FBI- The American Stasi by Victor Davis Hanson
Victor Davis Hanson Article. FBI- The American Stasi. \nDennis Prager Podcasts\nStasi\n\xa0Aug 12 2022\xa0\xa0\nHalf the country has lost faith in the FBI as a non-political institution. It now acts like the enforcement arm of the Democratic Party. This is a terrible development and very scary\u2026\nThanks for listening to the Daily Dennis Prager Podcast. To hear the entire three hours of my radio show as a podcast, commercial-free every single day, become a member of Pragertopia. You\u2019ll also get access to 15 years\u2019 worth of archives, as well as daily show prep. Subscribe today at Pragertopia dot com.\n\xa0\nhttps://tribunecontentagency.com/article/victor-davis-hanson-fbi-r-i-p/ \nHomeTribune Premium ContentOpinionInternationalVictor Davis HansonVictor Davis Hanson: FBI, R.I.P.?\n\xa0\nArticle mentioned-\nVictor Davis Hanson: FBI, R.I.P.?\nVICTOR DAVIS HANSON\xa0AUGUST 10, 2022\nThe FBI is dissolving before our eyes into a rogue security service akin to those in Eastern Europe during the Cold War.\nTake the FBI\u2019s deliberately asymmetrical application of the law. This week the bureau surprise-raided the home of former President Donald Trump \u2014 an historical first.\nA massive phalanx of FBI agents swooped into the Trump residence while he was not home, to confiscate his personal property, safe, and records. All of this was over an archival dispute of presidential papers common to many former presidents. Agents swarmed the entire house, including the wardrobe closet of the former first lady.\nNote we are less than 90 days out from a midterm election, and this was not just a raid, but a political act.\nThe Democratic Party is anticipated to suffer historical losses. Trump was on the verge of announcing his 2024 presidential candidacy. In many polls, he remains the Republican front-runner for the nomination \u2014 and well ahead of incumbent President Joe Biden in a putative 2024 rematch.\nIn 2016 then FBI Director James Comey announced that candidate Hillary Clinton was guilty of destroying subpoenaed emails \u2014 a likely felony pertaining to her tenure as secretary of state. Yet he all but pledged that she would not be prosecuted given her status as a presidential candidate.\nAs far as targeting presidential candidates, Trump was impeached in 2020 ostensibly for delaying military aid to Ukraine by asking Ukrainian officials to investigate more fully the clearly corrupt Biden family \u2014 given Joe Biden at the time was a likely possible presidential opponent in 2020.\nThe FBI has devolved into a personal retrieval service for the incorrigible Biden family. It suppressed, for political purposes, information surrounding Hunter Biden\u2019s missing laptop on the eve of the 2020 election.\nPreviously, the FBI never pursued Hunter\u2019s fraudulently registered firearm, his mysterious foreign income, his felonious crack cocaine use, or his regular employment of foreign prostitutes.\nYet in a pre-dawn raid just before the 2020 election, the FBI targeted the home of journalist James O\u2019Keefe on grounds that someone had passed to him the lost and lurid diary of Ashley Biden, Biden\u2019s wayward daughter.\nAt various times, in Stasi-style the FBI has publicly shackled Trump economic advisor Peter Navarro, swarmed the office of Trump\u2019s legal counsel Rudy Giuliani, and sent a SWAT team to surround the house of Trump ally Roger Stone. Meanwhile, terrorists and cartels walk with impunity across an open border.\nFBI Director Christopher Wray last week cut short his evasive testimony before Congress. He claimed he had to leave for a critical appointment \u2014 only to use his FBI Gulfstream luxury jet to fly to his favorite vacation spot in the Adirondacks.\nWray took over from disgraced interim FBI Director Andrew McCabe. The latter admitted lying repeatedly to federal investigators and signed off on a fraudulent FBI FISA application. He faced zero legal consequences.\nMcCabe, remember, was also the point man in the softball Hillary Clinton email investigation \u2014 while his wife was a political candidate and reci