Americans are no longer under the protection of the law or the chief law-enforcers.
The FBI has had a string of high-profile scandals in recent years. One of its lawyers pleaded guilty to fabricating evidence used to justify spying on Trump campaign adviser Carter Page. That same scandal came to light because FBI Special Agent Peter Strzok used his FBI phone to facilitate an extramarital affair with FBI lawyer Lisa Page. The FBI helped cover-up the Olympic doctor-child sex abuse scandal by making “materially false statements” to the inspector general. The FBI agent in charge of the Whitmer kidnapping plot, savagely beat his wife to punish her reluctance to participate in a swingers’ party. An FBI agent in charge of investigating child sex exploitation, was recently charged with using his position to commit sex crimes against children. Following a damning report of a Chinese spy seducing not one but two FBI handlers, the FBI continued to permit its agents to form inappropriately familiar relationships with its informants.
The FBI also cleans up after powerful figures when their sexual misdeeds come to light. The FBI scooped up Jeffrey Epstein’s computers believed to contain footage of powerful people committing serious child sex abuse. Yet none of these figures appear to have been charged with these crimes. More recently, the FBI seized the infamous Hunter Biden laptop, which is known to contain evidence of drug use and corrupt business deals aimed at gaining favors from his father. Hunter Biden, thus far, has escaped any charges.
Most recently, the FBI raided the homes and offices of former and current Project Veritas journalists for evidence of an investigation into how the diary of Joe Biden’s daughter, Ashley, ended up in the public domain. While there is no evidence Project Veritas did anything illegal, the diary reportedly contains salacious sexual accounts that embarrass the president’s family. One also recalls then-FBI Director James Comey implicitly blackmailing president-elect Donald Trump in a private meeting during which Comey revealed the FBI had intelligence on Trump’s alleged encounter with Russian prostitutes.
But perhaps most concerning is the FBI’s continued abuse of its spying powers under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). After the FBI was caught lying to the court in order to spy on Trump campaign figure Carter Page, the inspector general conducted an investigation into a sample of the FBI’s thousands of FISA warrant cases. The inspector general concluded that the FBI frequently obtains warrants without first documenting a valid evidentiary basis for the spying.