Posted on 06/13/2019 6:10:11 PM PDT by bitt
One was caught red-handed engaged in nepotism. Another, a lawyer no less, admitted to shoplifting at a Marine barracks store. A third leaked sealed court information to the news media. And a fourth engaged in fraud by turning a government garage into a personal repair shop.
Four cases, all solved in the past month, with suspects who cost taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars and significant breaches of public trust.
But these weren’t your everyday perps.
All were U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) employees who are supposed to catch other criminals while working for the FBI, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and U.S. attorneys’ offices. Instead, they broke the law or violated the rules. And all managed to escape prosecution, despite their proven transgressions.
Recent Justice Department disciplinary files tell an undeniable story.
Under the leadership of Inspector General (IG) Michael Horowitz, DOJ’s internal watchdog is doing an outstanding job of policing bad conduct inside America’s premier law enforcement agency.
And DOJ is doing a poor job of punishing its own.
In cases closed in the past month, more than a half-dozen FBI, DEA, U.S. attorney and U.S. marshal officials were allowed to retire, do volunteer work, or keep their jobs as they escaped criminal charges that everyday Americans probably would not.
In most instances, the decisions were made by federal prosecutors who work with the very figures impacted by or committing the bad conduct. In local law enforcement, that go-easy phenomenon is known as the “thin blue line.”
Spokespersons for the Justice Department and FBI did not respond to a request for comment.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Nothing stunning about it. Sliding scale of justice is the way of the world. The people who are selling “rule of law” are liars.
and SUSAN RICE!!!!
LOCK HER UP!
This is exactly why the bad actors in government are not worried about being bad.
The government doen't hire honest people. The "trust" that exists is that they won't rat anybody out. That trust is in good shape. They have each others back. Yours? Heh, are you in the club?
Zero’s planted weapons... with those in the planting stage? I think Not.
Been going on Forever.
Snitches get stitches, just in a differnt realm. The carrot is that if you look the other way, the prosecutor will too.
But the house judiciary committee is all over this with hearings starting immediately /s/
I worked in uniform for NY State and retired in 2003. None of us would cover for anyone who put our lives in jeopardy, and we certainly didn’t want them working with us.
Prosecution and prison is only for the little people, the elites just get a slap on the wrist and a warning not to try that again. The US is slowly devolving into a banana republic.
The government is engaged in subversion and changing the way it is governed, but the vicious part about it is that it tries to portray people like the French yellow jackets, as them wanting to change or weaken government through protests.
Again, when they go look for our guns or land like the Ranchers in Nevada, it is the government which makes the riot and subversion, not us.
However, most cops will find themselves caught like deer in headlights when they find themselves in a situation where you indicate their department is funding communists and subversion of the country. It just does not compute to them, but it is what it is.
The DoJ has around 113,000 employees that they admit to and a budget of around 30 billion they deign to let us know about.
Freegards
I doubt if anyone will go to trial.
Don’t you have that 80%—20% inverted? It should be 80% of the crooked won’t rat out the 20% that are honest.
That is interesting. The case of Portland and other illegals and antifa terrorist sanctuary zones indicate that cops are made to work by default for the subversion of government and the loss of cop pensions and what not. We see how now the 911 first responders are treated in congress like an embarassing Vietnam veteran “plague”....
Or should I mention the current policy in my area to make cops let the decision of filling and identifying a victim in a domestic violence complaint to feminist YWCA subversives who promote welfare queens’abuse of men and kids? Ie the state is letting a communist non profit decide for them who to sue or how to evaluate a situation...
Really, I agree, no cop will put other cops in jeopardy, but by default it is what it is in terms of how things are run. It often mean the real big dangerous game, the cop in dissociation does not even see it.
We need to dramatically increase government salaries to attract better people! Just like they did with school teachers.
“The DOJ and FBI are as corrupt as they get...”
If it weren’t for 2A, US would have surpassed the Soviets, Mao, and 3rd reich.
But to paraphrase Hannity, Himmiler and Heydrich and the guys at the top were bad guys, but the rank and file do yeoman work and are the good guys.
They’re all paid off...with our money.
Our money feeds the whole corrupt ruling class.
If there are no repercussions, then it will only snowball...
Sick of it.
Inability or unwillingness?
Still waiting on justice for Lois Lerner.
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