Editor’s note: Recently, a FB friend posted the above meme (which I have not investigated, but its veracity would not surprise me in the least). It reminded me of a FB post from August 30th, 2022, by Roger Kaseman. Roger is a retired Sacramento County Sheriff’s Deputy with an extensive background in criminal investigation. Because of his background, and his natural curiosity, his investigations often go far deeper than average folks like you and me might. I find his perspective on law enforcement to be compelling and refreshing. Read this and see if you agree:
PART 1: When a law enforcement officer goes undercover for any length of time inside a criminal organization like a drug dealing gang, the officer is exposed to the raw side of life which includes multiple temptations. The officer's handlers keep close watch for signs that the officer flipped or was ready to flip to the criminal side. I know of one undercover officer that became addicted to drugs once he was inside the gang. He was removed and retired on disability. Humans are tempted by temptation. Temptation is an occupational hazard for the undercover officer. Temptations included access to massive amounts of cash to take, drugs to steal, sell, and use, sex, and even murder. It rarely happens, but it does happen.
If you apply the above knowledge to the FBI in Washington it's obvious that the leadership of the FBI has flipped to the Dark Side, which is the Democrat side. There is a solution short of dismantling the entire FBI but first it's important to understand that geography splits the FBI into two separate groups. The first group, which FBI Bigwigs see as an elite, dominates the top of the FBI's Washington headquarters. The Bigwigs are the FBI elite because they baptized themselves as such.
The second FBI group lives and operates out in the American Hinterland, which is any patch is ground outside of Washington.
In August of 1919, J. Edgar Hoover took over the General Intelligence Division in the Justice Department's Bureau of Investigation. He was a 24-year-old kid, fresh out of law school, living with his mother, which he did until she died in 1938 when he was 43 years old.
The General Intelligence Division, also called the Radical Division, monitored and disrupted domestic radicals as defined by Hoover's General Intelligence Division. In response the Red Scare, Hoover executed the Palmer Raids; he ordered 3,000 people arrested without warrant for holding political opinions that Hoover found unacceptable.
In 1924, the Attorney General promoted Hoover to Acting Director of the Bureau of Investigation. President Calvin Coolidge appointed Hoover Director of the Bureau of Investigation that same year. Hoover served 53 years, way too long.
The Bureau of Investigation had 441 Special Agents when Hoover took over, including multiple female agents. Hoover fired all the women. He refused to hire any female agents throughout his tenure.
From the start of his Directorship, Hoover reorganized the Bureau of Investigation into a Political Police that spied on the Washington political establishment. The spying was limited to the Washington elite. Evelle Younger, California Attorney General from 1971 to 1979 during my tenure with Sacramento County, the Los Angeles District Attorney that prosecuted Charles Manson and Sirhan Sirhan, Robert Kennedy's assassin, served as an FBI Special Agent out of law school. Younger was one of J. Edgar Hoover's top agents because he was willing to spy on House, Senate, members of the Administration, and members of the Supreme Court.
Hoover's agents followed Supreme Court Justice William O Douglas every mile when he drove from Washington, D.C. to Washington State. Douglas had his mistress with him, a violation of the Mann Act, which made it a felony to transport a woman across state lines any immoral purposes. Douglas crossed at least 9 state lines during the trip. Hoover's agents dutifully documented every motel or hotel where Douglas and the woman stayed. Every stay, in every motel, with a woman not his wife, was a federal felony. So was every state line crossed. Hoover had no intention of charging Douglas with any crime; he used the dirt his agents dug up to make the Supreme Court Justice jump through hoops the Hoover held.
After Hoover kicked the bucket in 1972, Younger admitted publicly that he was a member of Hoover's inner political spy ring, and that he spied on the Washington elite trying to dig up dirt. FBI spying on individuals and groups is nothing new.
Fast forward to last week: During a three-hour interview with Spotify podcaster Joe Rogan, Mark Zuckerberg admitted that a Facebook algorithm limit the spread of information about Hunter Biden's laptop leading up to the 2020 election. Zuckerberg told Rogan that Facebook censored the Hunter laptop story after the FBI warned the company to be "vigilant" about Russian propaganda during the election campaign. The FBI pressured Facebook into siding with Biden, not that it took much pressuring; Zuckerberg sold out faster than a two-bit whore.
On June 24, 2022, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California in San Francisco, approved a preliminary settlement on a civil suit against Meta, Facebook's parent company to the tune of $90 million. The settlement resolves a lawsuit that charged Facebook with violating consumer privacy laws by sharing personal user data with third parties such as the now defunct British Political Consultancy, Cambridge Analytica. (For you doubters the case is titled In re: Facebook, Inc. Consumer Privacy User Profile Litigation the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, case 18-MD-2843-VC)
In court documents filed in response to the suit, Facebook's attorneys admitted that Facebook fact checks are opinion, not fact. The filing states that, “The labels themselves are neither false nor defamatory; to the contrary, they constitute protected opinion.”
Facebook was trying to cover their ass in the filing by pleading First Amendment protection in a suit that charged the company with violating the First Amendment rights of Facebook users.
Got that: Facebook admitted, in writing, and under oath, that Facebook fact checks are the opinions of some employees. A Facebook fact check has nothing to do with objective truth.
Full disclosure: I signed on as a member of the class suing Facebook way back when. I don't remember the date. In fact, I forgot about it until I read about the settlement a few days ago.
