USA: risk of civil war?
The conservative US newspaper Washington Times, very close to sectors of the US intelligence services, began to shoot at the FBI, guilty of an embarrassing investigation into Trump and the documents that would have come out of the White House.
The Washington Times published a series of complaints that it received from anonymous agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), who denounce a culture of corruption rooted within the federal investigation agency, describing its top as completely out of control.
In an agency report, Nova notes how these complaints and the WT article come as the FBI is at the center of fierce political controversy, following the raid carried out this month on the private residence of former US President Donald Trump in Florida.
According to the Washington Times, the picture that emerges from the complaints of anonymous whistleblowers is of widespread corruption not only at the central top of the agency, but also among the officers of local divisions in cities such as Miami, Salt Lake City, Buffalo, New York and Newark.
Among other things, anonymous informants accuse their superiors of being forced to sign false warrants; of having witnessed the fabrication of bogus cases of terrorism for political purposes, and to artificially improve statistics relating to the agency's performance.
Anonymous agents have also reported cases of sexual violence and sexism to the newspaper, and even cases of sexual acts on board of police vehicles which culminated in road accidents.
A rather concerned article about the consequences of the FBI blitz against Trump was published in Politico, according to which the most worrying result of the raid is the increased but inevitable risk of widespread civil disruption. Watching agents search Mar-a-Lago could cause a fairly large portion of Trump's far-right base to strongly oppose federal authority and his challenge to transform from episodic to systemic, to the point of regular resistance. armed to federal law enforcement, such as in Ruby Ridge and potentially also in Waco.
According to Politico, some of Trump supporters are so convinced that his presidency has been stolen from him that they consider the subdued, circumspect and non-violent execution of a search warrant in his residence as a casus belli, and admiring and authoritative figures encourage them to do so.
Steve Bannon called the FBI a gestapo. Georgia representative, Marjorie Taylor Greene, asked Congress to clear the FBI.
Republican pundits proclaimed that this means war and characterized the FBI blitz as a declaration of war. Posts on internet forums have been more violent than any other since January 6.
Last weekend, Trump supporters armed and dressed in bulletproof vests protested outside the FBI headquarters in Phoenix. Threats to federal law enforcement have increased, intensifying a growing trend. Some extremists have made the personal data of officers public to allow others to harass or harass them with violence.
Trump, for his part, has filed a lawsuit against the FBI, in response to the sensational search that the agency carried out two weeks ago at his residence. In the filing filed before the Florida court, the former president's lawyers said the FBI search and the seizures of documents were carried out on the basis of an excessive mandate.
References:
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/08/19/fallout-mar-a-lago-search-00052799
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2022/aug/22/whistleblowers-describe-culture-corruption-fbi-fie/
well i certainly hope not but there are times that I think that the nation would be better off if we just went ahead and split into two different countries.
I am not from USA but i guess the wounds of the civil war have never healed
they were engineered back into existence more likely. Nearly every densely populated area is liberal and nearly every rural area is conservative. There's probably been studies to see why that is, but it does seem to be the case with very few outliers. Some would say that it is the minority vote, which is where a majority of the larger minorities in USA generally live. This has historically been a Dem vote but that is changing and it probably has the left quite worried and rightfully so.
It is kinda here the same, urban centers vote progressive/liberal, external minor cities vote much more conservative, must be worldwide