“For most of our history we didn’t have those institutions. The FBI came in during the First World War and interestingly enough, the one thing Woodrow Wilson did he used the FBI to spy on American citizens and actually arrest them if they disagreed with his foreign policy about going to war in Europe.”
Paul is wrong to say the FBI “was designed to spy on Americans”. That conspiratorial idea is not compatible with the history of the development out of the Justice Department that became the FBI, even if “spying on Americans” became a consequence of unchecked authority the DOJ put on the FBI.
Maybe an idea would be to separate the FBI from the DOJ, making it less of a handmaiden of the politically biased DOJ, while demanding the DOJ must rely on it’s investigatory services. I have always found corruption in all our policing at all levels has arisen with investigators the handmaidens of the prosecutors. Investigations are twisted to give the prosecutors what they want.
Yeah, that's the ticket. Deny the root cause of the problem and then propose another useles goverment reorignization that will provide cover that the probem is being fixed while actually changing nothing FBI report to AG or FBI reporting to the white house is a one step change that changes nothing.
One would almost be led to believe that you are carrying water for the deepstate if we didn't know better.
“Paul is wrong to say the FBI “was designed to spy on Americans”. That conspiratorial idea is not compatible with the history of the development out of the Justice Department that became the FBI”
Yes, it is. It’s very name tells its history: Investigation. It was formed by executive order to be the investigative arm of the DOJ. The FBI is not the DOJ, it is the investigative part of it.