The FBI’s Extreme Makeover

​The FBI’s Extreme Makeover

By Cliff Kincaid

Did you notice that, as several courageous female athletes in Senate testimony provided direct evidence of how the FBI covered-up the crimes of the sexual pervert Larry Nassar, the FBI suddenly got involved in looking for Gabby Petito? It issued a “missing person” alert for her and her fiancé Brian Laundrie was named a person of interest. After Petito was found dead, the FBI asked the public for assistance on September 22 in finding her fiancé. That search continues.

Ponder this and then consider all of the CBS programs on TV this fall about the FBI. In total, there are three different programs:

• “FBI” - Agents use all of their talents, intellect and expertise to keep New York and the country safe.
• “FBI: Most Wanted” - The Fugitive Task Force relentlessly tracks notorious criminals on the Bureau’s Most Wanted list.
• “FBI: International” - The FBI’s International Fly Team tracks and neutralizes threats against American citizens.

All of these themes sound like the FBI, at least on TV, is doing a good job.

The FBI’s cooperation with CBS was set in motion by then-FBI Director James Comey, who said, “We have to care what people think about us. The faith and confidence of the American people is the bedrock.”

Tell that to gymnast Aly Raisman and the other victims of Larry Nassar.

Nassar, a doctor at Michigan State University, was employed as the USA Gymnastics National Medical Coordinator and a “treating physician” for America’s top gymnasts. He pleaded guilty to seven counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct, as well as Receipt and Attempted Receipt of Child Pornography, Possession of Child Pornography, and other crimes. He was sentenced to 60 years in federal prison.

The September 15 Senate hearing, “Dereliction of Duty: Examining the Inspector General’s Report on the FBI’s Handling of the Larry Nassar Investigation,” wasn’t even over before we started hearing about the Petito case and people were told to use the number 1-800-CALL-FBI (1-800-225-5324).

All of this was designed to divert attention away from the FBI’s “dereliction of duty” in the Nassar case, which spanned 6 years.

Before succumbing to the pro-FBI propaganda on television, consider reading or watching the testimony of gymnast Aly Raisman at the Senate hearing about Nasser’s crimes of sexual abuse.  Here are some of her pertinent points directly from her testimony:

• The FBI failed to interview pertinent parties in a timely manner. It took over 14 months for the FBI to contact me despite my multiple requests to be interviewed.
• The records established that [USA Gymnastics CEO] Steve Penny, FBI agent Jay Abbott and their subordinates worked to conceal Nassar’s crimes.
• Steve Penny arranged with the FBI to conduct my interview at the Olympic Training Center where I was under the control and observation of USAG (USA Gymnastics) and USOPC (United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee.)
• The day of my interview Steve Penny flew to the Olympic Training Center and made sure that I was aware he was there.
• I felt pressured by the FBI to consent to Nassar's plea deal. The agent diminished the significance of my abuse and made me feel my criminal case wasn’t worth pursuing.
• The FBI and others within both USAG and USOPC knew that Nassar molested children and did nothing to restrict his access.
• I’ve watched multiple high-ranking officials at USAG, USOPC, and the FBI, resign or “retire” without explanation of how they may have contributed to the problem, some of whom were publicly thanked for their service and rewarded with severance or bonus money.

It was established that USA Gymnastics CEO Steve Penny recommended Jay Abbott, the agent in charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s field office in Indianapolis, for a U.S. Olympic Committee security job. So the cover-up was designed to further the career of at least one FBI agent. 

The FBI is now under the jurisdiction of Attorney General Merrick Garland, who just announced the FBI is going to investigate parents concerned about communist indoctrination in the schools.

The FBI has been ordered to get involved in local school battles but has not been ordered to investigate federal funding for the China virus, which has claimed over 700,000 American lives. That probe would lead to Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph. D., Director of the National Institutes of Health, who collaborated with China.

A little fish, Dr. Charles Lieber, Chair of the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard University, has been charged by the Justice Department in connection with “aiding the People’s Republic of China.”

A group of professors at Stanford University has asked Attorney General Merrick Garland to discontinue a Trump-era program aimed at combating Chinese economic espionage and finding Chinese spies in academia.

Lieber’s “sponsors,” as identified on his web site, included the National Institutes of Health, the Office of Naval Research, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, the Defense Advanced Projects Research Agency, and MITRE, a think tank.

Here’s another scandal involving Garland that not even Fox News, now celebrating its 25th anniversary, will touch: then-Chief Judge Merrick Garland found no problem with a magistrate who arbitrarily dropped the charges against communist terrorist Elizabeth Anna Duke for the 1983 bombing of the U.S. Capitol, at the request of Obama’s Justice Department.

Legal activist Montgomery Blair Sibley was also on my show discussing the details of the bombing of the U.S. Capitol in 1983 and Duke’s role in it. Paul Kamenar, the legal counsel to the National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC), was on my show explaining Garland's involvement in the case.

Kamenar said Garland “summarily dismissed a misconduct complaint against the magistrate who falsely signed the dismissal of charges against a domestic terrorist as a United States District Court Judge and falsely stated it was for reasons given by the prosecutor when in fact no reasons whatsoever were given.”

Yet, Garland was confirmed in the Senate, as 20 GOP Senators voted for him.
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Both political parties go through the motions of pretending to seek accountability from the FBI. It’s a big show, just like the CBS programs on television.

* The 20 Republican Senators voting for Garland were Roy Blunt (R-MO), Richard Burr (R-NC), Shelley Capito (R-WV), Bill Cassidy (R-LA), Susan Collins (R-ME), John Cornyn (R-TX), Joni Ernst (R-IA), Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Jim Inhofe (R-OK), Ron Johnson (R-WI), James Lankford (R-OK), Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Jerry Moran (R-KS), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Rob Portman (R-OH), Mitt Romney (R-UT), Mike Rounds (R-SD), John Thune (R-SD), and Thom Tillis (R-NC).
 
 

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