Reacting to the Supreme Court's presidential ruling that will hand Donald Trump unfettered power to do as pleases under the cover of presidential immunity should he be re-elected, a former FBI official warned the agency could become an agent of terror under the revenge-minded ex-president.
Appearing on MSNBC on Saturday, former assistant director for counterintelligence at the FBI, Frank Figliuzzi was candid about the agency's history of trampling on Americans' civil rights and claimed it would pale in comparison to what Trump would order it to do.
"I think we have to look at the intelligence community and federal law enforcement and here is why," the ex-FBI agent began. "[Supreme Court Justice] Samuel Alito has responded to the dissenters in this position and saying, 'Oh come on, you guys are bringing up extreme hypotheticals,' is what he called them as if we will have a good man in place who will always do the right thing despite having the presumption of immunity."
"Well, guess what/" he continued. "It is not extreme because all we have to do is look back in history to the early and mid-1970s when the American people began to find out that their FBI and their DOJ and their CIA were spying unlawfully without court authorization on American people. And who were those American people? Anybody J. Edgar Hoover and the administration felt was a threat."
Continuing in that vein he added, "This is what happens when the executive branch literally has no rules they need to follow and, I am telling you, we will see it again because Trump has said he will seek revenge on those he deems a threat."
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