Dear Ladies and Gentlemen of America’s Federal Bureau of Investigation:
Think back to when you joined the FBI, how proud you, your family and your friends were that you were part of the most respected crime-fighting organization in the world. Just the words, “I’m with the FBI” meant you were special and everyone knew it.
You were one of the legendary “Untouchables.”
How times have changed.
According to reporting by CBS News and The Independent, FBI personnel have been told that the Bureau will no longer take the lead in investigating shootings and assaults involving ICE agents. Instead, those investigations would be handled by Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), which is itself part of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)—the same department that oversees ICE.
In short, DHS will investigate itself.
The FBI and DHS are only two in a long list of federal agencies, led and corrupted by incompetents, whose primary mission seems to be to protect Donald Trump from criticism.
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- Our military leader who fired our best military officers (especially women and gays)
- The Health and Human Services leader who has no scientific background
- The Attorney General who will do nothing about Trump’s corruption
- Tthe head of ICE whose poorly trained agents, that unlike regular police, wear masks so they can’t be identified when they break the law, and who often “neglect” to wear required body cameras
- The head of the FBI, who uses FBI aircraft for personal travel by him and his pals
- Congress whose many members will not say aloud that Trump lost the 2020 election.
- Tthe Supreme Court of the United States — The Supreme Court! — that refuses to establish prohibitions against its own corruption! Meanwhile, it has done everything possible to make Trump a king, which it calls by the deceptive name, “The Unitary Executive.”
- The President of the United States, who is the ultimate of corruption. It isn’t enough that he has made illegal billions buying stocks ahead of his positive comments about those companies. His latest money-grabbing gambit: He has begun to sell inside information so that the rich too, can get a jump on the stock market movements Trump causes by each Truth Social comment he makes.
All of them, and others, corrupt, incompetent or both.
It is not your imagination that unprecedented corruption and incompetence infect every branch of our government.
Yes, we citizens have only ourselves to blame. We knew what Trump was, certainly by 2024, the second time we elected him, but we allowed hatred and prejudice to override our traditional American decency, and now we are paying the price.
Even in areas where the FBI is not involved, America is declining:
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- A war built on lies rages. 17 Americans killed and more than 430 Americans injured with the numbers now are going up quickly, while President “heel spurs” worries about the fate of his reflection pool.
- Good families and businesses are being destroyed by unnecessarily harsh deportation.
- Inflation is worsening
- Renewable energy, that could help cure inflation, is discouraged, while polluting coal is given priority.
- Our allies are being attacked by tariffs applied randomly for perceived insults to our dear leader.
- Our schools are prohibited even from mentioning slavery.
- Seniors are paying more for healthcare despite having Medicare.
- Elections are being corrupted by massive gerrymandering
- And Trump’s rich pals are getting richer while our poor are less able to pay for basic food and shelter.
The shitification of America under Trump, is well underway.
But ladies and gentlemen of America’s FBI, do not despair. Trump is a physically and mentally sick, feeble old man. One way or another, within 2 1/2 years, he will be out of office, and then the decent people of America will rise again. Trump, his family and the rest of his corrupted sycophants, will encounter true justice.
The prison doors are open and awaiting them.
So, good ladies and gentlemen of the FBI, lie low and save the evidence. Don’t let the evidence disappear like the Epstein files on Trump.
America can recover and return to being that “shining city on a hill.” You will be asked to provide the evidence for the numerous trials that will cleanse the vile stain of greed, hatred, bigotry, and incompetence that Trump has brought down upon our fair land.
Lie low and save the evidence, so that America again can be admired throughout the world for truth, decency, and democracy. And you again will receive justifiable plaudits when you in speak the words, “I’m with the FBI.”
Lie low and save the evidence. The time is coming.
Rodger Malcolm Mitchell
#Monetary Sovereignty - Mitchell 
The Wounded Americans Trump Doesn’t Want You To See
Hundreds of American troops have been injured. The public deserves more than selective disclosure.
Adam Kinzinger, Jul 21
A missile strike does not end when the fire goes out. The pressure from the blast moves through doors, walls and the spaces body armor cannot protect.
A service member may get back on his feet, answer a medic’s questions and return to work. On a Pentagon spreadsheet, that can look reassuring. In the body, it may mean headaches, vertigo, trouble sleeping or memory problems that persist long after the uniform comes off.
The military’s own medical experts warn that blast exposure can produce symptoms that are delayed, difficult to detect and potentially life-altering. That distance—between what an injury looks like in a report and what it feels like to the person carrying it—is where the Trump administration has chosen to hide much of the cost of its war with Iran.
Roughly 430 American service members have been injured since the war began on February 28. But in the week before an Iranian attack killed Pvt. Isabella Gonzales, 19, and 1st Lt. Tyler James Feehan, 25, at a base in Jordan, Iran struck American forces in the country three other times.
