Democrats think the FBI is on their side.

Democrats Prioritize Political Goals Over Law Enforcement

It’s becoming increasingly clear that Democrats only support law enforcement when it serves their political agenda. They want to defund police who enforce the law, while expanding police forces that use the law as a political weapon on their behalf.

Last week’s hearing on FBI weaponization provided proof of this. Democrats uniformly supported the FBI in the face of evidence of gross and systemic abuse of power, while Republicans criticized it. This is a dangerous situation that shows Democrats consider the FBI to be working for them.

New Facts Surface About FBI Abuses of Power

The hearing also revealed numerous new facts about serious and ongoing FBI abuses of law enforcement powers. Special Counsel John Durham’s report showed that the FBI acted in a clearly partisan manner, protecting the Hillary Clinton campaign while placing informants and electronic wiretaps on the Trump campaign based on fabricated evidence their agents didn’t check.

During the hearing, three whistleblowers detailed the FBI’s cruel retaliation against themselves and their families when they filed legally protected ethics complaints. The FBI surveilled parents who complained about Democrats’ education policies at school board meetings, pursued a SWAT-style raid against a cooperative man who attended the Jan. 6, 2021 rally, and inflated “domestic terrorism” cases to bolster Democrats’ false and horrifying claim that their political opponents are terrorists.

FBI Rewards Agents for Warrantless Surveillance and Searches

The whistleblowers also noted that the FBI rewards agents for opening more warrantless surveillance and searches of Americans’ communications. Saturday’s reporting on a secret court filing showed the FBI broke the law by spying on Americans 278,000 times, without any warrants, in 2021 alone. For each American the FISA court permitted the FBI to target, the bureau illicitly surveilled almost 1,000 additional Americans.

Americans Believe FBI Covers Up Democrats’ Crimes

A poll released on Sunday showed that the majority of Americans believe the FBI covers up Democrats’ crimes, specifically those of the Biden family. It also showed that 70 percent of Americans are concerned the FBI and other intelligence agencies interfere with elections and believe the agencies need “wide-ranging reform.”

It’s time for Democrats to prioritize law enforcement over their political goals and hold the FBI accountable for their abuses of power.

The FBI’s Partisan Record

It’s no secret that the FBI has a partisan record. The only former president’s home the FBI has ever raided was a Republican’s, while FBI officials bent over backward to avoid touching even convincing evidence of criminal behavior related to Clinton, according to Durham’s documentation. This partisanship is not just typical politics. It’s over fundamental issues, not differing ways to get to the same goal. It’s also very dangerous to our country.

When federal law enforcement becomes the shock troops of only one political party, you don’t have the rule of law anymore. Law is only legitimate if it is equally applied to all. When members of one party or set of political beliefs are above the law and use the law not for justice but as a weapon against their political enemies, that’s what we call a police state.