The FBI Is No Friend of Liberty and Justice: The handling of the Michael Flynn case is disturbing.

Reason ^ | December 10, 2017 | Sheldon Richman

[Behind Liberal Lines]

One of the unfortunate ironies of the manufactured "Russiagate" controversy is the perception of the FBI as a friend of liberty and justice. But the FBI has never been a friend of liberty and justice.

Rather, as James Bovard writes, it "has a long record of both deceit and incompetence. Five years ago, Americans learned that the FBI was teaching its agents that 'the FBI has the ability to bend or suspend the law to impinge on the freedom of others.' This has practically been the Bureau's motif since its creation in 1908…. The FBI has always used its 'good guy' image to keep a lid on its crimes." (Bovard has made a vocation of cataloging the FBI's many offenses against liberty and justice, for which we are forever in his debt.)

Things are certainly not different today. Take the case of Michael Flynn, the retired lieutenant general who spent less than a month as Donald Trump's national-security adviser. Flynn has pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI in connection with conversations he had with Russia's then-ambassador to the United States, Sergey Kislyak, between Trump's election and inauguration. One need not be an admirer of Flynn—and for many reasons I certainly am not—to be disturbed by how the FBI has handled this case.

[Parley Baer]

Interesting that the judge in the case has recused himself.

[Logical me]

The FBI and the DOJ is corrupt as hell. Trump is making a huge mistake by not concentrating on both organization and cleaning it up. Fire the hell out of the top.

[Paladin2]

I think the wording is “was recused” indicating that it was not of his own volition.

[LIConFem]

Not sure why anyone is surprised by the corruption at the FBI. The bureau was born corrupt and its first leader — who reigned for 37 years — flouted the constitution constantly and with impunity, right up ‘til the day he gave up the ghost.

[Grampa Dave]

Give lie detector tests to every FBI agent and supervisors to see if they have been involved in the illegal of actions/sedition to remove our President.

Every agent or supervisor can resign before the test.

If they take the test and show that they have been lying re committing acts of sedition, fire them, and inform them that they will be charged for acts of sedition against the legally elected President Trump. Sedition is easier to prove and document than treason, like with their own words on the internet or videos of them actually committing acts of sedition on tv.

U.S. Code › Title 18 › Part I › Chapter 115 › § 2384 18 U.S. Code § 2384 - Seditious conspiracy US Code

If two or more persons in any State or Territory, or in any place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, conspire to overthrow, put down, or to destroy by force the Government of the United States, or to levy war against them, or to oppose by force the authority thereof, or by force to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States, or by force to seize, take, or possess any property of the United States contrary to the authority thereof, they shall each be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both.

(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 808; July 24, 1956, ch. 678, ;1, 70 Stat. 623; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII,;330016(1)(N), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2148.)

[Lurkinanloomin]

Federal Bureau of Incrimination.

Making up the crimes that Americans didn’t do.

[Fiji Hill]

In 1968 Republican presidential candidate Richard Nixon (with help from Henry Kissinger who was working in the Johnson administration) had a representative persuade the president of South Vietnam to boycott the peace talks President Lyndon Johnson had been arranging with North Vietnam. That decision most likely prolonged the Vietnam war and resulted in combat deaths that would not have occurred. Unlike the Flynn case, Nixon's action undercut the sitting president's policy and, more important, the interests of the American people.

I don't buy that. Even if the Nixon campaign did try to persuade South Vietnam's president Nguyen Van Thieu to boycott the talks, he didn't need much persuading. He knew that he would get a better deal from a Nixon presidency than he would have from a Humphrey administration.

And how can it be certain that South Vietnam's immediate participation in the talks would have brought an immediate end to the war? It eventually took a massive bombing campaign to persuade the North Vietnamese to finally agree to a peace treaty.

[FlingWingFlyer]

I can’t believe that all my life I had so much respect for the FBI. Barack Hussein Obama destroyed the FBI and turned it into just another DNC tentacle. Yeah, it’s time to Make America Great Again and get the FBI working for the American people again and stop being a weapon wielded against the American people by the commie Marxist liberals down at the DNC whorehouse.

[aces]

Line em up and lie detector all intelligence agents, sort out the bs and move on..

[TXnMA]

"FRIM"

What imbecile puts that much work into a graphic -- and, doesn't bother to check spelling?

[Lopeover]

Disband the FBI agency for corruption and fire all the employees.

[Grampa Dave]

“FRIM”

What imbecile puts that much work into a graphic — and, doesn’t bother to check spelling?

[GoldenPup]

The FBI Is No Friend of Liberty and Justice: The handling of the Michael Flynn case is disturbing.

Trump should PARDON Flynn right NOW before these DC bastards wreck his life. Just DO IT !!

[Antipolitico]

I think President Trump’s lawyers are the problem in reference to his statements about Flynn’s “lying” (possible entrapment by FBI) and going right ahead and giving a pardon.

[ridesthemiles]

Interesting that most of the mahem & malice this author talks about started occurring AFTER Obama was voted into office & while Obama remained there.

[Captain Jack Aubrey]

Maybe he meant covfefe?

[Captain Jack Aubrey]

Maybe he meant covfefe?

[Theoria]

Nixon[candidate] shouldn't have been involved at all with trying to change US foreign policy with Thieu. And to top it off, he denied trying to do such things. But, Johnson was spying on them and recording their conversations and activities. LBJ confronted Everett Dirksen about such actions. Treachery all around.

[Bellflower]

Almost everything about the FBI is disturbing, and unbelievably so. Who could have thought that the corruption was this deep and this wide? While we pretty much slept and played the leftie wicked, communist, one world machine has taken over so very much. Now we must fight with everything we have to get our Country back!