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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhat is notable about the FBI story is most people thought that FBI was... "beyond corruption."
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https://www.democraticunderground.com/100217584103"Say it ain't so, Shoeless Joe" or, .The FBI can be corrupted just like any other organization,
(MOST PEOPLE INCLUDES ....ME TOO.).........................
Everyone thought that was one organization that could NEVER BE CORRUPTED..(including me)
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ironman99
(99 posts)Two words: Aldrich Ames
Stuart G
(38,453 posts)Ocelot II
(115,922 posts)Just A Box Of Rain
(5,104 posts)DURHAM D
(32,616 posts)Dirty from day one.
Solly Mack
(90,794 posts)Hekate
(90,911 posts)Stuart G
(38,453 posts)GreenWave
(6,788 posts)in say Media, Pennsylvania?
Just a wild guess,
Ocelot II
(115,922 posts)held to investigate abuses by government agencies including the FBI and the CIA. It would have to be something like that.
Just A Box Of Rain
(5,104 posts)3Hotdogs
(12,442 posts)where Clint Eastwood felt bad because he fucked up protecting John F. Kennedy.
Just A Box Of Rain
(5,104 posts)GreenWave
(6,788 posts)This is why there are so many RWNJ terrorist groups out there.
Carlitos Brigante
(26,506 posts)I personally know. Not to mention, lots of people on this very website. And this is not the first spy for Russia they've busted.
Raine
(30,541 posts)Ocelot II
(115,922 posts)There had to be a huge cleanup of the agency in the '70s due to abuses relating to Watergate and other matters. Hoover was bad enough, but his successor, Nixon's toady Patrick Gray ordered the FBI to assist with Nixon's reelection campaign, thwarted the FBI's investigation into Watergate, and destroyed Watergate-related documents seized from Howard Hunt's secret White House safe. They have done routine criminal investigations well, but they have been politically corrupted even after the reforms of the '70s.
ecstatic
(32,755 posts)It's fairly obvious that they have a huge blind spot when it comes to their own.
Stuart G
(38,453 posts)I do believe that Biden will clean the FBI up. (At least I hope so)
cbabe
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Samrob
(4,298 posts)since J. Edgar Hoover days at least