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    The Massive Case Of Collective Amnesia: The FBI Has Been Political From The Start

    The fact is — controversy about the FBI is anything but new. And political goals of one kind or another have been part of the reason for the agency since its inception.
    by Ron Elving Jan 26, 2018 5 minutes

    Recent FBI investigations relevant to the 2016 presidential election have become the latest battleground in our deeply divided and partisan politics.

    Some Republicans, disappointed by the lack of charges over Hillary Clinton's emails and distressed by the continuing probe of Russian interference in the 2016 election, suddenly perceive corruption in the FBI. Democrats counter that the casting of doubt on the nation's top national law enforcement agency is an unprecedented outrage.

    Everyone agrees that the FBI should be as professional and impartial as possible, and that its investigations should not be driven by any political agenda or vendetta. That has always been the ideal.

    But various parties to the current imbroglio have been suggesting that somehow this is the first time the bureau may have fallen short of that ideal — or even been accused of doing so, rightly or wrongly.

    Surely there is a massive case of collective amnesia

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