FBI AGENTS REVOLT AGAINST ERIC HOLDER
First it was the Justice DepartmentÂ’s career prosecutors; now itÂ’s FBI agents. The federal employees responsible for fighting crime are simply unable to digest the anti-law enforcement slop being served up by their boss, Attorney General Holder.
The FBIÂ’s beef is with the selection of Debo Adegbile as Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division. The FBI Agents AssociationÂ’s opposition is based on the way in which Adegbile defended, and led the cheers for, cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal.
The problem isnÂ’t that Adegbile defended Abu-Jamal. The problem, as Bill Otis explains, is that Adegbile led a street campaign to denounce the policeman Abu-Jamal killed, Officer Daniel Faulkner, and the police in general, as an occupying fascist army.
Accordingly the FBI Agents Association (FBIAA) has communicated its opposition to AdegbileÂ’s nomination to Vice President Biden, Attorney General Holder, and the members of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Unfortunately, that Committee today approved the nomination 10-8 in a straight party line vote.
The FBIAAÂ’s views are destined to fall on deaf ears both among Senate Democrats and at the Attorney GeneralÂ’s office. ThatÂ’s probably because deep down the Democratic leftÂ’s view of the police isnÂ’t much different from the contemptible portrayal offered by the man Holder has tapped to be Assistant Attorney General.
