The politicization of the Department of Justice and the FBI in recent years is best illustrated by their draconian handling of the individuals involved in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol incursion. We’ve seen videos of FBI SWAT teams descending upon quiet neighborhoods to arrest ordinary Americans for misdemeanors. Even those of us with little knowledge of the legal system can see that these tactics are unnecessary.
Just the News recently interviewed nine retired FBI agents and reported that all of them “were concerned about the use of SWAT teams to make arrests of the Jan. 6 defendants.” Nearly all said they were worried about the increasing politicization of the bureau.
Moreover, most indicated they’d “never heard of the FBI working on misdemeanor cases.” Some even said they would have been mocked if they’d brought a misdemeanor case to a U.S. Attorney’s Office.
Terry Turchie, former deputy assistant director of the Counterterrorism Division of the FBI, led the Unabomber task force. He left the FBI shortly before the 9/11 terrorist attacks and said, in those days, the bureau was not politicized.
He told Just the News that the FBI did not deploy a SWAT team for the arrest of Theodore Kaczynski, the Unabomber, who was known to be a violent man.
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They did use members of a SWAT team, however, “to seal off the geographical area around the cabin, so he couldn’t escape.” The team hadn’t been necessary.
“This was a very, very violent terrorist, and he was becoming more unstable,” Turchie said. “Even there, we didn’t use the SWAT team for the arrest.”
Turchie explained the reason why it’s best not to use a SWAT team when you don’t really need one: “The more you escalate the use of force, the more you take a chance of having possible injuries in some catastrophic failure of agents and civilians alike.”
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