I know why Trump fans want to get rid of the FBI, because then they have a much easier time bribing local officials than a larger bureaucratic organization. I have no doubt that corruption exists within the FBI but if anything we've seen corruption exist much more in smaller groups within law enforcement.

Can we please not bring irrelevant modern "politics" into this? I explicitly set up my comment to avoid this non-issue. I am very much against the person you brought up for no reason. I am also very against the FBI because of what they did during Occupy and against other grassroots movements over the years. Things I have direct personal experience with the FBI being corrupt over.

You don't seem to grasp what "relevant" means, or what "non-issue" means. Trump's situation is, obviously, directly relevant, and it's most certainly an issue.

It isn't irrelevant. There are active efforts by right-wing politicians and talking heads to discredit the FBI. I think legitimate discourse is good and am happy to have it, but cherry picking things to simply push an agenda doesn't help.

Honestly? I'll take it in a "broken clock is right twice a day" sort of way. I'm glad there's support for reforming the FBI from idiots as well as reasonable people now. The only downsides are the people that automatically take the opposite position of the idiots even when what the idiots are arguing for is correct (by accident).

I don't necessarily want it "got rid of" but it does need massive reforming.

This was true from it's earliest days when it was pulling dirty tricks on civil rights and anti war protestors.

Thinking this kind of things is cool when it's used against your political opponents is incredibly short sighted.

Everything needs massive reforming. Laws need massive reforming. The position of President of the US needs massive reforming. Let's not pretend the FBI is unique. I don't think it is cool cause they go after whoever. I'm apolitical for the most part. I'm just pointing out the obvious here. If you go to any popular alt-right channel they'll all be promoting getting rid of the FBI.

Nobody is saying it’s cool - only that the timing is suspicious when all of the Trumpists abruptly pivoted to “defund the police” when their guys turned out not to be above the law. Most people who aren’t that partisan want the FBI to be fairer to everyone, not disbanded so they can’t prosecute corrupt Republicans.

Trump fans want to get rid of the FBI because they served a warrant against Trump for violations of the Espionage Act and raided Mar-A-Lago.

That's literally it. As long as the Feds were just cracking the heads of black protestors and snatching brown people up out of their beds, Trumpists were hard-core thin blue line. But the Feds dared disturb their oshi and now the same Trumpists have gone full #ACAB

It's basic fascist ideology - loyalty to the leader above all, and belief that the leader is above the system.

> As long as the Feds were just cracking the heads of black protestors and snatching brown people up out of their beds, Trumpists were hard-core thin blue line.

The FBI are investigators, not traditional police; they aren't generally the ones people are talking about when they say "thin blue line". It wasn't the FBI cracking heads and "snatching brown people out of their beds." The phrase is a reaction to perceptions of widespread civic disorder and violent crime; it really has nothing to do with the FBI at all.