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The FBI Needs to Be Pulled Up, Root and Branch
It is beyond any hope of rehabilitation at this point. And this should be the picture next to the definition of the word “smarmy.”
I would submit several more descriptive terms to this little worm, approximately 99% of which would not be appropriate for polite company. It seems, from a hearing before the Senate Oversight Committee this morning, that I am in good company in this opinion of this walking personification of the phrase “Washington Establishment.”
Here is the video of the questioning of this [redacted] by Sen. Josh Hawley in which it is fair to say that the senator, as our friends in Mississippi might describe it, “cut him long, deep and wide’; it runs about six minutes and is worth every second.
"Please tell me that's not accurate…"
Senator @HawleyMO roasts FBI Director Wray for using a government plane for a lake vacation INSTEAD of answering Senators' questions. pic.twitter.com/FH7PRgCuPi
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) November 17, 2022
As a side note, isn’t it interesting that the opening couple of seconds is of that reliable RINO checking his cell phone and then leaving the hearing? Perhaps he knew what was coming was going to be too painful for his delicate, self-righteous sensitivities to hear.
The despicable activities of the FBI, some almost certainly reaching the criminal level, are too well known to repeat here, although Sen. Hawley gives a nice, brief listing of them in his questioning of The Honourable Mister Wray (s/o). This organization is so steeped in the deepest kind of rot and corruption that there does not seem to be much hope for its rehabilitation. As analysts and commentators much more knowledgeable about matters surrounding the descent of this formerly great agency than I could ever pretend to be have observed, it should be abolished and its various important – non-political – functions spread among various entities so it can start afresh. The very first act of the Republican who is inaugurated in January 2025 should be the firing of this little cretin and all of his sycophants, after which the real weeding can get started — pull it up, root and branch!
Too harsh? Am I wrong in feeling there is no hope for this organization in the future? Can it be reformed in its present state? I would like to have any views, pro or con, you care to offer.
God Bless America!
Published in Law, Politics
Over half of America thinks the FBI is doing Gods work. It is chasing down and destroying criminality, racism, homophobism, and all the bad things in the world like GOP and MAGA. It is not going anywhere. It will continue being the arm of the Democrat Party and Leftism in general. No law, no procedure, no ethic will stand in the way of destroying those that irritate the Left.
Indeed. Comey, McCabe, Strzok … every one of them committed criminal acts and lied under oath about that. The rot is at the top and throughout the ranks.
Have no fear. The new Republican House will be holding
fundraising eventshearings. As holders of the purse strings, they will also drastically cut the FBI’s budget. It will be glorious come January.In the spirit of Thanksgiving,
Video can’t be found. Is it just my browser? I’m using Brave w/VPN on this device.
Fixed, thanks.
After all, we know how much the left loves their law and order, emphasis on THEIR.
Capturing Mittens leaving is a great part of the video.
That was beautiful.
Yeah, I thought that was great. Was he ducking out so he could pull a Sgt. Schultz and claim he knows nothing?
[Engineer hat…]
Any system that does not include a corrective feedback mechanism will be susceptible to drift from external forces.
[…back]
Not that the Founding Fathers were engineers, but they sure understood this concept.
And as far as I know, there is no corrective feedback mechanism at the FBI. And there is an enormous incentive for Dems to weaponize the FBI against their enemies.
And this is the obvious result.
So it seems that three things are required:
One mechanism might be to require the political party registration of FBI employees to “look like America” (as the Dems would say).
The smarmy visual similarity is uncanny:
What Chris Wray is doing to the FBI and the US citizen is identical:
Until the FBI is destroyed, our freedom is in jeopardy. And the necessary trust between citizen and government cannot be mended.
Thanks, Scott; I could not get it to imbed in the post – sure would like to know what the secret is!
Thanks to @scottwilmot, I copied the address he had in his comment and it popped right up!
