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I hope they'll be OK, individually, and as an institution. I think of the modern FBI as generally straight-laced people, who take their sworn duty seriously.
by neilv 2y ago
I hope they'll be OK, individually, and as an institution.
I think of the modern FBI as generally straight-laced people, who take their sworn duty seriously.
Among all the crazy coup-like dismantling and subversion of government going on in recent weeks... starting purges of principled people who might still have some power to help keep a rogue branch in check... I guess would be one of the moves.
- ctrlp 2y ago[flagged]
- jf 2y agoSurely there is an other way that doesn’t involve exposing American citizens to violence
- amarcheschi 2y agoEvery human being is politicized. Especially if we're talking about the people in organizations that in the cold war period funded far right terrorism in europe, and organized coups in south america
- neilv 2y agoAre you saying that there's a problem of people in the FBI being politicized?
- thehoff 2y agohttps://apnews.com/article/trump-loyalty-white-house-maga-vetting-jobs-768fa5cbcf175652655c86203222f47c https://apnews.com/article/trump-loyalty-white-house-maga-ve...
- dialup_sounds 2y agoIt's apparent that the ones that executed their lawful duty to investigate crimes are the ones that are likely to lose their positions, solely on the basis of the President's--a man whose second impeachment was over his incitement of insurrection--support of those crimes. The entire thing is about politics, not principles.
- ctrlp 2y agoNot apparent at all. You need to update your mental model. "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so."
- dialup_sounds 2y agoI don't think you can take Kash Patel's history of statements about J6 and the FBI to mean he intends to give them a pat on the back.