The Dirty Secret - The FBI has always been corrupt

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The Dirty Secret - The FBI has always been corrupt

Published: Thursday, February 8th, 2018 @ 3:57 am
By: Bobby Tony ( More Entries )

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The Dirty Secret – The FBI has always been corrupt

When someone tells you that a government agency should be above political influence, they are telling you that the people should not have any control over the government. Our government is a political creation in and of itself. It was designed to be a political form of government. The distinction is that we the people have the power to alter abolish or change the government at our option. I am not advocating a revolution; that is not necessary. We have the opportunity to correct the direction of the government every two years with our vote. The whole system is based on checks and balances and someone watching. We the people elect those someones.

Does anyone remember when J. Edgar Hoover ran the FBI. Every Politician in America was afraid of him. I often wondered why? (Well not really – It was an open secret that he had dirt on everyone) To be sure, the FBI has done a tremendous amount of good in fighting crime, however, no government agency or individual should be beyond Congressional Oversight. That was true with Hoover, it was true for Comey and it is true today.

He was appointed as the fifth director of the Bureau of Investigation — the FBI's predecessor — in 1924 and was instrumental in founding the FBI in 1935, where he remained director until his death in 1972 at the age of 77.

Later in life and after his death, Hoover became a controversial figure as evidence of his secretive abuses of power began to surface. He was found to have exceeded the jurisdiction of the FBI, and to have used the FBI to harass political dissenters and activists, to amass secret files on political leaders, and to collect evidence using illegal methods. Hoover consequently amassed a great deal of power and was in a position to intimidate and threaten sitting presidents.

One of his biographers, Kenneth Ackerman, writes that the allegation that Hoover's secret files kept presidents from firing him is a "myth". However, Richard Nixon was recorded in 1971 stating that one of the reasons he did not fire Hoover was that he was afraid of reprisals against him from Hoover.

President Truman said that Hoover transformed the FBI into his private secret police force:

... "we want no Gestapo or secret police. The FBI is tending in that direction. They are dabbling in sex-life scandals and plain blackmail. J. Edgar Hoover would give his right eye to take over, and all congressmen and senators are afraid of him. "— Harry S. Truman Wikipedia

Forty-Eight years as director of the FBI would indicate that it used to be a totally independent agency. By independent, I mean independent of the constitutional restraints regarding privacy, and a whole slew of other abuses of personal liberties. Hoover had information on almost every politician and public figure that insured his continued employment. When you have a culture built on that legacy, it should not be a surprise that some agents think they are above the law.

Now several questions occur to me:

Did J. Edgar Hoover amass all that information by himself?
If not, did he have the help of a cadre of FBI agents who used somewhat dubious surveillance techniques unrelated to criminal activities?
If the FBI thinks you are guilty of something, can they start an investigation and keep it from Congress and the public?.
If all FBI agents are non-partisan, why did some former FBI agents plan the break in of the Watergate Hotel in 1972? G. Gordon Liddy
Has anyone in the FBI destroyed documents to protect law breakers? Louis Patrick "Pat" Gray III
Has anyone in the FBI ever leaked anything to the media? James Comey

I submit that the FBI has long been a dubious protector of the rights of American Citizens. (FBI SCANDALS) I have two friends who served respectively with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and I can attest that both see criminals behind every bush. It is something along the lines that "if you are a hammer everything looks like a nail." Both are honest and dedicated (now retired) men who I believe acted in good faith while they were still working. However both have told me that both the FBI and the GBI leadership are highly political agencies which weave back and forth between whatever party is in power. Now I know that some would say that you can't paint the whole agency because of a few bad apples and I can agree with that assessment. I do believe however, that we cannot allow any agency to have a pass because they profess to be above reproach.

I would remind you of that overused phrase "one bad apple can spoil the whole bunch."

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Bobby Tony said:

( June 15th, 2018 @ 8:31 am )

I decided to revisit this article to see if It had any over the top opinions about the FBI leadership. In light of the recently released IG report (June 14, 201 it appears that the upper echelons of the FBI are still more loyal to their agency and their ideology than they are to the rule of law.

I notice the constant refrain from the media that no evidence was discovered which is not very persuasive to me. When you have highly trained lawyers and agents who know how to scoop out and trace evidence it seems to come as second nature they would also know how to conceal or remove evidence. While it might sound conspiratorial to think the absence of evidence is proof of wrong doing, I note that some of the information is till classified for public viewing.

What is most disturbing is that we ever trusted the FBI and Justice Department in the first place without the oversight of Congress. As nasty as it may seem to have partisan investigations of our government agencies, that appears to be the only way to uncover excesses of un-elected government employees. The Congress's job is to provide oversight of the Executive Branch and it subject to its own excesses but at least that is in the court of public opinion.

Once again the judgement falls into the domain of public opinion. Public opinion is a fickle thing but the founders understood the importance of the public's right to see the good, bad and the ugly and make an informed decision. I doubt that they were so naive as to think the decisions would always be correct or based on non-biased information. What they did understand, and we seem to be lacking today, is a faith in the pendulum of public opinion eventually settling in the middle of its wide arc swings.

In that respect all information possible should be available to the public. For many years, I have thought that our Top Secret and confidential classification system is terribly flawed to allow a mid-level government employee the ability to CLASSIFY something as secret.

Here is a sample video of Newton's Cradle which tends to make my point.

The Center Steel Ball is the Constitution.

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Bobby Tony said:

( December 7th, 2017 @ 6:05 am )

Just in case one thinks that the corruption is purely political, here is an example of the systematic abuse of the FBI in their crime lab. This excerpt was from 2012.

"Washington Post readers found out this morning that the Justice Department has been withholding information for years about hundreds or even thousands of cases that were tainted by faulty forensic work in the FBI Crime Lab. The front-page feature was based in large part on the work of Dr. Frederic Whitehurst, an NWC Board Member who was one of the FBI’s top scientists during the period of misconduct."

"The Inspector General report could have settled the issue, but the problems that Dr. Whitehurst reported, starting with his first whistle blower disclosures over 20 years ago, starting with his first whistle blower disclosures over 20 years ago, unfolded into the deep, drawn-out tragedy described in today’s Washington Post."

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