TIME TO CLEAN DIRTY FBI

The dueling memos put out by the Republican and Democratic members of the House Intelligence Committee, that are being so fiercely debated by career politicians and media pundits, agree on one thing. The FBI is dirty — maybe even criminal — in its conduct and behavior. The rogue-criminal clique in senior and overall management, is to be distinguished from the agents on the street. The rank-and-file. These agents are smart and they know who is under attack and are glad and supportive.  They are just as dismayed and concerned as the general public that their cherished institution has been dragged from its premier position as the objective and neutral arm of justice and turned into a partisan enforcer of political elites and their goals.

I am referring to the conduct of the desk jockeys, management, senior management. The likes of senior executive Peter Strzok, who had edited — changed — then Director-Comey’s characterization of Secretary Clinton’s voluminous e-mails found in her unofficial, unsecured and unclassified home computer network from “grossly negligent” (criminal) to “extremely careless” (non-criminal).

Strzok’s high ranking in the management hierarchy has been downplayed by the media. He is referred to simply as a special agent, an errand boy. In fact he was a deputy assistant director, a boss, a decision maker. He was re-drafting directorial pronouncements, drafting e-mails characterizing the president of the U.S. as “an idiot,” engaging actively in conversations with now former Deputy Director Andrew McCabe and now former FBI Counsel Lisa Page, in which they were arguably attempting to influence the outcome of the presidential election.

Created in 1935, the FBI history documented in volume 6 of Michael Newton’s 2017 history of the agency, includes 1,000 pages of a 1976 list of FBI misbehavior, tracing J. Edgar Hoover’s criminal behavior back to 1939.

During the 1960s, the FBI spied on Students for a Democratic Society, Civil Rights movements and their leaders, including Martin Luther King Jr., even though they had not committed any crime and were merely exercising their right of free speech. They even spied on John Lennon because of the lyrics of his songs.

Today, the FBI is the NSA’s primary partner in domestic spying that allows them to review millions of photographs, e-mails and phone conversations of U.S. citizens who are not suspected of or have committed any crime. All in the name of national security and in violation of Article 4 of the Constitution that prohibits unreasonable searches!

The FBI and Department of Justice use of an unverified opposition research report to obtain a FISA warrant to spy on a Trump campaign volunteer that likely expanded to include others on the Trump team — before and after the election — while withholding knowledge from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court that the dossier was paid for by the Democratic National Committee and Clinton campaign is criminal. The fact that Christopher Steele, the author of the dossier, who worked with the FBI, and was fired after he disclosed to the media he was working with them — was not disclosed to the FISA court — is mind boggling. Even more shameful is the fact that Steele briefed a reporter at Yahoo News, and the Yahoo story was used as evidence to corroborate his dossier for a FISA renewal — despite the fact that sources for both were Steele.

Former FBI Director James Comey — who signed off on three FISA applications, former Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates, and Deputy Attorney general Rod Rosenstein are criminals.  Comey described the Trump dossier as “unverified and salacious” in sworn testimony, yet still signed off on its contents.

The FBI has become a powerful political tool used and abused by powerful political elites for their personal benefit at the expense of We the Maids.

It is important to remember how the German police shifted from protectors of the people to enforcers of Nazi ideology. It is important that We the Maids — the people — be vigilant and sweep out all corrupting influences on America’s law enforcement agencies, be it the FBI or local police, to make sure they are not above the law and enforce the law objectively and impartially and do not become rogue-criminal organizations enforcing the will of a particular family, group, organization or individuals — especially a political elite. Never Again, especially in America.

The Bureau’s reopening of the Clinton Foundation investigation may signal a major house cleaning initiative to remove the existing dirt — corruption — a return to the tradition of public corruption investigations unfettered by political influence and unintimidated by the prominence of those under investigation. The beginning of a concerted effort to restore the FBI to its historic prominence as the global model for objective, impartial, and ultra-competent law enforcement — an absolute must of a democratic republic.