Darrell Castle discusses Trump vs Comey, the Trump – Russia investigation, and what it all means for America. TRANSCRIPT Hello this is Darrell Castle with today’s podcast. Today is Friday, May 19, 2017, and today we will be discussing the global empire that used to be America, but is now just the United States or as some have taken to calling it “the deep state.” Every global empire has to have its secret police, and the United States is no exception. There are 16 different intelligence agencies all coming under the department of homeland security. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is one of those agencies. Its director is appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate. The director of the FBI is, therefore, under the Executive branch and since the FBI is law enforcement, it also comes under the Department of Justice, making the FBI’s direct boss is the Attorney General of the United States who now is Jeff Sessions. Since it is one of the intelligence agencies the FBI is also responsible to the Director of National Security. The President is free to fire the Director of the FBI anytime he wants to, but he does so at his own peril. Why, because not even Presidents can mess with the secret police. They know everything about everybody and everyone in Washington knows it. People in Washington who have been there awhile are all terrified of the secret police that know all their secrets and can deliver them up to the justice system or ensure their electoral defeat anytime they get out of line. The FBI was formed in 1924 under the leadership of a Federal investigator named J. Edgar Hoover. Mr. Hoover made his reputation investigating those deemed “disloyal” during World War l. He ran the FBI from his appointment in 1924 until his death in 1972, so 48 years. During that time he built a revered agency that was admired by the American public because it was totally independent and was “untouchable.” In reality, the FBI was an investigative agency, so it investigated. Apparently, it investigated everything and everybody, utterly intimidating Washington. Who doesn’t have some secret that he would not want revealed. Those in Washington who served for many years had long dossiers of misdeeds all chronicled by the FBI and held by Mr. Hoover. Harry Truman, who had many famous run ins with Mr. Hoover once said, “we want no Gestapo or secret police. The FBI is tending in that direction—this must stop.” Many Presidents, if not all of them, wanted to fire Hoover but were intimidated by him, his popularity, and his dossiers. Both John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson (LBJ) had public disputes with him. I lived through those years and remember many of them. LBJ once famously said when deciding whether or not to fire Hoover “better to have him on the inside of the tent urinating out than on the outside of the tent urinating in.” Mr. Johnson used his own vernacular but I have to make this podcast acceptable to you. More recently Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer D-NY in early January of this year, so weeks before the inauguration, on the Rachel Maddow show said, “Let me tell you, you take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you”. Every one of both parties is afraid –and intimidated. President Trump has obviously had his problems with James B. Comey. Mr. Comey was appointed by Barack Hussein Obama on September 4, 2013 and served until fired by Donald Trump on May 9, 2017. When I heard that Trump had decided to let Comey continue after his inauguration I knew that was a mistake. He could have made a change just because he wanted to have his own people with him. Mr. Comey is not J. Edgar Hoover and he did not serve 48 years so firing him then would have been understandable and without controversy. Instead he foolishly let the security guard of the deep state ensconce himself even deeper into the furniture I don’t know if the things being said about President Trump are true or not.