The touch of Odungo....
To discover the origins of the politicization of the FBI, one has to go back to the first Director, J. Edgar Hoover.
DiGenova should be the attorney general
This is MUCH LARGER than “just” the FBI. It is in many Fed Gov Agencies and was coordinated from the Top. Right to Obozo’s desk.
Expose em ALL.
The real problem is can it be fixed? Without a Stalinesque purge? When W became president, I predicted problems unless he scoured out the Clintonistas. It’s a problem that’s gotten worse.
Sessions is the swamp.
As I was reading this article (As D.C. Corruption Mounts, Here’s How The American People Can Get Justice), I was beginning to think of a solution that was close to where the author ended up.
What if the FBI were disbanded as a federal agency, and replaced by a different organization that was populated by the states themselves? Each state would delegate a number of investigators to serve at the pleasure of their home state, and this body would become a federal investigative bureau.
As is with the militia, the Constitution provides for calling up the militias for national service, but the officers are selected by the states. It might not be a stretch to declare that state militias have investigators as a component of a military police, and then use the militia clause in the Constitution to call up the state militias' investigative arms for federal service, with state appointed officers.
Each state can create a branch of their militia as MPs, or detectives. These people would report to militia officers appointed within each state, and then these militia branches (officers and detectives) would be called up at the request the Commander-In-Chief and approval by Congress (Article I Section 8: "to provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions,") to serve a national priority such as investigating a particular federal crime, under the authority of state officers, not federal bureaucrats. The state officers will report directly to the Commander-In-Chief (Article II Section II: "The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States"). Once the investigation is complete, the investigating team is released back to the states. If a crime occurred in one state, then the militia police from another state can be called up to investigate. Several investigations across several states can operate in parallel, if needed.
I have done process reviews and root cause analyses in my past, and what we look for are systemic causes of failures, not behavioral causes. Part of that review is identifying the protective systems that were in place to prevent what happened from happening, and to brainstorm additional protective systems to catch whatever still slipped through.
Lax management enforcement of process compliance might be a systemic cause if the fix were to reinforce the importance of process compliance and put consequences on management for lack of process discipline. However, in the recent examples of FBI failure, management was not lax in oversight, they were also complicit actors in avoiding the process. This is still behavioral, so the systemic root cause is not yet found.
I'm going to suggest that the systemic root cause of the recent FBI disfunction is the "independent" nature of the FBI itself. This was magnified by the behavioral causes that top management felt they were unaccountable to anyone, and that a single ideological mindset became established through years of political appointments that controlled the hiring practices of lower-level staff. Using management reinforcement to correct the root cause is ineffective given that management is a part of the problem. Therefore, we must look to other protective systems for corrections.
One protective system is the Inspector General. While this seems to be working now, in hindsight it doesn't seem to have been effective at the time the actions were taking place. When the bad actors are the top management itself in a department, an IG is too easily bypassed. Therefore, a new protective system must be put in place.
My proposed corrective system is to replace a federal-centric FBI with a state-centric investigative agency. This agency would have distributed leadership, since by following the militia model in the Constitution, the "officers" would be selected by the states and would be subject to recall at the whim of the home state. A single monolithic mindset cannot become entrenched, since concerned states can replace their officers at any time.
I suggested attaching this investigative militia to the Commander-In-Chief directly on a case-by-case basis, with some provision for a senior officer hierarchy to manage separate state contingents. Since Congress has the authority to call up the militia, but the President is the Commander-In-Chief of the militia, there is a check-and-balance already in place. If a state investigative team finds evidence of a crime, the President can refer charges to the Department of Justice for further prosecutorial action.
There would be no need for a Special Prosecutor, as the investigative arm of the called up militia units can do this. The Department of Justice can aid the investigations with grand juries, and criminal referrals would be passed along to the Department of Justice for action.
The President can then release the militia units back to the states, preventing a runaway special prosecutor from expanding the scope of the investigation. "Process crimes," such as lying to the FBI, would go away as an especially nefarious tool of an over-zealous prosecutor.
-PJ
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These types of articles merely rehash the same facts over and over, but we have not seen a single criminal charge brought against any of the coup plotters. In the meantime, Mueller and his cabal keep rolling on and on. We have one person to thank for this state of affairs. Jeff Sessions. I hope the lesson sinks in that simply being a conservative (or playing one in politics) is no guarantee someone is a good, honorable person.
CHARGES
WHERE ARE THEY ?!
In fact, you may not even be able to shut them tonight to sleep - it's so full of crimes against the U.S.A. and all Americans!!!
There should not be enough years for the lying, cheating and corrupt FBI folks left in their lives to serve in the Federal SuperMax prison!
Sad to see the decline of the FBI.
Didn’t Pinkerton originally provide those services?
But the Fed wanted more ‘sweeping’ control with Fed power.
But once they ‘cleaned up’ the messes, you got a lot of people standing around waiting for the next ‘mess’.
Idle minds are the Devils playground.
So, to keep jobs and keep growing, new crimes must be ‘invented’ and enforced.
Like A Frank once wrote...”Make enough laws and you make everyone a criminal”
Best ‘make all a criminal’ going now is if you live in a ‘good’ state and travel or even vacation takes you to cities that aren’t so ‘good’ and you take your life into your own hands by ‘passing through’ as you are not allowed to have your own ‘protection’.
Like I used to say, I don’t really need mine in Virginia or surrounding states (Maryland excluded) but going from point a to point b, I am breaking MANY laws in Many states just by acting like I do at home.
Whatever happened to PDT and his loudly proclaimed ‘We will have reciprocity for legal carriers to travel anywhere in this great land’ - while WE knew it would be an uphill battle, this age limit for buying and MORE restrictions is sort of going in the opposite direction.
OR is PDT doing another misdirect?
(Not being entirely critical of PDT but he is somewhat making me falter on my ‘unbending support’)
Democrats are Democrats first.
Being an honest law enforcement agent is way down on their list.
That’s why the Democrat Party needs to go away.
We can have a United States Of America or we can have a Democrat Party.
We can’t have both.
Trump needs to appoint diGenova now. Or his wife. We need someone of his stature to undo the bureaucrats who tried to overturn what’s left of our democracy (I know, I know the republic thing, OK).
I lost all trust of the FBI beginning in 1992.
5.56mm
It hasn't gone unnoticed that Comey has been very quiet the past few weeks - I think that reveals the likelihood that someone or some agency is taking his dereliction seriously and that wheels are in motion investigating him and others. I hope it's Mr. Magoo, as this isn't directly related to "Russia" and his recusal in that area.
FANTASTIC!!!!
Wow what a great article! Thanks for posting that.
diGenova for Special Counsel!!!!
NOW!!!!!!!
Trust 100% gone. Laws DO NOT protect you against criminals. Many criminals never stop unless incarcerated or eliminated. Witness history. No incarcerations. No eliminations. Criminals (Hillaryous Rotten, William Jefferson) still roam free. The "color of law" is bleak. What law?
We hold from God the gift which includes all others. This gift is life — physical, intellectual, and moral life.
But life cannot maintain itself alone. The Creator of life has entrusted us with the responsibility of preserving, developing, and perfecting it. In order that we may accomplish this, He has provided us with a collection of marvelous faculties. And He has put us in the midst of a variety of natural resources. By the application of our faculties to these natural resources we convert them into products, and use them. This process is necessary in order that life may run its appointed course.
Life, faculties, production — in other words, individuality, liberty, property — this is man. And in spite of the cunning of artful political leaders, these three gifts from God precede all human legislation, and are superior to it. Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.
The Law (italics) - Frederic Bastiat
Great read
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