Last week, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick blasted the FBI’s special agent in charge in New Orleans as “idiotic” for suggesting the New Year’s Day attack was not terrorism. The agency has been slammed for its involvement in the “Russiagate” hoax targeting Donald Trump, complicity in covering up details about Hunter Biden’s laptop, and the January 6th protest at the U.S. Capitol in 2021.
Yesterday, we asked readers if they trust the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
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Here is a sampling of the comments we received from our readers after they voted in the survey.
“Being born in the former Soviet Union, the FBI is beginning to look like the NKVD… later renamed KGB! It is no longer a law enforcement agency but an agency enforcing political ideology!” – John Makow
“Things I trust more than the FBI: Dade Phelan with my liquor cabinet, Congress with my money, and I-35 through Austin. The only positive aspect of their increasing audacity is that it is waking more people up to the reality of a nefarious Deep State. Kash Patel can’t get here quickly enough.” – Elissa Harrell
“I am counting on Kash Patel to begin the clean out of the rot from the top down when he becomes FBI director.” – Chuck Farch
“Trust isn’t given blindly—it’s earned, and the FBI’s recent track record isn’t exactly inspiring confidence.” – Sharla Miles
“The FBI is just one more example of the adage ‘absolute power corrupts absolutely.’ Oversight is the biggest responsibility of our elected officials, and they prove time and again they are unwilling to do their job.” – Steve Sullivan
“The FBI has been weaponized by the present administration. Why should we trust them to get anything right?” – Elyce Mouskondis
“I do not trust the FBI. The FBI has been a politicized weapon since its inception. What we’re seeing is not new, it is only newly visible.” – Chris Breaux
“Y’all could have stopped at ‘Do you trust the Federal’ because my answer would always be ‘no, never,’ when it comes to anything our horrific excuse for a federal government does. The Texas government is not far behind that.” – Allison Love
“The FBI has a terribly scandalous history of being politicized and corrupt, entrapping citizens to commit crimes and falsifying evidence.” – Joel Vandenhouten
“The FBI has overstepped their bounds just like the C.I.A. and the rest of the government entities. They don’t do their job. They go after innocent people, instead of the criminals.” – Donna Langston
“The ghost of J. Edgar shall forever haunt this agency, rendering it forever suspect.” – Randy Wright
“I trust the Hollywood version of the FBI more than the actual agency.” – Elizabeth Day
“Since its inception, the Federal Bureau of Investigation has been a highly political agency. That has not changed.” – Monte Long
“I don’t trust them further than I could collectively throw their ‘leadership’!” – Shilo Platts
“How many times do we have to catch the FBI in a lie before we finally get it and defund/restructure/disband them?” – Kathy Parker
“Today’s FBI is rotten to the core. This includes the ‘rank-and-file’ who are afflicted with ‘blind-eye’ syndrome, are incompetent, or just don’t care.” – Charles McCord
