Nonsense. The FBI has been lying and corrupt since Hoover was the director, and it ain’t never changed
But now they have moved into the political realm....when the FBI and the DOJ decide they favor one party over another and work to harm the other it has blossomed into something bigger than simple corruption...
Bah. This is the FBI we are talking about. They ran around trying to suppress civil rights during the 1960’s and 1970’s. They gave bomb making information and materials to radicals during that time to help discredit them.
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Hoover was sending blackmail letters to MLK in an effort to get him to suicide. The idea that they were not political before, nonsense.
During World War II, the FBI had an ongoing feud with the OSS over who had what authority in what hemisphere. FDR gave counter intelligence and intelligence in the US, and Central and South America to the FBI. So FBI agents were running around like they were OSS spies in South America through most of World War II. Why? Hoover didn’t like not controlling access to all the secrets. With knowledge of Secrets, came power.
There has never been a time when the FBI was not both corrupt, and political. Read the old book The FBI nobody knows by Fred Cook. There are still copies out there.
Remember G. Gordon Liddy learned his crap in a basement in Quantico under the tutelage of the FBI. He left the FBI to work directly for the RNC in charge of the Plumbers. Watergate was his plan. Granted he didn’t order it, but breaking and entering, burglary, and all of that were just part and parcel of the whole FBI agent training program.