More than one president has tried to gut the corruption from the FBI. It amazes me how many people think the organization is credible after decades of unquestionable corruption. When everything an organization does is secret you can be sure what they are doing is dishonest and corrupt.
Not all of it is dishonest and corrupt. But almost certainly some of it is.
There was likely minimal corruption in government up to the TR Roosevelt administration that turned the Constitution on its head and opened the gates to massive corruption. Since then that corruption started as a small snowball that has been gaining mass and velocity ever since until it is now so huge that it flattens everything in its path. It has resulted in a professional permanent political class--elected, appointed, hired--that exists to increase its own power, prestige, influence, and personal wealth and that throws we the people only enough crumbs to keep us quiet, sending in the contributions, and voting for them.
Steve Hilton who hosts
The Next Revolution on Sunday evenings at Fox News spent a good deal of his last program giving a run down of that kind of problem in the Trump Administration--the people who have abused their power to benefit themselves or who unwisely or inappropriately spent the people's money. Some have been fired for it and others will likely soon be or need to be. And while Hilton didn't address it--or if he did I missed it--to the Administration's credit, that has surely been a strong factor in the unusually high turnover of people at the top in the current Administration. I am unaware of more than a very few who were fired for that in the three administrations prior to the Trump Administration though it surely happened at least as much as it does now.
And while I do believe the rank and file of FBI personnel to be competent and honorable people, the fact that the FBI does operate with such extreme secrecy, and so many have the insane notion that the Administration should not exercise any restraint or interference or oversight of that secrecy, it stands to reason that it would be a favored government position for the dishonest and corrupt and those who would abuse power for personal gain to hide out.
I don't know what to think of Comey, but he certainly has given me no reason to believe he has not been part of the deep state and permanent political class. He is a polished, personable, and likable person, but there is no way to read him as anything other than acting improperly and unethically. I watched his eyes, demeanor, body language in yesterday's interview with Bret Baier, and while I think he was being honest in much of it, I also think he was also lying through his teeth in much of it. And for the first time, I think he probably knows he is in trouble legally and ethically if charges should be filed. Whether that will actually happen is anybody's guess as I think the DOJ overall is probably as infested with the permanent political class as any other agencies of government.
