750 not bad..
Biggest mistake in the FBI charter is combining intelligence/counterintelligence with law enforcement.
Spies are frequently in morally ambiguous circumstances that force an LEO into a slippery slope situation. It's also too tempting to use the tools of state spycraft to advance LE agendas beyond the boundaries of due process and then use the classification system to hide those abuses. As we are witnessing now.
You want your spies to be spies and your cops to be cops. They should have a fluid 2-way working arrangement and mutually support each other, but asking them to wear both hats is a recipe for all the abuses of the past and those of the present. They will be the predictors of the abuses of the future if the culture isn't changed.
It's beyond wilful internal change at this point. It needs to be broken up and rechartered with new leadership. The management has become an enemy of the US people and our Constitution. This much is clear.
I say this as a professionally degreed retired LEO with national standing. It saddens me whenever I see great people fall short, and this was once a premiere agency that long ago lost it's way in a self-serving bureacracy that was able to intimidate it's masters and hide it's sins.
Now it's time for light and a shattering of the shell that was once was the FBI. The insides have rotten away.
Thanks. Got blessed. Feels good.
Mr. Pig is a Patriot. Proud to serve alongside. o7
All this reminds me of the clockfag days. I know how to tell time (and play chess), but don't really follow all the high level discussions, but am entertained and impressed by them just the same. I know it's an Anon trait to want to help me get there, but I'm happy to just stand on the sidewalk and clap as the parade goes by at this point in my life. Still impressed.
Their juice is the Straits of Malacca, which they are trying to consolidate control over…the South China Sea moves are a part of that strategy. It's coming to a head. The Suez is vital to Europe, the Middle East, and Asian steppes.