Via Insty I see this interesting news:
Police departments throughout the United States have stopped sharing information with the FBI due a “disturbing loss of trust” in the Bureau, an alarming new whistleblower report has found.
The scathing report listed ten key findings that have dire national security and public safety implications:
1. Local law enforcement officers do not trust the FBI
2. No more actionable, substantive information sharing with the FBI
3. FBI National Academy graduates are troubled by bias
4. Crisis of confidence in FBI-led task forces
5. The FBI is isolated and unresponsive to local law enforcement
6. Local law enforcement officers feel disrespected by FBI special agents
7. Today’s tone-deaf FBI disregards the value of retired FBI special agents
8. The new generation of sub-standard FBI special agents
9. FBI management is too transitory and obsessed with self-promotion
10. The FBI’s cult of narcissism begins at the FBI Academy.
The headline to the piece calls this “disturbing”, but I consider it “unsurprising”.
Unlike the oh-so supercilious Fibbies, you see, local LEOs have to live with their communities, are answerable to them and can be kicked out of office at the polling booth.
If I were a local cop in, say, north Texas I’d tell Teh Fibs to take a fucking hike if they came snooping around.
Which is what erstwhile Collin County Sheriff Terry Box (PBUH) said at a press conference when asked how he felt about a federal civilian disarmament program:
“They’ll have to come through my deputies first.”
Note: not “they would” (subjunctive), “they will” (declarative).
So why are we “disturbed” by the news above?
Nothing new there. The closer to headquarters you get, the worse they tend to act.
Nah, none of that is either new OR a “loss.”
The Feebs have been long derided as arrogant, often incompetent, aloof, unapproachable, unable to work with others, expecting others to cater to them, insular, ignorant, and unresponsive, and then the criticism really gets going.
I have talked with folks who quite seriously said they would rather deal with ATF any day and twice on Sundays before working with FBI. And these were Cold Dead Hands, All Guns Laws Are Unconstitutional, Leave Us Alone type small town cops and self described sovereign citizens. They would rather deal with ATF.
What MAY be new is that the FBI might finally be realizing that, while folks like ICE and Border Patrol are hated by everyone else in govt, it’s the FBI that is hated by everyone else in the country. And often for cause.
Only surprise is that someone is reporting it. I’ll bet hard money that no one in Quantico gives a shit, or isn’t actively happy about the kultur shift. I also suspect that its not a change, just something that has become too obvious to ignore anymore. I do think the rabid response to J6 vs the “correct” type agitators was very illustrative though.
Never dealt with the Feeb’s myself but if you’ve dealt with any feddle agency in a “regulatory” sense you get the same thing. USFS, BLM (the .gov kind), EPA, etc. They are arrogant, self-important, pricks who see themselves as superior/smarter/morally-superior, than the dirt-diggers they have to deign to rule.
I have dealt with BLM enforcement rangers before, in a professional capacity.
They’re good folks in my experience, motivated, and principled.
I would rather deal with them any day over the Feebies.
This doesn’t surprise me much. Not LE myself, but I have plenty of friends who are current or retired LEOs (mostly the latter). To a man (and woman), they all loathe the FBI. Arrogant, self-aggrandizing, self-righteous, utterly incompetent pricks who are so terrible at actually finding crimes to investigate that they need to either create their own (the Governor Whitmer “kidnapping” and the attempted bombing of Fountain Place in Dallas for two examples) or frame an innocent party (the Atlanta Olympic bombing).
Read up on their history and it’s been like this from the beginning. J. Edgar the Cross-Dresser bungled the Dillinger manhunt so badly that he needed to recruit veteran Texas lawmen to actually find the guy. The only thing he was good at was generating positive publicity and manipulating the press to make him and his agency (never his agents; he fired Melvin Purvis for upstaging him in the Dillinger case IIRC) look like ultra-capable heroes. About a century on, that’s still the only thing the FBI is halfway-decent at, but now they’ve become so incompetent that they can barely hold that mask up.
But hey, they got a new building.
Known for years as the Feeble Blind Idiots
“Feebs” describes them perfectly — and they absolutely HATE being called that.
So what happens if Trump gets elected and abolishes the FBI? Dismisses all agents in disgrace?
He can’t. Only Congress (the House) can do that by withholding their funding.
What he CAN do is abolish most of their internal operating manuals and render them ineffective. That’s what they fear, and why the FBI were so invested in preventing his election n 2016.