In a scene in the movie, police were investigating a crime and suddenly FBI agents showed up, were highly respected... and actually began helping and solving the crime.
I realized while watching that how far things have fallen.
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It's certainly worse, but I'm sure the FBI was pretty corrupt back then too.
Your key phrase is that you were watching a movie.
Remember J Edgar Hoover was a total nutjob.
Definitely it was corrupt although perhaps not so much, and no one could do anything about it because Hoover was a vindictive nut job. Fish rots from the head. People who helped Hoover continued on.
From the beginning the FBI was a domestic spy agency designed to accumulate leverage against...everyone.
I believe it was “J Edgar” the Eastwood movie where an assistant comes into Hoover’s office and finds him “painting” a portrait of a naked young man”.
Now thats a conspiracy theory
Was the plot twist that the FBI had set up the crime to begin with? But I jest.
There are a few shows on TV right now (FBI, FBI Most Wanted, and others) that try their damnedest to "rehabilitate" the FBI image. It's sad really....the only integrity left for the FBI is in a fictitious TV show. J. Edgar Hoover is probably turning over in his Dior gown right about now.
A few weeks ago I thought something was up when I saw the influx of "pro-FBI" television shows.
This has been going on since likely the 50's. This is only a gut feeling, I have no evidence, I will add that to the historic site I am making if I ever find evidence.
They always were that low. Yku just were sold z narrative that it wasn't.
You mean you were watching propaganda and you believed it
The FBI's always been corrupt
things were never like that. the post-1945 world is a continuous media-driven lie
It seems to me that ever since people stopped robbing banks and banks started robbing us, the FBI became obsolete.