America FBI Must Clean House S
Agency badly tarnished by Russia collusion hoax. BY MARISA HERMAN
pecial counsel john dur- ham’s report into the FBI’s investigation of Donald Trump before and
after the 2016 presidential election details a bureau with bad actors at the “pinnacle of power” and employees who should be “pun- ished” if the agency ever hopes to win back the American people’s trust, legal experts say. Durham ultimately
found that the bureau had no evidence of so-called Russian collusion when it launched its infamous Crossfire Hurricane probe. The agency’s initial lackluster response to the damn- ing report has done little to restore public trust. “In terms of looking forward,
the reputation of the FBI is irreme- diably tarnished,” said Juscelino Colares, a law and political science professor at Case Western Reserve University. “It must be reformed.” In response to Durham’s 300-plus-page report, the FBI stat- ed that it has already put “dozens of corrective actions” in place. Mark Morgan, a Newsmax
insider and senior law enforce- ment analyst, said the agency’s assessment that “everything is good now” is “tone deaf” and “devoid of reality,” considering Americans’ trust in the FBI has “absolutely been eroded.” He pointed out Americans’ dis- satisfaction with the agency has grown through such recent events as the bureau’s seeming lack of interest in Hunter Biden’s laptop, the surprise raid of Trump’s Mar-
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“In terms of looking forward, the reputation of the FBI is irremediably tarnished. It must be reformed.” — Juscelino Colares, a law and
political science professor at Case Western Reserve University
a-Lago residence for purported classified documents, and the targeting of Catholics to combat alleged violent extremism. A November 2022 McCourtney
Institute for Democracy poll found that just about half of Americans trust the FBI, with 40% trusting the agency “just about always” and 10% saying they trusted it “most of the time.” Charles “Cully” Stimson, depu- ty director of the Edwin Meese III
Center for Legal and Judicial Stud- ies and manager of the National Security Law Program at The Her- itage Foundation, said the report “paints a devastating picture of corruption to the core of senior leaders of the FBI” that justifies their immediate dismissal. Rep. Guy Reschenthaler, R-Pa., proposed holding the agency accountable by limiting its power. He told Newsmax’s The Chris Salcedo Show that Congress should break the agency into five separate divisions.
“Remember, there are five divi-
sions within the FBI,” he said. “Maybe each one of those divi- sions should be its own agency, and you silo the FBI into the five divisions. “It would be much easier to appropriately fund those divi- sions, and have robust oversight over those divisions, instead of just having this monstrous federal agency.”
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