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As the title of this video suggests, it appears the Head of the New York Branch of the FBI has resigned. As I'll get to here in a moment it appears this is at least abrupt. You can't really say somebody resigned under duress in this context because look all of these folks that works in the American Federal bureaucracy work at the pleasure of the President. Now there may be certain protocols associated with disengagement of employment associated with like compensation and things that may need to occur, but at the end of the day, the President of the United States can effectively just fire, who at his pleasure can fire as needed, again depending on the nature of the job. There are certain jobs that are sort of legislatively created and then there is certain oversight associated with that or there may be checks and balances associated with being able to dismiss that person. A perfect example of that would be the Federal Reserve. Jerome Powell who has the Federal Reserve it's a statutorily created entity. People can think what they will about it; you probably guessed my thoughts on the existence of the FED. That being said, on a personal level, I think Jerome Powell has actually been one of the few people in the last roughly 5 years that I have seen trying to perform their function while at the same time I think he has actually acted at least to some degree toward the interest of the dollar itself. So putting Jerome Powell aside, I was simply trying to bring that up to provide some analogy as to yeah there could be circumstances where perhaps somebody can't just be fired by the President/ But with regard to the FBI that's not really the case. Again, compensation issues regarding separation of employment and things, that's another matter. I'm not even going to get into that really but we've discussed in other videos here in Thailand, there's a Labour Law here in Thailand. Firing people, it's not just a one off immediately done thing. There may be a process associated with it as may be the case with regard to this New York City Chief FBI Officer. I don't know exactly what to call him; the FBI Field Office Director whatever, for New York City. 

That being said, I saw a comment on a prior video which I actually responded to because it was somebody that was saying I need to be wearing my Maga Hat, and this isn't legal news - that was the one that really got me. Like how is the FBI not handing over work product to the Department of Justice not pretty much the most pressing legal news in an American legal context at least, at least at the Federal level. I can understand at the state level over in America there's all kinds of stuff going on but at the Federal level, the FBI refusing to hand over documentation to the Attorney General's Office, that's a problem and it's legal news by any metric. Now there seems to be - and this is purely speculative at this point - but there seems to be some speculation on X, Twitter whatever you want to call it, and I love the other one is people who say “oh you're just listening to that, it's not real news”. That was like years ago people would tell me ZeroHedge wasn’t real news when it was like yeah they are three days ahead of everybody else. I guess that's the hyper news or the proto news or something. It’s in the auto catalytic sets of news where news is forming. I mean look X is one of the great sources of news, I'll just put it that way. I think anybody could objectively state that. There are other news sources, we cite them on here all the time, as we'll get into here in a moment, but this whole notion that this is somehow not relevant legal news, that's just ridiculous to me. That said, I thought of making this video after a lot going on I actually saw things on X, Douglas MacGregor has been kind of my guide stone with regard to this because I see him post in response or talking about some stuff and then I'll go look into it and it looks odd, but I ended up digging down and I came to the New York Post, nypost.com I should say, that the letter N the letter Y post.com, quoting directly: "Head of New York's FBI Field Office James Dennehy forced to resign in Trump Administration shake up. Quoting further: "The top FBI agent in New York was ousted Monday, saying he wasn't given any explanation for the decision from Washington. Quote: "Late Friday, I was informed that I needed to put my retirement papers in today, which I just did. I was not giving a reason for this decision," he wrote in the missive, obtained by The Post. Dennehy apologized for the abruptness of his resignation in the letter, in which he called his colleagues "an office of professionals who will always do the right thing for the right reasons". His departure marks the latest in a recent exodus from the Bureau under the Trump Administration. Dennehy had a high-profile battle with acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove last month, (or Bove, I don't know how to pronounce that), penning a defiant email to staffers urging them to "dig in" after officials tasked with investigating the Jan-6 riots at the US Capitol were forced out of their roles. Quote: "Today, we find ourselves in the middle of a battle of our own, as good people are being walked out of the FBI and others are being targeted because they did their jobs in accordance with the law and FBI policy," the email read in part."

Yeah, the point I would try to make with this is look, trying to nitpick around who individually is good, bad or indifferent is not the purpose. Moreover that's not really my concern, like these little fiefdom turf wars amongst the bureaucrats I could care less about. What really concerns me at a personal visceral level I would say, especially as it comes to the country of my birth and the foundational documents of the Declaration of Independence Constitution and Bill of Rights that really are not only an anomaly in world history but stand as a testament to true individual liberty and how you can create institutional frameworks to preserve and instill and maybe even fertilize further liberty if you will. 

The point I would like to get back to you though with respect to this is at the end of the day, our legal system in the past five years roughly has become way overly politicized and I would argue our political system in the US has become way more corrupt for my taste than I would otherwise like it. Now you know funny kind of jokey old school Keystone Cops honest graft, whatever, but where the FBI, which as we discussed in other videos, was effectively created to act as the analog for private investigators from defense attorneys, that was what they were created for and if you go back and look at their history, that is really what they were created for. They weren't supposed to carry guns; they weren’t supposed to be the KGB. They were supposed to be the Federal Bureau of Investigation, not what they have sort of evolved into, but let's set that aside.

The point I'm trying to get at though here is where the Head of the FBI or the FBI as this sort of nebulous monolithic bureaucratic Leviathan is refusing to cooperate with the Attorney General by handing over work product, that's a real problem. That means that effectively the bureaucracy of our Justice System is broken. I mean there's no other way to put that, I don't think. And to say that this is not news, I think is just so wildly inaccurate and honestly again do I think there's going to be some huge upending here? No, but I think what you are seeing is people, we the people if you will, and our representatives are pushing back against a lot of this and trying to scour off like power wash if you will, our institutions of some of this accreted - maybe not corruption per se - but paradigm of entitlement, a lot of fiefdom thinking inside the bureaucracy which that stuff is not supposed to be there. At the end of the day, these folks are supposed to operate at the pleasure of whatever branch of government that created them, at the pleasure of, and those folks are ultimately responsible to answer to we the people. I mean that's what it comes down to and I'm not trying to be overly naïve or overly simplistic, but that is really the intended mechanism; that's how it's supposed to work. Again I don't think I can restate enough how troubling it is that the FBI whose sole function was to act as an investigative organ for the Department of Justice, is now refusing, apparently, to hand over investigative work product to the Department of Justice. It seems to be operating at least it has either ossified or it is operating antithetically to its original remit. So again, the question has to be posed, what do we do about this? And I can't think of any more legal news more pressing than that, especially in an American Jurisprudence context.