Posted on 12/03/2024 8:30:38 AM PST by Sir_Humphrey
When I heard Kash Patel had been tabbed by Donald Trump to run the FBI, I could already imagine the pushback and moved immediately to start the just-published article “The Bell Finally Tolls for the FBI” piece. The thought was that the role Patel played in preparing the “Nunes memo” was both the clearest example of media corruption from Trump’s first term and also the most easily demonstrated episode of FBI malfeasance. Since I had to spend an unnatural amount of time on the topic over the years (it even intersected with the Twitter Files and Hamilton 68) I quickly found myself in the weeds of the “memo” tale, when there’s a larger argument about why the FBI needs a major reorganization that someone needs to make amid what’s already an ugly fight about Patel’s nomination:
The transformation of the FBI back into a J. Edgar Hoover-style domestic spy service with sweeping political ambition has been a long-developing story, obscured by a political anomaly. In the first phase of this nightmare, between 2001 and 2016, the post-9/11 Bureau used the pretext of an enhanced counterintelligence mandate to throw off some mild restraints that had been placed on it the last time it had to be slapped down, i.e. after the Church Committee hearings in the 1970s. The second phase of its transformation took place after the election of Donald Trump, when the Bureau remade itself on the fly as a kind of government-in-exile, empowered by an outpouring of public and media support to view itself as a counterweight to the Trump government.
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FBI needs to be dismantled.
And whatever remains of it there needs to be a small outside agency that investigates the investigators. Kind of like the spy in stratego.
And by that I mean they have full prosecutorial authority against anyone in the FBI including informants.
Lyndon Johnson was a notorious user of FBI resources for political spying. He played Hoover like a violin, and in return, Hoover obliged like a puppy dog.
All the LBJ abuses resulted in the reforms of the early 70s, which didn’t stick.
I recall when Bush and his Patriot act were supported and very popular here by these so-called Republican conservatives.
Turns out most don’t have it damn clue.
FBI files. I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s a file on every one of us. We should all demand all files on everyone be disclosed to those individuals. Let the individual decide if he/she wants to blow the whistle and go public on any bs info.
I smelled a dead fish in the “Hoover Wore a Dress” claim. I read the biography of his 2nd Catha “Deke” DeLoach. It was all to convenient a smear.
It concealed the worse truth, that Hoover claimed there was no mob from the years Harry S Truman was mobbed up from Kansas City.
(According to Seymour Hersh the little known trigger of the Bay of Pigs was that after Sam Giancana carried Illinois for JFK but Bobby prosecuted the mob, the mob was responsible for air cover in Cuba but they stood down.)
What a great piece of writing, but very sobering.
Esp if under Trump this does not get cleaned out.
Wray should be gone ….today
Yes, there was a time when Bush could do no wrong, and I fell for it too.
His insisting that “Islam is not the problem” was a “tell”. Islam is EXACTLY the problem!
Another “tell” was his infuriating amnesty push.
Now, of course, his facade has crumbled away and we see him as he (and his daddy) really are (and were).
>> What a great piece of writing, but very sobering.
Yes. This, by the way, is what journalism looks like. It’s refreshing.
Tony Soprano:” What’s with this JFK worship of yours? What about Hoffa?”
Junior Soprano: “That was the brother.”
After the failure of the Russia hoax probe, there should have been numerous terminations and criminal investigations. There weren’t. The bureau is afraid that’s what’s coming and it probably is. What they did to Trump should be the biggest scandal they have ever been involved in. The corruption is wide and deep. People need to go to prison.
>> I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s a file on every one of us.
It’s so easy with modern technology. They don’t even need people to gather and manipulate our data, and trawl for information and relationships within it. AI does it for them.
I NEVER supported the “Patriot Act”.
I knew the day it was passed that it would be used more against American patriots than against foreign terrorists.
Rather than one of his first appointments (as Trump would have wished) - he held off on nominating Patel. There’s not a lot of reason to suspect this was “vetting” - I thing Trump knew that Joe would be pardoning Hunter and timed it such that the outrage and indignation from nearly all sides would serve to generate support for his choice for the man who will be at the front lines of dismantling the weaponized FBI that treated him so unfairly.
It was given the Orwellian name of The Patriot Act. It has been used mainly to go after Patriots.
We should have seen that coming. Anytime a politician gives an act a special name, you can be certain that its effect will be the opposite.
Inflation Reduction Act. Yeah, that did exactly the opposite.
The Affordable Care Act is another one.
I’d laugh if it wasn’t so DAMNABLE!
People think I exaggerate when I say the FBI is America’s KGB - but it is a fact.
Given broad powers of investigation, surveillance, lawfare and “active disruption,” its simply human nature that such a bureaucracy will become a powerful political force and branch of government in its own right, overseeing the realm, vetting and even approving the highest-level politicians who claim to oversee it.
“Just one of the many lies we were sold. It started with the Patriot Act would make us safe to reasons for the bogus Iraq war (WMD...and we bought into it) and now we are at this point.”
Yep, absolutely. It handed agencies far too much power.
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