Posted on 09/16/2022 11:58:23 AM PDT by Pelham
...Mr. Mueller resolutely set about to change the “culture” of the FBI. That’s the word he used. He was going to make the bureau into an intelligence agency, or in his repeated terminology, an “intelligence driven” organization. Unintended consequences followed. The organization I had served for 33 years would undergo a cultural change in subsequent years, culminating in the ugly disaster of Crossfire Hurricane, the fruitless but disruptive investigation of the Trump campaign and Russia.
Mr. Mueller had worked with FBI special agents in Boston and San Francisco, but he didn’t know the FBI’s culture or how it functioned. He also displayed disdain for the special agents in charge of each of the FBI’s 50-plus field offices.
Mr. Mueller didn’t understand the FBI’s office-of-origin system, which has been in use for nearly a century. On a typical case, an office of origin would run things, sending out leads to other field offices who’d track them down and report back. In the case of the 9/11 attacks, the logical office of origin would have been the New York or Washington field office. Both had experienced international squads...
But Mr. Mueller wanted centralization. He wanted all information to run through FBI headquarters, which would make all the decisions. Mr. Mueller’s predecessor, Louis Freeh, who started his career as a field agent, strongly believed in empowering the field offices. Not Mr. Mueller, who accelerated centralization; he also believed special agents in charge presided over their territories like dukes. His words.
Penttbom would thus become the first case in FBI history run from headquarters. It set a bad precedent, which would yield poisonous fruit in the Hillary Clinton email investigation and then in the Russian collusion fiasco, when a small clique at headquarters called all the shots.
(Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...
I hope Mr. Baker can persuade some of his contemporaries to join his choir.
Wasn’t Mulehead in charge of the Boston office during part of the Whitey Bulger era?
The FBI is and has been rotten from the top down for a long time, so pretending it’s just Mueller isn’t going to change public perception much.
Excellent article. Thank you for posting it. Here we are 20+ years on and it’s spiralled into a DC snake pit of utter corruption. Not that the FBI was ever perfect, but goes to show culture and organization are important.
New Totalitarianism Led by ‘Dull Bureaucrats and Technocrats’: Psychologist Mattias Desmet
epoch times ^ | 15 September A.D. 2022 | Jan Jekielek & Masooma Haq
Desmet believes the world is now seeing a new form of totalitarianism, spawned in the last couple of decades and fostered by mass formation during the pandemic.
“What you’re dealing with now is not a communist or not fascist authoritarianism. It is the emergence, I think, of technocratic totalitarianism,” Desmet said during a recent interview for EpochTV’s “American Thought Leaders” program. This new form of control will not be “led by gang leaders such as Stalin or Hitler, but by dull bureaucrats and technocrats,” added Desmet, citing the work of 20th century political philosopher Hannah Arendt.
Lady Livingstone and her 800 raw FBI files is what began the ruin of the FBI and DOJ. Subsequent agency heads and appointees were just following the path to the brass ring.
James Comey was a big part of the FBI’s moral collapse also.
Bullshyte. These people are politicized, bureaucrat hacks, but they aren't stupid. The signs of fraud were everywhere. The FBI at its highest levels wanted to pursue a soft-coup against an elected President (ie. Treason). They were merely looking for cheap cover for their operation.
Wasn’t Robert Mueller introduced to the public as an honorable ex-Marine who was going to investigate Trump’s shady dealings with Russia. When the head of the fish starts to rot, the rest of the body decays also. Why did Mueller never indicate that the whole Russia affair was Hillary’s wet dream. How I remember seeing him and his wife entering some church time and time again on TV. He was just another virtue-signaling rotten politician. Hey Bob, keep on entering that church building and tell us how much we can trust you because you’re a Christian. Truly sickening person.
Perhaps not. But, putting that hack in charge doomed it.
Keep the lab, fire everyone else.
In job interviews, sign this loyalty oath first. Note that it includes a prohibition against any sort of collectivism — including progressive BS. If you or anyone in your family support that, the door is over there. Ooh, that offends you? Well, it is like harboring a pedo in your house — you deserve to die in the fire set by all the neighbors.
Former CIA officer and station chief Scott Uehlinger told Breitbart News on Thursday that intelligence agencies cannot be cleansed of political and partisan corruption unless the president has the unitary power over the federal government’s personnel decisions.Uehlinger discussed left-wing and partisan politicization of federal intelligence agencies on Thursday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with special guest host and retired Navy SEAL and FBI agent Jonathan Gilliam.
“It’s a real cause of concern, not just among regular folks, but [among] people who served in these agencies,” he stated. He emphasized the ubiquity of such political orientations among intelligence agency employees.
He remarked, “The infection in these organizations is not just the political appointees. It’s basically everyone from mid-grade-level and up, if not lower because they’re all the recipients of a super-liberal education.”
Watching Mueller testify in 2019 about the “Russia-gate investigation,” I realized, like Joe Biden, he’s a corrupt, demented old patsy who probably can’t think beyond what pudding he will have after his nap.
He was a figurehead who was put in place for public propaganda and optics, while other devious people organized the real work behind the scenes.
Now he is serving that role again - they’re blaming their obvious corruption on the old fool who will not defend himself and will be dead before too long.
Heck, I thought during most of his investigation that he was an honorable man. Who knew he was essentially a senile tool brought out of retirement for cover?
The investigation of Crossfire Hurricane was run from the the 7th floor. Sometime during early 2017 the 7th floor decided to shakeup the investigative team. The new agents on the case likely assumed the previous agents were spot on and didn't question what happened before they were placed on the case. They certainly weren't going to ruffle any feather's of higher ups...
The FBI is the DOJ. The DOJ is the FBI.
It wasn’t just Mueller. In fact, Mueller, the dolt figurehead, is but a very small player in the whole thing. But given his name recognition, the main culprits: Rosenstein, Wiseman and the rest of the Russia Collusion crew, Comey’s daughter in the Southern District of NY, Comey, the list is very long and very loathsome. Full of absolutely decrepit, hypocrites.
“Watching Mueller testify in 2019 about the “Russia-gate investigation,” I realized, like Joe Biden, he’s a corrupt, demented old patsy who probably can’t think beyond what pudding he will have after his nap.”
That was my impression as well. Andrew Weissmann was technically #2 but he had assembled the Mueller team before Mueller was asked to lead it. Weissmann had to be the actual leader.
“The FBI at its highest levels wanted to pursue a soft-coup against an elected President (ie. Treason). They were merely looking for cheap cover for their operation.”
Agree. The “small group” of Comey, McCabe, Strzok, Baker wanted to be “fooled”.
The Ivan Danchenko trial coming up soon could be interesting.
“James Comey was a big part of the FBI’s moral collapse also.”
And he was one of the “outsiders” described in this article.
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