10 Aug 2022 1:00 pm
Paranoia can be fun when it lets you be a closet insurrectionist, I guess. Anyway, two agencies rarely if ever have "the exact same function", like the two in your example do not. As for the FBI not being sworn officers:Cannonpointer » 10 Aug 2022, 10:34 am » wrote: ↑ FBI are not sworn officers.
You're thinking of the Marshals Service - those are the Constitutional U.S. police.
The FBI was created to circumvent justice, not pursue it. The FBI is doing its job, plain and simple.
Whenever you see two agencies with the same exact function - a sheriffs office and a county police force, for example, - you know that corruption is at the bottom of it. An agency difficult to control gets supplanted by one that is easier to control. The legitimate agency has its funding cut to the point that its agents become lackeys of the courts - bailiffs, process servers, warrant enforcers. The investigative funding - the real money - goes to the crooked agency.
"I [name] do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God."
With right hand raised that is what they say on becoming members of the agency.