I wonder how many innocent people are rotting in prison now, their lives ruined, because the FBI wanted to get rid of them.
In the course of the past several years, my opinion of the FBI has changed 180 degrees.
Why aren’t jail house lawyers filing multiple RICO cases against the Keystone K-Kops? At this point, you have to ask yourself: “What’s worse - the crooks in jail or the crooks in government?”
You are not alone in this, Blennos. I was uneasy about the FBI beginning in the Nineties, and I began to have real concerns about the FBI after I read Jayna Davis' peerless book about the Oklahoma City Bombing, "The Third Terrorist".
When I read it, I didn't want to believe it.
But Jayna Davis is no conspiracy theorist, she was a well known investigative reporter who was highly regarded by the community and her peers as someone with a high bar for honesty, and accuracy.
The more she investigated it, the more she found that painted the FBI in not only an unsavory light, but in a light that painted them as manipulative of the law up to and beyond the point of breaking it in the effort to align with and achieve political goals. The lying and deception she documents in detail leaves the reader with no other choice than to accept that the FBI had a predetermined outcome they wanted to pursue for reasons handed down from the leadership at the FBI.
Even then, back in the Nineties, readers had to wonder: "Where are the good FBI people who would speak out against this?"
She met precious few.
And now we have this.
So many like me, who early in our lives were exposed to the likes of Cronkite, Huntley, and Brinkley, were led to believe that every single thing that came out of their mouths was the truth as if God would speak it, only discovered as the years passed that what we thought was news was really political advocacy couched in a deliberately concocted cloak of pious fake integrity.
These were institutions we were told were unreproachfully trustworthy. The nightly news. The FBI. The DOJ. To publicly not accept them as fully trustworthy and beyond approach and worthy of full cooperation would have led many to be viewed by their fellow Americans with a degree of suspicion. And that is how we were raised. They were on our side.
At some point in the past, if the FBI knocked on my front door, I would have easily invited them in, offered refreshments, and spoken freely to them without a lawyer present. I would not have had the least suspicion of anything untoward.
Just as General Michael Flynn honestly felt when FBI agents Strzok and Pientka made a trip to the White House in order to deliberately entrap him, or get him fired as described in the words of Bill Priestap (who was at that time head of the FBI's Counterintelligence division): "What is our goal? Truth/Admission or to get him to lie, so we can prosecute him or get him fired?"
General Flynn made the understandable mistake, as so many Americans have over the years have, of assuming that he and the FBI were on the same team, working towards the same goals, and nothing could be further from the truth. He easily invited them in, didn't even think for a second that the White House Counsel should have been present. He thought it was a "Blue siding with Blue" meeting.
All this, with the official documentation of the meeting being not a video, not a voice recording, but the handwritten notes (the infamous "302 forms") compiled by corrupt and evil FBI agents, who would then buff those notes of "what really happened", send them to the 7th Floor at FBI headquarters, where they would be altered by leadership to say exactly what needed to be said, and which bore no resemblance to the truth.
And these documents (the infamous "302 forms") are treated in our legal system as "God's Truth" and "Fact" even though they are a "reality" contrived and constructed by a group of people who do not have the best interests of our citizens or our country at heart.
Their fealty is to a specific political body, which Sundance over at The Conservative Tree House has defined as "the Fourth Branch of the US Government..."The Intelligence Branch". So, instead of "Truth" being the goal in the FBI's various dealings over the years with American citizens, the various goals of those interactions were and are "admission", "entrapment", "set up", or "prosecution" to get a person fired or to achieve a political goal, those goals defined by "The Intelligence Branch.
Not the Executive Branch. Not the Legislative Branch. Not the Judicial Branch. None of those are the defined goals, unless they advance the cause of the Fourth Branch...The Intelligence Branch.
Now, if FBI appears on my doorstep, they are not being invited in. They aren't being spoken to without a lawyer present. They would be recorded from the moment they identify themselves as FBI. And they aren't being offered refreshments.
I cannot express how disillusioning that is to me, and how angry it makes me.
They have shown themselves to be enemies of this Republic and its citizenry. And only a fool treats with a proven enemy as if they were an ally and expects anything less than a knife in the back.