Rep. Raskin: ‘I Haven’t Seen What the Proof’ Is of the FBI or DoJ Being Weaponized

HUNT: “Do you think there are any issues inside the FBI around politicization, as many who voted for Donald Trump seem to say?”
RASKIN: “Well, undoubtedly, if you look at it historically, for example, during the COINTELPRO period, the FBI really was weaponized against Dr. King and the Civil Rights Movement and the peace movement. There was decades of the FBI being basically used as a political instrument. There’s an interesting book about that, about J. Edgar Hoover, by Beverly Gage.”
HUNT: “Yes.”
RASKIN: “And people can look at — I mean, and so I haven’t seen what the proof is that the FBI has been weaponized against a political party or the Department of Justice. Of course, this Department of Justice has brought charges against a Democratic U.S. senator in New Jersey, a Democratic congressman in Texas. And so, some people just seem to think that it should go only in One Direction, and, if it doesn’t, then somehow it’s politicized. And I think that’s what they mean when they talk about politicization and the deep state. I mean, the deep state, nobody’s ever defined it. Apparently, it just means anybody who doesn’t do the will of Donald Trump.”