I think the FBI are in that weird bubble where they are perhaps being Glowies in such an obvious way they are really good behind the scenes, or are as bad as we think
Well they were infiltrated by the mafia and got out maneuvered by the ATF how many times?
It's a little bit of both, depending on who is running the show in which decade. Hoover was certainly dangerously competent and manipulative..he also..staffed a fuckload of offices with his vindictive ex boyfriends..which came back to bite the Bureau..and there was his whole "No! No! The Mafia, serial killers, weird cults AND BLACK SERIAL KILLERS DON'T EXIST!" bit towards the end of his life.
Mueller was an..
is basically Wade Eiling..he's so cartoonishly corrupt that I honestly believe the only reason he escaped prison was due to multiple administrations simply refusing to believe the level of perfidy he got up too.
Same goes for a lot of AG's, Reno gets portrayed by conservatives as this deadly mass manipulator, but I spent the bulk of my adolescence living next to one of her ex girlfriends, who basically said the woman was a two bit druggie who sorta..blundered along for the ride...But also vengeful ex...so...
Holder was so dirty I honestly still have trouble remembering he isn't a cartoon character..and I forgot the guy who was AG for Bush...but that was all over the place, as were his FBI and ATF.
If nothing's done someone will one day truly be an accelerationist and leak everything to the public in such a way it can't be covered up at public risk as a pariah. The nonces in the upper class, the corruption and the intelligence agencies playing power broker like they're the praetorian guard. Something will break.
The amusing part is the whole Satanic Panic...turns out the FBI actually did find some disturbing connections there but that forensic psychologists practicing hypnotherapy so thoroughly cocked that up, that they had no legitimate way to do anything about it.
This is such a mess...we're heading for Triple A territory..folks.
As regards the FBI I must admit to finding myself a bit confused why in four years the Trump administration hasn't supposedly brought them to heel yet, unless there is something going on behind the scenes and maybe the FBI isn't as incompetent/corrupt as it is appearing. Afterall President Trump himself has not been saying much about the FBI on this issue the last few days and both Wray and Barr have been oddly silent on the issue.
Trump
did threaten to shut them down in 2017
The response that was given and on the record no less?
"We've been here 90 years, go ask Reagan about it"
Tells you all you need to know really...
edit- Admittedly off topic, but I still don't understand why people who study deviant behavior and criminal psychology will deny black people can be serial killers, despite several being caught.
Crazy is Crazy, it doesn't discriminate...