The death of the FBI as a respected organization.

[GentryDixon]

The FBI has been renowned and respected world wide for their investigative policies for years. Now they have proven they are nothing more than the mouthpiece of the Republican establishment. How can they be trusted to give an unbiased opinion on any case?

Granted, it was going on in Hoover's day, but social media was not available to witness the corruption that is allowed within the organization of today. Thanks GWB. He installed so many partisan agents at the top, and you cannot convince me those at the top did/do not hold control over the lower echelon in their politics. I worked for the Department of Defense in a top position. I was not afraid to push back against such pressure; that is not to say all could be so persuaded to do so.

It is a sad time for our Country.

[catbyte]

1. I'm Ojibwe, so I haven't trusted the FBI since 1973 & their horrific COINTEPRO crimes during the

standoff at Wounded Knee/Pine Ridge Rez, SD. I was 18, and I'm sure I still have a file enshrined somewhere in the FBI archives.

[Baitball Blogger]

2. Actually, I've known it for some time.

[jberryhill]

3. ummmm....

The FBI's history has been spotty.

[Wilms]

4. They always seemed like nice folk on the TeeVee.

[jberryhill]

5. Whatever happened to Ephraim Zimbalist Sr.

You never hear about him.

[Wilms]

6. A similar thing happens to me when I see someone wearing an "Abercrombie" shirt.

I begin to wonder if they're giving Fitch the ditch.

[virgogal]

8. That's EZ Jr. in the pic.

[jberryhill]

13. Right, Sr. went missing

I think someone should call the FBI.

[niyad]

16. he died--so did jr. (2014)

Efrem Zimbalist, Sr. (21 April [O.S. 9 April] 1889 or 1890[2] – February 22, 1985) was an internationally known concert violinist, composer, teacher, conductor and director of the Curtis Institute of Music.

[Cattledog]

7. Federal Bureau of Intervention

[niyad]

11. "federal bureau of intimidation" as tribal cop walter crow horse says in "thunderheart"

[Raster]

12. Federal Bureau of Innuendo

[niyad]

10. as a college student whose campus was one of their targets during the vietnam war,

have had no respect for them since.

[jberryhill]

14. Don't say that, it's impolite

[struggle4progress]

15. You know you can trust them because they're the FIB

[dflprincess]

17. Even without social media a lot of us figured that the FBI

was not the bunch of good guys and ace investigators we'd been led to believe it was.

It's infiltration of the Civil Rights Movement, American Indian Movement, anti-war groups, women's groups tell us who it really was/is trying to protect. And it's not us.

[ThoughtCriminal]

18. A Basic Problem - Law Enforcement Attracts Authoritarians

keeping that in check requires safeguards that are politically difficult without being labelled as "Soft on crime".

Dictators have always found this tendency easy to exploit.