Authored by Victor Davis Hanson,
The FBI is dissolving before our eyes into a rogue security service akin to those in Eastern Europe during the Cold War.
Take the FBI’s deliberately asymmetrical application of the law. This week the bureau surprise-raided the home of former President Donald Trump — an historical first.
A massive phalanx of FBI agents swooped into the Trump residence while he was not home, to confiscate his personal property, safe, and records. All of this was over an archival dispute of presidential papers common to many former presidents. Agents swarmed the entire house, including the wardrobe closet of the former first lady.
Note we are less than 90 days out from a midterm election, and this was not just a raid, but a political act.
The Democratic Party is anticipated to suffer historical losses. Trump was on the verge of announcing his 2024 presidential candidacy. In many polls, he remains the Republican front-runner for the nomination — and well ahead of incumbent President Joe Biden in a putative 2024 rematch.
In 2016 then FBI Director James Comey announced that candidate Hillary Clinton was guilty of destroying subpoenaed emails — a likely felony pertaining to her tenure as secretary of state. Yet he all but pledged that she would not be prosecuted given her status as a presidential candidate.
As far as targeting presidential candidates, Trump was impeached in 2020 ostensibly for delaying military aid to Ukraine by asking Ukrainian officials to investigate more fully the clearly corrupt Biden family — given Joe Biden at the time was a likely possible presidential opponent in 2020.
The FBI has devolved into a personal retrieval service for the incorrigible Biden family. It suppressed, for political purposes, information surrounding Hunter Biden’s missing laptop on the eve of the 2020 election.
Previously, the FBI never pursued Hunter’s fraudulently registered firearm, his mysterious foreign income, his felonious crack cocaine use, or his regular employment of foreign prostitutes.
Yet in a pre-dawn raid just before the 2020 election, the FBI targeted the home of journalist James O’Keefe on grounds that someone had passed to him the lost and lurid diary of Ashley Biden, Biden’s wayward daughter.
At various times, in Stasi-style the FBI has publicly shackled Trump economic advisor Peter Navarro, swarmed the office of Trump’s legal counsel Rudy Giuliani, and sent a SWAT team to surround the house of Trump ally Roger Stone. Meanwhile, terrorists and cartels walk with impunity across an open border.
FBI Director Christopher Wray last week cut short his evasive testimony before Congress. He claimed he had to leave for a critical appointment — only to use his FBI Gulfstream luxury jet to fly to his favorite vacation spot in the Adirondacks.
Wray took over from disgraced interim FBI Director Andrew McCabe. The latter admitted lying repeatedly to federal investigators and signed off on a fraudulent FBI FISA application. He faced zero legal consequences.
McCabe, remember, was also the point man in the softball Hillary Clinton email investigation — while his wife was a political candidate and recipient of thousands of dollars from a political action committee with close ties to the Clinton family.
McCabe took over from disgraced FBI Director James Comey. On 245 occasions, Comey claimed under oath before the House Intelligence Committee that he had no memory or knowledge of key questions concerning his tenure. With impunity, he leaked confidential FBI memos to the media.
Comey took over from Director Robert Mueller. Implausibly, Mueller swore under oath that he had no knowledge, either of the Steele dossier or of Fusion GPS, the firm that commissioned Christopher Steele to compile the dossier. But those were the very twin catalysts that had prompted his entire special investigation into the Russian collusion hoax.
FBI legal counsel Kevin Clinesmith was convicted of a felony for altering an FBI warrant request to spy on an innocent Carter Page.
The FBI, by Comey’s own public boasts, bragged how it caught National Security Advisor-designate General Michael Flynn in its Crossfire Hurricane Russian collusion hoax.
As special counsel, Mueller then fired two of his top investigators — Lisa Page and Peter Strzok — for improper personal and professional behavior. He then staggered their releases to mask their collaborative wrongdoing.
Mueller’s team deleted critical cell phone evidence under subpoena that might well have revealed systemic FBI-related bias.
The FBI interferes with and warps national elections. It hires complete frauds as informants who are far worse than its targets. It humiliates or exempts government and elected officials based on their politics. It violates the civil liberties of individual American citizens.
The FBI’s highest officials now routinely mislead Congress. They have erased or altered court and subpoenaed evidence. They illegally leak confidential material to the media. And they have lied under oath to federal investigators.
