Mike Lee Laces Into Top FBI Official Over Agency's 'Affront To The Constitution'

At today's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) questioned Asst. AG Matt Olsen about his involvement in the Mar-a-Lago raid.

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[miamibeach]

These are the crooks that needs to be indicted and put behind bars.

[FishnChips]

25 or 30 years ago, if someone said "I work for the FBI" that person was respected and appreciated. Now saying you're with the FBI is like saying you're a career criminal.

[shyrose]

The FBI needs to be stripped of their entitled powers. If they hadn't over reached their authority in so many ways at so many times, people wouldn't distrust them so much. They need to be held accountable. Not just these pathetic hand slaps happening in the Senate. The Senate is also failing the people by not ensuring FBI is complying with our country's laws.

Everytime I hear "National Security" out of an Intelligence Agency, I look at the Border and I feel like throwing up!

[muchachonextdoor]

Congress needs to cut the budget of the FBI and DOJ by 75% and fire every agent in a leadership position and start over.

[kathykeller]

Years ago I had a friend whose father was in the FBI and I was so impressed. Boy, how my attitude has changed.

[JimKoonz]

2 years ago my brother and I were waiting for take out food at a local restaurant. While waiting we met an older man, a retired local police chief, and his 42 year old son who was currently in the FBI. The son was quitting the FBI in the next few days because he said, "the FBI is the MOST CORRUPT organization in the United States"!

[Vertog]

"Compliance problems" should be replaced with "intentionally breaking our oath of upholding the Constitution"

[heystarfish]

We all know that this abuse of power is much worse than we can ever imagine.

[philhardwick]

Citizens should be able to civilly and criminally sue every official that violates their civil rights.

[StevenHart-ksif]

If things are going to change, heads have to roll.

[redfoxtactical]

Every person who was illegally searched should be notified and lawsuits should be filed. Our rights were violated and there needs to be repurcissions and payouts to the victims

[jeffreyfrimel]

Just imagine if the higher ups of the FBI were fired, the amount of whistle blowers that would come forward. It would be epic.

[beverlyskurow]

Clean out the FBI leaders and start over. Disband and defund immediately!!’

[TheOGPickleRick]

Here's a wild thought. Prosecute those who investigated without warrants. Easy day. They go to jail and instill fear in the organization.

[katieosborne]

Purge the supervisors, deputies, director and DEFUND FBI, NOW!

[georgeannrutkowski]

Blessings over Senator Lee 🙏

Thank you for standing with "WE THE PEOPLE " 🇺🇸

[ferociousgustafson]

If these politicians were serious, it wouldn’t have been allowed to get this far out of control. It’s all a play.

[yagottabkiddin]

I wonder how well that would work for an average citizen. “I’m really sorry that we were noncompliant with the law when we robbed that bank, and we will work on increasing our compliance in the future.” That’s basically what these clowns are saying. These people are full of crap.

[Chris-xssf]

Yes We The People are watching and we are seeing that our government is useless.