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by busterarm 3668 days ago
Is it just me or is the FBI a little out of control lately...
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Every few weeks I remind myself that J. Edgar Hoover retired as director of the FBI in 1972 after running the organization for 48 years. Somebody that fundamental to the formation of an organization creates a culture.
Not relevant to your point, but Hoover never retired. He died in office.
With that much power, he was only ever going to leave in a coffin.
Good point!
> lately…

Lately?

Well played, but in the public eye.

I think the fact that they completely invented a fictitious science to prosecute cases should have brought serious investigation and televised congressional hearings with daily news coverage...

...but nope.

Scrap it and start over.

I'm a little behind, what fictitious science is this?
not the OP, but my guess: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/fbi-overstated-fo...

>The Justice Department and FBI have formally acknowledged that nearly every examiner in an elite FBI forensic unit gave flawed testimony in almost all trials in which they offered evidence against criminal defendants over more than a two-decade period before 2000.

Malcontents have been griping for over 50 years now ... e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Doorbell_Rang