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Lady Justice is trembling. Recent revelations of favoritism are swirling around the upper management of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and overseer the U.S. Department of Justice. These events appear to show that Lady Justice’s blindfold came off several years ago allowing for behind-the-scenes support — from DOJ and the FBI — for Hillary Clinton’s losing campaign for president. Heads are about to roll at both federal agencies as details — of conspiracy to support one particular campaign for president over the other — become more obvious.

On Friday, President Donald Trump, gave an impromptu, minutes-long press conference on the White House lawn as he was about to board Marine One (helicopter) bound for the FBI Academy at Quantico, Va., to attend a graduation ceremony for about 200 newly sworn in FBI agents – the first time a sitting president had attended in more than 40 years.

Trump’s off-the-cuff comments concerning the recent happenings are quite enlightening and full of clues as to what the future holds for DOJ and FBI – whose public image is coming under mounting criticism across the board.

“We are going to rebuild the FBI. It will be bigger and better than ever … It is very sad when you look at those documents, how they’ve done that is really, really disgraceful,” Trump said. “You have a lot of very angry people that are seeing it … When you look at the Hillary Clinton investigation, I’ve been saying it for a long time, that was rigged system folks. It was rigged.”

For those that don’t know — at the center of this unfolding FBI-DOJ controversy — is veteran FBI Agent Peter Strzok, who played a vital role in Clinton’s email investigation. He is the one that conducted Clinton’s not-under-oath, nor recorded interview at the FBI headquarters in Washington. According to news reports, it was Strzok that changed the early language of former FBI Director James Comey’s announcement, from “grossly negligent” to “extremely careless” lowering the criminality level, so that no charges would be brought against Clinton and the email investigation was over. Last summer Strzok was pulled off Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Trump-Russia investigation and reassigned to Human Resources because his recently uncovered text massages — numbering in the thousands — clearly show long-term favoritism for Clinton over Trump by him and his associates. Many are calling for Strzok to be fired from the FBI altogether. Why would that be?

The case against Strzok is impropriety, not just the appearance of impropriety.

Lady Justice has been wearing that blindfold — representing impartiality — since the 16th century with origins dating back to Roman and Egyptian concepts of equal treatment under law without regard to wealth, power or influence. That blindfold is supposed to insure never favoring the strong or the weak, the rich or the poor, the righteous or the wicked. The scales she holds are the weighing of evidence that should stand on its own merit pointing to guilt or innocence without influence. The last distinctive feature of Lady Justice is her sword which represented authority in ancient times, and to this day conveys the idea that justice can be swift and final, according to Wikipedia.

The DOJ and the FBI are the strong arms of enforcing federal laws. They simply cannot tolerate any political bias within their ranks that obviously has taken place over a long period time involving high-ranking decision makers – not just Strzok. Under this umbrella of suspicion also comes FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, DOJ Deputy Director Rod Rosenstein, former FBI directors James Comey and Robert Mueller, former U.S. Attorney Generals Eric Holder and Loretta Lynch, veteran DOJ and FBI attorney Andrew Weissman, former Secretary-of-State Clinton and former President Obama. There are many more on this list, but these are the heavies. Did these people conspire to keep Clinton clean and aid in her quest for the White House all because they were so afraid of Donald Trump? We are about to find out.

This current atmosphere of distrust clouding the work of these two iconic agencies needs to be resolved and fast. Rank and file employees of both agencies are good, hardworking and dedicated law enforcement professionals who don’t deserve to be discredited by shadowy leadership.

At the FBI Academy, President Trump spoke up strong for the FBI supporting its mission and its people. Speaking at the FBI graduation also was U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions and FBI Director Christopher Wray – both men are very much in the spotlight over these recent revelations and what they plan to do about this ongoing public relations nightmare. The president did not mention the DOJ-FBI controversy but instead purposed this occasion to express his steadfast support for these new FBI agents and all local, state and federal police officers.

President Trump has every constitutional right to fire any or all of those involved with this DOJ-FBI breach of confidence or those standing in the way of its resolution. The president also has the right to order the FBI and DOJ to investigate the entire Clinton political machine, that Uranium One deal, that fake Russian ‘dossier’ paid for by Democratic National Committee campaign contributions and the Clinton Foundation. If any of these possible investigations yield felony charges against those suspected of violating federal laws — put them on trial in front of the whole nation.

This president should “rebuild” Lady Justice – whose symbol represents the rule of law in a civilized society. Lady Justice must be ready, willing and able to handle the ‘whole truth and nothing but the truth.’

About the Author Britt Nelson relocated to Costa Rica in 2011 from Florida, where he served as news editor for the Palatka Daily News, a newspaper owned by the New York Times Regional Newspaper Group (NYT-RNG) for 20 years.

Nelson served the NYT-RNG for 18 years in Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, North Carolina and Florida as a correspondent, reporter, staff writer, senior staff writer training new reporters, copy editor, page designer, editorial writer, editorial page editor and editorial board member.