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Government

The FBI has disgraced itself

2020-05-03

By Wesley Clark

Golly — there’s someone whose opinion we haven’t noticed for a while.

[AMERICANTHINKER] When I was an 8-year-old boy, I idolized and was inspired by the FBI. I wrote a letter to the director of the FBI, J. Edgar Hoover. I described my aspiration to be an FBI agent, to fight crime with him, to help him bring justice to the United States of America. A short time later, I received a short reply, signed (I have no doubt) by Director Hoover himself, in which he encouraged me to follow my ideals, to diligently study and to prepare myself, inspired for a life as an honorable American.

Over the years, my childhood idol has suffered revelations about his own rectitude, but nothing he has ever done even remotely approaches the disgraceful actions revealed today, committed by the great FBI that I idolized. This week, we learned that an American hero, a loyal lifelong and proved courageous defender of our nation, was callously framed by a political conspiracy of the most senior FBI officials, seeking thereby to defame and destroy the newly elected president of the United States, Donald Trump

...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US...
Over the years, the FBI regrettably has shown itself to be self-serving and inept and has suffered several disgraceful scandals, but always committed by lesser men. Today, the FBI, at the very top, has shown itself to actually be seditious, subverting the office of the president of the United States!

On April 30, 2020, the 8-year-old boy in me has tears running down his face. The FBI, from its current director, Christopher Wray, to its lowest janitor, has irretrievably disgraced itself and, most grievously, has destroyed forever the faith and confidence that Americans have granted to what once was the greatest law enforcement entity in the world.

Will it ever again be an inspiration to 8-year-old American boys?

Posted by:Fred

#14 The FBI has not disgraced itself. A small number of fools at the top who consider politics to be more important than integrity, have done the damage, and should be jailed.

Posted by: Bunyip 2020-05-03 23:04

#13 Re#11: I have a classmate who is a retired FBI Special Agent. Even in high school he struck me as a straight shooter.
have discussed the shenanigans at the FBI with him several times. He is sickened and disgusted by all that is going on. He is proud of his service and blames all the problems on the upper management.

Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2020-05-03 20:59

#12 This man would be so proud.

Posted by: Clem 2020-05-03 20:41

#11 Nobody should trust the FBI at this point. EVERYONE they talk to should demand full audio and video under their own lawyers control. Treat all FBI agents as lying criminals intent on doing anything they can to put down uppity little people. And yes, I'm sure they are reading this. Too bad. At this point, they are on par with reporters and vermin, below used car salesmen on the trust scale.

Posted by: Silentbrick 2020-05-03 19:56

#10 One ambitious sycophant retired democrat general officer defends another ambitious sycophant retired democrat general officer...nothing to see here, move along, move along...

The words "retired democrat general officer" and "ambitious" and "sycophant" just seem to go together.

Posted by: Tennessee 2020-05-03 11:02

#9 Before it fell down the Never Trump rabbit hole, Notional Review had a cover about the dem primary when Clark ran. It was an "Island of Misfit Toys" gag and Wes was the nutcracker. Bug eyes and all.

Posted by: M. Murcek 2020-05-03 10:28

#8 Maybe they'll teach him to blink? Weird dude

Posted by: Frank G 2020-05-03 09:38

#7 Well, PT-109 was ghost written, I believe.

Posted by: DooDahMan 2020-05-03 09:32

#6 Perhaps there is another Wesley Clark.

Posted by: Besoeker 2020-05-03 09:29

#5 I fear the retired general is becoming hysterical. “To its lowest janitor” has “destroyed forever the faith and confidence”? Surely the Army did not teach him to write that way, let alone permit him to so think. It seems to me Mr. Clark is suffering from an excess of nervous energy and would be better for a 20 mile run in full gear.

Posted by: trailing wife 2020-05-03 09:27

#4 Witting deathbed conversion? Or perhaps ....unwitting ?

Posted by: Besoeker 2020-05-03 08:16

#3 This is Deep State. You can not return to a republic as long as Deep State exists.

Posted by: Procopius2k 2020-05-03 07:38

#2 Ever since it was formed.

Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-05-03 03:26

#1 And Clark is a staunch Dem, endorsed Zero, Hillary, Kerry, and even ran for President briefly himself.

Posted by: Glenmore 2020-05-03 01:09

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