This problem is with the front-line agents too, and it came a long time before Garland.
EXACTLY! The FBI has been a festering boil on the butt of America since Hoover - PERIOD!
The man was possibly the most powerful man in America, with absolutely NO OVERSIGHT! He was given Carte Blanche and used it to his content!
The FBI has files, surveillance, and digging on every politician who runs for office! And I bet they use it for their own department’s “betterment”!!
These jack-wads are trying to keep their jobs and keep the govt trough open for them!!
Time (January 9th) for a Joint Select Congressional Committee on Government and Bureaucratic High Crimes, corruption and abuse of power.
I agree. I think that the politicians are showing a certain amount of fear by ‘covering’ and saying that most agents are good agents and not corrupt, but leadership sets the moral tone of the employees, and the Justice Dept. and FBI have horrible, corrupt leadership. I would assume that every agent is corrupt until proven otherwise. A new legal moral code needs to be pounded into the whole organization, based on the Constitution (I mean really, not just muttering the words to proceed on the job as many of us have done.) Live the Constitution and believe in the power of its words!
My in-laws had a stroke over that report. “The FBI is above reproach!” Me: “Did you read the report?” BIL: “Don’t need to. I KNOW they are above reproach.”
But they absolutely believe Cheney, Kinzinger and the Jan 6th lynch mob.