It's outrageous that most Republicans voted to spend $200 million on construction of a new FBI headquarters.
The FBI needs to be abolished, not reformed.
This was an interesting article from last year:
https://wng.org/articles/locked-and-loaded-1673491747
The FBI use to go after communists.....now......it’s run by communists.
“The FBI has become the equivalent of the KGB.”
No, the FBI has become something worse. At least the KGB/FSB was and is open and honest about killing and persecuting people to keep the regime in power.
The FBI field offices tend to do some great work in defeating human trafficking but then they have to follow orders from the politicized headquarters that has turned the agency into little more than Chekist political officers.
Note that the 200 million was just some initial payment.
The total cost of the new FBI HQ is currently estimated at $4.5 billion.
The new HQ is 4.5 billion in price.
That was always the FBI. J Edgar created it as a corrupt organization to increase his own power. It’s never been good. And because its first objective is always to be able to blackmail politicians it will never be reformed, or abolished.
When Democrats are in power, they do everything they can to politicize (weaponize) government agencies. When Republicans are in power, they try to manage the status quo. Democrats win by incrementalism.
Every Republican candidate ran on “reforming Washington”. When was the last time a government agency was abolished or even downsized? When was the last time a law was repealed? When was the last time the national debt was reduced?
I don’t blame the politicians. I blame the voters.
The fall of the FBI began during Waco and Ruby Ridge.
Bush 41 and his contacts in the CIA blocked anything from being done.
Ruby Ridge was murder plus FBI-ATF entrapment.
Waco violated the Posse Comitatus Act plus mass murder.
What you said, on steroids. The FBI has now become the equivalent of the East German Stasi.
Bttt.
5.56mm
I would like to know how much money from govt coffers is paid to Television and Movies to make stories with the FBI in it. They just can’t quit making these series, and they show them in the most heroic light.
Regular cops though, have only Tom Sellecks show to highlight normal policing, although it does highlight some bad too.
The FBI though is shown as sparkling clean, the highest ethics, with brilliant agents and leadership. PURE PROPAGANDA.
QUIT WATCHING THEM, you are helping to perpetuate a lie. That the FBI and federal govt police are clean as a houndstooth, and only go after the bad guys.
The FBI has always been the KGB. That's why it was founded.
The fbi has become horse shit.