This post took off in a direction I didn't expect when I booted my computer this morning. I was going to offer a solution to the FBI problem but in the words of Yogi Berra, I came to a crossroad and took it.
Next post I will detail a simple solution to the FBI problem we have. And we do have an FBI problem.
PART 2:
All high schools have multiple cliques with the most common being cheerleaders and jocks. Members of the clique see themselves as special people destined to be the center of attention. Cliques divide high school into insiders and outsiders based on popularity and the perceived envy by the rest of the students.
Editors note: The high school entry reminded me of Rush’s “Subdivisions”
When the Founders wrote the Constitution, they divided power between three branches of government; Legislative, Executive, and Judicial specifically to prevent high school like cliques from forming inside the political establishment that the Founders were establishing.
Since the Roosevelt Administration and the New Deal, the Bureaucracy in the three branches of government mutated into a fourth branch of government with cliques that have a political agenda separate from elected officials. A few months ago, I would have excluded the Supreme Court, but the leak of the draft Dodd opinion that overturned Roe made it clear that at least one unappointed, unelected Bureaucrat with an agenda different from the Court's majority has infiltrated the Court. The physical delivery of the leaked draft to the recipient was probably executed by a staff member hired by either Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor, or Stephen Breyer. Odds are that the staff member leaked the memo with a wink and a nod from one of the Liberals, or all of the Liberals, knowing full well that there would be a violent reaction, including assassination attempts on Conservatives on the Court. An individual with no regard for life in the womb sitting on the Court, will have very little sympathy for life outside the womb.
Members of the Bureaucracy that serve in the two elected branches pass between the two branches. With just 75 employees, the Supreme Court in limited when it comes to passing Bureaucrats to the other branches and beyond, but the impact is greater. Fox News host Laura Ingraham and former Trump lawyer John Eastman clerked for Justice Clarence Thomas. Greg Katsas served in the White House Counsel's office during the Trump administration. Katsas clerked for Thomas. In December 2017, Trump appointed Katsas to the DC Circuit Court of Appeals. In in the leadup to the 2020 election, Trump placed Katsas on his list of potential Supreme Court nominees.
The same cross government pollination holds true on the Liberal side of the Supreme Court but with a nefarious outcome.
With the above in mind, imagine Washington as a giant high school divided into cliques that have the power to destroy anybody they see as an outsider. Everybody not in the clique as an outsider. Outsiders include all people outside of the Washington city limits.
Power within the Bureaucratic clique rests on inuendo, rumor, and the media leak. The recent Dodd leak is the perfect example.
Beyond inuendo, rumor, and leaks, the power of the Bureaucratic Clique ultimately rests on the ability to stall laws and policies that elected officials pass, laws that the Bureaucratic cliques disapprove.
While I was still working as a LEO, the California Legislature passed a bill that gave Coroners and Medical Examiners the power to authorize organ harvest over the objections of the family. The Governor signed the bill into law. The Coroner's Association decided not to exercise the new authority. That is an example of a Bureaucracy setting aside a law, although 50 of 58 Association members were elected Sheriffs that also held the office of Coroner. I agreed with the decision; I thought it was an immoral and unconstitutional intrusion into a private, family decision; the government had no business dictating to a grieving family. The Legislature and Governor caved to lobbying pressure from the transplant doctors, organ banks, and other medical and transplant special interests. I was NOT going to give permission for organ harvest over the objection of a grieving family under any circumstance, law or no law. I was not going to be the overbearing government official that added to the grief the family was dealing with. After the law went into effect, transplant doctors and the local organ bank called asking my permission for organ harvest authority after a family denied permission. I said no. I told them that the I was delegating my decision to the family. I was yelled at a few times. I was threatened with lawsuits. My decision stuck. The calls eventually stopped.
Elected officials in Washington are dominated by the political power. That is actually a good thing; we elect officials to exercise power. When they mess up, we can hold them responsible and boot them out of office. Ask Liz Chaney and the multiple Never Trumpers that got the boot from voters this primary season. When the Bureaucracy exercises power in lieu of elected officials, the Bureaucrats are untouchable, and things go wrong rather quickly.
Imagine you are a James Comey-like creature. You father sells real estate, your mother is a computer consultant. That's a typical East Coast middle class family. You do well in college. You attend law school. After law school you clerk for a United States District Court Judge. After the clerkship, you work as an Assistant U.S. Attorney prosecuting members of the Mafia. A new President notices you and appoints you a U.S. Attorney with your own office to play with. You make a name for yourself big enough to catch the President's attention one more time; he appoints you Deputy Attorney General, one harness behind the Lead Dog. The view of your Leader's behind from behind makes it clear that you are in the second echelon of the Washington Power Elite. You envy the top echelon and scheme to get there. You politick behind the scenes with the goal of advancing to the top echelon of the Power Elite. One day a newly elected President appoints you FBI Director. You have arrived, a full member of the Washington Power Elite, a King Maker or Breaker; you can use your power to break any member of the Legislative and Execute branch, including the President. You can destroy or attempt to destroy a presidential candidate that you don't like. You and your Washington cohorts set out to do exactly that. Your power is godlike, your word is Gold, and the Golden word is Russia Collusion. You fail.
A segue into a personal experience, information that is crucial to understanding the modern FBI.
