I have no confidence in the FBI, even if I restricted myself only to its 9/11 failures. To quote an article published in 2005 by the Washington Post:
“The inability to detect the Sept. 11, 2001, hijacking plot amounts to a ‘significant failure’ by the FBI and was caused in large part by ‘widespread and longstanding deficiencies’ in the way the agency handled terrorism and intelligence cases, according to a report released yesterday.
“In one particularly notable finding, the report by Justice Department Inspector General Glenn A. Fine concluded that the FBI missed at least five chances to detect the presence of two of the suicide hijackers — Nawaf Alhazmi and Khalid Almihdhar — after they first entered the United States in early 2000.”
I have no confidence that the FBI’s current investigation of Trump has any merit whatsoever. Every part of it that has been publicly reported and subjected to examination has been discredited, again and again.
What’s being investigated? Former FBI Director Comey explained what the FBI investigation of Trump is about: “…the FBI, as part of our counterintelligence mission, is investigating the Russian government’s efforts to interfere in the 2016 presidential election. That includes investigating the nature of any links between individuals associated with the Trump campaign and the Russian government, and whether there was any coordination between the campaign and Russia’s efforts.”
The attempt to find collusion between Trump’s campaign and Russian “interference” is a wild goose chase.
Why is the FBI doing a prolonged investigation of Trump via his campaign? The FBI culture toward Russia is revealed by the publicly-expressed beliefs of a former FBI Special Agent, Joe Navarro, who worked in the counterintelligence area mentioned by Comey.
Joe Navarro writes “…we are talking about contacts with Russia, a country that is not our friend, a country that invaded Ukraine, recently moved missiles to threaten NATO, meddled in our last presidential election, and sent spies to live among us. That Russia.”
The FBI looks upon Russia as an enemy. It buys into all the anti-Russia propaganda of the past few years. FBI counterintelligence needs enemies and it has replaced the USSR by Russia.
Therefore, anyone is a suspected collaborator, colluder, spy, dupe, traitor, or subversive who so much as talks to Russians, does business with Russians, speaks well of Putin in any way, says that Russia didn’t invade Ukraine, or explains that NATO has elicited countermoves from Russia.
Furthermore, Russia is Putin and Putin is KGB through and through. He’s Stalin anew. He’s psychopathic. According to Navarro:
“But let’s be honest, when we talk about Russia, we are talking about Putin. Lest anyone forget, Putin grew up in a nursery known as the KGB, where democratic ideals were abhorred. His heritage is Stalin, Khrushchev, Andropov, the NKVD and the KGB. He was incubated in a system that created gulags, crushed dissent and sanctioned the assassination of a Pope. Putin and his cronies were rewarded along the way through promotions for their psychopathic level exploits as career KGB intelligence officers, not for being kind of heart. Let me be clear, Putin rose to where he is by treachery and mendacity; by being more anti-social and more authoritarian than everyone else.”
Putin is a monster, according to Navarro. Navarro is an FBI-man. We cannot dismiss his beliefs as being outliers that do not reflect the FBI culture, simply because the ongoing investigation confirms this. It takes seriously the notion that Trump’s campaign colluded with Russia, which it views as an enemy.
Can we not say the same about Putin, that he’s a product of his KGB “nursery”? We cannot. Marxism-Leninism is dead. Putin is not a communist. What he believes is something different. For one take on that, see here. The latter sees him as a conservative nationalist. He is against a unipolar world because that threatens Russian culture. Putin’s words and actions are not those of a KGB worm in the Kremlin disguising his communism.
Navarro views any contact with Russians as poison: “To naively make any contact with Russian officials is to tempt a rattlesnake. No matter how nice you are to a reptile, given the chance, it will strike. Similarly, no matter how benign that contact may be on the part of an American, it is still an opportunity for the Russians to carry out their hostile intelligence agenda.”
“Naiveté and ignorance are no excuse, no matter how well intentioned, when dealing with Russian intelligence. They are the third rail that must be avoided.”
Trump is being investigated by the FBI via “individuals associated with the Trump campaign”. The knives out for them are equally sharp for Trump and pointed at him.
The FBI investigation is anchored in an anti-Russian culture. It’s aimed at preventing Trump from cooperating with Russia. It’s aimed at seeing Russia as an enemy and acting accordingly. Is this what those who placed Trump in office voted for? Far from it. Trump’s statements about Putin and Russia gave reason to believe the opposite.
So, who is running the U.S. government, Trump or the FBI?
Is it clear now why Trump may have wanted to fire Comey and did?
10:05 am on May 17, 2017
