IMO, The FBI is held in high status but I remember the FBI that

[CK_John]

would give Johnson folders on members of Congress. An agency that told MLK to commit suicide, an agency that did not believe that there was no organized crime, an agency that stood back when police beat and set fire to interstate bus system, an agency that let an agent be a spy for 20 yrs because he was in a religious cult.

They've come a long way but......

[Sculpin Beauregard]

1. Oh good. Someone trying to discredit the agency standing between Cheeto & fascism, literally one of

the only agencies that has the full story on what the Jesus fuck has happened.

Maybe don't do that at this moment in history.

[CK_John]

2. I doubt they have anything and I don't expect anything from Sessions.

If anything comes out it will be from the states AG on the east/west coast.

[Sculpin Beauregard]

4. I think and would bet money that you are dead wrong about this.

[bettyellen]

5. Seeing tons of this whataboutist crap.

[Orrex]

7. +1

[Solly Mack]

3. I don't mythologize the FBI.

And I don't pretend that the only problem with Trump being president is Trump.

But what I do want is the breathing room to enact change.

The thing is, with every shock to our democracy, that becomes all we can hope for...a little breathing room.

That's no way to live as people.

[CK_John]

6. Listen Trump is a disaster but we need to quit whining and try

to work to get some people in local offices and paying attention to local issues. County offices that control voter registration, planning , and local taxes are were need to start forming a farmteam. (they don't have to be perfect)

The POTUS is the end of a long, long chain that any single person can affect the outcome.

[Solly Mack]

8. Hence: "And I don't pretend that the only problem with Trump being president is Trump."

We have to start with the grassroots to change the top. But that doesn't mean the top doesn't need changing now.

[CK_John]

10. It's a waste of time, until we see if we turned any support in 2018 elections.

[Solly Mack]

11. If you say so.

[Skidmore]

9. Alas, human organizations

are made up of humans--all imperfect, including us here.

[Solomon]

12. I feel the same way about the FBI

Cointelpro was despicable. I don't idolize them the way a lot of people do. I don't trust them. I've always suspected that the undercover war going on is between the FBI which supports Trump and the CIA which hates Russia.

[Foamfollower]

13. Hoover died about 45 years ago.

[CK_John]

14. I remember the Sputnik Launch too.