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The FBI is well aware about the threat to your civil liberties -- especially in an age of unwarranted, mass surveillance of our emails and video calls.
It's why all FBI academy trainees learn about the rise of Nazi Germany and the transformation of law enforcement into a tool of oppression.
"We send every one of our agents to the Holocaust Museum before they're agents to know and understand what happens when an agency goes rogue," ex-FBI director Robert Mueller explained recently.
Agents take a private, guided tour of the museum. Then there's a specialized class that highlights how everyday law enforcement played a key role in Germany's descent into authoritarianism. It wasn't only elite military units, like the infamous Schutzstaffel, or SS.
The presentation includes the slide below, which shows how German police accompanied Nazi bureaucrats as they compiled information about minorities who would later be hunted down and killed. That information was tabulated as punch cards by some of the earliest computers
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By 1923, 25 bishops, 1215 priests, and over 6,000 professors and teachers had fallen victim. Nearly 9,000 doctors, nearly 11,000 police officers, over 54,000 officers, 260,000 soldiers, 48,000 guards, 19,850 civil servants, 344,250 members of the intelligentsia, 192,000 workers, and 815,000 peasants were murdered.
What savages and that was just a warm up, not a shred of remorse either.
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The FBI isn't alone. Nearly every federal law enforcement agency sends new recruits to the museum. The 90,000 who have been there since 1999 include agents from the Drug Enforcement Administration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Secret Service and U.S. Marshals, according to the Anti-Defamation League.
Yep we pay for a foreign nation to screen all our law enforcement personnel. Only the most brainwashed kool aid drinkers get the job.