Thanks for this thoughtful and thought provoking comment-exactly the kind I hoped my post would engender. I do have some hope of seeing #1 happen, although I am very pessimistic about seeing any large scale cleaning out of the Augean stables which the current version of the FBI certainly does resemble, in more ways than one. #2 will not, practically by definition, take place within the next 2 years and I’m not even sure they will take place if we manage to get a Republican president in 2024. Add to that the fact that no DC jury, and it pains me to say this as one who spent his life practicing trial law before many juries, is going to convict anyone who even seems like they lean left, and certainly not the left’s beloved FBI. As to #3, maybe if we got a Republican Senate and House, in addition to the Presidency, and – most important qualification- those Senators and Representatives all had fully formed and functioning backbones, we might see something along the line you suggest. Other than a very few Representatives, and even fewer Senators, I sure don’t see many examples of what I think we’re going to need in much greater number than we have now.
Another point as to your engineering observation– it astonishes me how many parts of our Federal government have no corrective or accountability mechanisms whatsoever, with the FBI being at the forefront in this department as graphically illustrated by the sickeningly condescending performance of the wretched director in yesterday’s hearing. The look on his face was as if to say: I don’t have to answer to you– who in the hell do you think you are, anyway! To me some of the most persuasive evidence of all that they are completely out of control was the fact that they actually offered the guy from London who made up the “dossier” ONE MILLION DOLLARS if he could corroborate any parts of the dossier! Where in the world would they get that kind of money to back up charges they knew at the time they made the offer were false? How many millions (billions? who knows?) do they have just laying around? Pure, deep corruption.
Right.
It’s almost as if they *intentionally* left out any corrective or accounting mechanisms. Eh?
The two best things the new congress could do in this regard would be to:
Some of the restructuring will have to be done by current FBI agents, i.e., the whistleblowers. There is also too much access from the DOJ in that they are helping to steer the FBI ship. It’s like a Woke mayor, or Soros prosecutor telling a street cop to protect them and penalize their political enemies.
I think that there should be two individuals at the top of the FBI pyramid. One attorney and a real cop who has a lot of real street experience. The real cop would have looked at the request for FISA warrants and said we don’t have enough probable cause, evidence, nor a reliable informant. We cannot lie to a judge to obtain a warrant.
P.S. I cannot believe the FISA judges are not angry about being duped into granting warrants. Silence is approval I suppose, I hope I’m wrong.
As one who has faced the wrath of more than one Federal Judge, and even a few State Judges, over matters measuring about 1/10 of one percent of the gravity of what Clinesmith did all I can say is that the Judges on the FISA Court, as well as most of the Judges on the DC District Court, must be a totally different breed of Judge than the ones I dealt with. He actually, provably, admittedly, altered a document in a Federal Court filing to have it read the opposite of what it actually read. Had I done that with all of the Federal Judges I dealt with — not some, all — I would have had, at the very least, my ability to practice in Federal Court terminated and, most likely, my license suspended, at the very least, and maybe total and permanent disbarment. Some of the Federal Judges I dealt with, one or two in particular in New Orleans and several in Baton Rouge, would have, I have not doubt whatsoever, referred me for criminal prosecution. It is clear that I learned my ethics and practice in the Federal Courts in a much stricter world than did Mr. Clinesmith and Sztrok, Lisa Page, McCabe, Weissman, and all these other truly rotten people to whom all this seemed like some kind of little game with the Court system to be toyed with like a cat and mouse routine. And we now learn that Clinesmith has had his license fully reinstated by the DC Bar- after altering a document in a court record! This is absolutely and positively incomprehensible to me and I am sure it is the same with many, if not all, the lawyers I practiced with, and against.
The FISA Court must have had some idea, at least by the fourth FISA application, that they had effed this up big time. So it was in the FISA Court’s best interest to play along with the slow game, don’t say nothin to implicate themselves, and use the secrecy/classified thing and the passage of time to their advantage …. and eventually the Deep State will make it all disappear.
Which it has …. (paging Special Counsel Durham …. paging special Counsel Durham … the election is over so you can come out from behind the curtain and pretend to impart some important information) …. Which after 6 years much of the Country has completely forgotten about, and which the MSM will ignore, and the Right wing media will hyperventilate about for a week or so ….
…. And viola, the Biggest political scandal in US history has been successfully and quietly smothered in it’s crib.
The biggest problem with the current decline in the US politics is not the necessarily (D) itself, but rather the co-opting of the MSM to where our current MSM openly works for the (D) with no pretense of journalistic objectivity.
