FBI director nominee Kash Patel has often joked that on day one in office he would shut down FBI Headquarters and reopen it the next day as a Museum of the Deep State. Rueful joke aside, he may not know how close to the truth he really is. The FBI has a sneaky little secret that has probably escaped the attention of its most ardent fans at DOJ. It’s even possible that the cloistered and suited gangsters on the 7th Floor don’t even know how easy it could be to topple the entire enterprise.
The FBI has been in the middle of countless scandals, illegal behavior, lying on warrants, spying on people when they have no basis, making up charges, setting perjury traps, bungling Ruby Ridge and Waco with deadly results, and investigating people like President Trump.
We’ve come a long way from this gauzy memory of the FBI, America.
The law enforcement agency turned Stasi sends entire SWAT teams to targets’ homes at 5 in the morning, even after those same subjects offer to turn themselves in in a business suit accompanied by an attorney. They’ve been ordered to use “shock and awe” methods for trespassing at the Capitol. And those are just some of the dangerous shenanigans the nation’s foremost law enforcement agency has pulled.
If so inclined, however, the Trump Administration could shut the FBI down more easily than Steven D’Antuono set up a sucker who lives in a vacuum store to “kidnap” a governor. In other words, really, really easy—on paper, anyway.
Hellbound and Down 