“Of these defendants caught up in FBI terrorism sting operations, an FBI informant was the person who led one of every three terrorist plots, and the FBI also provided all of the necessary weapons, money, and transportation.”

“If they’re not going to protect me, I want to know, who are they trying to protect?” McKayla Maroney, a two-time Olympic medalist and one of Nassar’s most frequent victims, asked the Senate Judiciary Committee on September 15.
**[Director Wray fired only one agent in connection to this and did so six years after the failure and just weeks before the Congressional testimonies]

In Part I I looked at the historic problems of the FBI in terms of corruption, ranging from the relatively minor money corruption of agents being bought off by US criminals and others, to the legal corruption of agents who decide to push beyond the boundaries of the law. The problem is that the latter has turned out to be vastly larger than the former, and far more damaging. Here’s a list that’s briefer than the terrible reality:

A 2019 internal audit of the FBI detected hundreds of violations related to “sensitive investigative matters,” which are investigations into elected officials, candidates, or political organizations. A review of 353 sensitive cases uncovered 747 violations against “religious groups & leaders, domestic political groups & leaders, candidates, journalists“. That included an illegal FISA spying operation against a US Senator, for which FBI Director Wray gave an astonishing response where he used this revelation as an example of how much progress they’d supposedly made in improving the FISA process since then.

The agency has an arrangement with NSO Group, an Israeli-based software company that produces invasive spyware that other countries have used to track journalists and political dissidents.

Paul and Marilyn Hueper, owners of Homer Inn & Spa, woke with a start at 9 a.m. April 28 when a dozen armed FBI agents kicked down their front door in an investigation associated with Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s stolen laptop. Turns out it was a case of mistaken identity.

The FBI raided the homes of then Project Veritas leader, James O’Keefe, and a number of his reporters as they hunted for Ashley Biden’s lost diary. What national security breeches that involved is still unknown but in it she discuss her dysfunctional family, her drug use and her father’s “inappropriate” showers with her as a teenager. She later called O’Keefe herself to get it back but he’d passed on it when offered.

After being embarrassed by their failure to stop the 9/11 attacks the FBI decided to get tough on Jihadists. The problem was that they didn’t know how to do it, and so pushed past the boundaries of the law:

“Of these defendants caught up in FBI terrorism Islamic Jihadist sting operations, an FBI informant was the person who led one of every three terrorist plots, and the FBI also provided all of the necessary weapons, money, and transportation.”

With the arrival of Trump the same shit started getting pulled against the new enemies of the regime. The trial of four men accused of conspiring to “kidnap” Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer in 2020 – which was ballyhooed across the US during the election as yet another example of how Trump’s voters threatened democracy – it was revealed that most of the conspiracists were FBI agents who had constantly kept the plot moving forward with suggestions and offers of help with weapons and explosives. That’s not surprising given who was in charge of it:

Richard Trask, the special agent in charge of the investigation, was arrested in July for physically assaulting and choking his wife after attending a swingers party. Trask was fired this month; he faces numerous criminal charges. Prosecutors decided not to use Trask as a witness after his social media account revealed numerous anti-Trump posts, including calling the president a “piece of shit.”

The same FBI operation also tried to coax a man in Virginia to participate in the same sort of plot against Virginia Governor Ralph Northam:

In summer 2020, Dan Chappel, the main informant in the Whitmer “fednapping” who was compensated at least $60,000 by the FBI for his services, targeted a man named Frank Butler, a disabled veteran in his late 60s and an alleged militia member. Taking instructions from Jayson Chambers, one of his FBI handling agents, Chappel used the same playbook in Virginia.

“Dan suggests to Frank that he engage in acts of domestic terror,” defense attorneys wrote in a joint motion filed last year in the Whitmer case. “Like the defendants in this case, Dan suggested to Frank that he attack the governor of Virginia.”

