If the 1992 FBI slaughter of innocent people at Ruby Ridge, Idaho, or its shocking 2014 extrajudicial aggression against the peaceful Bundy family in Nevada were not enough to energize a contemporary call for the Federal Bureau of Investigations to be at least reduced in size and budget, if not completely eliminated for the challenge to the Constitution it represents – and if the FBI’s seeming coverup of the Hunter Biden laptop and its thuggish raid of Mar-A-Lago weren’t sufficient additional alarms – then perhaps this new information will change some minds.
John Solomon and Nick Givas report for JustTheNews that new documents reportedly given to the outlet by a former FBI agent reveal years of FBI “misconduct” – to put it mildly – that the tax-funded “Bureau” has swept under the proverbial rug.
“Scores of FBI employees have been caught over the last five years engaging in unethical and illegal conduct such as driving drunk, stealing property, assaulting a child, mishandling classified documents, and losing their service weapons — but they often escaped being fired, according to internal disciplinary files provided to Just The News.”
But remember, to question – in any way – the honor or even the constitutional justification of this entity that since its creation in 1908 has engaged in towering violations of the Bill of Rights is to run the risk of being labeled “unpatriotic” and “anti-American.”
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Seriously.
“One agent left a highly lethal M4 carbine unsecured in his government car during a Starbucks run and had the weapon stolen, but even he received only a two-week suspension despite violating the bureau's protocols for weapons storage, the records show.”
And the errors, possible crimes, and cover-ups are not isolated to the people some might first imagine: agents in the field.
“Typically emailed to all Bureau employees each calendar quarter, the FBI Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) reports provided to Just the News by a whistleblower afford an unprecedented look into the breadth of misconduct among the FBI's workforce of 35,000, including agents, intel analysts, lab scientists and crime scene technicians.”
All of whom get our cash, whether we want to pay them, or we don’t.
“The reports show there were at least 23 cases of agents and Bureau staff driving under the influence (DUI) but only five resulted in termination, while the others received suspensions or retired. There were several other incidents involving alcohol unrelated to driving that also drew short-term suspensions.”
Yet, it took a whistleblower to reveal the information.
“The reports show there were at least 23 cases of agents and Bureau staff driving under the influence (DUI) but only five resulted in termination, while the others received suspensions or retired. There were several other incidents involving alcohol unrelated to driving that also drew short-term suspensions.”
This sounds less like a “law enforcement” agency, and more like a club of interested parties willing to turn blind eyes to the wrongdoing of their friends.
In fact, while the FBI often appears to be the tool of whatever politicians are in power – leading, some might argue, to a politically motivated raid on Donald Trump’s Florida estate, the agency itself treats quite differently those who “mistakenly take home” classified material:
“For taking classified materials home without permission or notice, another agent was taken off the job for only two weeks.”
One wonders what the Weaver family, whom the FBI attacked in 1992, would have said if they could have had the chance to live two more weeks with the loved ones that the U.S. government agents killed in Idaho. One wonders what the Bundy family would have done if they had been left alone, rather than legally and physically surrounded by the feds for nearly two weeks in 2014.
And one wonders what Americans would do if they looked at the long history of this political police force and actually saw its long history of questionable activity.
Perhaps those Americans might call for a return of Constitutional operations for the U.S. government, not this color-of-law system under which we suffer, and into which we are forced to drop the fruits of our labor.