While I was still gainfully employed as an Investigator in the Law Enforcement Field in California, the Special Agent in Charge of the Oakland FBI office retired. He wrote a long article that was published in the Sacramento Bee. The article was critical of how the FBI operated. The recently retired SAC disclosed several shortcomings within the FBI, all of them connected to Washington.
The retired SAC wrote that the FBI functioned on two levels: the criminal, and the political. With the exception of crimes like bank robbery, the retired Oakland SAC disclosed that he did not have the authority to open an investigation. He could dispatch FBI Agents to the bank, but after the initial investigation, he had to submit details to Washington Headquarters for permission to continue the investigation. The FBI Bureaucracy in Washington looked at even the lowest criminal complaints through a political lens. If the bank president was perceived as a friend of the FBI, Washington granted permission to continue the investigation. If the bank president, or anyone connected to the bank, including shareholders even mildly criticized the FBI, Washington Headquarters order the SAC to walk away and leave the case to local authorities. The SAC disclosed that all FBI field agents were required to report any criticism of the Bureau to Washington. If you ask why the FBI told Mark Zuckerberg to use an algorithm to quash the Hunter Biden laptop story a few weeks before the 2020, the answer is simple; the FBI is a political player first; law enforcement is secondary. James Comey demonstrated my contention when he gave Hillary Clinton a pass for mishandling and exposing classified information to foreign intelligence interception by loading the material on to her personal, unsecure network server.
Swamp Creatures like James Comey look down on the Legislative Branch. As FBI Director, he despised what he saw as meddling by House and Senate Committee members in the affairs of the FBI. Comey did everything in his power, including obfuscation and lying under oath to thwart Senate and House oversight. Comey knew better than the Plebeians outside the Washington Beltway.
The Washington Swamp operates on four principles: Power, Fame, Wealth, and Pleasure, especially sexual Pleasure.
J Edgar Hoover was bipartisan; he had his agents dig up sexual dirt on Democrat and Republican Senators and Representative alike. Hoover used that dirt to blackmail members of Congress to get budget money to expand the FBI, which expanded his power. Hoover used dirt in the files he kept on everybody in Washington to keep his job; no President dared to fire Hoover out of fear of what he had on the president. In 1960, Presidential candidate John Kennedy made it clear that he intended to replace Hoover if he was elected. Hoover met privately with Kennedy in the Oval Office shortly after the inauguration. Advisors that saw Kennedy after the meeting said he was pale and shook up. Kennedy had reason to be shook up. In 1941, Kennedy was a Naval officer assigned to Office of Naval Intelligence. At the time, Kennedy was banging a Danish named Inga Arvad, a supposed journalist from Denmark. Arvid was a Nazi sympathizer and a Nazi intelligence agent. She was a guest of Adolf Hitler during the 1936 Summer Olympics. Arvad was close to Herman Goring and other top Nazis. FBI Agents watching Arvid planted bugs in the bedrooms where Kennedy's sexual escapades with the Nazi spy took place. The FBI Agents delivered the sex tapes and reports directly to Hoover. Kennedy kept Hoover on as FBI Director. Hoover had a fat file on Robert Kennedy, John Kennedy's Attorney General. Robert steered clear of Hoover.
President Harry Truman was going to fire Hoover, but he concluded that the political cost of doing so would be too great.
In 1971, President Richard Nixon was recorded as stating that one of the reasons he would not fire Hoover was that he was afraid of Hoover's reprisals against him.
Therein lies the problem with the FBI, and Washington in general, addiction to Power. Addiction to Power is rampant in Washington. Those infected crave Power the same way a heroin addict craves the next fix.
Wealth follows the achievement of Power. Joe Biden served four decades in the Senate and eight years as Vice President; a half a century on the Public Tit. During his entire time in office, Crazy Joe had no business interests, and no legitimate income outside of his Senate and VP pay, and yet he managed to become a multi-millionaire.
J Edgar Hoover, a keen observer of Human Nature, had a theological view of Human Nature. Hoover understood basic power of human drives like sex. Hoover understood that an official's sex drive grew in relation to the amount of Power the elected official manage to accumulate. Hoover had his inner circle of Agents specifically look for sexual indiscretions that he could use to blackmail the official.
Hoover's objective was to keep himself in power. He succeeded; Hoover died at home while he was still FBI Director. He kept his dirt files at his house. FBI Agents in Hoover's inner circle removed the files before they reported the death to local Washington officials that had jurisdiction over the death. The files Hoover kept on elected and appointed government officials disappeared never to be seen again.
While Hoover had an accurate view of Human Nature and human sin, he was so blinded by his lust for power that he failed to see his own sins, one of which was his lust for Power. That blindness tainted the FBI to this day. Hoover's nefarious influence over key members of the House, Senate, Administration, and the Supreme Court, pushed government policy in dangerous directions during the Cold War. Hoover didn't hold direct Power, he held power over the government officials that exercised Power. As a kid, and later in life. I saw news clips of Hoover testify before House and Senate Committees. Hoover didn't testify, he lectured. Committee members questioning Hoover after his lecture posed softball questions. No member of the House or Senate asked tough questions. Hoover was untouchable because of his sex files.
Later in life, as a Rookie Deputy Sheriff, the FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin became a part of my professional life. Hoover used the monthly publication, sent free to every law enforcement agency in the country to propagandized local law enforcement to Hoover's way of thinking.
