I have noted in many comments that the FBI is and always has been an organization primarily motivated by right-wing ideology throughout its history. As a brief and by-no-means complete reminder:
The FBI has always been the American version of the SS - a right-wing hit team- throughout its 100-year history.
They fed rumor and innuendo to Joe McCarthy during the 50’s.
They conducted Palmer Raids, to arrest and deport people whose political beliefs they disagreed with.
They persecuted, infiltrated and arrested labor, anti-war and civil rights leaders while refusing to investigate lynchings or the Klan.
They invented phony scientific-sounding “forensic techniques” to convict innocent people, then lied about it in court and in public.
They participated in domestic assassinations of political opponents.
They insisted on “investigating” the Clinton Foundation based entirely on disproved fabrications in an alt-right publication (“Clinton Cash”), even after their own investigation turned up no evidence of wrongdoing and despite the fact that the Foundation is regularly audited and exalted by both NY state regulators and international monitors. At the same time they have ignored obvious connections between the Trump campaign and Russia.
As to the last point,m the Guardian, fortunately, has once again shown the US media how to do journalism: www.theguardian.com/...
It’s time to end the fantasy that the FBI is anything other than a right-wing secret police operation that is antithetical the western democratic principles.