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Government Corruption

How Do We Regain Trust in the FBI?

2021-06-20

We don't regain trust in the Feebs. We disband the organization and keep a close eye on the organizations that absorb its legitimate tasking.
[AMERICANTHINKER] Newsmax released an article this week that gives voice to further distrust of America’s once-premiere law enforcement agency. The column was based on a series of questions and concerns presented by Representative Matt Gaetz (R-FL) regarding the still murky details around the January 6th storming of the ~~Winter Palace~~ Capitol building. Two questions lobbed at the FBI
FBI

...Formerly one of the world's premier criminal investigation organizations, something for a nation to be proud of. Now it's a political arm of the Deep State oligarchy that is willing to trump up charges, suppress evidence, or take out insurance policies come election time...
are both haunting and disheartening:

"What did the FBI know? And when did they know it?"

The fact that the agency responsible for investigating the lawlessness of that date is itself under scrutiny is alarming. Regardless of how one feels about Americans -- patriots or paid agitators -- entering the Capitol building illegally is not germane to the questions surrounding the supposedly objective pursuit of justice by sworn law enforcement officers. Gaetz’s most damning volley came when he suggested the FBI is no longer acting under the auspices of their original mission and has taken the dubious position of engaging in political policing. If remotely true, it would seem to represent the final nail in the coffin for any chance at repairing the integrity of a federal investigative agency.

And that sentiment is not solely the domain of the congressman from Florida. A Pew Research study released last month demonstrated a sharp decline in trust in the government from a high of seventy-seven percent in 1964 to a low that has remained under twenty-five percent since 2007. If three-quarters of Americans have spent the last fourteen years distrusting the government on the lam, what does that say about the agencies entrusted with justice and public safety? Former FBI Director JamesThe spine of the FBI is the rule of law Comey
The disgraced, except in his own mind, former head of the FBI...
attempted to lay the mistrust at President Trump’s doorstep. Perhaps, Slim Jim should have waited for the Pew Research findings before running his mouth again. The data shows the Truth Train left the station ten years before Forty-Five took office.

Posted by:Fred

#21 Defund the FBI.

Even then we couldn't trust them but if they had to look for new jobs it might distract them for a while.

Posted by: Abu Uluque 2021-06-20 19:03

#20 Flush, pour in draino and flush again.

Posted by: 49 Pan 2021-06-20 19:01

#19 Replace "lifelong FBI bureaucrats" with a rotation of term limited state loaners.

Posted by: magpie 2021-06-20 18:48

#18 By razing it and starting over

I think the US Army has begun building the foundation.

Posted by: Skidmark 2021-06-20 14:51

#17 Everyone else must ~~apply to the new agency.~~ be prohibited from holding any position of public trust for the remainder of their lives. FIFY.

Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 2021-06-20 13:40

#16 ^^^^^^
clean out the DoJ, including every single person inthe Civil Rights Dicison In the Bureau redo the lifestyle polygraph to include questions about associations and hard assessments regarding the agents opinion of individual rights and free speech. Move the Headquarters to Ft Leavenworth, right next to the Federal Detention facility, with the Top Floor looking directly into the exercise yard!

Posted by: NoMoreBS 2021-06-20 13:19

#15 Disband it, anyone above G13 gets permanently fired. Everyone else must apply to the new agency.

Posted by: DarthVader 2021-06-20 12:49

#14 Good initiative Silent Brick, but lumber still hard to come by.

Posted by: Cesare 2021-06-20 12:15

#13 I think the Spartacus option is best. Could be done in a ring around DC.

Posted by: Silentbrick 2021-06-20 11:18

#12 I wouldn't pi$$ on a member if they were on fire.

Posted by: Anomalous Sources 2021-06-20 11:13

#11 But, but... if you disband the FBI, who will enforce the new Domestic Terrorist Identification and Elimination program (DIE) that Biden announced last Tuesday?

Posted by: Eohippus Omigum5634 2021-06-20 09:40

#10 Corruption will have to be cleaned out of the DOJ as well. I don't see that happening any time soon. Some of the Constitutional efforts that currently seem to have favor in some counties and States will probably be neutered and fail because of Federal preemption law and the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution.

Posted by: JohnQC 2021-06-20 09:37

#9 This is a Felony. Prosecute.

Posted by: Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 2021-06-20 09:17

#8 start by firing or retiring the entire top floor. Rename it (JEH Dept of Investigation?). Give it a simple concise mission Limit its activities to those requested in writing by the governors of the States.

Posted by: irish rage boy 2021-06-20 08:59

#7 some firings with complete loss of pension would be the LEAST.

but we all know that won't happen, so better to just close it completely.

Posted by: Retard Strength 2021-06-20 08:53

#6 /\ It's not simply a matter of "being a virgin again" it's more to do with NOT remaining a total whore of the Deep State.

Posted by: Besoeker 2021-06-20 06:51

#5 How can you be a virgin again?

It's not just the bureau. It's also all those federal laws that Congress thinks we need to be saddled with. See - FBI warning on the start of any video you purchase. When you have too many jobs and too few assets, the management gets to pick and choose what they're going to spend their time doing and not doing. Can you say rogue?

Posted by: Procopius2k 2021-06-20 06:48

#4
Some Suggestions
Establish a CLEAR Code of Conduct.

Establish a Internal Affairs Special Prosecutor dept. that rotates the director position every 3 years (between national elections) with a Victim Civil Right to review.

Minimum 10 year sentencing for any violations.

100% adherence to US LAW.

ZERO POLITICAL AGENDA based Investigations.

Victims to be awarded $1M tax free per False charge filed and or arrest made using illegally obtain items or planted items. Congress NOT to setup a SPECIAL OPPS Award fund. Award to come from that years FBI Fiscal Year Budgeted funds.

Posted by: NN2N1 2021-06-20 06:45

#3 By razing it and starting over

Posted by: Count Galeazzo Glereck4201 2021-06-20 03:41

#2 Not Happening.
They should be concerned.

Posted by: Spoter B 2021-06-20 01:11

#1 Augean stables come to mind.

Posted by: These Forkbeard7574 2021-06-20 00:54

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