I have a solution to the FBI problem we face today. Each time I start to write down the solution, I realize that background on Hoover and the FBI he built from the ground up is necessary to understand the problem we face. The FBI isn't just a Trump related problem, or an election related problem; the FBI is a citizen problem. Look at what Comey, Christopher Wray, and Attorney General Bill Barr cost the country after the 2020 election. Barr, the lead in dog of that fiasco, truthfully said he didn't see any evidence of election fraud. Barr didn't see any evidence of election fraud because he ordered U.S. Attorney's across the country NOT to open any investigations into election fraud claims. You can't see what you don't look for.
J Edgar Hoover may be dead, but the old bastard's twisted thinking still influences both the DOJ, and the FBI. If Barr ordered U.S. Attorneys not to investigate election fraud, be sure that FBI Director Christopher Wray issued the same order to FBI field offices around the country.
In 1935, Hoover engineered a name change; The Bureau of Investigation that he headed became the Federal Bureau of Investigation with Federal being the key to understanding what seems like an insignificant change. The name change was significant in that it marked a change in the way Hoover layered power in the Bureau.
Hoover decreed that the FBI sat in Washington, at the SOG, or Seat of Government. His memos to a field office were From the SOG. The FBI outside the SOG operated out of a lowly Field Office. The distinction was huge; Hoover's designation distinguished between the lowly FBI Agent doing the grunt work out in the boondocks, and the Power Elite in the Washington headed by Hoover, a Demigod, part mortal, part god, all Power Hungry.
I recommend two books that nail Hoover, his ideocracies, and his appetite for Power.
The first, No Left Turns: The FBI in Peace & War by Joseph L Schott.
Schott served as an FBI Agent under Hoover. Hoover was being driven somewhere in a Bureau limousine when the car was involved in a fender-bender while making a left turn. When Hoover got back the SOG, he issued an order to all Field Offices, that thereafter, FBI Agents chauffeuring him were not the make any left turns. I'm not kidding: no left turns. Hoover was that paranoid, that petty, and that screwed up.
Hoover used raw fear and intimidation to rule the FBI. He was sadistic tyrant in some of his actions. When Hoover traveled and stayed at a hotel, the FBI Agents were required by the Special Agent to chip in to buy a bottle of Hoover's favorite whiskey. His taste in whiskey was not cheap. On one trip, an Agent handed Hoover a whiskey on the rocks in a glass that was damp on the outside. Hoover ordered the Agent transferred across the country.
If an FBI Agent displeased Hoover for any reason, he often displayed his sadistic side. Rather than firing the Agent (FBI Agents do not have civil service protection), Hoover ordered the Agent transferred. When the Agent had his family settled in his new assignment, Hoover ordered the Agent transferred again. Hoover kept transferring the Agent until the Agent resigned.
The second insightful book is title, Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover by Anthony Summers.
The title of the book is from Hoover's practice of labeling the material that he placed in his dirt files, Official and Confidential.
Summers, an Irish citizen, wrote the book from a British perspective. He had access to British World War II Intelligence files. British Intelligence Operatives that worked with Hoover thought he was a clown. When British Intelligence identified a Nazi sympathizer working on New York dock that was passing sailing schedules of ships carrying war supplies to a Nazi intelligence operative, Hoover refused to take action claiming there was no probable cause for the FBI to open an investigation. The sailing information was passed to German submarines off the New York coast. The submarines torpedoed the ships. British Intelligence Headquarters, which operated out of offices in Rockefeller Plaza during the war, took action. The Nazi dock worker fell down a flight of stairs in the apartment where he lived, broke his neck and died.
When a British double agent traveled to New York to brief British Intelligence, the agent brought his mistress. Hoover wanted to arrest the double agent and charge him with a violation of the Mann Act for transporting a woman across state lines for immoral purposes. At the request of the head of British Intelligence, Winston Churchill intervened with Roosevelt. Hoover had a file that recorded Roosevelt's years long affair with Lucy Mercer, Eleanor Roosevelt’s social secretary. In spite of the dirt in the file, Roosevelt managed to call Hoover off.
A side note: Fearing a German invasion of England before the U.S. got involved, Churchill moved several key government functions like Intelligence to the United States and Canada. Had Hitler invaded and succeeded, Churchill had a plan in place to move the entire government, Queen included, to Canada.
Next post, the FBI solution, and it isn't shutting down the entire Bureau.
PART 3:
Imagine you are elected to national office and suddenly thrust into the Washington Power Based Meat Grinder. Power, and the exercise of Power, is the only product that Washington produces; 87,000 new armed IRS Agents, gunslingers for the Democrat Party make my point. The proper, or improper exercise of Power. is the number one problem that you face in Washington. Officials in Washington, elected and appointed, are judged by the amount of Power they exercise. It is possible for an individual to exercise Power in a limited way, or to not exercise that Power at all. The entire purpose of the Constitution is for virtuous citizens to be elected to Power, but to not exercise that Power unless absolutely necessary. That's limited government.
Once you hold even a half thimble full of Power, temptations will follow, with the temptation to exercise excessive Power at the top of the list.
Like Dante's 9 Circles of Hell, there are several circles of Power in Washington, and several responses to the temptation of Power.
