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US police no longer trust FBI
2024-07-27
[RT] The agency has become openly partisan and serves political ends, whistleblowers have said.
J. Edgar Hoover was said to have files on everyone of importance in Washington, DC, and as many radicals as he could find. Nonetheless, I think he would have been appalled by what his successors choose to do.
Many US state and local law enforcement agencies are refusing to share vital information with the Federal Bureau of Investigation due to concerns that it has become partisan and politicized, according to a whistleblower report submitted to Congress.

The 230-page report was compiled by an alliance of retired and active-duty agents and analysts, who spoke to more than 30 “independent, highly credible” sources across the US.

“They are not only reluctant to work with the FBI but reportedly have decided to no longer share actionable, substantive information on criminal and other intelligence-related activity” with the Bureau, because they believe it “has been operating as a partisan federal agency motivated by a political agenda” in recent years, the report’s authors said.

The report’s existence was first reported on Wednesday in the New York Post. The document itself was sent to the House Judiciary and House Oversight committees and posted online.

The group described a “crisis of confidence” in FBI-led task forces and a “disturbing loss of trust” in the Bureau as a whole, even as Director Christopher Wray testified to Congress about a “complex threat environment” that is unprecedented in his career.

Most sources pointed to the FBI’s response to the January 6, 2021 riot at the US Capitol and the August 2022 raid on former President Donald Trump’s Florida residence, Mar-a-Lago.

One of the sources described the FBI’s behavior as “that of a Third World country” and argued it “should be dismantled and its personnel prosecuted and given long prison sentences.”

Pressure to assist with “J6” cases has led to a belief that the Bureau is driven by a “partisan, political agenda.” One source said they could not understand why the FBI was not going after any other groups with the same fervor. Another said that local officers feared they could be targeted “because of their love for the US” and perceived as “domestic terrorists” based on how they vote.

Newer FBI agents “do not bother to conceal their distaste” for traditional political or religious views and openly identify themselves as “woke or liberal,” the head of a multi-agency task force said. Hired on the basis of “diversity, equity and inclusion” (DEI) guidelines, they are “completely worthless” and “the worst batch of people,” the whistleblowers said.

The FBI academy at Quantico, Virginia at which new agents are trained “promotes a cult of narcissism” and arrogant superiority, while being intolerably politicized, the report claimed. Meanwhile, the Bureau’s Security Division has been abusing the security clearance process to purge conservative-leaning agents from its ranks.

The whistleblowers urged Congress to force the resignation of Wray as “an extreme measure of last resort” and the only way to restore the Bureau’s reputation.
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Posted by:Skidmark

#10  My expectations of justice, competency and quality have been lowered for all levels of law enforcement.
Posted by: Airandee   2024-07-27 21:29  

#9  The entire DOJ is suspect. Locals know if the feds show up they will take all the credit if it goes well and publicly blame the local LEOs publicly id it goes bad.
Posted by: 49 Pan   2024-07-27 20:03  

#8  Ah'm old enough they won't take me as a juror.
Posted by: Skidmark   2024-07-27 19:58  

#7  I would have to be rejected as a juror if the only evidence was a Feeb's testimony
Posted by: Frank G   2024-07-27 18:45  

#6  i hope trump will discard fbi and cia. also doj, doe, and dhs. who did i leave out?
Posted by: irish rage boy   2024-07-27 18:07  

#5  They are not alone.
Posted by: Anomalous Sources   2024-07-27 18:00  

#4  When local LEOs work with feds they're usually assassinations, like with the ATF in AK or the US Marshalls in NC.
Posted by: Regular+joe   2024-07-27 17:01  

#3  Did they ever?
Posted by: alanc   2024-07-27 16:31  

#2  I doubt local law enforcement has ever had much use for the fed. Too much of that "Ok, we'll take it from here" mentality.
Posted by: Besoeker   2024-07-27 15:13  

#1  Depends. When I worked for the bank law enforcement and the FBI worked hand in hand and very well to track down robbers, identify theft, elder abuse, etc.

When it comes to investigating normal citizens and possible ties to, for example, sovereign citizens (their uncle/cousin/brother is fucking nuts) they don't trust them at all as they have a tendency to seize property and guns first and then figure out shit later.

Normal grunt work, trust. Politically tinged work, not a fucking chance.
Posted by: DarthVader   2024-07-27 14:26  

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