Posted on 03/03/2023 1:05:43 PM PST by Retain Mike
Long is among a group of retired agents who say the FBI is already both politicized and weaponized. They trace the roots of these problems to the massive reorganization undertaken by former Director Robert Mueller after 9/11. Citing an avalanche of intelligence failures leading up to the attacks, critics demanded reform. Mueller decided the answer was centralized control from Washington, D.C..
For most of its history, FBI operations revolved around 56 field offices. Mueller’s predecessor, Director Louis Freeh, started his career as an FBI field agent and supported the agency’s long-standing office-of-¬origin system. In that framework, a single field office is responsible for running a case and that office sends out leads as needed to other field offices, who then report back. The field office system also ensured the FBI’s power was diffused rather than concentrated in one location.
Mueller, by contrast, was a former federal prosecutor who had never served in the FBI. That showed in the way he approached the reorganization, Long says. “Mueller felt like headquarters knew better than anybody, and he did not trust the agents on the streets of any field office.”
Mueller created what are called flying squads, Long says: “When there was a big case, he would fly a squad in from headquarters rather than use the boots on the ground.”
Mueller began hiring non-FBI agents for important functions such as liaising with the public and with congressional offices. The end result of his reorganization was a cultural shift within the agency. “The politics became more important than real world investigative experience,” Siuzdak says. He means party politics—as in doing the bidding of the party in power. “You had guys who had no ability to actually do cases becoming managers, and then that group started self-selecting.”
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The Twitter Files Reveal an Existential Threat
https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Imprimis_Jan_1-23_8pgWEB.pdf
Excerpt: The Twitter Files have revealed or confirmed three important truths about social media and the deep state.
First, the entire concept of “content moderation” is a euphemism for censorship by social media companies that falsely claim to be neutral and unbiased. To the extent they exercise a virtual monopoly on public discourse in the digital era, we should stop thinking of them as private companies that can “do whatever they want,” as libertarians are fond of saying. The companies’ content moderation policies are at best a flimsy justification for banning or blocking whatever their executives do not like. At worst, they provide cover for a policy of pervasive government censorship.
Second, Twitter was taking marching orders from a deep state security apparatus that was created to fight terrorists, not to censor or manipulate public discourse. To the extent that the deep state is using social media companies like Twitter and Facebook to subvert the First Amendment and run information psy-ops on the American public, these companies have become malevolent government actors. As a policy matter, the hands-off, laissez-faire regulatory approach we have taken to them should come to an immediate end.
Third, the administrative state has metastasized into a destructive deep state that threatens to bring about the collapse of America’s constitutional system within our lifetimes. Emblematic of the threat is the fact that “the intelligence community” has proven itself incapable of not interfering in American elections. The FBI in particular has directly meddled in the last two presidential elections to a degree that should call into question its continued existence. Indeed, the FBI’s post-9/11 transformation from a law enforcement agency to a counter-terrorism and intelligence-gathering agency with seemingly limitless remit has been a disaster for civil liberties and the First Amendment. We need either to impose radical reforms or scrap it entirely and start over.
The late great political scientist Angelo Codevilla argued that our response to 9/11 was completely wrong. Instead of erecting a sprawling security and surveillance apparatus to detect and disrupt potential terrorist plots, we should have issued an ultimatum to the regimes that were harboring Al Qaeda: you make war on these terrorists and bring them to justice or we will make war on you. The reason not to do what we did, Codevilla argued, is that a security and surveillance apparatus powerful and pervasive enough to do what we wanted it to do was incompatible with a free society. It might defeat the terrorists, but it would eventually be turned on the American people.
‘Mueller, by contrast, was a former federal prosecutor who had never served in the FBI. That showed in the way he approached the reorganization, Long says. “Mueller felt like headquarters knew better than anybody, and he did not trust the agents on the streets of any field office.”’
Mueller is just another member of the Deep State trying to seize control of this Republic.
Codevilla was right, it has happened.
Are they all out investigating traditional Catholics, the biggest threat to the U.S. today?
RE: Mueller created what are called flying squads, Long says: “When there was a big case, he would fly a squad in from headquarters
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https://www.youtube.com/shorts/MyFy-vrCiec
Born to be Airborne
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKO3Uo9QCGU
Agent speaking to his shirt cuff: "Got another one ordering fish from the menu during Lent. When he leaves rough him up and get him to tell where the bishop is hiding."
You even see this in the FBI TV show. Alanza de la Garza’s character is SAC in charge of NY office but almost every episode has her being contacted or controlled by either an asst director or the Director himself. In addition the program has cases that would normally be handled by NYPD being taken over by the FEEBS.
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The problem with that agen y is that a) it should never have existed and b) once it did exist it was given far too much power.
Was such an agency a goal of the Revolution? Or would it have been one of the things the Patriots fought against?
The question answers itself. There is no such animal created by the Constitution. Just one twisted apparatchik who saw an opportunity.
The poor waif!
The FBI began as a way to go after interstate bank robbers and bootleggers.
Social Security was sold as a safety net “poor widows.”
The CDC started as a quasi-private organization to address malaria in the southern US.
Let’s not leave out the leviathan Department of Homeland Security created to stop terrorists from knocking down buildings
Congressman Louie Gohmert May, 2018, " Robert Mueller has a long and sordid history of illicitly targeting innocent people..."
Mueller’s Stasi will continue to grow stronger and more tyrannical...
The FBI’s actions in the 1990s and early 2000s demonstrated that the American serfs could easily be controlled by an American Stasi-like organization...
The FBI got away with murder, kidnapping, evidence falsification, and mass murder of women & children without so much as a whimper from the serfs...
Only one or two men attempted a response...
Today’s Stasi is orders-of-magnitude more evil and powerful than the East German predecessor was...
9/11 was an important event leading to the loss of liberties for the American people.
The whole agency needs to be defunded and shut down.
Traitor W strikes again, would we have been better off with Gore?
Yep.
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