Remember The FBI?

I'm talking about the TV show here. Kinda followed it a bit in the sixties, before I got woke and switched the channel to "The Mod Squad."

Were those guys cool or what?

Nevertheless, The FBI is where the wholesome image of the FBI was fabricated, the image that the Trumpists stand accused of besmirching.

Seriously? Wasn't Hillary doing the same thing just a week before the election? The FBI is politicized today, was then, and in fact it was born politicised. Anybody remotely leftish at any point in the Bureau's existence would have died laughing if they witnessed the current controversy.

The FBI wasn't politicized? Get outta here!

J Edgar Hoover had his hands all over that TV series. He personally approved every actor who played an FBI agent. He and Efrem Zimbalist Jr. consulted on pretty much every episode. Hoover crafted a propaganda masterpiece! For one prime time hour every Sunday night, The FBI gave the FBI an hour of very compelling free advertising.

That show made the agency's reputation for integrity and ethical policing. Apparently there are still folks around who buy the bullshit.

If you're one of them, google FBI history and do some reading.

I assume that the people running the reputation chestnut up the flagpole are well educated and intelligent folks who already know the truth. The news business is in the news business though, not the truth business. They're sometimes reporting facts, but often they're creating the very facts they're reporting on. That pretty much explains the last 30 years of Donald Trump's career, and especially the last couple.

No, the infotainment-industrial complex, big papers, big news providers across all platforms, provide many essential services to the "deep state."

Telling it like it is ain't one of them.

Justice system whacks Whitey, lets FBI walk

The Whitey Bulger trial has concluded, with the 83 year old Bulger looking at spending the rest of his life behind bars.

I'm guessing that's not nearly as devastating a verdict at 83 as it might have been at 23.

Anyone applauding this verdict should at the same time ask themselves how long Whitey's life 'o crime might have lasted had the FBI been actively working to fight crime instead of facilitating it.

Just one more question mark in the checkered history of crime fighting in the USA.