The FBI is a government bureaucracy. Enough said.
The political orientation of employees is driven from the top. The entire federal government has been hollowed out by 8 years of Clinton, and 8 years of Obama. I’m not even sure that GWB care enough to slow it down a bit. In fact, I think he was complicit in continuing it.
Look at the colleges the FBI recruits from. Also, look at criteria questionnaire, which is a preamble to the interview. if this Preamble is anything like the questionnaire used for security clearances, it has been dumbed down and keywords have been redacted because they are no longer considered politically correct.
I was an Army retiree and FBI employee when I was detailed to the White House as a counterterrorism advisor on Sept. 12th, 2001. At the time, I was of the opinion that no federal agency was better at protecting itself than the CIA (I had worked with the Agency overseas on multiple occasions). By the time I left and went to back to the real world over a year later, I knew that I was badly mistaken.
For the first several months of my detail, we were treated to at least one or two accounts of FBI screw-ups - BIG ones - almost every week and very, very few of those screw-ups ever became public. Those that were exposed seemed to disappear very quickly, the Bureau continued to “F**k up by the numbers” and continued to spend/waste hundreds of millions of dollars polishing their reputation and supposedly enhancing their capabilities.
Suffice it to say that, by the time I left the White House, I wasn’t on the FBI’s Christmas card list and I knew, beyond a shadow of the doubt that NO agency of the Federal government was better at protecting itself than the FBI. Oh, and I was transferred to the Justice Dep’t.
You said it better than me.