The past year has been an unmitigated disaster for the men and women of the FBI. They were betrayed by apparatchiks in the Justice Department, led by mole-like Attorney General Merrick Garland, who acted like Grand Inquisitor to Joe Biden’s very real persecution of anything constitutional. Apart from Jim Crow – another Democratic Party initiative – our civil rights have never been more threatened, abused or abrogated.
FBI Director Christopher Wray presided over some of the most disastrous abuses of power in FBI history. The Watergate scandal, an egregious breach of executive privilege for which no one was held accountable and led to the impeachment of President Nixon, pales in comparison to the list of abuses of 2022.
The invasion of Mar-a-Lago by a Gestapo-like phalanx of FBI agents led by Justice Department politicians and FBI headquarters was breathtaking in its unbridled hubris. The deeply collusive behavior of former and current FBI agents on Twitter is deeply disturbing. It is vital to note, however, that while conspiracy theories are tempting to play around with because they are simplistic, it is much more likely that these bad actors are not conspirators but share a common liberal worldview.
Moreover, the fact that former FBI agents work for a social media company is not necessarily a bad thing. In fact, the FBI is doing very necessary work by working with substantial tech to share threat intelligence and collaborate on solutions.
The swearing-in of the recent Congress may be a reason for cautious optimism. The recent Republican chairman of the Judiciary Committee, Jim Jordan of Ohio, and Republican James Comer of Kentucky, who heads Oversight and Reform, have promised hearings. Well, we’ve heard this before. The Wall Street Journal’s Kim Strasser reports that Republicans are considering creating a recent select subcommittee on federal weapons. Again, we’ve heard this before.
There’s a lot of conversation going on at this point. Some real action would be a welcome change from the mostly indifferent Republican Party.
Comer looks forward to dismantling the FBI, and Andrew McCarthy has dredged up an aged post-9/11 slogan: Let’s split the FBI into separate criminal and intelligence components. Both claims are simplistic slogans and do not bode well for the implementation of any real solutions to the abuses of the Department of Justice and the FBI. Moreover, this myopic obsession with “doing something” for the FBI ignores the head of the snake – the Department of Justice.
People on Twitter, Truth Social, and podcasts can blow the “defund the FBI” whistle until their capillaries burst, but no amount of whistleblowing on this trope will produce any real results. Lawmakers need real solutions, and dancing fan clowns trying to compensate for their own professional shortcomings only obfuscate the path forward.
Recent Wall Street Journal The Op Ed article described the problem accurately: “In November, Judiciary Republicans defined the problem this way: “The problem is the FBI’s structure, which centralizes high-profile cases in DC, in the hands of politicized actors with politicized incentives. It’s just that the problem – the rot in the FBI – is festering in and out of Washington.”
You can now tune out all the other noise about how rank-and-file FBI agents are somehow to blame for not “falling on their swords” and supporting a pair of disgruntled former employees. If we want real change, we will need to support congressional efforts to change leadership at the Justice Department and the FBI.
The solutions aren’t too complicated and aren’t great. A few elementary New Year’s resolutions will do the trick.
First, the Attorney General must be replaced by someone who respects our civil rights and the Constitution, which limits the power of the federal government. It’s elementary, but it will require a radical change of power in the White House. Instead of an elderly mannequin controlled by the radical left, we will need a real president with Trump’s characteristics who will attack and dismantle the bureaucratic state.
The second resolution has precedent within the FBI. Two former directors — Clarence Kelly and Louis Freeh — were actually agents before they were chosen to head the FBI. This makes a lot of intuitive sense, right? So instead of selecting a CEO from a list of empty suits, wouldn’t it dramatically boost the likelihood of creating the right leadership environment by appointing an FBI director who has actually worked on specific cases and who deeply respects and understands the role of law enforcement in protecting our civil liberties?
Third, any coalescence of power tends to breed corruption. Therefore, ensuring that FBI cases are handled at the Field Office level rather than at the headquarters level will ensure that investigations remain under the control of those good people at the FBI who are law enforcement professionals, not career criminals.
We still have almost two years of Joe Biden’s faint, befuddled presidency. Two more years of leftist tyranny of the Democratic Party. Let us pray that our Republican leaders in Congress can make amends and hold the leadership of the Department of Justice and the FBI accountable.
