Lots of people are talking about U.S. FBI Director Christopher Wray discussing the agencies “partnership with the private sector” as it relates to modern FBI activity. However, I’m just that random oddball in the crowd who just wants to point out something, well, kind of a big picture issue.
I notice in all of the discussions surrounding the FBI activity, and there are a lot of discussions – including admissions and outlines from the FBI itself, there appears to be an element of the subject matter being overlooked. Here’s a segment from Wray at the World Economic Forum {Direct Rumble Link} as a precursor to what few are noticing. WATCH:
The FBI is a criminal investigative agency. Meaning, a crime is committed, and the FBI mission is to investigate it, solve it, and bring the information to the justice department for pursuit. At least that was the customary role of the FBI as it was/is commonly discussed.
However, please note that in Director Wray’s remarks, every element of the FBI mission is framed around “prevention” of criminal activity, or what we would call pre-crimes.
Stop for a moment and rewatch it if needed, you’ll see what I am talking about.
Um, please excuse my interruption.
While it might seem like an unusual thing to notice, this is not a small issue.
In the era following the 9-11 attacks, there was public outcry around the issue of “how” and “why” did law enforcement, specifically the FBI, not PREVENT the attack. In just about every conversation following the attack every framework was about how to prevent an attack.
The 9-11 commission itself was focused on learning lessons from the attack; thereby the direct and implicit message was to construct systems to prevent another attack from happening. Essentially to move the FBI from a reactive footing in the aftermath of a crime, to a proactive footing to prevent crime.
Now, what I am asking readers to do is to realize when the fundamental mission of an investigative agency changes from investigating the aftermath of criminal activity, to the prevention of criminal activity, we as a society open ourselves up to having severe restrictions on our liberty. After all, just about everything that we now see as an infringement on freedom, is some form of a proactive action by government.
Change the mission from the investigation of crime to the prevention of crime, and the entire apparatus of the mission fundamentally changes.
Criminals are no longer the target when you are preventing crimes. Criminals are only targets in the aftermath of crime. When you are preventing crime, everyone that could commit a crime is the new mission target. Everyone, regardless of their connection to – or association with – criminal activity, is now a potential criminal. Potential criminals must be monitored.
Potential criminals are now the target. You are a potential criminal. As a result of your potential ability, you are a target for pre-crime investigation. Within the process of pre-crime investigation, your archaic views of freedom and liberty are dispatched.
The office of the Director of National Intelligence was created to turn the terrorist radar internally. Every American is now a potential “domestic terrorist.” Thus, you see FBI Director Christopher Wray sitting on a stage and openly admitting the FBI partnerships with the private sector are key to the mission; a mission of pre-crime targeting.
Can you see how this rolls along?…
As soon as the FBI changes from investigating the aftermath of a crime committed to intercepting the potential criminal conduct, things get very opaque, sketchy and weird. When the FBI is investigating crimes, you have rights. When the FBI is preventing crimes, those rights are impediments.
Our entire legal system is structured around criminal accountability. An event takes place, and we hold the criminal accountable. Judges, lawyers, courts, systems, processes, protections, rights of the accused, fourth amendment, fifth amendment, etc. etc. Hundreds of years of rules and regulations within a criminal justice system.
We do not have a “pre-crime” justice system.
The current FBI mission is pre-crime enforcement.
Think about the ramifications; it shouldn’t be hard, because we are living them.
I will sit down now….
https://www.thestar.com.my/aseanplus/aseanplus-news/2023/01/20/china-turns-its-eyes-to-hidden-corruption
Yet no success at rooting out Pre-Criminal nor Criminal activity within the FBI.
I bet there’s no wifi or satellite accessible systems on Chrissy’s black SUVs. Maybe we should demand that option be available on the plebians’ vehicles.
In other words, warrantless surveillance of everyone.
Why in the world did Trump EVER go along with Christopher Wray???