After making a long list of various forms of Power and the type of people that exercise Power, I divided Power into two types of individuals that exercise Power.
Power is divided in two categories, first is Direct Power, second is Influence.
Managers use Direct Power to impose their will on the people under their control. Leaders forgo direct Power to accomplish a goal and instead they influence people to motivate them to do what they ought to do.
I am sure you have heard someone refer to as a born leader. The is false; no one is born a leader. Leaders learn to lead from a variety of sources including their physical environment and experience.
Heaping the responsibilities of leadership on an individual does not make that individual an effective leader. Crazy Joe Biden is a perfect example of a failed and failing leader.
Leadership has nothing to do with a title or a spot on an organizational chart. Joe Biden's failing leadership at the top means that policy making has devolved downward into the Bureaucracy with little accountability to Congress, or the American electorate. Instead of the Joint Chiefs of Staff concentrating on training the Army, Air Force, Navy and Marines to proficiency with bombs, bullets and rifles, Woke Generals and Admirals are drilling the military in the proper use of politically correct pronouns. That failure rests on Biden.
Leadership isn't just exercised at the top of an organization; leadership occurs at every level of an organization, including people without a title lead their cohorts by example. That works as long as the lower levels are pulling in the same direction as the leadership, and as long as the leadership at the top is right.
The most effective leaders are the most competent; effective leaders have the technical and people skills to get the job done. Crazy Joe is skilled at being Crazy Joe and little else. Add a growing, demonstrable, senility, and you have a disastrous lack of responsible leadership.
Good leadership is contagious. Jack Welch, the retired Chairman and CEO of General Electric, wrote that, “Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.”
That describes Donald Trump and MAGA in his runup to the 2016 election, and the four years he held the Presidency. Crazy Joe centers on hating Trump, MAGA, and MAGA people. Beyond the hate, Biden has nothing.
Managers create circles of power; Leaders create circles of influence. Managers control people using power. Leaders have people that voluntarily follow them. Biden is a manager; a poor one, but nevertheless, a manager; Trump is a leader.
With that last sentence, I expect Leftists to smoke their keyboards letting me know how bad Trump was. They won't consider facts.
First, before Trump took office, the Fat Little Hockey Puck in North Korea regularly fired multiple missiles close to Japan. When the Little Bastard said he had a nuclear button, Trump told him that his nuclear button was bigger. The result, not one missile fired by North Korea during Trump's term.
Second, when Trump stepped on the world political stage, he looked at the multiple situations with a fresh eye. He saw that Russia posed a serious military threat to Europe. How did Trump know that? Putin had invaded several countries and was threatening to invade more, including Ukraine. Trump revitalized NATO which kept Russia inside its borders until Biden said that a minor incursion into Ukraine was OK with him. Putin jumped at Biden's idiocy.
Third, Trump evaluated the nuclear deal that Obama, Biden, and John Kerry cut with Iran. The Obama deal did not stop Iran from developing nuclear weapons; the deal didn't even slow down Iran's development of nuclear weapons; the deal actually paved the way to an Iranian Bomb. Trump canceled the deal.
Fourth, Trump evaluated the Paris Climate Accord, saw that the Accord called on the United States to drastically cut back on pollution while China and India, the biggest polluters on earth were exempt. Implementing the Accord would have severely damaged the U.S. economy, so Trump withdrew the U.S. from the agreement.
Fifth, within a few weeks after taking office, Trump flew to Saudi Arabia where he addressed a gathering of Muslim nations. Trump denounced Jihad and terrorism and laid out a Middle East peace plan. Within weeks, peace broke out between Israel and Muslim nations, something that is still going on in spite of Biden trying to sabotage Trump's Abraham Accords by trying to sign a new nuclear deal with Iran. Israel and several Muslim nations have agreed to joint military cooperation aimed at preventing Iran from developing nuclear weapons. Biden is working against Israel and the Muslim nations. Israel and the Muslim nations understand that a nuclear armed Iran will intimate them once the religious dictators have the Bomb. Israel and the Muslim nations are acting from that perspective. Biden shakes hands with imaginary people.
Sixth, China. Everything that China manufactures and sells to us, they stole from us. China cannot make anything unless they steal the plans, the blueprints, and the formulas from us. Trump asked China to abide by World Trade Organization fair trade rules. When China refused, Trump hit the Communists with painful tariffs.
Seventh, Trump turned the American Petroleum Industry loose on our perpetual dependence on foreign oil. The Free Market worked; within months U.S. oil companies were producing more oil than Russia and Saudi Arabia combined. Texas and North Dakota led the way to energy independence. Gas and Diesel prices, and everything connected to those prices dropped. As a result, people had more money to spend, and the economy flourished. Biden killed it.
It took Crazy Joe Biden a matter of weeks to screw up sound energy policies that worked. Biden made us dependent on foreign oil. The price of gas and diesel doubled.
Incompetence is not the entire story of the Biden fiasco; there is criminality, and there is corruption. The Crazy Bastard doesn't even try to hide the corruption anymore; it's out on the open.
The Criminal: Biden’s sale of oil from the strategic reserve was illegal under the 1975 Energy Policy and Conservation Act because the release wasn’t in response to a declared emergency. The sale of five million barrels of crude oil was a criminal act by Joe Biden.