Those attacks injured dozens of troops and damaged several helicopters. The Pentagon didn’t disclose the attacks or the casualties. It had periodically released an overall injury count earlier in the war, then stopped updating it.
Its last major public briefing on the conflict was in early May. FOR GOD’S SAKE JUST TELL US THE TRUTH! Hiding numbers, pretending the sky is blue, is not what a free country does. It’s not TRUMPS military, it’s ours!
We deserve transparency. Officials have offered a defense that deserves to be taken seriously. Releasing immediate details about where missiles landed, which equipment they damaged and how many people were hurt could help Iran improve its targeting. Commanders sometimes must withhold facts to protect forces who remain in danger.
But secrecy has to be narrow, temporary and connected to a military purpose. It cannot become a blanket draped over the progress of a war. Iran already knows which bases it attacked. It has surveillance, intelligence and its own damage assessments. The people kept in the dark are Americans.
That distinction matters because the country is being asked to support an expanding war while being denied the most basic measure of its human cost. At least 17 American service members have been killed since the war began. Hundreds have been injured.
After the latest deaths, Donald Trump wrote that Iran would “pay for that killing many times over.” Vengeance was announced before the administration explained what another round of escalation was supposed to accomplish. As an Air Force pilot, I understood that risk came with the mission. That never meant civilian leaders were entitled to make the risk disappear from public view.
The people who serve do not devise a war’s political objectives, decide whether Congress should authorize it or determine when a mission has become strategically incoherent. They carry out those decisions. The least their government owes them is an honest accounting of the consequences.
The phrase “returned to duty” is especially useful to officials who want a war to appear cleaner than it is. Often it means only that a service member was judged able to resume work. In March, after news organizations pressed for fuller numbers, the Pentagon acknowledged that about 140 troops had been wounded during the first 10 days of the war, including eight who were severely injured.
The initial public disclosures had focused only on the severely wounded. Many combat injuries that are not immediately life-threatening—traumatic brain injuries among them—can alter the rest of a person’s life. We have seen Trump minimize those injuries before. After Iran fired ballistic missiles at Al Asad Air Base in Iraq in January 2020, his administration initially said no Americans had been hurt. The count eventually rose to 110, most of them suffering traumatic brain injuries.
Trump dismissed the injuries as “headaches” and said he did not consider them very serious. That episode should have taught the Pentagon that early minimization creates its own strategic damage. Instead, the habit has become institutional.
Under Pete Hegseth, reporters have faced extraordinary restrictions inside the Pentagon. Major news organizations surrendered their credentials rather than accept rules that threatened ordinary newsgathering. A federal judge later ruled that portions of the policy violated the rights of reporters, yet the department continued restricting access.
A Pentagon that treats scrutiny as hostility will eventually lose the credibility it needs during a genuine emergency. That loss cannot be repaired by a patriotic video, an angry social-media post or a secretary declaring that casualties will stiffen American resolve.
Credibility accumulates through disclosures that are often inconvenient to the people in charge. It disappears when every unwelcome fact is treated as aid to the enemy. The Vietnam-era “credibility gap” did not begin with one spectacular lie.
It widened as official optimism repeatedly failed to match what soldiers, reporters and eventually the public could see. Body counts became measures of progress. Internal doubts remained hidden while presidents and generals described success.
When the Pentagon Papers exposed the distance between private assessments and public claims, Hannah Arendt wrote that the credibility gap had “opened up into an abyss.” Her concern was not limited to the deception of the public. Image-making could become so powerful that decision-makers themselves lost contact with the facts.
That is the more subtle danger of sanitizing casualty reports. The deception can travel inward. When injuries are classified as minor, attacks go unmentioned and damaged aircraft vanish from public briefings, leaders may begin making decisions inside the same edited reality they have constructed for voters.
A government that cannot admit what the enemy has done will have trouble judging what the enemy can still do. Trump has made lying and incompetence central to his method of governance. He inflates victories, erases setbacks and attacks anyone who supplies unflattering accounts.
Hegseth has brought that political culture into an institution whose effectiveness depends on accurate information moving upward, especially when it contradicts what commanders hoped to hear. Militaries fail when subordinates learn that bad news is unwelcome. Democracies fail when the public receives only the news its leaders find useful.
The Pentagon does not need to publish real-time coordinates or private medical records. It should release regular aggregate casualty figures and explain major attacks after the immediate operational risk has passed.
It should restore routine briefings where professional reporters can test official claims. Congress should demand those practices when Hegseth and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Dan Caine testify. Members who praise the troops but decline to ask what happened to them are performing gratitude, not oversight.
Pvt. Gonzales graduated from high school last year. First Lt. Feehan will be promoted posthumously and awarded the Bronze Star and Purple Heart. Their names entered the public record because death cannot be described as a minor injury followed by a return to duty.
The wounded deserve to be seen before their injuries become impossible to hide. The first obligation of a government at war is to tell its citizens what the war is costing.
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