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"What we are seeing today at the highest levels of our government should
frighten all Americans.
As I laid out in detail in a recent interview for Judicial Watch
<https://www.youtube.com/
Fusion GPS, its interactions with the FBI, and Fusion founder Glenn Simpson's
testimony before a Senate committee, the evidence is rapidly emerging that
senior officials in our government, most likely up to and including
then-president of the United States Barack Obama, worked in concert to
illicitly, and possibly criminally, derail the candidacy of the opposition
party's presidential candidate using fabricated information (or, as former FBI
director James Comey described it, "salacious and unverified") obtained by a
private investigations firm from an enemy of the United States: Russia."---
William F. Marshall <http://www.americanthinker.
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AMERICAN THINKER.COM
January 24, 2018
The Sinking of the FBI
By William F. Marshall
<http://www.americanthinker.
J. Edgar Hoover must be turning in his grave at what is happening to his
venerable FBI. Then again, given Hoover's own proclivities to abuse his powers
as the director of that agency, perhaps the predicament in which the bureau
finds itself is a natural stage of evolution on an arc of governmental hubris.
It's increasingly clear that the FBI is taking on water at an accelerating rate
as new revelations come, fast and furious, in the political scandals engulfing
Washington. This week, for example, we see two adolescent-minded senior FBI
officials, Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, involved in virtually all aspects of the
Hillary Clinton email server investigation and the Donald Trump "Russian
collusion" (or is it "obstruction of justice" now?) investigation, acting like
hormone-fueled high school lovers, discussing
<http://www.thegatewaypundit.
-messages-reference-secret-
"secret society" of Trump-haters one day after President Trump's remarkable
election. We learned of this only because two patriotic congressmen,
representatives Trey Gowdy and John Ratcliffe, former federal prosecutors both,
revealed this stunning exchange to Fox News. Was the "secret society" a
tongue-in-cheek reference? Given the mind-boggling behavior of the top echelons
at the FBI and DOJ these days, one can't be too sure.
The keel of the USS Federal Bureau of Investigation is starting to rise out of
the water, like the RMS Titanic about 30 minutes after striking the iceberg.
One can almost hear the bodies of top law enforcement bureaucrats crashing
against each other, like so much china on a dying vessel sinking under the
waves, as the embattled organization faces exposure after exposure of truly
outrageous and un-American, if not illegal, conduct.
This sad state of affairs represents the depressing collapse of a pillar of
American culture for many of us who grew up revering it and the "Gmen" who
populated it. It did a wonderful job of cultivating that aura through the media
and entertainment industries, often providing technical assistance to the
producers of movies like The Silence of the Lambs.
For those of us over 40, who can forget watching the tough, suave FBI agent
Lewis Erskine played by Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. in the eponymous television
show,The FBI? He was the epitome of cool and integrity.
This crafty self-promotion in popular culture has occurred over many decades,
spawning countless such television series, movies, and books exalting the
bureau. My youngest, college-aged daughter is a devotee of Criminal Minds, yet
another slick Hollywood rendering of hip, brilliant FBI agents solving complex
serial murders through cunning and derring-do - all in the space of an hour,
with commercial breaks, of course.
The tragic reality is that this apotheosis of American law enforcement, this
symbol of truth, justice, and the American way, has become so corrupt, so
politicized, and so diametrically opposed to its mission because of its recent
actions that nothing short of its reconstitution is required - much as the KGB
was reconstituted following the collapse of the Soviet Union. (I never thought
I would be drawing any sort of comparison between the FBI and the KGB, but those
are the unfortunate circumstances in which we find ourselves.)
I have spent three decades working in intelligence and investigations in federal
law enforcement, in corporate-sector investigations, and currently for the
nonprofit organization leading much of the investigative work into the
corruption of our own government. I worked for the high-end opposition research
firm, Investigative Group International, that was employed by the Clinton
administration in the '90s at the height of the scandals in which it was
embroiled. All of this is to say that I know the world of private intelligence
and opposition research as well as anyone, and my comments are informed by
practical experience from both a private investigative perspective and a law
enforcement perspective.
What we are seeing today at the highest levels of our government should frighten
all Americans.
As I laid out in detail in a recent interview for Judicial Watch
<https://www.youtube.com/
Fusion GPS, its interactions with the FBI, and Fusion founder Glenn Simpson's
testimony before a Senate committee, the evidence is rapidly emerging that
senior officials in our government, most likely up to and including
then-president of the United States Barack Obama, worked in concert to
illicitly, and possibly criminally, derail the candidacy of the opposition
party's presidential candidate using fabricated information (or, as former FBI
director James Comey described it, "salacious and unverified") obtained by a
private investigations firm from an enemy of the United States: Russia.
Even worse, once that effort to derail that candidacy failed and that candidate,
Donald Trump, was elected, those same individuals used the same manufactured
evidence as the basis to launch an investigation, employing the vast authority
and technical resources of the United States government, whose ultimate goal, I
believe, is to impeach and remove that duly elected president.
That, ladies and gentlemen, is a coup d'état.
Merriam-Webster defines a coup d'état as a "a sudden decisive exercise of force
in politics."
While the Hillary-FBI-DOJ-Fusion GPS cabal was not a violent coup, to be sure,
it was certainly a decisive exercise of force in politics when it used, as has
been reported
<https://www.
ossier_was_used_by_fbi_to_
on the court to obtain a FISA warrant to spy on members of the opposing party's
presidential campaign. In fact, it is far more insidious than the sort of coups
we typically see in Africa and Latin America. It required the subversion and
corruption of numerous governmental agencies, not just the FBI - to effect: the
Department of Justice and the National Security Agency to be sure, and possibly
the Central Intelligence Agency, the State Department, and other agencies as
well.
I do not say this lightly. As the son of a World War II veteran, the father of
a currently serving member of the U.S. military, and an American citizen, I care
deeply about this country, the Constitution, and the rule of law. The American
people need to wake up and understand the gravity of what is shaping up to be
nothing short of an attempt to overthrow their government.
The sinking of the FBI may be the least of our worries.
God bless and save America.
William F. Marshall has been an intelligence analyst and investigator in the
government, the private sector, and the non-profit sector for over 30 years.
Presently, he is a senior investigator for Judicial Watch, Inc. (The views
expressed are the author's alone and not necessarily those of Judicial Watch.)
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