Posted on 01/04/2023 9:56:38 AM PST by Twotone
In a stunning rebuke, the FBI's retired chief of criminal investigations says his old agency has yielded the independence Congress gave it under the law and is now subservient to a group of liberal ideologues inside the Justice Department who have pressured agents to stray into unwarranted domestic spying and censorship.
Ex-FBI Assistant Director Chris Swecker on Tuesday became the latest law enforcement or political figure to support creating an independent commission modeled after the U.S. Senate's 1970s Church Committee to investigate the FBI's practices and impose reforms on the storied law enforcement agency.
He told Just the News that the bureau's problems start with the politicization of its ranks by DOJ.
"What I see is that it's basically a wholesale takeover by the Department of Justice, which is filled with political appointees in every top position, and then by extension, right into the administration," Swecker said in a wide-ranging interview on the John Solomon Reports podcast.
"You see DOJ people — and many of the top executive positions inside the FBI now — you see people that have made a career out of bouncing in and out of silk-stocking law firms between the Department of Justice and then these law firms. And I have to say they are incredibly liberal in their politics. And that has now sort of taken over the FBI, and they are inserting that ideology into their high-profile investigations."
Swecker, a lawyer himself, said one of the many tell-tale signs that the FBI has lost its independence is the bureau's relationship with Big Tech firms, as exposed by recent internal file releases by Twitter and a lawsuit filed by the attorneys general of Louisiana and Missouri.
The original partnerships, he said, were designed to legitimately counter foreign influence operations on U.S. social media...
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And?
It suits the deep state, there will be no change.
Just confirming what we already know. This situation is extremely dangerous with plenty of precedents in history of the bad things that will happen as a result.
I think we figured that out twenty years ago. No offense.
I have a solution for that.
And it started with Obama and his communist-like purges.
House GOP will write some letters..
In the Deep State, this is a feature not a bug.
Forget reform. Delete.
Well, he is correct. However, is anything going to be done about it?
They have to can all democrat appointed SES scum at DOJ...for openers.
No commission is needed. Just shutter the FBI based on principle. Law enforcement is a local responsibility.
Another bold bureaucrat speaking out from the safety of retirement.
Did McCarthy pledge tp thoroughly investigate the FBI and hold them accountable?
It’s the Union government “perfectig” itself.
No, it started with Bush Sr. Then Hillary took it over and the rest is history.
It was a generational change. No need for purges. The old hard-nosed agents died off and the new intakes came from woke colleges, since all colleges are more or less woke nowadays.
They are The Obonzo and Holder FBI Show now! There needs to be a real investigation into their J6 fiasco. And keep the DNC’s chickensh*t “mainstream media” OUT OF IT.
The entire Watergate scandal was broken by two reporters who were being led around by the nose by a mysterious but highly knowledgable insider they called Deep Throat. They're "reporting" was basically printing the info he gave them with a little leg work thrown in every once in a while. And we now know that Deep Throat was FBI Deputy Director Mark Felt.
Do you really think Mark Felt did all the investigative work on his own or do you suppose there were helpers within the FBI? Do you suppose Felt was outraged by illegality of acts by Nixon when he worked for Herbert frickin' Hoover for decades? Nah, it wasn't righteous anger at a rogue President, rather an agency that decided to get Nixon and found a way.
Nobody knew until some years ago that the FBI was behind Nixon being ousted. We do now but people act like Felt somehow acted alone. Nonsense.
They've been a dangerous wild card for a long time but now it's absurd how rogue they've gone, top to bottom.
I think it is a cold war artifact that became more pronounced with each succeeding democratic administration.
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