By Frank Miele for RealClearPolitics
Nothing symbolizes the decline of the American republic higher than the weaponization of justice that we noticed final week when the FBI raided the house of former President Trump.
And nothing higher represents the divide that now exists between Democrats and Republicans than the truth that some individuals nonetheless think about the FBI.
Aren’t they paying consideration? Heck, that’s like a citizen of the outdated Soviet Union saying they’d religion within the KGB – yeah, to crush dissent and lock up opponents of the regime in a Siberian gulag.
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The proof is overwhelming. The Federal Bureau of Investigation is now the Federal Bureau of Intimidation. Or extra appropriately, the Federal Intimidation Bureau, whose acronym would spell out FIB, as within the Huge Lie. Face it, nothing the FBI has stated for the final six years since they joined with the Democratic Get together to invent the Russia collusion hoax will be taken significantly.
Is there any must undergo the entire laundry listing of lies and fabrications that the FBI, with the help and luxury of the Justice Division, has foisted on the American public?
You can begin with the extraordinary 2016 press convention when FBI Director James Comey detailed crimes dedicated by presidential candidate Hillary Clinton associated to her improper use of a non-public e mail account to retailer categorized materials. Moments after saying she had damaged the regulation, Comey introduced with a straight face that “no affordable prosecutor” would ever carry a case towards her. Yeah, as a result of she was a Democrat!
A pair months later, Comey arrange President Trump’s Nationwide Safety adviser, Gen. Michael Flynn, by sending brokers to interview him about his supposed contacts with Russians.
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“What’s our aim? Reality/Admission or to get him to lie, so we are able to prosecute him or get him fired?” wrote Invoice Priestap in a memo earlier than the interview. Priestap was counterintelligence director on the FBI, and it turned evident later that the company’s aim was certainly to get him fired – and extra importantly to get Trump impeached, fired, humiliated, you identify it.
Comey himself admitted that the FBI focused Flynn and selected to not method him by way of the White Home authorized counsel, however informally with a direct telephone name to rearrange an interview. As Comey later instructed a reporter, it was “one thing I most likely wouldn’t have carried out or possibly gotten away with in a extra … organized administration.”
What in regards to the FBI’s abuse of Carter Web page and George Papadopoulos? The company made up proof in help of subpoenas, FISA warrants, no matter it took to get the specified outcome. What in regards to the FBI and Division of Justice concentrating on mother and father in school boards as “home terrorists” as a result of they demanded that their elected representatives really signify them? What in regards to the unilateral rescission of government privilege and attorney-client privilege wherever it might have protected President Trump and his advisers?
The aim of all of this exercise, together with the raid at Mar-a-Lago, was to intimidate not simply Trump, but in addition his supporters. Anybody aside from Donald Trump would have given up way back. Who may probably stand up to the facility of the state marshaled towards you for six lengthy years – by way of a number of FBI investigations, by way of two impeachments, by way of relentless persecution of your kids and your family and friends?
Lastly, what in regards to the double commonplace that enables Democrats and their authorities allies to go unpunished for a large number of sins? However Legal professional Common Merrick Garland’s feigned indignation on behalf of the bureau, what in regards to the FBI brokers who lied repeatedly through the Trump-Russia investigation, generally below oath.
Much more gorgeous has been the FBI’s monumental failure to research presidential son Hunter Biden, although it obtained his laptop computer with intensive incriminating proof of prison exercise in 2019.
Even when the laptop computer was made public through the 2020 presidential election, the FBI stood silent and thus gave tacit approval to the cynical Democratic Get together speaking level that the laptop computer was one way or the other a GOP soiled trick.
It could be fascinating to know if the FBI had something to do with the letter signed by 51 nationwide safety consultants, falsely claiming that the laptop computer was “Russian disinformation”! Possibly, like Comey earlier than him, FBI Director Chris Wray thought he may “get away with it.”
That’s definitely the one rationalization for the raid on the president’s private residence. It was not applicable. It was not affordable. It had no precedent. The FBI claims that the pre-dawn raid by greater than 30 armed brokers was for the aim of accumulating presidential papers that the Nationwide Archive wished.
The Washington Submit says that Trump reportedly had paperwork with nuclear secrets and techniques on them, and the legacy media went ballistic with the story. However wait a minute, isn’t that the identical Washington Submit that gained a Pulitzer Prize for collaborating with the FBI to invent the Russia collusion hoax?
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Don’t imagine a phrase from both the Washington Submit or the FBI. Trump had been cooperating with the Nationwide Archive and had already turned over 15 packing containers of paperwork, all of which he may have made a declare to legally possess. In the event that they wished papers turned over, they might have gone by way of Trump’s attorneys. No, they wished the spectacle. They wished the sizzle. They wished the headlines.
This wasn’t in regards to the rule of regulation; it was in regards to the rule of the schoolyard. Bullies get what they need by way of power and intimidation, and there’s no purpose for any of us to imagine that the raid had any objective aside from to intimidate Donald Trump into backing down from his plans to run for president in 2024.
Primarily what the FBI was saying is “We all know the place you reside, and we aren’t afraid to come back for you.” They even rifled by way of Melania Trump’s closet, as if she may need been hiding top-secret paperwork in her hat field. When do we discover out in addition they spent an hour sorting by way of her lingerie?
That is sickening, regardless of how a lot MSNBC and the Washington Submit need you to assume you’ll be able to nonetheless belief the FBI. Idiot me as soon as, disgrace on you. Idiot me twice, disgrace on me. Idiot me over and over and over, and I have to be a Democrat.
Syndicated with permission from Actual Clear Wire.
Frank Miele, the retired editor of the Every day Inter Lake in Kalispell Mont., is a columnist for RealClearPolitics. His new guide, “What Matters Most: God, Country, Family and Friends,” is offered from his Amazon author page. Go to him at HeartlandDiaryUSA.com or comply with him on Fb @HeartlandDiaryUSA or on Twitter or Gettr @HeartlandDiary.
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