{"id":1610523,"date":"2022-08-17T11:19:16","date_gmt":"2022-08-17T15:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1610523"},"modified":"2022-08-17T11:19:21","modified_gmt":"2022-08-17T15:19:21","slug":"yes-we-will-question-the-integrity-of-our-federal-law-enforcement-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/yes-we-will-question-the-integrity-of-our-federal-law-enforcement-officials\/","title":{"rendered":"Yes, We Will Question the Integrity of Our Federal Law Enforcement Officials"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fyes-we-will-question-the-integrity-of-our-federal-law-enforcement-officials%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1610523&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p><span>Since we learned of the unprecedented raid on Donald Trump\u2019s Mar-a-Lago compound last week, millions of Americans have questioned the political neutrality of the Department of Justice. Federal law enforcement is facing a legitimacy crisis\u2014at least in the eyes of half the country\u2014thanks to the fake and overhyped scandals it drummed up during the Trump years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>So MSNBC\u2019s <em>Morning Joe<\/em> invited the former FBI official Peter Strzok to assure viewers the bureau was on the level. &#8220;Absolutely the American public should trust what the FBI is doing,&#8221; he<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9T3388F86vs\"><span>said<\/span><\/a><span> Monday.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>You may remember Strzok from such FBI scandals as<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/06\/11\/the-fbi-knew-russiagate-was-a-lie-but-hid-that-truth\/\"><span>Russiagate<\/span><\/a><span>, the investigation into Hillary Clinton\u2019s use of a private<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/hillary-clinton-deleted-33000-emails-secretary-state\/story?id=42389308\"><span>email server<\/span><\/a>,<span> or his<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/5767861\/rod-rosenstein-text-messages-fbi-peter-strzok-lisa-page\/\"><span>affair<\/span><\/a><span> with FBI lawyer Lisa Page. As the man in charge of investigations into the two candidates in the 2016 presidential election, he was constantly texting Page about his hatred for Trump. Asking this man to vouch for the integrity of the FBI is like putting Bernie Madoff in charge of the Securities and Exchange Commission.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Strzok\u2019s commentary is a microcosm of the mainstream media\u2019s approach to coverage of the Mar-a-Lago raid, about which we still know precious little\u2014 except, we are told, that the integrity of our law enforcement officials shall not be questioned!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;The FBI is not the enemy,&#8221; was the headline of the <em>Washington Post<\/em>\u2019s lead <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2022\/08\/16\/fbi-trump-rhetoric-violence-threats\/\"><span>editorial<\/span><\/a><span>. The <\/span><i><span>New York Times <\/span><\/i><span>over the weekend <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/08\/13\/nyregion\/right-wing-rhetoric-threats-violence.html\"><span>labored<\/span><\/a><span> to link a nutjob who shot up an FBI office in Ohio with, you know, the &#8220;bellicose, dehumanizing, and apocalyptic&#8221; language of people like us. It\u2019s extraordinary to hear that sort of tut-tutting from the same crowd that insisted for most of Trump\u2019s presidency that he was a fascist and a Kremlin agent.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Strzok would know something about that\u2014in fact, he\u2019s free to run his mouth on television because the FBI canned him after the Justice Department\u2019s inspector general concluded his anti-Trump texts cast a cloud over the bureau\u2019s investigation into Trump.<\/span><span> Strzok personally interfered with the agent overseeing the investigation into former national security adviser Michael Flynn to stop him from closing the file after the evidence against him didn\u2019t pan out.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>And his team pushed to include opposition research paid for by the Clinton campaign in an application for a secret surveillance warrant on former Trump adviser<\/span>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.grassley.senate.gov\/news\/news-releases\/justice-dept-admitted-it-lacked-probable-cause-carter-page-fisas\"><span>Carter Page<\/span><\/a><span>. That debacle led to the nullification of two of the four warrants and a scathing inspector general\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/storage\/120919-examination.pdf\"><span>report<\/span><\/a><span> that &#8220;identified multiple instances&#8221; in which the factual assertions the bureau made in the application for the Page warrants &#8220;were inaccurate, incomplete, or unsupported by appropriate documentation, based upon information the FBI had in its possession at the time the application was filed.&#8221;<\/span><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>Perhaps, when we know all the facts, we will find that the FBI raid on Trump\u2019s Florida home was justified. Until then, we reserve our right to question the integrity of the federal law enforcement officials who have demonstrated their willingness to behave like political hacks and abuse the power with which they are entrusted to punish their political opponents.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since we learned of the unprecedented raid on Donald Trump\u2019s Mar-a-Lago compound last week, millions of Americans have questioned the political neutrality of the Department of Justice. 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