Biden compounded his criminality by selling a million barrels of oil owned by the government to a Chinese company named Unipec, a subsidiary of China Petrochemical Corporation, AKA, Sinopec. Sinopec is wholly owned by the Chinese government, which means it is owned by the Communist Party.
Not only did Crazy Joe compound his criminality, he compounded his deep corruption as well.
In 2015, Bohai Harvest RST, Hunter Biden's private equity firm, bought a $1.7 billion stake in Sinopec. Hunter's billions have an interesting history.
The Bank of China, the fourth largest bank in the world, and China's Central Bank, invested between a billion and ten billion dollars in Bohai Harvest RST. That buys a lot of coke and Hookers.
Hunter Biden used funds provided by the Bank of China to buy a stake in Sinopec, which bought oil that Crazy Pappa Joe released for sale from our Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
Hunter Biden profited from the sale of oil authorized by his Crazy Old Man, AKA, the Big Guy.
The Biden Mafia criminality and corruption doesn't end there.
On March 26, 2022, in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Crazy Joe sanctioned multiple Russian companies, including Gazprom, Russia's largest natural gas company. A few days after Biden imposed sanctions on Gazprom, Sinopec made an offer to buy Gazprom. Gazprom and Sinopec are negotiating the sale. Putin is hard up for cash to finance his floundering war in Ukraine so he may just sell Gazprom to China owned a Sinopec.
Hunter Biden owns a stake in Sinopec. How much will Hunter profit if Sinopec buys Gazprom? How much will Crazy Joe profit from the sale?
We know that Hunter profited from the sale of U.S. Strategic crude reserves to Sinopec.
Biden said he would address the pain Americans are feeling at the pump by lowering energy costs. The sale of crude oil from the Strategic Reserve was supposed to achieve that goal. Like everything about Joe Biden, that is a lie that the Mainstream Media won't report.
Biden released more than five million barrels of oil from our emergency reserves, but not one barrel was sold to U.S. refineries. Reuters News Service reported that the five million barrels the Biden sold were shipped overseas, with a portion of the crude going to China.
With the Legacy Media running cover for Crazy Joe and his Coke Snorting son, neither Joe or Hunter bother to cover their corruption and criminality. Corruption and criminality have become the norm in the Biden family. The Biden's make the Mafia look like slackers.
Once again, I failed to get to the solution to FBI corruption. Crazy Joe and his corrupt and criminal syndicate sidetracked me. It was a worthwhile diversion, courtesy of Reenters and British Newspapers. If the U.S. Legacy Media reported what foreign media reported on the Biden's, there would be calls for impeachment, removal, and criminal trials for the entire Biden family. Crazy Joe would end up walking around a prison yard telling his fellow convicts that he used to be Joe Biden.
Not really; Biden is too senile to stand trial. That is no joke.
The FBI is on deck.
PART 4 - CONCLUSION:
Ephesians 6:12: “For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.” (The Biblical term Principalities refers to governments, AKA, wickedness in high places)
Since the campaign and election of 2016, the people of the United States have had an up close, personal, and extended look at the law being ignored, the law being broken, or the law being used to cover the nefarious political activity (FISA Warrants) by nefarious Washington Bureaucrats that ought not be involved in electoral politics at any level except voting. Biased Democrat Bureaucrats used their offices and their Power in an attempt to crush Donald Trump the candidate, and failing at that, they attempted to destroy Donald Trump the President (Russia Collusion). The criminality was, and still is rooted in the Attorney General's office, the Department of Justice, the FBI, the CIA, the Department of Homeland Security, and the Director of National Intelligence.
The main criminals are, Eric Holder, AG, Loretta Lynch, AG, Sally Yates, acting AG, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, Dana Boente, acting AG (The F.B.I. General Counsel that acted in coordination with FBI Director Christopher Wray to block release of evidence that would have cleared General Michael Flynn), Jeff Sessions, acted criminally by surrendering his authority to a Clinton Gang Deep State operative, William Barr acted corruptly by ignoring election law violations around the country in 2020, Jeffrey A. Rosen, acting AG, Monty Wilkinson acting AG, and Merrick Garland, the current AG.
The criminals at the FBI: Director Christopher Wray, Andrew McCabe, acting Director, James Comey, Director, love birds Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, Robert Mueller, who headed the FBI for 12 years, the second longest in history behind J Edgar Hoover. Mueller ran the Mueller Investigation into Russia Collusion, AKA, the Mueller Witch Hunt.
There is a long list of other characters that I will skip in the interest of brevity.
The CIA Directors that condoned or helped in the criminality: Air Force General Michael Hayden, Director, Leon Panetta, Director, Lying John Brennan, Director and admitted Communist, and Gina Haspel, Director, a Brennan protégé.
Director of National Intelligence and Perjurer-in-Chief, James Clapper. Clapper testified under oath before a Congressional committee that the National Security Agency did not collect the personal data from millions of Americans. Information later surfaced showed that the NSA collects data on almost all Americans, including member of Congress and the Administration. Every phone call, every text message, every email you send or receive, the NSA snatches them out of the air and files them.
In several posts leading up to this post, I made it clear that immersion in Washington Power tends to corrupt many of our elected, and appointed leaders. In a letter to Church of England Bishop Mandell Creighton dated April 5, 1887, Lord Acton wrote that, “Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority; still more when you superadd the tendency of the certainty of corruption by authority.” Corruption by authority in the open for all to see is what we the people witnessed starting with the campaign of Donald Trump.
