The FBI sucks at its job but wants you to salute them anyway
By Ken Klippenstein
The FBI is taking a victory lap for its arrest this morning of a suspect in the January 6 planting of pipe bombs at DNC and RNC headquarters in DC nearly five years ago. Here’s the kicker: there was evidently no breakthrough in the investigation. In fact, the FBI reportedly had the evidence in its possession all along.
“The FBI’s case against the suspect is not based on a new breakthrough, according to two sources, but instead on a review the FBI conducted in recent weeks of evidence that had already been gathered and which the department had in its possession,” MS NOW (previously MSNBC) reported this morning.
“That voluminous trove of material was largely collected in 2021 and 2022.”
In other words, the FBI had all the evidence it needed from the start but never bothered to go through it until now. That’s the kind of failure that should lead to calls for resignations and investigations; but the major media are instead anointing the government agency as if it should be awarded a Nobel.
That’s not the FBI I know. The FBI I know undertook the COINTELPRO program from the 1950s through the Vietnam war that purported to target “radical” and “subversive” individuals and groups. The FBI I know targeted Martin Luther King Jr. and kept of dossiers on Americans from Albert Einstein to Marilyn Monroe. The FBI I know was so biased that their inattention to the Watergate scandals forced “deep throat” to go to the news media, a man who turned out to be a deputy director of the very agency. The FBI I know bungled high-profile investigations from the Anthrax attacks in 2001, the Centennial Olympic Park Bombing in 1996, the Parkland School Shooting in 2018 and its infamous mole, Special Agent Robert Hanssen. The FBI I know was responsible for Ruby Ridge and Waco. The FBI I know through its laboratory provided flawed, biased, and even intentionally false testimony.