"U.S. Sen. Charles Grassley, a frequent FBI critic who has pushed for tough discipline in the McVeigh papers case, said Agent Defenbaugh has been allowed to "get out the exit door before the curtain falls.""Director Mueller is making a serious effort to reform the FBI, and I appreciate his work," Mr. Grassley said in a prepared statement. "However, much remains to be done to ensure that senior FBI officials are held accountable to the same standards as the rank-and-file agents."
Former colleagues of Agent Defenbaugh in Dallas and elsewhere said they feared his unexpected retirement might have been unfairly linked to the politics currently surrounding the bureau. "
Isn't this like asking Clinton to reform the Catholic Church?
Mueller also came under some criticism in 1992 by Sen. Christopher Dodd (D.-CT), then Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Dodd's office was looking at Mueller for having shredded documents linking senior Reagan-Bush officials to illicit transactions involving BCCI and the personal profiteering of Republicans close to the Bush Regime in schemes financed by BCCI.