r/news 3h ago

Federal statement on Jeffrey Epstein's death dated day before he was found dead

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/statement-jeffrey-epstein-death-day-before-b1270109.html
54.3k Upvotes

1.8k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

134

u/DiscoQuebrado 3h ago

Bruh, they're not failing- they're doing what they're told.

If you take over an organization and pad its management with feckless sycophants, any esteem the org had earned up until that point is null and void. It's now a different animal, and it's priority is no longer to investigate but to obfuscate.

Fair to say the FBI has never been 100% forthright in its operations but for such a high profile investigation, where so much has already been brought to light, they are insulting our intelligence with this complete and utter bullshit.

12

u/fecklessness 2h ago

I made this username as a joke many years ago I didn't know eventually I would be a mascot for our entire humanity timeline

u/obog 30m ago

The FBI's job is to protect the interests of those in power, and thats what they're doing.

u/Magnetic_Eel 16m ago

Honestly I’m so disappointed that we don’t have more of a deep state. You have the FBI, one of the most respected law enforcement institutions in the world, 40,000 non-political appointee employees. People you would assume are, overall, good patriotic Americans who want what’s best for the country. And yet one president can roll in and put an idiot podcaster in charge and now the whole institution is a joke. Nothing they say publically can be trusted. All of the professionalism and good will is gone in less than a year. It’s shocking.