Posted on 12/07/2023 2:27:09 PM PST by Libloather
Americans are losing trust and confidence in the FBI and this directly impacts national security. A staggering 63 percent view the bureau negatively -- and the reasons are hidden in plain sight. Over the past few years, valid criticisms have been leveled at the partisan decision-making within upper echelons of FBI leadership. Dating back to the 2016 Trump-Russia sham investigation, heavy-handed over-charging of Trump campaign surrogates, blatantly uneven treatment of right-wing and left-wing protesters and rioters, labeling angry parents speaking out at school board meetings as "domestic terror" concerns, aiding Big Tech’s 2020 election suppression of information, seeming disinterest in Hunter Biden laptop revelations and Biden family’s obvious influence-peddling schemes, and a laughably absurd Richmond division intelligence product warning of "radical-traditionalist Catholics," the FBI has raised eyebrows.
Many retired FBI agents – to include this author – have long caveated criticisms of the FBI by maintaining the bias and partiality concerns are related to certain FBI senior executives. We then justifiably laud the hard work and faithful service of the vast majority of the men and women who comprise the street-level, case-working special agents. Yet, it is becoming exceedingly more difficult to separate large swaths of FBI rank and file from its questionable leadership.
Retired FBI Criminal Division Assistant Director Chris Swecker recently outlined why it is no longer just FBI headquarters executives who are radically transforming the bureau and skewing it leftward. Swecker acknowledges the culpability of the FBI’s current recruitment processes:
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The infiltration of FBI ranks isn't as innocent as this good man thinks. That said, it's nice to see someone stand up to what's happening before that simple act becomes impossible.
Lots of our institution are being infiltrated... it’s not just the FBI.
Depressing. I’m not convinced we need an FBI, but I am convinced we don’t need this one. There’s a sadness, even grief, that I have watching our institutions fail themselves, and fail us. The government, schools, colleges, churches, medicine - all of them. I trusted them to one degree or another, not fully, but enough.
I feel for men like Gagliano who spent their careers in a government agency they now know is utterly corrupted.
Truth
Indeed. Instead, new building and more $$ to boot, just watch.
Tells us a lot about Republicans, none of it good.
The leadership of the FBI is corrupt. However, the field offices are equally corrupt. They are the ones that do the SWAT raids on political opponents. This makes me question what the individual field agents really are. A private in the Army is duty bound and legally bound to disobey an unlawful order such as to commit a war crime. If he does he will suffer legal repercussions. FBI field agents with regularity violate the constitutional rights of citizens.
Where in the hell are Sean Hannity’s comments on field agents. He defends them all. He is a fool. A good field agent would refuse to participate in such and be fired and wear it as a badge of honor.
The fish rots from the head down!
I have zero trust or confidence in the FIB.
Abolish it. Fire everybody.
Investigate and prosecute those found to have been corrupt.
“We then justifiably laud the hard work and faithful service of the vast majority of the men and women who comprise the street-level, case-working special agents.”
BULLCRAP. If they had any integrity at all they would quit and expose it. A pox on all of them. They are not to be trusted.
Fire everyone. Let them reapply with a thorough polygraph starting at the top. And speaking of the top, put Michael Flynn in charge. Hire the whistleblowers for other leadership positions.
The new FBI’s first business order should be to find all the missing loot. Identify criminals and freeze their accounts.
This is needed in every federal agency. CIA. State Department. IRS. ATF. DHS. NSA. And so on.
“i was just following orders”
was not a valid defense at Nuremberg
Gee, the FBI are now bank robbers.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4202072/posts
Why would people not find this acceptable?
I guess it is a mystery.
"There has been a seismic shift in the [FBI] culture…[I]n comes [FBI director] Jim Comey and he basically parachutes all these DOJ political appointees into the FBI and slowly the culture shifts over Comey’s tenure and then under [FBI director] Chris Wray it’s accelerated because I think the type of recruit they’re bringing in is more opinionated, more idealistic, more liberal, highly educated, more Ivy League, and they tend to not just follow the facts, they tend to insert their own ideologies, their own opinions because the indoctrination that’s taking place in the schools these days – if you’re virtuous and you’re highly educated, you do everyone else’s thinking for them. You can decide that President Trump is not fit to be president, therefore we need to go after him. You can decide that domestic terrorists only exist on the right side of the political aisle, not on the left side of the political aisle. You can pick winners and losers…It’s no longer ‘Let’s just follow the facts.’ I’m going to say that’s at the highest levels of the FBI…but I think it’s beginning to percolate down to the street level [rank and file agents] as well."
The article says the rank and file are lefties too.
Including, apparently, this guy:
I believe some FReepers have said some of the r/f are lefties......
but they still cling to hope that there a few good men there.
Agree.
True, but it’s still difficult to believe that Chris Christie will do any better.
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