Posted on 06/19/2021 4:04:19 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Trust in the FBI cannot be regained until there is a reckoning. That can only come through accountability for bad actors.
Newsmax released an article this week that gives voice to further distrust of America’s once-premiere law enforcement agency. The column was based on a series of questions and concerns presented by Representative Matt Gaetz (R-FL) regarding the still murky details around the January 6th storming of the Capitol building. Two questions lobbed at the FBI are both haunting and disheartening:
“What did the FBI know? And when did they know it?”
The fact that the agency responsible for investigating the lawlessness of that date is itself under scrutiny is alarming. Regardless of how one feels about Americans -- patriots or paid agitators -- entering the Capitol building illegally is not germane to the questions surrounding the supposedly objective pursuit of justice by sworn law enforcement officers. Gaetz’s most damning volley came when he suggested the FBI is no longer acting under the auspices of their original mission and has taken the dubious position of engaging in political policing. If remotely true, it would seem to represent the final nail in the coffin for any chance at repairing the integrity of a federal investigative agency.
And that sentiment is not solely the domain of the congressman from Florida. A Pew Research study released last month demonstrated a sharp decline in trust in the government from a high of seventy-seven percent in 1964 to a low that has remained under twenty-five percent since 2007. If three-quarters of Americans have spent the last fourteen years distrusting the government at large, what does that say about the agencies entrusted with justice and public safety? Former FBI Director James Comey attempted to lay the mistrust at President Trump’s doorstep.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
How Do We Regain Trust in the FBI?
Disband them
I love people who can seriously use the word ‘alarming’ after what happened last November.
Maybe 50%. Way too many woke deep-stater. Unfortunately, too many woke obama ass sniffers.
I would suggest a good start with ceremonial seppuku by executive staff members, starting with Wray.
>>99% great people? If so then they would not tolerate this corruption.<<
Hannity kept saying this very thing over and over, night after night. The 99% good, honest, hard working agents of the FBI...
I say, not one whistle blower within the FBI that witnessed unethical, corrupt behavior by their leadership or within the ranks? Not one? Bull5417!
The FBI closed ranks to cover for one another. They’re doing things that would be equated to the East German Stasi.
Time after time we’re seeing reports come out how the agency entraps people, facilitates criminal activity, covers up criminal acts by powerful politicians...hint hint...Bill and Hillary, Swalwell, Feinstein.
We’re receiving reports of FBI committing perjury to a FISA court in an effort to gain false warrants to spy on political opponents, those perceived to dissent against the ruling class.
This is not conspiracy tin foil hat stuff...this is happening. When republicans get back in control of government, this agency needs a house cleaning. Those so called law enforcement agents who broke the law need to be held to account and prosecuted.
Abolish the FBI. The FBI cannot be reformed.
Now is the time to DEFUND THE FBI....
Trying to reform the FBI would be like trying to turn a rapist-murderer into a sex therapist.
Disband them.
They are completely corrupt.
Adam Kinzinger on CNN told us the FBI is not corrupt and would never instigate crimes…
It’s like what’s up with all these heads of the agency anyhow. Did they all go to “How to be a smart @$$, smarmy SOB classes”?
You watch them all, Comey, Rosenstein, Wray and even that Lois Lerner and the other jack @$$ with the IRS answering oversight questions from congressional members. The utter disdain they have for anyone questioning their authority.
Their body language, facial expressions, mannerisms, obfuscations, denials, memory lapses, smarmy responses...how dare you question me!
Looks like we can’t trust agencies “like the FBI and the CIA”—“I hear the outro from the Beatles’ song “Dig It” and realize the hippies were right to be suspicious. Looks like the FBI may have always been a federal goon squad with maintenance of its own power base a larger priority than the American interest. Only now, the hippies are running the show.
Short answer - We don’t.
Long answer - Arrest the leaders, abolish all spying, then repeat for CIA. Don’t just fire them and turn them loose- Gitmo or a similar gulag will do.
Audio and video to the above.
Full Darren “Revolver News” Beattie Twitter thread.
https://twitter.com/DarrenJBeattie/status/1405932595582488577
Too late. Supposedly the bloated bagpipe puffer was hired to save the integrity of the justice system.
He was a miserable failure. Covering up and dismissing wrongdoing did not work.
The FBI is a dangerous laughingstock.
Trump should have cleaned them out except the young recruits.
And get that goon of a Director...Wray...in handcuffs in courtroom.
The execution was a righteous act of vengeance in a time of war.
The Captain in that picture eventually moved to California and lived out his life in peace. He explained the back-story to a columnist some years ago. It does not get a lot of publication. It should.
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