How the Left Captured the FBI, CIA, and Military Brass | Victor Davis Hanson

We think of the FBI, and we still think of, you know, these guys that came out of Fordham and Holy Grail, whatever, and they were chasing communists, and they were good guys. And the guys in the military, or, you know, how many died in Vietnam, etc., were proud of them, and they were good guys. But there's so much ideology in these institutions, in the military. That's what the left did. The left said to themselves, we don't have power that we'd like to destroy the United States and remake it like China or something, or Cuba. And that's because we're too honest about what we want. So we have 70-30 issues, and we're in the 30th century. So there's only two solutions. You either have to institutionally change the bureaucracy, whether that's balloting laws or the FBI or CIA, or you have to open the border and let in 50 million people and grow the government, grow social programs, welfare programs, grow the bureaucracy. And they did both. So when you look at the FBI-CIA military, you're right. You come up not with Democrats-Republicans—I'm talking about that, that's fine—I'm talking about John Brennan, who lied twice under oath to Congress. I'm talking about Andrew McCabe, who lied four times to federal investigators. Talking to James Clapper, who lied under oath, you know, and he said that I gave the least untruthful answer, that the NSA was not spying on people. I'm talking about James Comey, who lied 245 times when he said he didn't know or couldn't remember under oath to the House Oversight Committee. I'm talking about Kevin Clinesmith, the FBI lawyer who forged a document to go after Carter Page and got a little tap on the wrist by a left-wing judge, although he did get convicted of a felony. I'm talking about Mark Milley, who went before us and told us we had to read or we should read Professor Kendi's pop-crazy work on racism, and then said Donald Trump was a fascist, and then admitted to calling his Communist Chinese counterpart to warn him. He said, if I ever determined, I diagnosed as Dr. Milley, the neuropsychologist, that Donald Trump is unstable, I'll call you first before he gives me an order. And he doesn't even give you an order. He broke the chain of command. So those are the people that brought politics into it, and the left had a really good idea. They said, you know what, we'll never win in an open debate, in a free and traditional in-person election, and even with a biased media, we'll never win because nobody wants what we have. So therefore, we've got to take control of the institutions, and they did. The FBI, the CIA, Director of National Intelligence, the U.S. top echelon of the military, and they did. Corporate boardroom. Everybody thinks all these things, people would be conservative, but they weren't. They're not. And I saw that PDF of the FBI's investigation into the Catholic Church, it's been coming out on various websites the last few days. Traditional Catholics, they said, well, we're just going after people that have Latin masses. And school board, parents, anti-abortion protesters, they were all on their target.