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I have been asked by members of my community why there were two very different responses from my agency, when both riots appear to be the same to them at face value. It’s a shame that I can’t answer that question. I have heard U.S. Secret Service Police ask why their alleged assaulters during the summer of 2020 riots weren’t sought out like those who assaulted officers at the Capitol. Again, I can’t answer that question. We were once an apolitical organization, but I no longer see us as such looking from the ground up. We have been used as pawns in a political war, and FBI leadership fell into the trap and has allowed it to happen. We are supposed to call balls and strikes, regardless of political pressure, now we can’t even be trusted to be on the field.
I want to be clear so it’s not misconstrued, both the summer riots of 2020 and the Capitol Riot were repulsive. The FBI’s response to one and not the other is unacceptable in an organization that is supposed to be independent and apolitical. On May 3, 2018, TIME magazine published an article “The FBI Is In Crisis. It’s Worse Than You Think”. In the article, the writer Eric Lichtblau, describes the many failures that have accumulated most recently in the FBI. The most sobering stat referenced stated that an April 2018, PBS News Hour Survey showed a 10-point drop-from 71% to 61% among Americans who thought the FBI was “just trying to do its job”. I would not like to see the result of that same survey today, because I have not seen any faith restored in this organization. FBI leadership needs to be reevaluated in the strongest sense possible. We have been infiltrated by political pawns who are sinking the ship many of us work hard to make sail every day. Someone in a leadership position at WFO needs to step up and make things right again. That may mean pushing back when someone wants an outcome that appears political in nature, because our response to the Capitol Riot reeks of political bias.
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After Action Report FBI-HJC119-J6IG-000001-000050.pdf (backup copy here), Page 13
Via FBI Bombshell: 274 agents sent to Capitol for J6, many later complained they were political ‘pawns’ | Just The News
I did not read the whole thing. This is just a sample. The general tone is very negative.
Until the Randy Weaver case I had an exceptionally high opinion of the FBI. I thought of them as near perfection. The reality of their actual behavior in the Weaver and shortly thereafter their handling of David Koresh in Waco changed their status in my mind to something approximating “The Enemy of the People.”
I still wonder where the U.S. Constitution authorizes their existence. If, after decades of misbehavior, they cannot get their act together then I would like to suggest it is time to disband them. Let state and local laws and officials protect innocent people in their justice systems.
Sure, there will be corruption and political bias in these organizations too, but you can move to a different city and/or state far easier than you can move to a different country. And cleaning up of the local pockets of bad actors will be much easier by journalistic and ballot box solutions than it is at the national level.
I was aware of the provocateur activities dating back to the 1960s. Anti-war, civil rights, militia, and environmental activists were all targets. You were watching too much TV. But hey it would be great to hit a bad guy at 100 yards with a snubby while you were running.
But hey it would be great to hit a bad guy at 100 yards with a snubby while THEY were running.
FIFY
Yes, the FBI has been misusing law enforcement to achieve political goals since at least the 1960s and probably long before then. Our Founding Fathers understood the dangers of a Praetorian Guard and wisely chose not to create anything like it. Where does it authorize such an organization in the Constitution or Common Law?
You’re right, the FBI cannot be found in the plain English text of the Constitution and its existence is therefore illegal. Apart from that, I have observed in the past that one can get a good idea of that agency from the name of its headquarters.
Of course, the unconstitutional FBI is merely one of thousands of Federal activities not permitted by the Constitution — only a tiny fraction of what the US Government does is actually something it is allowed to do. A simple starting point is any “independent agency” since the Constitution doesn’t permit the existence of any such thing. Another is the fact that large swaths of a number of states are supposedly “owned” by the Federal government, in total disregard of the Constitution’s rules for what the Federal government can own and how it can come to own it. It would be interesting if Alaska or Nevada ever decided to enforce Article 1 Section 8.
On Waco, I remember about 20 years ago when my office neighbor and firearms instructor leant me his copy of “Send in the Waco Killers” by Vin Suprinowicz. Highly recommended.
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To those thinking that corruption is a new characteristic of the FBI, I have three words: J. Edgar Hoover. It has been a political, corrupt organization since its inception. Any periods when they matched their (self-generated) PR have been short-lived and the exception, not the rule.
It seems to me that if you have an Executive Department whose job it is to enforce the law it has to have a group of people with the police power to actually do the enforcement.