n a surprising and unprecedented move, the Idaho Republican Party has taken a strong stance against the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), by passing a resolution a condemning the “corrupt government agency” and calling for its abolition if it is deemed that the agency cannot be reformed.

The resolution passed unanimously out of the body which is comprised of 216 elected Republican representatives, contained a laundry list of excesses, abuses, and unconstitutional overreaches which the resolution alleges has “undermined the trust that the American people have in their government.”

The resolution outlines some of the most egregious of these abuses, COINTELPRO, a counter intelligence program carried out by the FBI between 1956 and 1971 which “illegally surveilled, infiltrated, and disrupted civil rights activists, political dissidents, and other individuals considered a threat to national security.”

[That’s an interesting approach, but it seems pretty comprehensive laying a case out. I wonder how many people on the party’s mailing list have any clue about the sum total of the FBI’s hard left-into-authoritarianism turn? Factual summations of their sins and getting those out if the way to inform folks.: Beege]