Go here to read about it. A lot of Banana Republics would be ashamed at how blatantly obvious this is. If the Stasi FBI is now the armed private police of a political faction, they should be prepared to be so treated when the other political faction comes to power. Hoover’s bastard offspring have much to answer for.
Per the story, it’s not the FBI that’s doing it– they’re just some of those ones given the arrest warrants.
(Contrast with the FBI investigations and arrests.)
That the DOJ is taking over investigations that were dropped over a year ago for lack of support, which they have no case for and wouldn’t have authority if they DID have a case, and are not working with folks they’re in full contact with the lawyers of– THAT is worrying.
If the FBI is so innocent, why are they not simply telling the DOJ to stuff it? If they had the standards they purport to have, that is exactly what they would do. Agents of good will should resign rather than carry out these banana republic raids. Following orders is not, it needs to be said yet again, a defense in such a case.
Shoot, that means we can’t even trust Mulder and Scully too!
If the FBI is so innocent, why are they not simply telling the DOJ to stuff it?
Because that is not how the system works, ignoring that “the FBI” is not a single unit. That’s the entire POINT of breaking things down into smaller parts– corruption is isolated.
The orders are legal, EVEN IF the case is freaking nonsense.
The fail-safe is the guys who approved the warrant, not the guys serving it.
If the orders were illegal- just like with the military– then they would have standing to say “no.”
But “you are a freaking moron who is doing something you obviously have no standing for, and you got someone to sign off on it” is not an illegal order.
“They” are a group, not a single unit. Even the DC field office, which has done most of the direct and clearly illegal stuff, has a very public whistle blower.*
Those cases where “the” FBI was doing objectively stupid stuff– the office doing it felt the need to exclude other FBI offices. This is not the behavior of a unified group, this is the behavior of folks who know they transgress.
I’ve listened to folks in multiple services raise holy hell about legal but moronic orders.
Blaming the guy who has to do the skut work is not effective.
A law enforcement officer who executes a political warrant is culpable. It’s like saying they didn’t transport the inmates to the concentration camps, they just turned on the gas. Those given arrest warrants have a higher obligation to “duty, honor, and country” which, if followed would stop these outrages.
Look at the Pillow Guy warrant.
The media screams about “The FBI.” They say nothing about it being Colorado State that is doing the BS.
The FBI could easily be broken up with the criminal function assigned to the Secret Service and the Counter Intelligence assigned to the State Department. Final step would be to fire or transfer to other agencies everyone GS 13 and above (Supervisory Special Agent) and close the unneeded office space.
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I care not at all that the warrants were “legal.” The orders to arrest Jews in Germany and Putin’s orders to “annex” Ukrainian territory were “legal”, too. These agents have a moral obligation not to participate in obvious political persecution. Period.
I have read claims that dozens of agents have met with Republican Congressmen as whistleblowers. If that is so, then more power to them, and I would thank them personally if I could for taking their oaths seriously. We shall see, perhaps, if control of Congress flips next month, and the GOP leadership doesn’t betray their voters again.
I also don’t buy “that’s now how it works.” “It” works however the cogs in the machine allow it to work. As an example, we lawyers have a clear ethical obligation to resign from representing a client whom we know is disregarding or plans to disregard our advice against criminal or unethical activity, even if that means losing our job. That is spelled out in our Code of Professional Responsibility, which is enshrined in most states’ legal licensing codes. It seems to me that enforcement officers should operate under no less stringent a standard, or they are no better than thugs with badges and guns. And what about local office heads and local LEA leadership? During the Covid insanity, we cheered the stories of county sheriffs and local police chiefs who refused to order their subordinates to enforce obviously excessive mandates issued by unelected bureaucrats and power-mad elected officials. Most of the public would similarly cheer law enforcement personnel, especially at the command level, who had the guts and the integrity to refuse to execute obviously political search or arrest warrants. The national media would ignore them, of course, but local media are not always so compliant with the Regime, and alternate media exist and become more effective each day, as more and more people realize how often the “legacy media” lie to them or hide the truth. The word would get out, and the tyrants like Garland would soon find themselves standing in political quicksand.
I have said here before that I am from a family of law enforcement officers, and that I have several close friends who are former FBI or Secret Service agents. Every one of them I have spoken with agrees with me on this issue. At some point you just say “No, I will not do that,” or else you leave your integrity at the door. All the arguments come down to this. Please, Foxfier, I have such great respect for you. Stop trying to defend the indefensible.
These agents have a moral obligation not to participate in obvious political persecution.
You want to give law enforcement the power to decide what laws they are going to enforce, or not?
Rather than doing the hard work of making it so that Congressionally passed laws are not stupid and/or evil?
There’s a reason they’re abusing an existing law, rather than trying to make new rules to achieve their goals– your examples for the refusal to enforce, or shouldn’t have enforced, were specifically bad, rather than false accusations of violating a 30 year old law.
I have read claims that dozens of agents have met with Republican Congressmen as whistleblowers.
That was a single congressman, FWIW– and I’m still conflicted on if he should’ve not said something, those guys could get harmed without fixing anything.
I’m flattered that you have respect for me; from you, that matters.
I am still going to focus on accurately identifying the problems, and “the FBI” as a single unit is not it. We don’t even know if agents did refuse to be involved in serving this warrant.
One of these days, in one of these outrageous assaults by the state against a prolifer or other conservative, one of those jack-booted FBI dudes is going to get shot. That will only worsen matters, but from time immemorial, there is no peace without justice, and so it’s not a question of if, but when.
We are long past the rule of law. At this point in our history “legal” and “illegal” only mean “what the elites can get away with” and “what they cannot.”
For example, were the CDC’s rent moratoriums legal? They had no authority to make these “recommendations,” especially after the Supreme Court said so in everything short of an official ruling. But they still made those orders, and they were still followed by officials across the country. They were “legal” only because the elites got away with it.
In such an environment saying “I had to follow these orders because they were ‘legal'” is nothing but moral cowardice.