Fascism.
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Sad day for a once competent organization. This is just straight up election interference.
They were never competent; the FBI has always been crooked.
Remember that this is the same organization that tried to blackmail Martin Luther King Jr. into committing suicide.
Before that, they were instrumental in the Red Scare, and before that they were involved in the internment of Japanese Americans during World War 2.
Am I naive for thinking that due their compartmentelization there are good things happening and bad things happening and we can't just abolish the whole thing due to some silos that get away with disgusting things?
To be clear I'm not trying to defend them at all, tying to understand. And I'd err on the side of abolishment personally. But I don't have solid views or reasoning on the matter.
So my question to someone with your perspective is, is there any good they do that is worth preserving somehow? If you could reshape their entire mission, power structure, and oversight personally, is there anything good there that you would keep?
TIA if you spend effort replying.
As a whole they are rotten from the beginning like all the other agencies. Hell even the army core of engineers poisoned citizens with radiation on purpose in inner cities.
Any organization that allows inexcusable behavior is fundamentally flawed as an organization even if that behavior is somehow isolated in silos.
The whole point of having an organization is to align all the people in the org so if subgroups of people are doing horrible things then that means (at best) the org was missing the necessary guardrails to prevent that.
As for somehow reforming it; don’t bother. It would be better to restart with new organizations that don’t have the baked in, systemic flaws of the original.
Disgusting.
All elements of the FBI need to be dismantled with great prejudice.
"Wait for the midterms" morons in shambles
Only gonna get worse over the next few months.