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The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is the national police force of the U.S. serving in federal law enforcement, involving intelligence and counterintelligence functions. Additionally, although its main function is domestic, the FBI also has overseas operations through embassies and other diplomatic representations. If Theodore Roosevelt, who authorized the development of the institution (originally called the Bureau of Investigation) in 1908, would see what it has become, he would, highly likely, demolish it. Teddy’s reasoning would, logically be, that today’s FBI is an existential threat to American democracy.
What is akin to the admission heard around the world, Facebook’s founder, Mark Zuckerberg, revealed to podcaster, Joe Rogan, that the Hunter Biden laptop story was suppressed at the FBI’s urging. This occurred barely weeks before the 2020 presidential election. Nearly two hours into the three-hour conversation on the “The Joe Rogan Experience” podcast on August 25, Zuckerberg exposed this dangerous ploy by the nation’s premier law enforcement authority that ultimately benefitted the Democratic candidate and now president. The social media tycoon stated that he took the FBI’s warning about being “vigilant” serious. When asked by Rogan as to the degree of censorship that Facebook exercised, Zuckerberg affirmed it was “meaningful”.
Interfering with an electoral process, to potentially affect the outcome, is a mode of rigging elections. Quelling news and information, or fostering disinformation and false narratives that can adversely impact a candidate or party, is a form of election manipulation. It is clearly an authoritarian characteristic. This is precisely what the FBI did. It was done, however, not only in the 2020 election. The 2016 electoral campaign was also plagued with the FBI’s intrusion to help the Democratic Party candidate, Hillary Clinton.
The Horowitz Report (2019) and the Durham Report (2022) solidly concluded that the FBI’s espionage actions against Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign were premised on fraudulent trash prompted by the Democratic Party’s (DNC) sponsored Steele Dossier. This hit job on an American political candidate, validated by Barack Obama’s Department of Justice (DOJ), was an attempt to rig the 2016 election. The FBI was also actively involved in attempting to unseat (some would say overthrow) an elected president.
Crossfire Hurricane, the disreputable counterintelligence operation carried out by the FBI between July 31, 2016, and May 17, 2017, against President Trump predicated on the fabled Russia “collusion” hoax which rested wholly on the DNC’s counterfeit Steele Dossier, was arguably an effort to dislodge a legitimate president from power. Another way of expressing this would be an attempted coup. The FBI leadership throughout the Trump presidency was an adversarial force, colluding with other actors to remove him from office.
The irregularities of the 2020 elections, the result of a series of pandemically related electoral laws changes by political players apart from the constitutionally validated state legislatures, were validated by the FBI. Despite the abundant data supporting the claim that there were widespread anomalies in the electoral process in pivotal states, the FBI hastily ended any relevant investigation of the matter.
Biden’s ascension to power in Washington signaled an augmentation in the FBI’s capacity of policing the opposition. Critical Race Theory (CRT), the metaphysical framework which rationalized the Black Lives Matter (BLM) and Antifa 2020 uprising in the U.S. following the death of George Floyd, was instituted as state policy by the Biden/Obama regime. Consistent with the Marxist CRT dogma, a white “supremacy” threat was labeled by the current administration as being America’s main threat. The FBI, true to its political police adaptation, has categorized a whole sector of American society as domestic terrorists by adhering to the far-left’s conspiracy theory of a white supremacism plot to destroy the Republic.
Barack Obama, in his un-American quest to change the America, reformulated the Democratic Party and purged moderates from the political organization. Institutions such as the CIA, IRS, EPA, DOJ, INS, State Department, and FBI, were made adjunct branches of power to permeate his brand of Fabian Socialism across the land. This requires the elimination of impediments. Political efficacy within a vibrant opposition is a problem in this war against the American Republic.
The FBI was once a great agency. Obama changed that. The FBI has become a dirty cop at the service of freedom’s enemies. The new congress that will emanate from the November midterms must obstruct the Biden/Obama regime. Congressional hearings and impeachment considerations must be initiated against administration officials. Federalism is now more important than ever. Governors must bulk up their state police and national guards. The Left’s “defund the police” strictly pertains to local and state law enforcement. The idea is to strengthen all federal policing powers and impose a national command dominance. Biden’s call for weaponizing an armed IRS force was a Freudian slip. The FBI must be comprehensively overhauled.
Julio M Shiling, political scientist, writer, director of Patria de Martí and The Cuban American Voice, lecturer and media commentator. A native of Cuba, he currently lives in the United States. Twitter: @JulioMShiling // Julio es politólogo, escritor, director de Patria de Martí y The Cuban American Voice. Conferenciante y comentarista en los medios. Natural de Cuba, vive actualmente en EE UU.