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Americans are losing trust and confidence in the FBI, and this has direct implications for national security. A whopping 63% view the station negatively, but the reason is hidden in plain sight. Over the past several years, there has been legitimate criticism of partisan decision-making at the upper echelons of FBI leadership. Dating back to the 2016 Trump-Russia investigation, high-handed overcharging of Trump campaign agents, blatantly unequal treatment of right-wing and left-wing protesters and rioters, and statements made at school board meetings. “Concerns, Big Tech’s Help in Suppressing 2020 Election Information, Exposure of Hunter Biden’s Laptop and Plans to Spread the Biden Family’s Clear Influence,” including labeling angry parents as “domestic terrorism.” The FBI’s seeming indifference to and laughably ridiculous Richmond Division intelligence product warnings against “radical traditionalist Catholics” raised eyebrows.
Many retired FBI agents, including the author, have long cautioned against criticism of the FBI by maintaining that concerns about bias and impartiality are tied to specific FBI officials. And we rightly commend the hard work and loyal service of the vast majority of men and women who make up the special agents who handle cases at the street level. But separating the FBI’s large rank-and-file from its questionable leadership is becoming extremely difficult.
Former FBI Chief of Criminal Investigation Chris Swecker recently outlined why it’s no longer just FBI executives who are fundamentally changing the bureau and moving it to the left. Swecker accepts responsibility for the FBI’s current hiring process.
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“A tectonic shift is occurring in the world.” [FBI] culture…[I]n is coming [FBI director] Jim Comey and he basically parachuted all these Justice Department political appointees into the FBI, and there was a gradual culture change during Comey’s tenure and afterward. [FBI director] Chris Ray The type of new employees they bring in are more opinionated, more idealistic, more liberal, more educated, more Ivy League, and they don’t just follow the facts, they also have their own ideology. I think it tends to insert, so it accelerates. Because the indoctrination that goes on in schools these days – if you’re virtuous and highly educated, you’re going to do other people’s thinking for them. We can decide that President Trump is unfit to be president, so we need to go after him. You could also decide that domestic terrorists only exist on the right side of the political aisle and not on the left side of the political aisle. You can pick winners and losers…it’s no longer “let’s just follow the facts”.I think that’s at the highest levels of the FBI…but I think it’s starting to trickle down to the city level. [rank and file agents] In the same way. “
The FBI declares that diversity remains “core to society.” [its] The preferred diversity that American universities advocate, similar to racial, gender, and sexual orientation, appears to eschew diversity of thought. Recall that last June, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Harvard University’s affirmative action policy. University of North Carolina. Still, liberal groupthink continues to permeate Harvard’s campus. The freshman class has 65 percent who identify as liberal/progressive and only 8 percent who identify as conservative, with 53 percent identifying as Democrat and 6 percent as Republican.
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Although the FBI doesn’t proudly tout its quota tradition, quotas have been part of diversity efforts dating back to at least the 1980s. The solidly conservative (and white) agent population naturally needed to be adjusted to better reflect the country’s population. But at what cost? Ultimately, it turned into a system of racial preferential treatment that unfairly rewarded less qualified applicants based on their skin color or gender. There is certainly no meritocracy.
J. Edgar Hoover, the father of the FBI, was born in 1895. Hoover hired James Wormley Jones, a World War I veteran who became the FBI’s first African-American special agent in 1919. This was approximately 29 years before President Harry Truman signed Executive Order 9981, which desegregated the U.S. military. But in 2015, a handful of FBI agents filed a complaint about a “waxy, life-sized statue of J. Edgar Hoover” housed in a New York City museum. What was the knee-jerk decision of the FBI Headquarters Public Relations Office? Remove “offensive” statues immediately to avoid “triggering” vulnerable agents. The Washington Post characterized it this way: “The decision to fire Mr. Hoover, who served as FBI director for 48 years and under 10 presidents, marks something of a cultural moment for the bureau. Mr. Hoover, once respected among FBI agents, is no longer universally admired.” Today’s agents and other employees of the crime-fighting organization he founded… I hate the history he represents…”
That same year, when Barack Obama’s “collaborator” Attorney General Eric Holder forced the Comey administration’s FBI to “resist accurate descriptions of terrorist attacks by extremists,” I felt the FBI was moving away from objective resource allocation. I stepped away and witnessed the attitude of “calling things as they are”. “Islamists,” which paints a more ambiguous picture of our efforts in “combat violent extremism.” The downplaying of the majority Muslim perpetrators of global terrorist attacks and how the Justice Department treated “insurrectionists” and angry parents at the Jan. 6 school board meeting. , let’s compare again to the ANTIFA and BLM anarchists and rioters of 2020. The FBI has also been accused by a whistleblower of artificially inflating domestic terrorism information about right-wing groups. It certainly seems one-sided and partisan, right?
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The majority of Americans distrust the FBI due to perceived bias and bias. This is clearly a difference in how a particular investigation is conducted depending on whether the subject is her R or D. Even the FBI Agents Association (FBIAA), which claims to represent active and retired agents, has moved visibly to the left in its advocacy. . The FBIAA honored controversial and embattled immunologist Dr. Anthony Fauci with the 2020 “Distinguished Service Award,” and the then-President announced that he was deployed to the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. He tweeted that the death of U.S. Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick was a “murder.” 2021. According to the coroner, Sicknick died of “natural causes.” Most egregiously, FBI agents knelt in shameful solidarity with, or fear of, the mob of BLM protesters (and rioters) who descended on Washington, D.C., in the wake of George Floyd’s death in the summer of 2020. The FBIAA awarded him a $100 gift card. These examples prove that bias doesn’t just permeate her FBI upper echelons. Some members of the special agent group were also infected.
As the ideological base of FBI recruits continues to shift to the left, FBI leadership must remain ever more vigilant to avoid further erosion of trust and confidence in the FBI’s impartiality. Why does declining trust in the FBI matter? Because part of its business is ensuring the trust of crime victims, those under investigation, and the American public, all of whom serve as the agency’s “eyes and ears.” Because it works. As calls to abolish the FBI grow louder, the FBI needs to heed these warnings. We need the FBI. But we cannot continue to whistle past the grave, refusing to accept the necessary reforms. Otherwise, it acts as a waterloo for authorities.
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