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How Did the FBI End Up in This Mess?
American Thinker.com ^ | December 20, 2021 | John Green and Quentin Smith

Posted on 12/20/2021 2:41:20 AM PST by Kaslin

The fact that the FBI has lost its way has been on public display for at least five years now. Truth be told, it probably strayed off course way before that. But during the Trump Presidency, it became too obvious to ignore. It has been involved in everything from the creation of an “insurance policy” against the peaceful transition of power, to the targeting of parents as domestic terrorists for the sin of disagreeing with school boards. How did our “premier law enforcement agency” stray so far from its motto of fidelity, bravery, and integrity?

Simply put, the FBI’s current state is the result of horrible leadership. Any organization with a solid culture of ethics can survive a bad leader, but the FBI has had 20+ years of ethically challenged leadership. Over time that leadership influences hiring, firing, promotions, and training. Given enough time under bad leadership, even the strongest foundation of ethics will crumble, and be replaced by a culture of corruption -- as we’ve seen with the FBI

A significant shift in the culture of the FBI happened under Robert Mueller. Mueller came up through the ranks of the DoJ -- holding the positions of Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney, and Deputy Attorney General. He was appointed to lead the FBI, by President George W. Bush, in 2001, just one week prior to 9/11.

Almost immediately upon being sworn in as the director, Mueller began politicizing the bureau by bringing in outside people to staff high-level positions. One of those people was the execrable Andrew Weismann, who at the time had just been in the headlines for his own scandals. Yet that was just fine by Mueller. He appointed Weismann to be the special counsel to the director in 2005.

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1 posted on 12/20/2021 2:41:20 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin
Tammany Hall...the FBI...it's all the same.
2 posted on 12/20/2021 2:45:12 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Covid Is All About Mail In Balloting)
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To: Kaslin

Rather than say the past twenty years....why not suggest it’s been screwed-up since day one (26 July 1908)?


3 posted on 12/20/2021 2:46:44 AM PST by pepsionice
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To: Kaslin

The FBI was working with bad guys like Whitey Bulger back in the early 70s. They’ve been helping friends and persecuting enemies for at least that long. It’s a deep part of their culture. Law Enforcement stopped being a central goal many decades ago.


4 posted on 12/20/2021 2:47:01 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (Mass hypnosis of society. So many people are blind to the Truth which is in front of them.)
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To: Gay State Conservative

J. Edgar Hoover was no saint, either. It started on the wrong foot.


5 posted on 12/20/2021 2:49:43 AM PST by Eleutheria5 (Buck Foe Jiden!)
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To: Kaslin
"Any organization with a solid culture of ethics can survive a bad leader, but the FBI has had 20+ years of ethically challenged leadership. " I've said similar for quite a while now, except that it has been longer than 20 years. We had 32 years of NWO globalist Presidents: GHWB, WJC, GWB and BHO. A generation and a half in which time to install their like-minded ilk at virtually all levels of the FBI and other three letters. Maybe longer if you count the time during a conservative President's time spent undermining him at every turn. They and other agencies are rife with ideological statists who are willing to break any law because of their 'religion.' Corrupt liars and saboteurs, IMO.
6 posted on 12/20/2021 2:53:19 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: Kaslin

I think it’s always been corrupt, especially when Mary was running it. But once the B.Hussein caliphate came into power the shift really began where it became an organization run by domestic enemies of the USA. Like my brother says, put the Taliban in charge of the FBI so we have people a little more patriotic running it. Without question they were involved in Jan. 6th


7 posted on 12/20/2021 3:02:02 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free, the USA will never have equal justice under the law)
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To: All

Clinton. The nexus of everything we face as a country is he Clintons.The CIA, the DOS, the DOJ, all has it’s roots with the Clintons.


8 posted on 12/20/2021 3:02:54 AM PST by newnhdad (Our new motto: USA, it was fun while it lasted.)
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To: Gay State Conservative
Hi! I'm the EffingBI!

Need to "lose" the evidence against powerful child sex-trafficking slime?

We'll take care of that for you!

9 posted on 12/20/2021 3:04:00 AM PST by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: Kaslin

Fantastic article everyone. It is part one of three, with the other two parts coming later. Do not mess this. Well written, clear, concise, it reads like a spy novel.


10 posted on 12/20/2021 3:06:36 AM PST by Auntie Mame (Fear not tomorrow. God is already there.)
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To: Kaslin

Federal Bureau of Infamy.


11 posted on 12/20/2021 3:07:40 AM PST by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.p)
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To: Kaslin

It’s always been this corrupt, they just had good PR. Now it is in the light of a robust press.


12 posted on 12/20/2021 3:09:21 AM PST by stockpirate (Rebellion to tyranny is obedience to God., Where Justice Ends Tyranny Begins.)
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To: HighSierra5

Federal Bureau of Child Sex Trafficking [Epstein] and Kiddie Murdering [Ruby Ridge and Waco]


13 posted on 12/20/2021 3:10:23 AM PST by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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How did the FBI, our “premier law enforcement agency” stray so far from its motto of fidelity, bravery, and integrity? It has been involved in reprehensible activities:
<><>the creation of an “insurance policy” against the peaceful transition of power,
<><>evidencing a virulent partisanship against Trump
<><>falsifying documents in unnecessary probe of Trump’s campaign,
<><>colluding against Trump,
<><>illegal attempts to prevent a Trump win,
<><>targeting parents as domestic terrorists for protecting kids from lib/prog school board atrocities,
<><>and so on and so forth ad infinitum, ad nauseam.


The answer is in the question...... its motto of fidelity, bravery, and integrity are attributes foreign to Obumma, Bidung and Democrat powermongers.


14 posted on 12/20/2021 3:13:45 AM PST by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: Kaslin

When is the FIB going to get into the BLM movement and helping to reduce the number of whiteys?


15 posted on 12/20/2021 3:28:25 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: newnhdad

Most forget the FBI Lab Scandal of the mid-1990s where evidence was INTENTIONALLY tainted and tampered with to create desired outcomes.

Most forget the FBI files on prominent Republicans found in the hands of the White House Personnel Office under the leadership of Hillary Clinton.


16 posted on 12/20/2021 3:33:01 AM PST by Erik Latranyi (We are being played by forces most do not understand)
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To: Kaslin
Here is a good summary of 57 FBI misdeeds:

The FBI: 57 Scandals, Controversies, Embarrassments

17 posted on 12/20/2021 3:33:52 AM PST by Erik Latranyi (We are being played by forces most do not understand)
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To: Kaslin
common sense is for commoners.

They (and the rest of 'em) went elite

18 posted on 12/20/2021 3:34:36 AM PST by knarf (?<p>Little kids grow up to be adults that get into powerful positions and act out their thoughts.<pg)
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To: Kaslin
but the FBI has had 20+ years of ethically challenged leadership

Ah, the American Thinker. I should have known.

Anyone who thinks the unethical leadership of the FBI started in 2001 is either under 30, doesn't understand history, or both.

19 posted on 12/20/2021 3:36:47 AM PST by Jim Noble (The nation cannot be saved until the GOP is destroyed)
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To: newnhdad

J. Edgar Hoover died when Bill Clinton was in his twenties.


20 posted on 12/20/2021 3:37:58 AM PST by Jim Noble (The nation cannot be saved until the GOP is destroyed)
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