Most states have their own investigation units. In GA we have the GBI. The US Marshals can step up nationally. The FBI would have to be stripped down to the bottom and all new people hired. That’s the only way you could fix it.
I agree. The FBI is too politically biased so they are no longer doing their jobs. They are supposed to be looking out for threats against America. Instead they are focusing on MAGA Conservatives because they see them as a threat to Biden Administration’s power.
If you want to fix it quickly, yes.
But realize what you have today took several years and there is a slow and less radical way to do it. That’s what happened in the Obama, Holder/Lynch, Comey, years where they turned the FBI full woke.
They changed the recruiting which ultimately recreated the FBI. Far less former military and law enforcement were hired. More teachers, social workers, and other former state and federal government workers that had ass and trash positions which have absolutely no relevance to the FBI and it’s mission were brought in.
The goal according to Comey was to make the FBI represent the demographics of the US (they gave the old race and sex based hiring initiatives a facelift and implemented them). What that really meant was hiring folks that were less qualified but were black, female, Latino, homosexual, straight from college (we didn’t hire folks until they had some maturity and experience in the past, the average age in the academy used to be 31.5 years). I have two children, 1 boy and 1 girl. If my daughter applies to the FBI today, if she merely meets the minimum qualifications (and she does), she would be accepted. However, my son not being gay, black, or Latino needs to stand out from the crowd to get hired.
IMHO, the senior leaders were probably always sucks. BUT the level of politics which has crept into the decision making has become overt and brazen. Knowing this is unprofessional and dangerous, historically they at least tried to hide it and it was more limited and subtle, with slight political maneuvers. Today it’s in your face (enforcing the teachers unions request to go after parents at school boards), wide spread (Comey leaks, Trump tower FISA...), and full force (J6 where we use every power imaginable to stick folks in prison for inordinate amounts of time by manipulating the system). The level at which the FBI is used as a political instrument by Garland (hence the Democrats and Biden) is without precedent.
Mueller was the enabler: He centralized the FBI in power and information. He focused on making them the intel agency they are today and had this huge push for “CHS’s,” many of whom are scumbags and the information from them being highly questionable. He set the stage to where some of the things being done today are possible, even though he himself was more objective / neutral and professional vs. his successor Comey.
The vast power of the FBI is an argument in support of your course of action. The FBI is this nations only 1.) law enforcement and 2.) Intel agency. Dual hatted they have incredible powers especially since they are oriented inward. Politicized, this agency can sway elections without folks realizing what happened. Imagine Trump Tower being surveilled in 2016 and the intel collected being fed to folks on the other side. Imagine the director of the FBI leaking derogatory information collected using FISA powers to the media, allowing his agency to claim Russian collusion stories are real (even though he knew they were not), suppressing Hunters laptop from hell... Imagine the FBI is used in a political purge and three (3) major grass roots opposition leaders (Proud Boys, Oath Takers and one more) are de facto eliminated which means Biden has less trouble in his four years. See where this is going?
The DOJ and FBI allowing themselves to be used as one of the chess pieces in the political games, poses a direct threat to the democratic process.
Not the Russians. Not the Chinese. ***Our own DOJ and FBI poses the greatest threat.***
Expect them to meddle in the next elections as well, especially if the orange man reappears. That said, yes your approach while radical and scary to some, does have merit.