The power brokers in our society have always known that Biden is completely corrupt and could be bought. To get Orange Man Bad they put him in his senility in purported charge of the nation as a useful puppet. No matter how deeply you think the corruption runs, you are probably an optimist.
The FBI is as Pure as the Driven Slush
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
The man who led the FBI investigations in the aftermath of Waco and Ruby Ridge? Color me shocked.
I cannot help but note that every single FBI director since 1919 has been a lawyer and every single one since 1978 has been a quondam prosecutor and / or judge. None of them every worked as cops and only one (Louis Freeh) had some time under his belt as a plainclothes investigator. Maybe one element of a program to repair federal law enforcement (in addition to breaking up the FBI and firing all the line employees in the Washington HQ) should be to require those put in charge of federal law enforcement agencies have a minimum time under their belt as uniformed officers, be drawn from those who’ve spent most of their time in law enforcment working for state and local forces, and be innocent of time in prosecutor’s offices or on the bench
Sounds like a pretty good prescription to me, Art. Hoover was the one, IIRC, who mandated that all agents have law degrees. Not shocking that it eventually morphed into “all Directors should be lawyers, too.”
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When the FBI was established, its prime job was investigation, not enforcement, hence the old rule that special agents had to be lawyers or accountants. The mission has changed, in ways even Hoover did not want (e.g. he wanted nothing to do with drug enforcement). The mission comes before the job specs, so we need a national debate: what is the FBI for? You could re-establish it as a purely investigative agency, who would hand off enforcement to US marshals or local police. No special ops, field agents with guns only for self-defense in special cases.