The FBI Is No Friend of Liberty and Justice

[EasyAce]

The FBI's handling of the Michael Flynn case is disturbing.
By Sheldon Richman
http://reason.com/archives/2017/12/10/the-fbi-is-not-your-friend

One of the unfortunate ironies of the manufactured "Russiagate" controversy is the perception of
the FBI as a friend of liberty and justice. But the FBI has never been a friend of liberty and justice.

Rather, as James Bovard writes, it "has a long record of both deceit and incompetence. Five years ago,
Americans learned that the FBI was teaching its agents that 'the FBI has the ability to bend or suspend
the law to impinge on the freedom of others.' This has practically been the Bureau's motif since its
creation in 1908…. The FBI has always used its 'good guy' image to keep a lid on its crimes." (Bovard
has made a vocation of cataloging the FBI's many offenses against liberty and justice, for which we
are forever in his debt.)

Things are certainly not different today. Take the case of Michael Flynn, the retired lieutenant general
who spent less than a month as Donald Trump's national-security adviser. Flynn has pleaded guilty to
lying to the FBI in connection with conversations he had with Russia's then-ambassador to the United
States, Sergey Kislyak, between Trump's election and inauguration. One need not be an admirer of
Flynn—and for many reasons I certainly am not—to be disturbed by how the FBI has handled this
case.

One ought to be immediately suspicious whenever someone is charged with or pleads guilty to lying
to the FBI without any underlying crime being charged . . .

. . . I hold no brief for Flynn, whose conduct while working for Gen. Stanley McChrystal in Afghanistan,
his dubious efforts on behalf of Turkey's strongman Recep Tayyip ErdoÄŸan, and his apparent financial
conflicts of interest are enough to make anyone cringe. But that cannot justify what the FBI did in this
plea case.

Government law-enforcement agencies should not be allowed to administer credibility tests to Americans
or others. If they have evidence of real offenses against persons and property, bring charges. Otherwise,
leave us all alone.

[Bigun]

Excellent article!  Thanks for digging it up and posting it @EasyAce !

The FBI like the IRS has been a tool frequently used by our political masters against us almost from the day they came into being.

[INVAR]

The FBI and every other alphabet agency at Mordor on the Potomac have been corrupted to the point that they are irredeemable and must be regarded as overt enemies of liberty and agents of the oligarchy that only serve to protect and dispense Leftist Social Justice.