Ipsism Cerebri*

Hollywood gave us images of sterling law enforcement with a mission "to Serve and Protect." A recent article shows that the FBI lost its integrity, The FBI has been untrustworthy for at least three decades: whistleblowersblog.org   A sickening description of systemic forensic fraud in the FBI crime lab.
 
There is an old Middle-Eastern saying,
"If justice depends upon whose ox is gored, there is no justice."
 
For much of our lives, we trusted that the FBI evaluated evidence with precision and without bias. Now, that trust has been shown to have been misplaced. - They have chosen oxen to benefit or harm targets, regardless of truth. And the FBI ruthlessly gored their targets in the lab and the courtrooms. The harm was egregious, some leading to executions of presumably innocent victims of the FBI targeting.
 
With the apparent bias shown in political investigations and the demonstrated malfeasance and apparent criminal culpability, Ipsism is compelled to join those calling for the dissolution of the FBI.
 
If a new organization is formed, all current and former employees of the FBI should be barred from joining the new organization.

Another example: Law360 (September 21, 2022, 10:36 PM EDT) -- A disbarred Beverly Hills attorney testifying in an ex-FBI agent's bribery trial told a California federal jury Wednesday that he paid the agent $10,000 per month in exchange for accessing restricted...

UPDATE:  Law360 (October 4, 2022, 12:44 PM EDT) Jury Convicts Ex-FBI Agent Of Taking Bribes From Dirty Atty

A California federal jury on Tuesday convicted retired FBI agent Babak Broumand of bribery for taking money and a $36,000 Ducati motorcycle from since-disbarred attorney Edgar Sargsyan in exchange for running searches on law enforcement databases that Sargsyan relied on to avoid detection by criminal investigators.

UPDATE: Law360 (November 15, 2022, 6:57 PM EST)

Girardi Paid For House Now Owned By Los Angeles FBI Head   By Brandon Lowrey

The new head of the FBI's Los Angeles office — the same office behind the arrest of Girardi Keese's former chief financial officer earlier this month — owns a $1.2 million home that was paid for by the scandal-plagued law firm's founder, Tom Girardi, a Law360 investigation has found.

Ex-FBI official arrested for alleged money laundering, violating Russia sanctions, taking money from former foreign agent
Charles McGonigal allegedly took $225,000 in cash from a former foreign agent while still working for the FBI.

Feds Say Ex-FBI Trainee Can't Ax Statements In Trading Case

Law360 (February 7, 2023, 3:33 PM EST) -- A former FBI trainee who allegedly lied to insider-trading investigators shouldn't be able to keep those false statements out of evidence because he made them voluntarily, Manhattan federal prosecutors told a...

Ex-FBI Agent Gets 6 Years Over Bribes From Corrupt Atty

By Craig Clough
Law360 (February 28, 2023) -- A California federal judge on Monday sentenced a former FBI counterintelligence agent to six years in prison following his conviction for accepting bribes to help a now-disbarred attorney further his criminal...

Imprimis  January 2023 | Volume 52, Issue 1
The Twitter Files Reveal an Existential Threat
John Daniel Davidson

"...The FBI in particular has directly meddled in the last two presidential elections to a degree that should call into question its continued existence. Indeed, the FBI’s post-9/11 transformation from a law enforcement agency to a counter-terrorism and intelligence-gathering agency with seemingly limitless remit has been a disaster for civil liberties and the First Amendment. We need either to impose radical reforms or scrap it entirely and start over."