Posted on 10/23/2022 10:05:38 AM PDT by Thawtam
Want to reform the FBI? Here's What You Do on the First Day.
1. Remove FBI from their role as briefer and coordinator/facilitator of classified meetings and activities in the US Congress, and reassign this to federal officers attached to ONDI. - FBI has been using this role to monitor congressional activities and maintain awareness of all procedural and political actions occurring in the Congress, and has exploited its knowledge to develop countermeasures to any effort to reduce or degrade the FBI's power base. They maintain extensive insider relationships with members of congress and related staff who have been coopted into serving as informants and insiders outside of the oaths of office they hold. There are currently about 160 liaison agents from the FBI embedded in congressional activities. This is essentially an intelligence-gathering activity staged against our own government. Remove them immediatelyand bar them from all congressional operations and proceedings unless official presence is required.
2. Restrict FBINet resident applications and data to only those things which are classified in nature. FBI hides unclassified and administrative records and other date within its secret collateral network which otherwise would be subject to FOIA and administrative validation.
3. Eliminate the FBI classification guide and require them to use ODNI classification. - The FBI uses its own created classification guide to provide shielding from scrutiny of records and administrative processes at their discretion. Eliminate their guide.
4. Revoke FBI authority to assign administrative penalties for criminal violations of professional conduct, and transfer legal oversight to ODNI using referrals to DOJ, not DOJ oversight. One look at the quarterly OPR email on OPR actions would be enough to shutter the agency. The FISA and NSL abuses are rooted entirely of an in-house performance system which values results over methods, and encourages cutting corners on due process and constitutional rights.
5. Eliminate classification or restriction of public disclosure of the DIOG and create a legitimate departmental policy manual with binding statements using the words "must" and "shall". - The FBI is an investigative agency, not a law enforcement agency. They routinely apply selective judgment and decision-making which ignores criminal conduct of suspects in favor of expedited resolution.They will disregard, suppress or destroy evidence which impacts their narrative or infringes on their political influence, seeking investigative outcomes to cases which are most favorable to them. Include clear statements about what agents MUST do and CANNOT do. Solicit an Attorney General's Opinion on the mission of FBI, binding it to very specific channels of activity and engagement, and de-conflict/clarify its alignment with DHS. Make all mission assignments pointed and articulate, and eliminate those mission statements which are nebulous and allow for latitude and discretion in judgment.
6. Establish procedural standards for how investigations are triggered and registered as "investigations", and require disclosure of all details as allowable by law to the US Congress without obfuscation or obstruction. Remove all FBI administrative alignment with DOJ which manifests in form of FBI officials bringing DOJ attorneys with them to testify in front of congress, and using them to shield themselves from legal culpability.
7. Remove all classifications from information and data addressing basic administrative processes used to shield FBI from public disclosure. The claim that "sources and methods" will be compromised, or that they6 cannot comment on ongoing investigations without accoutabiliy for their conduct should not exempt them from being responsible for HOW they interact administratively internally or with DOJ. Make deliberate overclassification a federal felony.
8. Refuse to nominate or consider anyone put forth for FBI Director who is a former agent, US Attorney or Federal Prosecutor. The FBI Director role going forward should be a Federal Judge, and the Deputy Director should be the Inspector General, subject to independent oversight and review. Force the agency to be outside the circle of commiseration on prosecutions, plea deals, suspect negotiations, or turning suspects into informants to spare embarrassment for lapses in abiding by constitutional rights. Bar the FBI from offering cash incentives for people to bring forth information the agency would otherwise be unable to obtain through legitimate processes.
9. Bar the FBI from invoking classification on routine criminal investigations and other activities where no such classification should be applied, thereby eliminating the practice of concealment of process failures and procedural lapses which violate policy. Subject all elevations of classification to be reviewed independently by DNI prior to FBI transferring records or information to FBINet.
10. Eliminate FBI's management of Uniform Crime Reporting (UCRs), NDEX (National Data Exchange), and the Internet Crime Complaint Center, and prohibit them from making jump-start grants for systems established regionally using FBI rules of operation.
11. Establish an immediate termination policy without right of rebuttal for any and all agents who act under the color of authority through intimidation, pretext, coercion and disregard for constitutional processes, and bar them from negotiating plea deals with individuals. The display of deadly force in routine search warrant service would be prohibited unless the effort involves suspects known to have committed gun crime violence prior to the service, and require approval of the Director to deploy weapons in the field beyond the assignment of the standard FBI sidearm. Require all warrants and searches to be facilitated by the county sheriffs and district attorneys without prior negotiation or agreement on allowing the FBI to unilaterally take control of scenes without legal observation.
12. Recall all liaison agents, and prohibit the Bureau from assigning, personnel posted to the news and entertainment industries who provide guidance and input on news, publications, and TV/movie scripts and production. This should include all telecommunications service providers, cable providers, and personnel embedded in such industry operational spaces with access to user records and account information.
13. Cancel all Consent decrees with state and local law enforcement, and cancel all county memoranda or legal permissions granting FBI operational access within counties without the direct knowledge, permission and authorization of respective county sheriffs.
What about firing all agents involved in corrupt arrests, and harassments. Mar-a-lago crew, the pro-life pastor, Lindell, etc, etc
Investigate every signal agent for deprivation of civil rights under color of authority. Prosecute every agent who comes up positive on this test, noting that the penalty for such deprivations of rights under color of authority in a way that ends up in the death of the citizen whose rights were violated is LWOP or the death penalty. Choose the juries for such trials not in Washington DC but rather in the jurisdictions in which the alleged rights deprivations took place.
FBI can’t be reformed they have corruption in their DNA. It needs to be dismantled.
I wonder what will happen at the FBI if there is a big victory for the republicans in the midterms. Will that encourage more FBI and DoJ employees to start spilling the beans on the corruption and politicization or will it make them more determined to than ever to go after republicans, especially Trump and his voters.
Jury nullification. If you are on a jury and the FBI is involved in a case, even in a tangential way, vote not guilty. I don’t care if it’s a Al Qeida frogman Cold molester with 100 pounds of fentanyl. Not guilty…
Shut them down. Enough not guilty verdicts will get noticed.
“I wonder what will happen at the FBI if there is a big victory for the republicans in the midterms.”
Nothing will change. Wray will continue with his current position, which includes protecting all of the deep state, RATs and RINOs alike.
Make all federal employees ‘at will’ and start booting them en masse.
Like the IRS, neither party has the will to shutdown the FIB down. Even as they destroy our country. Pathetic.
Exceedingly good post.
And then 15 years from now switch it all back from the ODNI to the FBI (or better yet, someone else). Lather, rinse, repeat.
Is like to know more about FBI liaison agents assigned to news and entertainment companies.
Then eliminate 1/2 of the agency since most of them are involved in drug crimes
Don’t.
That’s the best fix.
Spin off all the forensic tech into a national CSI group that can help local police. Disband the rest. We’ve got plenty of national police forces, we don’t need this one.
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The only way to reform it is to eliminate it entirely.
Let's take one additional step in order to regain public confidence and rename the agency.
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Great plan. Are you considering a run for President? Senate? House of Representatives? If not, who’s going to implement this plan?
This is the way.
Close the DC headquarters. Mandatory early retirement or fire all stationed there. Interview all for any conflicts of interests to include spouses.
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