True, we seem to have a number of people on our side that talk a good game but when given the opportunity to actually make change do virtually nothing, whether it’s fixing the FBI, DOJ, or Congress most end up showing their true colors that being grifters
But you have to remember that these people on the other side have no problem with killing anyone who gets in their way.
Maybe he thought he was incapable of changing the FBI without getting a dirt nap.
Would you give your life to try to clean out the Augean Stable of the FBI, only to be killed, and then, it would still be business as usual? They don't even have the classy 'star on the wall' that the CIA has.
It's a feculent group of thugs.