Remember way back when we actually respected the FBI? Of course, that was back when they had these things called “standards”.
Who ever did? Nobody with an idea what they were really about. Hoover was a cross dressing weirdo and all the fbi has done since the beginning is stomp all over the rights and freedoms of the American public with no recourse. Disband. Local sheriffs only.
Yes, there were days when we “actually respected” the FBI, largely due to the always strenuous selling job the Agency did on us. Anyone,though, who began looking into the history of Hoover’s FBI knows of its double dealing, it’s political biases, its love of blackmail, and in general a million things and acts that were completely at odds with the public image. It’s really “101”-—I don’t see the current new identity of the FBI as anything more than an accommodation of and to the totalitarian leanings of the Current Administration. We hear reports of the many agents who seem to be aghast at this current behavior, but really who knows what to believe? The Agency has always been “corrupt enough” and government in general has always trended toward authoritarianism/totalitarianism to be completely surprised at what it’s doing now, and what we’ve been subjected to for the last 3 years at least.