"The FBI was founded on that attitude by J. Edgar Hoover. Nothing has changed since"
Yeah but in J Edgar's days (when America was still America) at least they actually got their hands dirty like REAL men and went after the underworld, nazis, communists etc and took on the likes of Dillinger, "Baby face Nelson", etc. Now its smothered in bureaucracy, hacks and political gamesmanship...big heroes who have to have SWAT teams to arrest paper assed ppeople like Manafort, Stone etc. Hell, that big drink of water Comey wouldn't even carry a gun and probably wouldn't know how to use one anyhow.
Well, it’s funny that you picked that photo, because that was a press release shot to make Hoover look “tough”. He didn’t carry a gun any more than Comey did.
And the rank and file FBI agents do the same thing today.
The upper echelon are the ones that play politics. J. Edgar Hoover used his agency to amass reams of blackmail material on every politician, celebrity, and religious leader in America. And he used it to remain director of the FBI for almost 50 years.