The exercise of government Power is a necessity, however, the abuse of Power is corrupt and criminal. Therein lies our Washington problem; the unlawful exercise of Power and Influence.
The Founders of our Republic understood the potential for the abuse of Power and that is why they divided government Power, not just between three branches of government, but between the Federal and state governments.
To bring sanity back to the Federal government, we need to dilute the concentrated Power that has accumulated in the Bureaucracy; we need to break the Power that Men and Women in the Bureaucracy have accumulated. I refer to the Bureaucracy in the Attorney General's Office, the DOJ, and the FBI. How? Easy. Neuter the beast; kill it's Power.
In 1789, the First Congress passed The Judiciary Act. The Law created the Office of the Attorney General to give legal advice to President George Washington. President Ulysses Grant asked Congress to create the DOJ in 1870 to prosecute KKK lynchings. President Grover Cleveland elevated the DOJ to Cabinet status in 1889 with the mission of enforcing federal law. The DOD was placed under the control of the Attorney General the reported to the President. This brief history gives a hint of how the Attorney General and the DOJ accumulated Power from the opening of the new government during the Presidency of George Washington until today. During the 2016 election campaign, and the Trump Presidency, the Attorney General and the DOJ demonstrated the despicable Power that they hold.
I was researching the history and the organizational structure of the DOJ yesterday. Mind numbing. What I found was an Oh Shit moment. There is no other way to put it.
What I found in the deepest reaches of the DOJ flummoxed me. With 22 years' of experience in the criminal justice system, back by a university degree, I thought I knew the function of, and organizational structure of the Department of Justice; I knew squat yesterday. I know more today. It's not a pretty picture.
I wrestled with posting or not posting the actual size of DOJ overnight; I decided to skip it for now. I'll post an appendix on the size problem later.
On the surface, the Department of Justice, and by extension, the Attorney General, control several law enforcement agencies including the FBI, the U.S. Marshals Service, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and the Drug Enforcement Administration. DOJ in divided into eight major administrative divisions: Civil, Criminal, Civil Rights, the Antitrust, Tax, Environment and Natural Resources, National Security, and Justice Management. The AG through the DOJ also controls the U.S. Attorney in each of the 94 U.S. federal judicial districts.
That's the tip of the Swamp. The problem is much deeper. I'll post more on outrageous departments in the DOJ later. For now, it's important to understand that Congress gleefully and with great joy, and sometimes somberly, handed the Attorney General and the DOJ excess, and in most cases, unconstitutional Power on a Platinum plate. The new Power was supposed to solve a societal problem; throw money backed by the Power of the Federal government at the problem solves the problems, except it never did. Actually, the various Powers were probably served in a Hog Trough. Each AG and the DOJ under the AG, gladly Hogged all the Power Congress that Congress passed out and then added a few off the books Power tricks to illegally augment their official Power, like fixing a Presidential election by discrediting a candidate with a Bureaucracy originated propaganda blitz, and when the failed, the Bureaucracy attempted to overturn a legitimately elected President using false information that the corrupt officials knew was false; they knew it was false because they created the false information.
The Department of Justice has 60 divisions or offices. That number excludes the multiple divisions in the Attorney General's Office. DOJ is a separate department under the direct control of the Attorney General. I know this; there is too much Power vested in the AG, most of it unconstitutional; illegitimate Power, and the abuse of that Power is bound to follow. Power corrupts.
The abuse of Concentrated Power by the Attorney General and the DOJ is almost an ironclad guarantee. After the 2020 election, AG Bill Barr demonstrated the corrupt abuse of Power when he ordered U.S. Attorney's across the country NOT to open any investigations into voter fraud complaints. There were thousands of complaints. A government official of any rank can abuse Power by NOT acting. Bill Barr did that after the 2020 election and then announced that the election was "fail". I wonder what people like Barr see in the mirror every morning?
Geography Solves The Problem
At the trial level, the federal court system is divided into 94 Judicial Districts spread over the entire United States and U.S. territories.
An appointed United States Attorney prosecutes federal criminal and civil cases in each Judicial District. The President appoints U.S. Attorneys with Senate confirmation. U.S. Attorneys are appointed for a term of four years. They serve at the pleasure of the President. The President can removed any U.S. Attorney at will, for any reason, or for no reason. Once appointed, the U.S. Attorney is subject to the control of the Attorney General through the Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys in the Department of Justice. That's a major problem.
The FBI has 56 field offices in major metropolitan areas with 350 resident agencies in small jurisdictions across the country. Resident Agents report to a Supervisory Special Agent in the closest Field Office. North Dakota has Resident Agencies in Bismarck, Fargo, Grand Forks, Minot, and Williston.
Each Judicial District has an appointed United States Marshal. Marshals and Deputy Marshals are the law enforcement arm of the federal courts with the responsibility for protecting federal judges, court officials, jurors, prisoners, witnesses, and threatened members of the public. Marshals track down and arrest fugitives in the U.S., and overseas. The First Congress crated the Marshal Service in the Judiciary Act of 1789. U.S. Marshals were given broad authority to carry out all lawful orders issued by judges, Congress, and the President.
