The damage to the reputation and integrity of the Federal Bureau of Investigation began decades ago when President Harry Truman worried that its first director J. Edgar Hoover was taking the FBI in a “Gestapo-like” direction. Later, President Richard Nixon told advisors Hoover should resign:
“We have on our hands here a man who will pull down the temple with him, including me.”
In this century under the Obama and Biden administrations, the agency irreversibly sullied the FBI’s viability suggested former FBI assistant director Tom Fuentes in a recent Newsweek interview:
“The last president that I served under was George W. Bush and it wasn’t Bush’s FBI. And that’s how we felt — it was the American people’s FBI, and the loyalty was to the constitution.” That pervasive belief within the 35,000-employee federal agency later changed significantly during the Obama and Biden administrations, Fuentes said, and further deteriorated amid [Christopher] Wray’s leadership and the confirmation of Attorney General Merrick Garland in 2021. “Those presidents wanted it to be their FBI and under their thumb.”
Meanwhile, NBC News has reported that Wray is privately preparing for a forced exit, according to “three people familiar with the matter.” And President-elect Donald Trump is believed to be serious about not only replacing Wray but eliminating corruption down to the field office level, Cato Senior Fellow Patrick Eddington told Newsweek. […]
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