"Every morning, every evening, ain’t we got fun? Not much money, oh, but honey, ain’t we got fun? The rent’s unpaid, dear. We haven’t a car. But any way, dear, we’ll stay as we are. Tax
collector’s getting closer. Still we have fun. There’s nothing surer:
The rich get rich and the poor get poorer. In the meantime. In
between time. Ain’t we got fun?” Richard Whiting, Raymond Egan
and Gus Kahn, 1921
August 31, 2022, And Every Wednesday
By Linda Case Gibbons, Esq.
You can’t rest on your laurels. Everybody knows that.
But in the FBI’s case, I guess they can.
After all, they wear really cool shades. And they do find the bad guys.
Eventually.
Like the Boston Marathon Bombers, and the Parkland school shooter.
Chechen Boston Bomber Tamerlan Tsarmaev was under FBI surveillance for three years, and was monitored as he went back and forth to Russia.
Yet despite warnings from Russian authorities in 2011, the Bureau missed chances to detain him.
On April 15, 2013, Tamerlan Tsarmaev and his brother, Dzhokhar, killed three people and wounded 260 others at the Boston Marathon.
Oops.
The FBI received two separate tips about Nikolas Cruz, the Parkland School shooter.
One tip, on September 25, 2017, said someone with the user name “Nikolas Cruz,” posted on YouTube, “I’m going to be a professional school shooter.”
Another, on January 5, 2018, from a “close family friend,” said that Cruz said he wanted to kill people, had threatened his mother with a rifle, had mutilated small animals, and possessed several weapons.
On February 14, 2018, Cruz killed 17 people and wounded 17 others at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.
Sonofa...!
The FBI had closed their files on both matters.
We don’t mean to be needlessly picky. After all, the Bureau has had diverse and consistent policies from way back.
LGBTQ-appropriate, former FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover had a lovely array of dresses which he was said to have donned.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. had surveillance by the FBI that a man like him and Donald Trump deserve.
Disgraced former FBI director James Comey leaked, spied and lied his way to dismissal, but luckily was able to go on to teach law at Columbia Law School and write a virtue-signaling book, A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies and Leadership.
Disgraced former FBI Deputy Director Andy McCabe, also dismissed from his job, had his pension, attorneys’ fees and back pay restored by Joe’s Department of Justice.
One has to have priorities.
And President Joe does. He included over $10.8 billion for the FBI in his most recent budget.
Former vice president Mike Pence does. He chided Republicans not to put FBI agents in danger by criticizing them over the FBI raid of his former boss’ home.
But Senate Judiciary ranking member Chuck Grassley smelled a bureaucratic rat.
“Starting on May 31, 2022, I’ve written three letters to you regarding political bias that has infected the FBI’s Washington Field Office,” Grassley wrote in an August 17 letter to FBI Director Wray.
“Two of those letters provided specific and credible allegations based on numerous whistleblowers, that have approached my office with information that one can only conclude is indicative of a deeply rooted political infection that has spread to investigative activity into former President Trump and Hunter Biden.”
Wray didn’t respond, but Merrick Garland did.
Yesterday he issued a statement warning Department of Justice employees (which includes the FBI) against talking to Congress.
Translated that means he’s telling the FBI whistleblowers who are confiding in Grassley to knock it off.
And now the FBI is even upsetting monkeys.
Not the disease called “Monkey-pox” monkeys that the World Health Organization is trying to rename because it insults monkeys.
No. It’s the Last Train to Clarksville Monkees. Now even band member Micky Dolenz is tired of the FBI. And he’s suing.
He wants the FBI’s file on its surveillance of the band from a 1967 concert at which an “unnamed FBI source” reported “anti-U.S. messages on the war in Vietnam” were depicted on screen “which constituted left wing innovations of a political nature.”
Dolenz Freedom of Information Act-requested the FBI’s file, and received what Donald Trump got: A heavily redacted file.
It’s not all good, but it is good to know the FBI treats everyone equally.
And that, like Nancy Pelosi, wife of Paul DUI Pelosi, says, “No one is above the law,” and that Monkees and a former president of the United States are treated just the same.
I’m a Believer.
Hold the line, America.
Stay strong, Patriots