and has always been absurd. When former FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover admitted in an interview that his "agents" had tapped the phones of 1964 Republican candidate Barry Goldwater and even bugged his campaign plane, Mr. Hoover told his interviewer, who wondered how someone in his position could so cavalierly ignore the law and the constitutional rights of American citizens, that when the president asks you deliver.

That and much else that Mr. Hoover ordered his "agents" to do during his too long tenure as FBI Director was bad enough, but in the years since he departed the scene, the FBI has developed a penchant for breaking the law without even requiring a wink and a nod from above. The Bureau picks its targets for whatever reason and goes after them, concocting evidence or setting them up to technically break laws that have nothing to do with the "reasons" for the original targeting.
Posted by:Besoeker

#8  What is happening here is going deep into the FBI as it is VERY corrupt at the top levels. It is now nothing more than a political organization. Also goes for the klingons. A now useless agency.
Posted by: newc   2017-06-25 23:27  

#7  Ditto SPOD. I'd put money on Lynch taking the 5th.
Posted by: Besoeker   2017-06-25 22:32  

#6  I think the entire thing is going to just blow up.

CNN is running from the Russia story.

Lynch is going to take the Fifth.

The entire mime on Russia is a Democrat invention funded back in July for Clinton to u7se on Trump the contents of Dossier were so laughable that only the press took it seriously and when Clinton got her butt handed to her by Trump they had to blame it on something. So the dossier was the only thing they had.

If=t all goes back to the dossier
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom   2017-06-25 19:08  

#5  Sitting around a campfire last night, listening to people play old Buffalo Springfield songs, I couldn't help but marvel how a generation that had defined itself by non-conformity and utter distrust of government had come to embraced groupthink and saw Big Government as the solution to any and all problems.
Posted by: SteveS   2017-06-25 18:18  

#4  MM, those people and now the ones in power. It makes all the difference in the world who is the bug and who is the windshield.
Posted by: AlanC   2017-06-25 14:37  

#3  Any halfway honest history of the FBI shows that the problems predate the creation of the agency. What's totally ironic is how the type of people who despised the FBI in the 50s, 60s and 70s are enraptured with an arguably more out of control than ever FBI today.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2017-06-25 12:01  

#2  The top leadership of the DOJ and FBI, during the last admin., did a fairly could job of scrapping justice and neutering the FBI.
Posted by: JohnQC   2017-06-25 10:27  

#1  Heinrich Himmler and Markus Wolf would be proud.
Posted by: Knuckles Platypus1823   2017-06-25 06:08  

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