Liars, Leakers, and Liberals by Jeanine Pirro

Author:Jeanine Pirro
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: Center Street
Published: 2018-07-16T16:00:00+00:00

Or is it J. Edgar Comey?

Because his mission was to change the course of American presidential history, Jim Comey has done more damage to the FBI as an institution than J. Edgar Hoover. The only difference between him and J. Edgar is that we know he wore dresses.

The truth is Comey was the chief architect in tainting and politicizing the FBI. When I say “partisan hacks,” I don’t necessarily mean Democrats or Republicans. But that doesn’t really matter, because the 2016 election wasn’t about Republicans versus Democrats. It was about the Establishment versus the people.

I am the eternal optimist. There have been rough patches in the FBI’s history, but the rank-and-file men and women of the FBI have done wonders over the years to restore the agency’s reputation. Starting with its very first director, J. Edgar Hoover, there was corruption at the top. While Hoover is credited with taking down high-profile bank robbers during the 1930s, developing counterespionage work during World War II, and modernizing law enforcement technique in some areas, he’s also notorious for abusing the power vested in him to wage personal and political vendettas. They started during Hoover’s first years with the FBI’s predecessor, the Bureau of Investigation.

According to Boston University professor Alston Purvis, son of the legendary special agent Melvin Purvis, who brought down the notorious criminals John Dillinger and “Pretty Boy” Floyd, Hoover persecuted his father relentlessly. The younger Purvis wrote in his book The Vendetta: Special Agent Melvin Purvis, John Dillinger, and Hoover’s FBI in the Age of Gangsters, that Hoover “blocked him [Melvin Purvis] from getting jobs, ordered agents to dig up dirt on him, invented stories that impugned his character, and deleted him from official FBI histories.”11

And why? Because Purvis was receiving too much of the credit for stopping Dillinger and Floyd, credit Hoover believed should be bestowed solely upon himself. Forget that it was Purvis and his men who had risked their lives in two spectacular gunfights with the gangsters,12 eventually killing them both, while Hoover sat on his ego in a cozy office in Washington.

Hoover pioneered the practice of wiretapping politicians and other political opponents on behalf of the presidents he served under.13 Meanwhile, he repeatedly denied the existence of the Mafia. Rather than doing the hard work of investigating it, he preferred the relatively easier glory of designating lone bandits “Public Enemy No. 1” and taking the credit when real law enforcement officers like Purvis hunted them down. So, the Mafia ran wild, even establishing a quasi-corporate organization called Murder, Inc., while Hoover was busy abusing his power for personal and political ends.

The good people within the FBI worked for decades to reform the agency’s reputation after Hoover finally abdicated his dark throne and this world.

Until Cardinal Comey, the Bureau had for the most part convinced the public that it was an apolitical law enforcement agency. Unfortunately, as with the IRS and EPA, President Barack Obama sought to politicize the FBI. He couldn’t have picked a better man for the job than James Comey.

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