03-11-2016, 09:51 PM
Tracy Riddle Wrote:Poor stupid Chris Cillizza thinks that Elliot Ness was in the FBI rather than the Treasury Dept, that a fictional character says something about the real-life FBI, and apparently has never heard of J. Edgar Hoover, COINTELPRO, their persecution of MLK, or the FBI lab scandals of recent decades. No, only recently has it all started to wrong.
[URL="http://www.denverpost.com/2016/11/03/fbi-controversy/"]
http://www.denverpost.com/2016/11/03/fbi-controversy/[/URL]
[FONT=&]The FBI has long been an iconic institution in American life. From Elliot Ness to Clarice Starling, the image of the FBI unflappable, smart and relentlessly fair has been sterling. After the last week's announcement by FBI Director James Comey that the investigation into Hillary Clinton's private email server continues, it's hard to see it staying that way.[/FONT]
[FONT=&]Wrote The Washington Post's Roz Helderman, Tom Hamburger and Sari Horwitz in a story headlined "After another release of documents, FBI finds itself caught in a partisan fray": "For the second time in five days, the FBI had moved exactly to the place the nation's chief law enforcement agency usually strives to avoid: smack in the middle of partisan fighting over a national election, just days before the vote."[/FONT]
[FONT=&]Clinton and her allies including President Barack Obama(!) are criticizing Comey for stepping into the fray so close to an election. Republicans, who spent the last several months castigating Comey for failing to indict Clinton over the email server when he initially wrapped the investigation in July, are now singing his praises.[/FONT]
[FONT=&]The result of the FBI-as-political-football narrative is nothing but bad for the bureau. Here's what the NBC political unit wrote of the impact on the FBI in all of this mishigas:[/FONT]
[FONT=&]"Another U.S. institution the FBI has taken a hit. (It's especially true after all of the obvious leaks coming from the FBI and Justice Department.) And that news isn't good for the country's democracy."[/FONT]
[FONT=&]No, it's not.[/FONT]
Law enforcement and the military are bastions of the bible-thumping American Dominionist Proto-Autocracy.
These are the same people who make sure there is an "indefinite detention clause" in the National Defense Authorization Act when its re-approved every year.
The indefinite detention clause allows the military to pick up anyone they want and hold them incommunicado for as long as they want.
Obama signed an order exempting US citizens. The Dominionists wouldn't be so generous.
The Kaucasian Khristian Kaliphate is desperate, pulling out all the stops with Comey and his merry band of Leaking Trumpeters.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016...nald-trump