Senate confirmation was required. McConnell would not let thru any MAGA candidates, only twisted swamp critters would get Senate approval.
One possible way to end run the Senate confirmation might be to do sequential temporary appointments which are term limiited to six months without Senate approval. That would mean 8 temp appointments back to back over a 4 year term. To be allowed, he would have to always have a MAGA candidate being considered by the Senate. But one could argue that 8 six month temporary FBI directors would be hands down an improvement over someone like Wray.
How about two temp appointments? Director and Assistant Director. Switch them back and forth every six months.
I think ALSO there is a provision about senate recess that mcconnell exploited. I might be wrong on that issue, but I believe this left President Trump with few available options. He was semi successful in appointing assistant and acting officials using the federal vacancies law…”delegations”. This was challenged at least once that I am aware of and the courts ruled he could not appoint using the delegates. Nevermind that almost ALL executive level government officials were appointed using the delegation method by the one and smelly, Obama in his second term. And won every legal challenge.
when you really take in all of the political and legal maneuvering that President Trump and his team had to operate, it is really no small miracle that he was able to do so much for OUR COUNTRY.
I will always admire his tenacity and the ability to lead in the face of incredible odds. That’s the character of a leader I admire. And always will. It’s shameful that it had to be this way, but there isn’t ANYONE who could have done it better than President Trump. Being an outside and beholden to no one has it’s value..for sure.
God Bless America
39 years late, perhaps, but Thought Police nonetheless.
Big Brother is watching. And reading.
You mean like what you did at Mandalay Bay, Chris?
Wray needs to resign and all of the top management at the FBI. They have proven themselves to be a disgrace to the U.S. and its Constitution.
Every single institution must have it’s entire staff removed with most being fully punished in ways that remove any chance of the same people doing the same thing again.
dc is a sewer.
The more friends they “FBI”have the more enemies the people have.
These are the kind of people my mom told me to stay away from.
Minority Report was right again..
I think he’s proud of his Whitmer Kidnapping and Jan6 plots!
Thats why everyone needs to live in smart cities and not have a car easy to watch and catch NWO
But even where we are now, how many times have we heard that a verified “criminal” was on the watch list? Wray et al only want this for their political targets. Not true bad guys.
I’m probably a “potential domestic terrorist” because I re-posts Sundance’s features to Facebook.
Any American attending the World Economic Forum should be treated as personal non grata upon their return, as the WEF is a international terrorist organization. We need to form the People’s World Forum to oversee the actions of the WEF.
I agree that treating everyone as a potential criminal results in a loss of liberty.
I also don’t like that the director of the FBI is attending the World Economic Forum in Davos. Attending this assembly of self-appointed, self-important, arrogant, global elite is inappropriate and out of scope for the director of the FBI or anyone else at the FBI.
cross posted at https://freedomaustralia.freeforums.net/thread/3060/wray-talks-combatting-criminal-activity
This is exactly why they don’t teach “Civics” in school anymore?
Amendment 4.
“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches, shall not be violated…”
I understand what you’re saying. But legally, even changing to a surveillance-based “crime prevention” posture does not affect our rights. Defendants in criminal cases have rights not because they’re defendants or criminals, they have rights because (generally) they’re citizens. The rights they have are every citizen’s rights. And largely, those rights dictate how our government can and cannot interface with us and our rights, whether we are criminals, defendants, or just citizens.
OTOH, I have no doubt that what you say is true. Government seems to operate as if our rights don’t mater so long was we are not “in the system” as an accused person. And this is because their perspective is similarly warped. This is likely the fault of our public schools, institutions of higher education (incl. law schools, which inculcate their students in all sorts of craven lies), and the midwits of the MSM, who (besides possibly being directed by the government) simply don’t know any better than to parrot the lies. We’re brought up to believe “a defendant has rights”, and this is true. But what this actually means is “a citizen does not lose his rights when he becomes a defendant.” The rights were always there, it’s just that you don’t generally need them until your government comes knocking.