Whatever your opinion of the accidental U.S. president (that’s a dead give away), what does it mean to “discredit” the FBI?
Just hitting the high points:
- Efforts against Martin Luther King: In the latest JFK files: The FBI’s ugly analysis on Martin Luther King Jr., filled with falsehoods.
- FBI versus anti-war groups: ACLU Releases First Concrete Evidence of FBI Spying Based Solely on Groups’ Anti-War Views, Why Are FBI Agents Trammeling the Rights of Antiwar Activists?.
- FBI is anti-Palestinian: FBI targets US Palestine activists
- ACLU master list of FBI / JTTF spying. (political, environmental, anti-war and faith-based groups)
- Created a fake field of forensic science and hid it from prosecutors and judges, Pseudoscience in the Witness Box: The FBI faked an entire field of forensic science. (By the FBI’s own admission)
The FBI has a long history of lying and abuse, these being only some of the more recent examples.
So my question remains: What does it mean to “discredit” the FBI?
The FBI and its agents are unworthy of any belief by anyone. Their own records and admissions are a story of staggering from one lie to the next.
I’ll grant the FBI is large enough that honorable, hard working, honest agents must exist. But not enough of them to prevent the repeated fails at the FBI.
Anyone who credits any FBI investigation has motivations other than the factual record of the FBI.
PS: The Nunes memo confirms what many have long suspected about the FISA court: It exercises no more meaningful oversight over FISA warrants than a physical rubber stamp would in their place.