{"id":53547,"date":"2022-11-22T14:14:18","date_gmt":"2022-11-22T14:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=53547"},"modified":"2022-11-22T14:14:18","modified_gmt":"2022-11-22T14:14:18","slug":"fbi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=53547","title":{"rendered":"Why target FBI?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Republicans are preparing to wage war on several fronts against the government they proclaim they want to protect<\/p>\n

They have several targets in their sights but for the moment I want to focus on just one of them: the Federal Bureau of Investigation.<\/em><\/p>\n

The FBI used to be considered a sacred cow in GOP political circles. They dared not criticize the elite federal law enforcement agency for fear of being labeled “soft on crime,” or being a squishy liberal.<\/p>\n

No more, man.<\/p>\n

The FBI is now Public Enemy No. 1 among many Republicans for doing its job legally and by the book. What did the FBI do to incur the GOP wrath?<\/p>\n

It acted on orders from the Department of Justice, the attorney general and entered the home of a former president to look for evidence of a possible (or probable) crime. The ex-POTUS took several boxes full of classified documents with him from the White House to his glitzy estate in Florida. AG Merrick Garland sought a federal judge’s permission — also by the book — to search the ex-POTUS’s estate for evidence. The judge granted it and so he sent the agents to the house to conduct the search.<\/p>\n

That’s a no-no, according to the GOP stalwarts who defend the ex-POTUS to the hilt. How dare the feds do their job?<\/p>\n

They are gunning for the attorney general and — get a load of this! — for the FBI director, Christopher Wray, who was appointed to his post by Donald Trump, the aforementioned ex-POTUS.<\/p>\n

Let’s understand a couple of key points.<\/p>\n

One is that the attorney general did nothing out of the ordinary. He ran all the necessary traps before authorizing the search at Trump’s estate. He acted within the law. Accordingly, AG Garland has declared that “no one is above the law,” and by “no one,” he means not a single American citizen … and that includes former presidents of the United States.<\/p>\n

The FBI has not been “weaponized.” The AG has utilized the law enforcement agency totally within its scope of authority and for Republicans to declare their intention to “defund the FBI” makes a mockery of their criticism of progressives who said the same thing about local police agencies.<\/p>\n

The world has been turned upside-down. We need to regain our balance.<\/p>\n

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