Commentary
If you’re not thoroughly fed up with our Department of Justice and its Federal Bureau of Investigation by now, you should be. The agency, frequently referred to as the world’s premier law enforcement organization, has run out of eyes to be blackened with its overt politicization.
Since the unprecedented raid on the former President Trump’s home at Mar-a-Lago, the conservative media has again found the need to come down hard on the FBI.
“Again,” because they didn’t correct the internal deficiencies revealed by Justice IG Michael Horowitz and the Mueller investigation that shot down Trump’s involvement with Russia.
And “again” because they withheld information from Hunter Biden’s laptop and the Biden family corruption in the months leading to the 2020 election. If you doubt its effect, you need to know that seven months before the election, 53 percent believed that the Steele dossier was real.
Questioned last week by Sen. Charles Grassley about the FBI attempt to discredit the agents who spoke up about how “verified and verifiable” information about Hunter Biden was labeled “disinformation,” FBI Director Christopher Wray called it “troubling.” He pledged to protect against retaliation of whistleblowers. Yeah, right.
One wonders if there is an agent out there willing to speak out about the raid and the effort, in general, to keep Trump from seeking office again.
Here are few of the recent headlines: “FBI, R.I.P.?,” “Where is the FBI’s Rubicon?” and “The FBI’s Bad Apples: The Bureau’s Worst Days.”
The stories are filled with the names of FBI operatives, who were hell bent to keep Trump from office, and when that strategy failed, they began an effort to remove him from office.
While the John Durham’s investigation of the FBI role continues over the fabricated opposition research dossier attempting to smear Trump, paid for by the Clinton campaign, we must stay optimistic. You know who they are: Comey, McCabe, Strzok, Page, Clinesmith, and Orr.
Despite the damage they did to the lives of a number of Trump associates, they’re now merely referred to as “a few bad apples.” Every organization has them, but for an agency with the immense power of the FBI, they should be held accountable for their abuses. Punished.
Recalling the text messages between agents Strzok and Page, discussing their plan to stop Trump, many of us were blown away when we read IG Horowitz’s statement that there was “no evidence of political bias or improper motivation … we did not find documentary or testimonial evidence of intentional misconduct on the part of case agents.”
“Government is inherently inefficient and messy,” writes Ken Braun. He notes that the Post Office has “bad apples”… but the civil rights of individuals aren’t severely violated when a piece of mail is lost or stolen.
Clearly, disgraced former FBI Director Comey took pride in his agency’s role as a domestic political weapon, once practiced under former director J. Edgar Hoover, who is known for his shady surveillance of Martin Luther King, the Kennedy’s, and others. With the Russian collusion hoax, Comey felt justified in elevating counterintelligence surveillance on Trump allies.
“If you believe this has to do with classified documents, having to do with bullshit Trump took with him when he left office, your head is in the sky,” says pundit Megyn Kelly. “This is about January 6, and the never-ending desire to get Donald Trump on something.
“They don’t want him to run for election again. They’re mad that he did not get convicted on the first or second impeachment, they are mad that he did not get pursued criminally by the New York D.A.”
Justice is Not Blind and Neither Are We
Attorney General Merrick Garland, the man ultimately responsible for the actions taken by the FBI, conceded that he “personally approved the decision to seek a search warrant in this matter.”
He had the gall to criticize what he referred to as “recent unfounded attacks on the professionalism of the FBI and Justice Department agents and prosecutors,” adding that “I will not stand by silently when their integrity is unfairly attacked.”
This from the man who, in October of 2021, in another overreach, felt the need to issue a threat assessment on parents who voice concern with school boards and teachers over educational methods and the disturbing content of curriculums.
The same mam who spoke of “faithful adherence to the rule of law being the bedrock principle of the Justice Department and of our democracy,” while refusing to arrest those who illegally demonstrated at the homes of Supreme Court Justices.
Ironically, the FBI – as Victor Davis Hanson noted – “has become an existential threat to our democracy and rule of law.”
“Will the astonishing raid on Mar-a-Lago be the line in the sand, the Rubicon, the straw that broke the camel’s back?” asks Roger Kimball of The Spectator. “Maybe. The volume of the response this time has been turned up. Eyebrows are raised. Concern – make that deep concern – is being voiced.”
Will Americans continue to voice concern, or will they merely “go back to their lattes” as Kimball worries?
FINALLY … PONDER THIS: While Garland referred to the standard practice of narrowing the scope when any search is undertaken, you should know that the warrant called for “Any government, and or, presidential records created between Jan. 20, 2017, and Jan. 20, 2021.”
May we remain vigilant, and may God continue to bless the Unites States of America.
