A Weaponized FBI?

And how about the entrenched power structure at the FBI??? Pretty scary when any agency fails to comply with oversight requests from the U.S. Congress, particularly when these requests --and the denials thereafter-- appear to be pointing toward a deep-seeded, long-term political bias.  Meaning the FBI may have been 'weaponized' in order to advance a prescribed political agenda in favor of one political party over the other.  Congressional oversight of the  FBI is part of the system of checks and balances.  In the absence of compliance with this oversight, the FBI is basically a rouge agency accountable to no one who "we the people" have elected to represent us and "That should scare the hell out of everyone!" ~Tucker Carleson

1/10/2018 Strikes me as odd that so many high level, committee members in the U.S. Congress are announcing their intention to retire rather than run for re-election in 2018.  Last count I heard nearly 3 dozen Republican lawmakers plan to retire.  That's a pretty significant number.  The better part of me cannot help but wonder if the overuse of government intelligence surveillance, for the supposed purpose of thwarting terrorism, has been gathered and disseminated by a weaponized FBI in order to put many Congressional members at risk for blackmail. Where the price to be paid for said blackmail 'evidence' is that key Congressional members must step-down from their seats ("retiring"), thereby opening the field for a sweeping Democratic insurgence in the 2018 mid-term elections???? Stranger things have happened ......
1/15/2018 Maybe it's just me, but if evidence has recently come to light that the FISA program has been repeatedly abused by intelligence sources toward nefarious ends, wouldn't you want to complete a thorough investigation BEFORE re-authorizing said program for another six-years?????? Or at the very least grant only a short-term extension to cover the program until the investigation is complete.  This kind of nonsense is why we need term limits in the U.S. Congress, I think.  They can't see the forest for the trees anymore .... An inevitable myopic vision seems to eventually settle upon all career politicians.