The FBI Has Been Political from the Start
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FamD2Udmotk
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Mises Media | 05 December 2024}
The Washington political establishment is alarmed that President-elect Trump wants to appoint Kash Patel as FBI director
[see this thread - OB], claiming that Trump’s choice will “politicize” the FBI. However, the FBI has always acted as secret police for the established political class.
Read the article here:
https://mises.org/mises-wire/fbi-has-been-political-start [see below - OB]
The FBI Has Been Political from the Start
https://mises.org/mises-wire/fbi-has-been-political-start
{Connor O'Keeffe | 04 December 2024}
On Saturday night, Donald Trump
announced he intends to appoint Kash Patel as director of the FBI
[see this thread - OB]. The news sparked an immediate
frenzy from establishment
figures across media and politics. Legal and national security “experts” were deployed to the Sunday morning news shows to
characterize the move as evidence that Trump intends to politicize the FBI and use it as a weapon against his many political opponents.
The political establishment’s concerns about what a Trump FBI could do mirror a lot of what we’ve heard from the right in recent years as they found themselves in the Bureau’s crosshairs.
But almost all of these complaints and warnings have operated under the assumption that—with maybe the exception of a few bad episodes in the 1960s—the FBI has long been an essential crime-fighting force that has only recently become—or threatens to become—corrupted by politics.
In truth, the FBI has always been used as a weapon against political movements and rivals of the established political class. That’s the reason it was created.
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