J. Edgar Hoover’s famous mandate to every FBI employee was, “do not embarrass the Bureau!” In the day of Tommy gun wielding G-men, and Hoover’s tenure as the FBI’s monolithic director, the public image of an incorruptible, mechanistically analytic, and scientifically scrupulous cadre of federal investigators was almost as important as arresting bank robbers, wise guys, and Nazi saboteurs.
That mandate was passed down through the decades by Quantico instructors, class counselors, and seasoned training agents at the field offices. It was FBI lore and culture. We all learned it well, just like referring to the Special Agent in Charge as an S.A.C, unlike the Secret Service’s rather impolitic SAC (pronounced “sack.” Like a sack of…”). To be fair, the FBI has its own idiosyncratic foibles, referring to Assistant Directors in Charge as ADICs. You can see how that might lend itself to the creative application of impolite anatomic reference.
The phrase wasn’t a directive to cover up or deceive, it was an inviolable order to conduct oneself in accordance with the highest possible professional and personal standards. Nothing that could bring reproach on the mission of the FBI was to be tolerated. Fidelity, Bravery, and Integrity were to be the gold standard by which the finest law enforcement agency in the world was to be measured.
Therefore, “do not embarrass the Bureau” was sacrosanct — at least until Barack Hussein Obama and his lackey, former FBI Director James Comey. Their legacy has been one of gaffe, buffoonery, public humiliation, and betrayal. The sludge of politicization flowed from Obama’s Oval Office, with a candied surface sweet with the trite slogan “hope and change.” Comey’s infamous press conference, exonerating Hillary Clinton’s felonious mishandling of top secret information was Obama’s flanking of the Maginot Line, and portended the unthinkable acts of politicization to follow, especially after the instillation of his sock puppet, Joe Biden.
Yes, and Hoover’s FBI was the beginning of the DEEP STATE prying into people’s personal lives collecting data creating files, and soft blackmailing and coercing cooperation and compliance the same way organized crime of the same era did. LOL, and he a Homosexual Hoover was photographed at Mardi Gras in Drag with Clay Shaw and Lee Harvey Oswald.