Monday, September 3, 2018

Compromised: How Money and Politics Drive FBI Corruption Paperback – July 31, 2018 by Seamus Bruner (Author), Peter Schweizer (Foreword) (Bombardier Books)




With an element of naivity the book attempts to shatters the myth that the FBI leadership is immune to the twin lures of political power and money. The authors are part of  team behind Clinton Cash.

There are plenty of generalizations without survey statistics in this book . The authors for example argue that if you ask most Americans what they think about the FBI, they would tell you it’s far and away the government agency they trust the most. The Bureau has, for decades, sold an image of itself as efficient, professional, unbiased, and untouchable by corruption.

That portrait is a sham.

Seamus Bruner and the Government Accountability Institute have spent years cataloging the widespread conflict-of-interests of the D.C. political class. They have found massive self-enrichment and political bias at the highest levels of government—including the Justice Department and the FBI. Indeed, the nation's most important law enforcement agency has become so compromised that every major investigation should face intense scrutiny from the public, the media, and from Congress.

James Comey, Robert Mueller, Andrew McCabe, and the rest of the recent FBI leadership should be forced to answer for the way the Bureau has abused the public trust under their watch.Then again there is nothing wrong with writing a book and taking on speaking engagements once you retire  but the authors clearly do not agree with this premise . 

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