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mass55th 31 points ago +31 / -0

He's still trying to be relevant, but that ship sailed after Watergate.

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Smurfection 61 points ago +61 / -0

Also, "Deep Throat", Woodward's anonymous source for Watergate, was ex FBI Deputy Director Mark Felt. Felt was angry that Nixon didn't make him FBI Director so he took down the Nixon presidency.

J. Edgar Hoover tried to take down those politicians he didn't like either.

The FBI thinks they get to over rule the vote of the American people. The FBI has to be dismantled because they're acting like they are the praetorian guard of America and they get to decide who the president is.

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grz313 34 points ago +34 / -0

Underrated insight here. Praetorian guard is an accurate analogy.

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mass55th 23 points ago +23 / -0

The arrogance at the top of the FBI is astounding, and I agree, the place needs a total fumigation.

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zabbers 9 points ago +9 / -0

The FBI has to be dismantled

If we can get a majority in congress, seriously this. There isn't a floor in the building untouched by politics and scandal over the years, and we need to remove the idea that the FBI/DOJ can somehow conduct investigations independent of the executive branch. Trump needs to find a group of loyalist agents and DOJ officials and start a new bureau. We can rebuild it. We have the technology.

While we're at it look into restructuring the DOJ in general, and maybe ATF.

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disgruntled_patriot 5 points ago +6 / -1

Don't rebuild it! Shut it down. Keep the crime lab open but scatter everything else to the winds.

The FBI is 100% totally and completely irrelevant.

Gun and narcotics crimes? ATF Transit and intra-state crimes? NTSB Cash counterfeiting, money laundering and other financial crimes? Secret Service Terrorism and threats to national security? NSA Border patrol and security? ICE

etc. etc.

Literally the only real benefit the FBI provides to America is the federal crime lab which does a great service for state, county, and municipal police departments nation wide. Literally every other single thing the FBI does is already covered by some other alphabet soup agency.

FBI = completely redundant

Remember that the FBI was founded to counter organized crime. Well... it did its job. Remember that the FBI was supposed to be TEMPORARY! Yeah, where've we heard that before? So the FBI's role has expanded well beyond organized crime and into every other aspect covered by every other agency in the US.

It's pretty obvious why the FBI still exists. It's the deep state's enforcers. That's the only reason it's still around. The FBI exists solely to run interference for the deep state. To keep Washington and the establishment complex under its thumb.

Kill the monster. Tear it limb from limb, burn the remains, and scatter the ashes.