The agency has become dangerous to Americans and an existential threat to their democracy and rule of law. The FBI should be dispersing its investigatory responsibilities to other government investigative agencies that have not yet lost the public’s trust.
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I’ve heard rumblings that Trump suckered the FBI and DOJ into this raid. He specifically told someone he thought to be a traitor in his midst that he had unauthorized documents to entice the raid upon himself!
This outed the traitor, made the intelligence community look like the asshats they are and insured a very positive bump in his re-election plans by the outraged right.
Wouldn’t surprise me one bit. He has a penchant for making people make fools of themselves.
Well played Mr. Trump, if true.
Sorry, I can’t remember the source.
Sounds vaguely Qish.
“We wouldn’t raid Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate or Melania’s wardrobe unless it was absolutely, 100% necessary,” said Garland. “I resent any accusation that this raid was influenced by partisan politics or my insatiable desire to wear pretty designer dresses.” The Attorney General then did a little spin in his purple gown as the press gasped with delight.
https://babylonbee.com/news/the-fbi-raid-was-justified-says-merrick-garland-wearing-strapless-gown-and-sun-hat-from-melanias-closet
Ahhh … the J Edgar tradition continues …
” He has a penchant for making people make fools of themselves.”
3rd time WILL be the charm. VOTE. HARDER!
Here’s the story “DID DONALD TRUMP BAIT THE FBI?” ….
muh sacred FBI principles… that was a good one, Stuck. I’m still laughing.
There will be plenty of evidence to present to the jury made up of Trump haters in the District of Corruption. The FIB ALWAYS has the evidence it needs to destroy a political opponent.
If people ever one day realize that ‘authority’ is just an illusion, that it doesn’t exist in nature, all this shit will go away. But people are followers, and others will step up to lead them.
“I’ve heard rumblings that Trump suckered…”
As if he needs more traffic. Prolly gonna have to buy some more space on a server farm somewhere. Have you even seen such a hive of activity as ‘truth social’?
The “powers that be” expect the citizens of America to roll over and take whatever it throws. In the next few months we will find out if we are citizens or subjects!
“citizens or subjects”
Is it any wonder, since ya started paying attention? Maybe soon then. You’ll be singing’…
Cattle.
Retards
“Cattle”?
The Sheep is real. the rest? Cartoon World antics.
Depends on Your beliefs. But for amusement purposes in my head?
Photo of Marilyn Monroe. Over Some kinda grate, holding her dress from billowing up.
👁 See the aptly named ‘hoover’
Will
Never
Happen.
Power, once granted,
Summarily abused,
Then never again
Shall be relinquished.
Ought has no influence
Upon the consideration.
To the eternal shame
Of those who granted
Such authority in the first.
Evil in plain sight
For all to see
If eyes be capable
Of discerning Truth.
Our Creator is aware.
Sometimes you have to take one for the team.
One female FBI agent admitted today during testimony that she slept in the same hotel room, and the same bed, during a training weekend with FBI target Barry Croft.
And… she smoked pot with him.
The female FBI agent told the court, “Sometimes informants have to play along.”
The FBI is a completely respectable group.
FBI needs to go but it won’t. At best, there will be lips service given to “reform” the agency. Most likely the communists will let the furor go away. The sheep will forget in a week or two. overthecliff on a new device.
The FBI should be dispersing its investigatory responsibilities to other government investigative agencies that have not yet lost the public’s trust.
Pleas name a federal agency that has not lost trust with the public?
I challenge you to name a state or even local agency that has not lost trust with the public. We can’t even get our trash picked up in any consistent manner.
We have private garbage service and they seldom miss a pick up and when they do it is ice related. People down here cannot drive on ice and the state/county does not have the equipment to handle the once every 3 year snow/ice storm.
Maybe the Library of Congress or perhaps the National Cemetery Administration?
I know: The National Passport Information Center (NPIC)! No?
How about the Veterans Day National Committee?
(Studiously Looking through the Myriad Obscure Federal Agencies List)
Last Try: Weights and Measures Division.
Don’t really see these Superfluous Wastes of our Tax Dollars being *TOO* Untrustworthy, outside of being Superfluous Wastes of our Tax Dollars…..
The Department of Redundancy Department
“…dispersing its investigatory responsibilities to other government investigative agencies that have not yet lost the public’s trust..”
Which would those be?
Do NGO’s count? like the National registration Agenc…Sorry!
NRA?