===Iraq WMD===
On February 11, 2003, [[FBI]] Director Robert Mueller testified to Congress that "[[Iraq]] has moved to the top of my list. As we previously briefed this Committee, Iraq's [[weapons of mass destruction]] program poses a clear threat to our national security, a threat that will certainly increase in the event of future military action against Iraq. [[Baghdad]] has the capability and, we presume, the will to use biological, chemical, or radiological weapons against US domestic targets in the event of a US invasion.... [[Secretary Powell]] presented evidence last week that Baghdad has failed to disarm its weapons of mass destruction, willfully attempting to evade and deceive the international community. Our particular concern is that [[Saddam]] may supply [[al-Qaeda]] with biological, chemical, or radiological material before or during a war with the US to avenge the fall of his regime."<ref>https://archives.fbi.gov/archives/news/testimony/war-on-terrorism</ref><ref>https://youtu.be/mNeqrTbkZmM</ref>
===Corruption===
One former insider described how Robert Mueller, and then continued by James Comey, transformed the FBI into the [[corrupt]] [[leftist]] organization it has become: {{quotebox|"Not ALL FBI Agents are moral pariahs. 60% are good American patriots who joined the Agency in good faith expecting to serve their Country and put bad people behind bars.
The other 40% are Peter Strozk and Lisa Page. ALL of FBI HQ is populated by the Strozk/Page types. Recruitment of this type of Agent started under Mueller and continued under Comey. Mueller drove out all of the old school “Brick Agents” shortly after he became Director.
Mueller implemented an “up or out” policy where all SSAs [Supervisory Special Agents] were required to move to DC and do Headquarters time or lose their GS 14 pay grade. This policy change by Mueller purposely targeted the most senior Agents in the FBI who had finally earned the right to move their family to a medium sized office in fly over country, had teenage kids and were living a comfortable life.
Mueller knew these Agents would not uproot their families and move to DC. Hundreds of these senior Agents immediately retired. Literally thousands of years of investigative experience left the FBI overnight.
This is exactly what Mueller wanted. These were the men and women who would have called Mueller out when he started transforming the FBI from a criminal investigative organization into a domestic intelligence organization (it is illegal to collect intelligence on American citizens).
Mueller immediately began filling the ranks with Strozk/Page types. The FBI does extensive psychological screening of applicants. Stroke and Page are self interested, well-educated cowards whose only motivation is their own promotion and paycheck. In other words they are people who will be blindly loyal to the Agency and will obey any order no matter how un-Constitutional or unlawful. This is the psychological profile that Mueller and Comey actively recruited and hired.
On the flip-side, combat veterans, patriots, have been denied employment by the FBI at all costs (they all mysteriously fail the polygraph and background check).
The morale of the good Agents is at rock bottom. Everyone is retiring as soon as they are eligible. Younger Agents are leaving as soon as they can find another line of work. They are ashamed of the badge.
It is time to abolish the FBI. Make the 56 FBI field offices the Investigative Branch of [[DHS]]. Fire everyone in the FBI and make them re-apply for their job under new standards. President Trump can remodel FBIHQ into a hotel. Or better yet, burn it to the ground and salt the earth. Hang everyone on the 7th floor for treason.”<ref>https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/01/12/president-trump-responds-to-leaked-fbi-claims-in-recent-nyt-article/comment-page-2/#comment-6563931</ref>}}
==Obama era==
==Special counsel==
[[File:Mooo9.jpg|right|350px|thumb|During his Russia probe, Mueller indicted "the proverbial ham sandwich."]]
:{{Main article|Mueller office}}
In the wake of James Comey's firing, Assistant Attorney General [[Rod Rosenstein]] appointed Mueller as a special counsel to take over the FBI's [[counterintelligence]] investigation of the Trump campaign and administration. The investigation now also became a criminal probe, alleging Trump fired Comey to obstruct justice.
Deripaska once hired [[Paul Manafort]] as a political adviser. In an affidavit attached to the July 2017 warrant application, an FBI agent said he reviewed tax returns for a company controlled by Manafort and his wife that showed a $10 million loan from Deripaska.<ref>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-manafort/manafort-had-10-million-loan-from-russian-oligarch-court-filing-idUSKBN1JN2YF</ref> Mueller’s indictment of Manafort makes no mention of Deripaska. Prof. [[Alan Dershowitz]] said he believes Mueller has a [[conflict of interest]] because Mueller's FBI previously accepted financial help from a Russian that is, at the very least, a witness in the current probe; {{Quotebox|"The real question becomes whether it was proper to leave [Deripaska] out of the Manafort indictment, and whether that omission was to avoid the kind of transparency that is really required by the law.'}}
===Ham sandwich indictmentsShow trials===:{{See also|Mueller show trials}}
At various points in the Mueller probe when Congressional hearings and public opinion have questioned the need for the investigation as [[Obama administration]] wrongdoing was uncovered, Mueller has issued "joke indictments" against Russian citizens and entities who will never stand trial in the United States.<ref>https://disobedientmedia.com/2018/02/muellers-investigation-a-farce-files-joke-indictment-against-russian-trolls</ref>
==See also==
*[[ObamagateSpygate]]
*[[List of names in the Obamagate scandal]]
*[[Andrew Weissmann]]