“The Director of the FBI term of appointment in office is 10 years. That is supposed to insulate them from political influence.”
No, that is a maximum limit. Not a ‘term”. When appointed you are not given 10 years that you can expect to be left alone. And it’s intent was precisely the opposite. It wasn’t to protect the FBI from political influence. The FBI and DOJ were are not supposed to have ANY independence from the President...none whatsoever. The 10 year LIMIT was designed to prevent another J Edgar from “serving” for 50 years and running a national blackmail scheme as he did.
J. Edgar may have been an a-hole, and was wrong on some things, but he had the right idea on how to run the org.................