Posted on 07/05/2025 12:06:45 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Only 11 days after President Trump was inaugurated for a second term, his administration began a purge of the F.B.I. that now threatens some of the bureau’s most important missions. His appointees ousted eight of its most experienced managers, including the division heads overseeing national security, cybersecurity and criminal investigations. Several had worked on prosecutions of Jan. 6 rioters or had assisted in the various investigations of Mr. Trump, and Emil Bove, then the acting deputy attorney general, said they could not be trusted to carry out the president’s agenda.
That was just the beginning. Over the past five months, many F.B.I. agents, including other top managers and national security experts, have been fired, pressured to leave or transferred to lesser roles. Hundreds have resigned on their own, unwilling to follow the demands of the Trump administration. Their absence has left a vacuum in divisions that are supposed to protect the public. These losses have “obliterated decades of experience in national security and criminal matters at the F.B.I.,” Adam Goldman of The Times wrote.
Mr. Trump’s playbook for the F.B.I. is plain to see. He is turning it into an enforcement agency for MAGA’s priorities. He is chasing out agents who might refuse to play along and installing loyalists in their place. He is seeking to remove the threat of investigation for his friends and allies. And he is trying to instill fear in his critics and political opponents. Among his many efforts to weaken American democracy and amass more power for himself, his politicization of the F.B.I. is one of the most blatant.
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The FBI wasn’t politicized before, like when they said 90% of terrorism in the United States is caused by Catholics?
As usual, the NYT has things backwards.
Good ones.
Plus the FBI making sure the Hunter Biden crimes were covered up until after Biden won.
Not to mention that evil Comey reading Hillary’s mind to say her felonies weren’t on purpose because her inner intention wasn’t to go out to commit a federal crime about the secured data going to her home. He laughably said he and the Bureau never influence an election.
Anybody who can’t understand why the mainstream media is so distrusted needs to look no further than this article.
More times urinalist's peeing on our legs calling it righteous life giving rain.
Spit Iow A pee yellow rag.
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Sounds like the FBI is poking around the NYT.
They actually believe in what they write.
To make Americans more safe, Trump should abolish it entirely.
Seems like a good start to me.
Left wing absurdities. Garland’s Gestapo ran wild and they cheered and bought popcorn.
“Jan. 6 rioters” Could someone refresh my memory on that?
His appointees ousted eight of its most experienced managers, including the division heads overseeing national security, cybersecurity and criminal investigations.
They say this like it’s a bad thing.
You don’t hate media enough.
The translation: we on Left just are what is. All else is illegal. This, when we prosecute political enemies, it’s just natural, the way it is. When you fight back? It’s terror, politicalization, unnatural. The government only exists to rid the world of what we are not.
The New York Times is now total garbage. Propaganda completely.
The FBI and CIA are essentially information-gathering machines, and in that role, they function very efficiently. The only part of these agencies that becomes politicized is their public-facing representatives — the officials who speak to the media. Naturally, when Democrats or Republicans are in power, they tend to appoint directors to these organizations who align with their own political philosophies.
Keeping Americans safe??
The FBI had advanced warning on 9-11 hijackers and did nothing...
The FBI had advanced warning on the Boston Marathon Bombers and did nothing...
The FBI had advanced warning on the Pulse shooter and did nothing....
The FBI had advanced warning on the Indianapolis FedEx shooter and did nothing...
The FBI had advanced warning on the Brooklyn subway shooter and did nothing....
Feel free to add to this list...
Yea, we need biden/obama/clinton biased fbi again.
/Fart.
Carlos Slim is a target-rich-environment.
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