The FBI was designed for abusing investigative authority from the git-go. J Edgar Hoover used the intel he got to blackmail politicians for decades which is why it is so thin at the top levels of management with so much individual authority; to improve ability to get dirt on people without spilling the beans.
The agents in the rank and file are great people and exemplary American citizens, but the leadership is rotten to the core and must be shit out of Americas ass like a bad case of diarrhea.
Put the investigative offices under homeland security and put the leadership out in some office in Outer Slobovia shelling peanuts till they can retire.
Enough is enough.
My understanding of the FBI is that they were created as a NATIONAL bureau of investigation. They are INVESTIGATORS. They are not enforcers. They were not even supposed to carry guns. Now, not only do they carry guns, not only do they enforce, but they are involved in international matters as well. Seems like another case of government creep.
I don't think so....Their job is to protect us and our assets in this Nation, however, we live in a GLOBAL economy, and much of what used to be just La Cosa Nostra, the mob, in the USA is really a world wide reach, in to the USA now and not just the city corner the Mob Boss rules.
And the USA is such an open door country to visitors, especially business foreigners to come here and mess with us if they are crooked...the banking system is world wide now...so is the drug business....and money laundering business etc etc etc....
Their expansion comes with the times imo.
The "gun thing" I know nothing about.....???
. This anti globalism is considered a bust by the anti America first ideology that is kept by the globalist, where as corporations wouldn't ever think of being subjected to playing by protectionist rules anymore, because those rules to protect American worker interest cost them to much of their global market place bottom lines.
Not having a competitive global labor force in order to build the world's products against American labor is unfathomable to an American corporate globalist these days...
The mantra of "they are all just doing the labor or job's Americans won't do" by these globalist, has been engrained into their foreheads/minds now. They have become borderless while enjoying the safety of this nation to hide out in. They are no longer to be considered true Americans with an America first ideology.
They instead promote and stand for the very abuses this nation has stood against ever since it's creation or inception. They are globalist.
Labor competition to them in order to keep labor cost low is played out on a global scale. If they can get the Chinese government to work it's peasants for peanuts, then you think a lower middle class workers in America stands a chance against that situation ?? Making America great again includes fixing all these things or issues, controlling the populations birth rates through promoting values and decency again in which is key, and supporting our own again afterwards is the icing on the cake.
We have to define America's enemies within, and work to limit their damages to this nation again. McArthur was right about communism. His fears have been proven.