My take on the agencies was that the CIA was very leftist(progressive) and the FBI was quite conservative.
Without a lifetime Hoover, the federal “secret police”, i.e. the FBI was ripe for being turned into a political tool by the first president with no morals or ethics.
I think it started turning with Bill Clinton.
I would appreciate your opinion.
Thank you for your response. Till the end my career there, the 7th Floor rarely interfered in investigations. Mueller and his predecessors were consistently reliable in supporting the troops in the trenches. If we recommended or requested a specific investigative tactic against a target, it was pretty much a done deal.
I can only speak for my division and my specific area of expertise. During my tenure, every FBI exec (i.e. the 7th Floor), save the Director, started working the streets and worked their way up the food chain. Only the Director was a political appointee, which is hardly the case today, as we’re learning. The current crop of the 7th Floor never worked the streets, never worked surveillance in blizzard-like conditions, never even got dirt under their finger nails. Today, they’re all spit ‘n polished, their hair perfectly coiffed with perfumed hair lotions. Just corrupt, overpaid lackeys.
I cannot speak of the political inclinations of any other intelligence services.