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By the time former FBI agent Robert Hanssen was found dead in his cell in Colorado’s Supermax prison Monday, he had been largely forgotten, but in some circles, he is remembered all too well. U.S. Attorney Paul J. McNulty, who prosecuted Hanssen, stated, “The magnitude of Hanssen’s crimes cannot be overstated. They will long be remembered as being among the most egregious betrayals of trust in U.S. history. It was both a low point and an investigative success for the FBI.” Indeed, what Hanssen did was terrible. But when it comes to egregious betrayals of trust by FBI personnel, Hanssen has some stiff competition from the likes of James Comey, Peter Strzok, and Christopher Wray.
Hanssen, according to a Monday Associated Press report, “had been serving a sentence of life in prison without possibility of parole since 2002, after pleading guilty to 15 counts of espionage and other charges.” He had been passing on secrets to the Soviets since 1985 and possibly even before that, and “was believed to have been partly responsible for the deaths of at least three Soviet officers who were working for U.S. intelligence and executed after being exposed.”
On top of that, Hanssen “passed some 6,000 documents and 26 computer disks to his handlers, authorities said. They detailed eavesdropping techniques, helped to confirm the identity of Russian double agents, and spilled other secrets. Officials also believed he tipped off Moscow to a secret tunnel the Americans built under the Soviet Embassy in Washington for eavesdropping.” As McNulty said, the seriousness of all this “cannot be overstated,” but nonetheless, in terms of massive betrayals of the American people, today’s FBI is giving Robert Hanssen a run for his money.
After all, on May 15, Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) tweeted about the Durham report, which exposed the FBI’s actions to frame and destroy a presidential candidate for a crime he did not commit; those actions did not end when that candidate became the duly elected president of the United States. In fact, Lee used the same language that McNulty used when speaking about Hanssen. “The gravity of the misconduct uncovered by Mr. Durham,” Lee wrote, “cannot be overstated.”
Lee added, “The LEAST one can say of it is that it involved a malicious use of federal law-enforcement officers to conduct a contrived investigation utterly lacking any valid, factual foundation from the very beginning. That is itself incredibly troubling—and also unconstitutional. But this was SO MUCH WORSE than that. It was an effort to use a powerful, long-respected, federal law-enforcement agency to render a presidential candidate unelectable—entirely in the absence of any valid, good-faith basis for doing so.” And what is that but an “egregious betrayal of trust”?
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mike says
history is filled with people who do what they are told for god and country or know government are criminals and get caught by the media or government they are rail road into jail
Snowen and Assange we called criminals but exposed that the same government were the criminals
look were we are today
FYI says
Ah yes;an OPUS DEI man i heard.
Frances says
Yes, my children went to the same school as his sons did. He was also a rigid “devout Catholic” like Joe Biden claims to be.
Ray Jarman says
I may have told of this incident before, but it is particularly applicable in relation to this article and it was during the Obama regime.
I was sitting in a room one Sunday morning waiting for a church class to begin and while waiting I was speaking with a local friend who was a lawyer about the history of his country (South Africa). After a while, a man behind us offered his unsolicited opinion and said that as an FBI agent, he owed his allegiance to the president. Since my friend and I were discussing some of the illegal actions of his government’s, the agent thought that his comments would enhance our discussion but I told him that when he became member of the FBI, he took the oath of every civil servant and military member which was to defend the Constitution of the United States and would only adhere to lawful orders not in contravention to the said Constitution to which he was not pleased.
The actions of those who have forgotten the basic raison d’etre of their existence did not just begin.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Actually, Joe Biden is guilty of exactly what Robert Hanssen was. Hanssen was unlucky that he didn’t have the entire Democrat Party willing to cover for him
Jenny Henry says
I think some of the people working to block Trump and block his election were doing it for ideological, possibly Marxists. Evidence of this, to me, is the over-the-top language used against Trump and Trump supporters: that they are the epitome of evil, or Nazis.
I think there would be a number of double agents working for the Chinese or Russians, or maybe Iranian. Again, some for ideological reasons and some because they are being blackmailed.