Today, the Marshals Service is a division of the Department of Justice. Marshals and Deputy Marshals are under the control of the Attorney General, an office terminally infected with the Washington Power Disease. However, the United States Marshals are part of the Washington Corrupt Power solution.
The Director of the Marshals Service in Washington, and each of the 94 District Marshal, are appointed by the President. The Senate confirms the nominee. Unlike FBI Agents that are recruited nationwide, District U.S. Marshals are appointed from a list of local law enforcement officers that serve in the district for which they are nominate. The U.S. Marshal for each judicial district is a resident of the district. That is significant.
Power concentrated in the Washington Bureaucracy is the problem. End the Attorney General's office in its present form. Remove the Office from the Cabinet. The AG goes back to what Congress created in 1789; the legal advisor to the President.
End the DOJ. Period. Zero the DOJ Budget. Turn out the lights and lock the doors on every DOJ division including the Civil Division, the Criminal, Civil Rights, and Antitrust Division, the Tax Division, and especially the Environment and Natural Resources Division, , National Security, and Justice Management.
The FBI is the domestic Intelligence and law enforcement agency for the United States. There is a need for such an agency, but in its present form inside the DOJ, the Attorney General has too much Power, and that much Power inevitably leads to the corrupt use of that Power. Nowhere that I know of, and I know the criminal justice system better than most, is the Chief Prosecutor also the head of the law enforcement agency that investigates the crimes the Prosecutor prosecutes. As head of the DOJ and the FBI, the Attorney General has too much Power. That is a formula for corruption. Reference the 2016 and the 2020 election. Reference Attorney General Bill Barr head in the sand and then dig deeper response to complaints of election fraud. Barr barred the FBI and U.S Attorneys from opening a single investigation into blatant election fraud. That's too much Power over too many areas of political life for one individual to hold. Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Amen.
Keep the FBI but shut down FBI Headquarters in Washington. Fire the Director, the Director's staff, the Director's legal counsel, and every Supervisory Special Agent, clerk, and janitor in the building. Assign FBI Street Agents is every Field Office or a Resident Agency to the administrative and field command of the District U.S. Marshal.
With the Department of Justice shut down, the 94 U.S Attorneys have the authority to prosecute local cases. The U.S. Marshals, and the newly reconstituted FBI assigned to each of the 94 Judicial Districts, liberated from the neutered Attorney General, do independent investigations and present evidence to the U.S. Attorney.
Do the same with the DEA and ATF, and every law enforcement agency now under the control of the Attorney General, but first, question whether the agency is necessary. Do the people of the United States need an Office of Privacy and Civil Liberties, an Executive Office for Immigration Review, and Elder Justice Initiative, or a Tribal Justice and Safety office, just four of the 60 divisions and offices that I found in the DOJ.
And finally, shut down the Department of Homeland Security. DHS is a perfect symphony of corruption on the federal level.
In the wake of 9/11, the urge to do something, even if that something is wrong, took hold of the nation. Congress, without any thought of the long term consequences, legislated the Department of Homeland Security into existence. DHS is nothing but a layer of Bureaucracy imposed on an array of Bureaucracies. The Director of DHS quickly accumulated illegitimate Power. On April 27, 2022, the Senile Faux President, Crazy Joe Biden, multiplied the Power in DHS when he announced the creation of the Constitutionally illegitimate Disinformation Governance Board headed Nina Jankowicz, a moron that to this day supports the debunked Trump Russia collusion hoax. The backlash aimed at Biden's folly was quick, and brutal - not even Democrats could swallow a turd as big as the Disinformation Governance Board.
On May 18, 2022, the board paused operations after just 3 weeks of operation. The pressure against the Board was too great. On August 24, 2022, Biden's DHS Secretary, Alejandro Mayorkas, disbanded the board. I'm sceptical. The people on the Disinformation Governance Board could easily have gone underground inside DHS and other agencies where they can execute their nefarious anti-First Amendment censorship out of the public eye. The Swamp and the Deep State provide ideal cover.
One of the basic doctrines of totalitarian dictatorships is censorship; dictators don't tolerate any opposition from any quarter. The Nazis censored. The Fascists censored. The Communists censored, and the surviving Communists still do.
Make no mistake, Biden's Disinformation Governance Board was an attempt to censor any opposition to the totalitarian Democrat agenda. MAGA types must not be allowed to speak.
I want to point out one thing the escaped me when I wrote it. It took some time before the significance hit me. DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas disbanded the Disinformation Governance Board. Biden folded under public pressure. Mayorkas folded. The lesson is clear; We the People can pressure our Washington legislators and Bureaucracy into reorganizing the government to remove excess Power from various departments like DOJ, and at the same time, Congress can trim useless departments fat with tax dollars and heady with illegitimate Power. Do we really need the Department of Education? The Department was created under President Jimmy Carter in 1979. The Department opened its doors on May 4, 1980. Our Republic survived without a Department of Education for a 191 years; we can go back to those days. Save Tax dollars from being wasted; Shut down the Department of Education.
To summarize: Moving the functions of the Attorney General and the DOJ to the U.S. Attorneys in the 94 Judicial Districts, breaks the back of the Power Elite in Washington while at the same time, distributing that Power among 94 U.S Attorneys. Power isn't the problem; concentrated Power is.
Editor’s note: Here’s a Tweet showing Senator Josh Hawley going after Director Wray in a purposeful way: LINK