They are now using lawfare all over the place now. They are going after people who claim that the 2020 election was stolen.
Because *Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.*
They do it because there is absolutely no check on their power and authority.
Because they have no fear of arrest or lengthy prison terms or execution.
Abuse of their authority is the purpose of their existence.
Not a recent thing. In the 70s the FBI ran the ABSCAM scam. In essence they offered bribes to political figures under the guise of “enticing.” They proved a known fact, waive money in front of a politician and they will take it. Problem was they initiated the contacts leading some career government attorneys to balk at bringing charges. Obviously those prosecutors are gone because it is anything the AG wants gets done.
Same reason dogs lick their balls.
They do it because they keep getting away with it.
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Because they can....................
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Because they like to, and because they can, because no one will stop them.
America did plenty well enough before the FBI. It can do so again.
The problem is not so much the rank and file (useful idiots), it is the upper echelons whose loyalty is more to the Deep State and its defense than it is to America and The Constitution they swore to “protect and defend”.
Yawn. I guess the title is rhetorical? Is the question answered in the article at some point?
It was corrupt from the beginning. J. Edgar wielded power and influence and it has been a tool of the elite ever since.
For the same reasons you impose and maintain rules and limits of war in top tier militaries, rules and limits in policing, anywhere that groups of humans have great power you have to impose and maintain a culture of self-discipline and self-control of limits, and keep their focus on the organization’s mission and purpose, or else their personal egos, vanities, greed, prejudices, and personal flaws start becoming expressed in their work and then it becomes the work.
“Is the agency purposely selecting people who sign up precisely because they want to act outside the law?”
Oh, c’mon, they are the law when they are directed from higher levels to do something. It’s part of the misrepresentation of chain lf command. It is otherwise called government.
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Easy answer: it’s because there are no consequences. Law enforcement has a free pass to do anything from lying to armed robbery to murder and can’t even be sued let alone charged criminally due to “qualified immunity”. George Floyd aside where the cop was sacrificed for political purposes and wasn’t even guilty of doing anything but his job it is extremely difficult and the vast majority of the time impossible to bring a cop/fbi,/etc to justice no matter what they’ve done.