I’d already covered the FBI’s nonsense with the Catholic Church, specifically conservative Catholics, back in early 2023 (But Do They Speak Latin), where they used at least one undercover agent to spy on attendees to the Latin Masses. All this arising out of the shitstorm from parents over LGBTQ+ teaching in schools and “warnings” from the crooks at the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). But since then Congressional investigations have revealed it wasn’t just a “stray memo” from one agent and one office. It was coordinated across several FBI offices and the reason is simple and connects to much else on this list; a clash between the ideology of Washington D.C. and ordinary Americans. As that article put it:

Unlike supposedly “devout” Catholic Democrat politicians, including President Joe Biden and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Latin Mass-attending Catholics oppose abortion, gay marriage, transgenderism, and racism in the guise of CRT.

You think that last is an exaggeration? Read the story of Mark Houck after he shoved away a pro-abortion protestor who was screaming into the face of his 12 year old son during a protest at an abortion clinic:

A well-known pro-life author, sidewalk counselor, and father of seven was the latest victim of a U.S. Department of Justice-sponsored SWAT raid and arrest — for supposed “FACE Act” violations — at his rural home as his children looked on “screaming.”
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Ryan-Marie, who is a homeschool mother, explained the SWAT team of 25 to 30 FBI agents swarmed their property with around 15 vehicles at 7:05 a.m. this morning. Having quickly surrounded the house with rifles in firing position, “they started pounding on the door and yelling for us to open it.”

Just doing their job against a dangerous criminal eh? Houck’s case was dismissed by a Federal juryand he’s now suing the Federal government for harassment. How bad was that harassment? Well, his wife, after several successful births, has miscarried three times since the FBI turned up.

The last in this list is actually quite mild compared to all those others, but in many ways it’s even creepier since no charges, trials or convictions arose from it. This was just what the FBI did with an ordinary person. In 2018 they detained at Boston airport one Theodore Malloch, an academic who had supported the Trump campaign but more importantly had written a book, The Plot to Destroy Trump: How the Deep State Fabricated the Russian Dossier to Subvert the President. You can read his account of what happened here, including confiscating his phone and making it clear they had been tracking almost every aspect of his life, even though they said he was merely a witness for Mueller’s Russian Collusion team (smartly he nevertheless retained counsel, costing him $60,000). His chilling conclusion:

The FBI surveils people constantly, without their knowledge, without authority to do so, and even if you are outside the country. The Fourth Amendment is out the window…The deep state was sending a signal and had no doubt read my detailed book which implicated them. They wanted to intimidate me…What message does this send? I will tell you—stay clear of Trump and all things Trump or the globalists and deep state will get you as they say, “six ways to Sunday.”

And all this is before getting to the FBI’s utterly compromised assault on President Trump as part of the great Russia-Trump collusion hoax, which was the driver for Malloch being detained. That vast subject and the FBI’s involvement in it, deserves its own post:

“Crossfire Hurricane” was the investigation into alleged Trump collusion with Russia to steal an election.  Within a couple of months, the bureau knew that the whole thing was a hoax created by Hillary, yet the investigation continued for three years — eventually transitioning into a special counsel investigation.  Peter Strzok called “Crossfire Hurricane” the bureau’s insurance policy — against a Trump presidency.  It was a good way to show off for his mistress, Lisa Page — a rabid anti-Trump FBI lawyer.

It should be no surprise then to find that several years later the FBI happily cooperated with the Biden Administration to try and get Trump again:

The memos show then-White House Deputy Counsel Jonathan Su was engaged in conversations with the FBI, DOJ and National Archives as early as April, shortly after 15 boxes of classified and other materials were voluntarily returned to the federal historical agency from Trump’s Florida home.

By May, Su conveyed to the Archives that President Joe Biden would not object to waiving his predecessor’s claims to executive claims, a decision that opened the door for DOJ to get a grand jury to issue a subpoena compelling Trump to turn over any remaining materials he possessed from his presidency.

Apparently there are plenty of Strzok’s left inside the FBI, which raises the question: can it be saved?

There are an increasing number of people, including lawmakers, who think it can’t, and that includes former FBI agents.

I read your article, and although you and your retiree Bureau co-author would hope to rehab the FBI – those of us seeing the internal work know it must be eliminated.  … This place is corrupted to the fundamental level. And much of the FBI I have seen in the past 6 years is beyond saving. … “Shut it all down” needs to be the resounding message. Forget probation. Suspension without pay. The FBI needs to give up badge and gun while we root out all of the failed culture of oath violations. If it never can be reestablished, so be it.