USA Today, January 5, 2018 Cliven Bundy-FBI debacle: Another example of why the feds need to be leashed by James Bovard The FBI’s sordid history of withholding and destroying key evidence deserves a reckoning. The Justice Department was caught in another high-profile travesty last month that continues to reverberate through the western states. On Dec. 20, […]
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Mises Broadcast Interview on FBI, Democracy, and Journalism with Jeff Deist
The Mises Institute’s Jeff Deist and I have a rollicking chat on politics, journalism, and the FBI on the Weekend Update. Jeff asked my take on the Alabama Senate race. I said Moore lost in part thanks to a bad campaign slogan: “It’s hard to believe a girl that big could be only 14.” But […]
FBI Article Enrages Hill Readers
My oped in yesterday’s Hill, “Yes, the FBI is America’s Secret Police,” spurred accolades including kook, lunatic, Russian agent, sick, delusional, shill, complete idiot, propagandist, and “lonely in his bunker” with his Unabomber beard. Even worse, I’m guilty of “normalizing authoritarianism.” Here’s some screenshots of comments from people who at least glanced at the article […]
The Hill: Yes, The FBI is America’s Secret Police
The Hill, December 11, 2017 YES, THE FBI IS AMERICA’S SECRET POLICE by James Bovard Politifact delivered a “pants on fire” slam to Fox News on Friday because one of its commentators asserted that the Federal Bureau of Investigation “has become America’s secret police.” The FBI has legions of new champions nowadays among liberals and […]
FFF: The FBI’s Forgotten Criminal Record
Future of Freedom Foundation The FBI’s Forgotten Criminal Record by James Bovard October 19, 2017 President Trump’s firing of FBI chief James Comey on May 9 spurred much of the media and many Democrats to rally around America’s most powerful domestic federal agency. But the FBI has a long record of both deceit and incompetence. […]
Photos from Juggalos Protest for Insane Clown Posse Vs. FBI
Here are other photos I took at Saturday’s Juggalos/Insane Clown Posse protest in Washington, which I wrote about here for the American Conservative. I had to work for this next photo. I told this lady that I liked her sign and asked her if I could photograph it. “Sure,” she sez. Then she holds the […]
USA Today: Time to Dethrone the FBI
USA Today, May 11, 2017 Comey firing justly knocks FBI off its pedestal by James Bovard It’s a historically untrustworthy secret organization that needs to live under rule of law. President Trump’s firing of FBI chief James Comey provides a welcome chance to dethrone the FBI from its pinnacle in American politics and life. Last […]
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