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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It?
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 STEPHEN GREEN • JANUARY 22@10:05 AM

The thing is, you're not supposed to believe it. No one is -- not in any meaningful sense.

Maybe I'm just getting paranoid, but today's limp excuse is so lame that it almost seems as though there must be something more sinister going on here than simply failing to comply with a congressional investigation.

What the FBI is doing is demonstrating its political power -- baring its fangs, if you will -- by showing in the most obviously unbelievable way that it will do what it please. The FBI wants the people who count to understand that the Bureau cannot and will not be held accountable.



Now I'm not actually comparing anyone at the FBI with Joseph Stalin, who made prisons out of entire nations and killed millions of civilians. But he did know a thing or two about high-level propaganda.

When Stalin wanted to make someone an unperson, he literally purged them from the history books. The results weren't always convincing, but they didn't need to be. Because the real message was to the survivors: You too can be erased, comrade.

I get that kind of vibe, albeit on a much less murderous scale, from today's FBI. The FBI didn't come up with a lame excuse because that's all they could come up with. They came up with a lame excuse because they think that's all they need.

And unless Congress steps up, they'll be right.
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