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Robert Tait in Washington

EXPLAINED: Fbi agents driven out under trump assault form support network im still a human | Vintage Vibes

people wearing fbi vests standing in red and blue light at night
FBI agents respond following reports of gunfire near the White House in Washington DC on 23 May. Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty Images

For generations they have borne the mantle of strength and authority inherited from J Edgar Hoover’s Depression-era G-men, a label supposedly affixed after the arrest of Machine Gun Kelly in 1933.

Now hardened veterans of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) are projecting a different face as they seek to fight back against what many say is the systematic undermining of the bureau’s values under a drive by Donald Trump to turn it into an instrument of retribution.

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