George Parry is a former "federal Organized Crime Strike Force lawyer, a unit chief in the Philadelphia District Attorney’s office, and a special organized crime prosecutor in central Pennsylvania during the 1970s and 1980s." His blog "An Elegy for the FBI" at Knowledge is Good was cross-posted at the American Spectator. Here's some of it:
. . . It’s quite remarkable to watch a
once revered and legendary organization metaphorically slit its own throat in
public. But that’s exactly what happened when the FBI raided President Donald
Trump’s Florida home purportedly to retrieve official Trump administration
documents.
The Wall Street Journal reports that
the search warrant cited the Presidential Records Act and possible illegal
handling of classified information and that the raid came two
months after Justice Department lawyers visited Mar-a-Lago “seeking
more information about potentially sensitive material that had been taken there
from the White House.”
But if document retrieval was truly
the goal, why didn’t the FBI obtain and serve a subpoena duces tecum instead of resorting to
a gangbusters-style ransacking of Trump’s home? After months of discussions
with the president’s lawyers, during which they voluntarily handed over 15
boxes of presidential documents to the National Archives, was there some reason
to believe that a raid was necessary to prevent the destruction of what
remained at Mar-a-Lago?
. . .
There are many more such examples
that amply demonstrate that the FBI has been reduced to being the armed muscle
and praetorian guard of the Democrat Party. But, while all of that is bad
enough, the FBI’s ill-conceived raid on the home of a former president who also
happens to be the leading political opponent of the bureau’s masters in the
Biden regime, is a historic, hideous, and radical abuse of its law enforcement
authority that has obliterated the bureau’s relationship with a vast swath of the
American public. To those citizens, the bureau’s agents are no longer regarded
as the respected and stalwart G-Men of legend. They are now widely and
justifiably mocked and dismissed as the Stasi, Gestapo, KGB, secret
police, and banana republic thugs for hire.
Thanks to the raid of Trump’s home,
the FBI is not only faced with having lost the confidence and cooperation of
almost half of America. It has also transformed itself into a despised moral
leper colony — a painted, hagged out, repellent, and whorish mockery of
what it used to be. . . .
Much more at the link here.
Irreversible damage.
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