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In reply to the discussion: Comey: The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly [View all]H2O Man
(73,537 posts)Valid points, as well. Thanks for adding this.
In my opinion -- based in part upon knowing my two cousins, now retired, and meeting individuals such as the gentleman who investigated the racial hate assault of my nephew in 1998 (the first of a series of vicious, cowardly attacks by the gang) -- it is also similar, in some ways, to any bureaucracy. There are numerous decent men and women who joined for the right reasons; there are the bullies; and there is the bureaucratic upper levels, who are out of touch with the only good purposes of the agency.
One can learn a great deal about such interesting topics, such as how the news media is used to distract the public's attention (example: when they brought the freak back to the US who claimed he was involved in the death of that little Ramsey girl), in order to keep focus off of something else going on under their noses, talking to the decent ones.