It seems a few very well informed professionals know how rotten the whole thing is. Don’t be silent about anything. It’s on us, the US, nobody else and the direction, the alternative besides rot, which is the nature of centralized politics whether private or public, is decline, major decline, unrecognizable decline.
While we’re on the subject of rot, this news just came out about our thoroughly rotten to the core Attorney General:
Still waiting on the appointment of the Special Prosecutor to investigate the Biden Crime Family. We can rest assured it will happen any day now……………..
Once great agency? When was that. When the then-called Bureau of Investigation was in the thick of spying on Congressmen investigating Teapot Dome and obstructing the investigation?
Or when they turned the job of investigating the Osage murders to an ex Texas Ranger who was a real lawman, because the college pro’s at the agency who despised those ex Texas Rangers were too incompetent and corrupt to do the job. And then Hoover shut down the investigations when he got a couple of major scalps, burnished the agency’s reputation, and left the job mostly undone? And only got the results they did because they had a real lawman in charge?
Or all those years that Hoover was spying on every politician in Washington?
Or all those years that the FBI was aiding and abetting the murders and crime spree of Whitey Bulger?
Or when the FBI was murdering Native Americans on reservations in the fight against that great enemy of America, the AIM?
Or when they were overstepping so that real domestic terrorists like Bill Ayers would get off of everything (Guilty as Sin, Free as a Bird) on technicalities?
Or when they were assassinating Randy Weaver’s wife?
Or when they were killing Branch Davidian?
Or when they were instigating the Oklahoma City bombing? (See Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, “The Secret Life of Bill Clinton”)
Or when they were harassing Cliven Bundy, who was eventually released and the FBI reprimanded with prejudice for their massive violations of his civil liberties?
Or when they were blowing the search for the individuals who became the 9/11 hijackers?
Or when they were falsifying FISA warrants?
And etc. and etc. and etc.
The FBI has always and only been a rogue agency. One might allow that Andrew McCarthy got a conviction of the Blind Sheik. One case.
Remember, Elliot Ness was an ATF agent, not FBI. And the FBI golden years were arguably during the tenure of G. Gordon Liddy.
A federal police force. The last thing the Founders ever wanted to see. The FBI was a creation of a Progressive President, and while tolerated and aided and abetted by Conservatives as well as Liberals, has represented a Progressive mind set since its inception. Teddy Roosevelt created it because he wanted his personal federal police force. Biden and Garland are carrying that idea to its logical conclusion, eg, an American Stasi.
We live in a police state now. Welcome to not-your-Founders America. If the FBI is not abolished, there will be no possibility of America remaining a free nation, a representative republic. But even if is is, the mind set that created, maintained, aided and abetted, or just tolerated the agency will remain. Even Andrew McCarthy, blinded as he is, is beginning to see the light, just a little; but has yet to grasp the depth and breadth of the corruption of FBI and Justice.
This is an excellent summary of the history of the deep corruption of the Federal Police Force. I would appreciate your permission to use it, in full, as a separate post on my blog, jimgeorge.substack.com, with full accreditation, of course. I’m not sure I have seen a better brief survey of what we are dealing with in my OP. Thank you.
And nobody will care.
The FBI and IRS all need to be at the state level. They can due high-level policies and say clerk work like compiling stats. But enforcement aka auditor and leo needs to be at the state. The only LEO authority the federal government should have is over federal lands and borders/customs.
The permanent bureaucracy is out of control. good thing moderate joe Biden unleashed 80k irs agent to keep these bureaucrat’s private jets in the air.
Small Note: Wray presumably has a taxpayer-funded government jet at his disposal, (even on vacation) to give him the sort of flexibility that a super-important government leader needs. That is, he’s got his own plane precisely so that he can, in fact, spend an extra twenty minutes (forty minutes, an hour, a day, however long it takes) answering questions at a Senate Oversight Committee hearing.
I have heard Andy on several podcasts. He doesn’t seem to think anything is really wrong with the FBI. He doesn’t offer any concrete ideas for reforming the agency. It’s very disappointing.
You didn’t say anything about budget cuts. Zeroing out every department that condoned or harbored wrongdoing would be a good start.