Posted on 12/16/2019 10:56:43 AM PST by Enlightened1
Former CIA and FBI Director William Webster declared in an op-ed Monday that the Federal Bureau of Investigation is not a “broken institution” and criticizing it threatens the “rule of law,” in an attempt to quell public outcry over agents’ misconduct during the 2016 election.
Webster’s full-throated defense of the two agencies comes amid the fallout from the Department of Justice Inspector General (IG) report, in which it was confirmed that FBI officials made 17 “significant inaccuracies and omissions” in its submissions to the FISA court to obtain warrants to surveil former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page during the 2016 presidential election.
“The rule of law is the bedrock of American democracy, the principle that protects every American from the abuse of monarchs, despots and tyrants. Every American should demand that our leaders put the rule of law above politics,” he added.
Webster then lashed out at President Donald Trump for criticizing the FBI over DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s findings, suggesting his remarks threaten the bureau’s independence. The former official expressed his full confidence in FBI Director Christopher Wray and said the notion that he could be removed from his post, akin to the bureau’s previous director, James Comey, “disturbs me greatly.”
Webster then took aim at the president for referring to anti-Trump FBI officials implicated in Horowitz’s report as “scum” and attempted to cast doubt on Attorney General William Barr’s independence, citing U.S. Attorney John Durham’s now-criminal investigation into the origins of the FBI’s Russia probe.
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Ask him if Clint Eastwood is wrong to criticize corrupt agents who sought to convict an innocent man who tried to save lives at the Atlanta Olympics bombing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSMxBLlA8qY
Yet another Made Guy of the DC Mafia weights in to protect his gang’s racket.
Seems to me that the imminent threat to the rule of law and the Constitution is the FBI itself - kind of harkens back to the J. Edgar Hoover days (not that they ever really went away. They got away with a lot of F-ups in the period leading up to 9/11, but now their malfeasance is visible to all who care to look.
ML/NJ
Need to start a list of things that are not allowed to be criticized:
The FBI
The media
Bureaucrats
Etc.
They are the American Stasi now - time to start over with them.
Actually, the US citizens need to see a full listing of the alphabet agencies and what they do.
Nice!
The former director of the FBI has knowingly and repeatedly lied to his employers, THE PEOPLE, and used the weapons under his care to defy the people and to disrupt the fair election of the president of the United States. Until he and the rest of the cabal are brought to justice, our institutions shall remain suspect. It’s a travesty that they were allowed to continue the Russia sham for as long as they did. And the current sham of impeachment for nothing is in complete defiance of the people.
“Former CIA and FBI Director William Webster declared in an op-ed Monday that the Federal Bureau of Investigation is not a “broken institution”........”
IF the former says about the current his perspective of the current is that of the former, then the former is as corrupt as the current.
Rule of law?? LOL!! What a joke! Laws are only for the chumps. Not them.
Homosexuals
Islamists
Willy, it appears broken from the outside when viewed by citizens.
Well said.
Look, while all this started before the Obamas, everyone knows the Obamas, with ValJar, brought Chicago style politics to DC.
No, don’t start over.
Remove any mechanism they abuse, and never, ever replace it.
I will invite an arsonist or a child molester to spend a night in my home before I spend ten seconds speaking with an FBI agent. And I am adamant that I will never convict a defendant in any case prosecuted by the U.S. Department of Justice until every Federal law enforcement agency is disbanded and reconstituted from the ground up.
Take your sanctimonious sh!t about your corrupt Federal law enforcement bureaucracy and stick it up your @ss.
P.S. — If the FBI is so critical to the rule of law in the U.S., then how did this country survive for almost 120 years without it?
Lex Talionis! The public cane, Stocks, Gibbet, and Gallows..........MAGA
When justice is done, it brings joy to the righteous but terror to evildoers.
Proverbs 21:15
Had ENOUGH Yet ? ........................ Enforce the Bill of Rights .........It is the LAW.
“Only a warrior chooses pacifism; others are condemned to it.”
Eduardo Garcia
The history of the FBI is filled with corruption and illegal activity with major scandals every few years. It should have been destroyed years ago.
If they’re going to make 40 some changes....you’re damn right it’s broken.
The FBI is beyond repair.
Disband it.
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