One of the greatest honours of my life was walking across the stage at the FBI Academy and receiving my special agent badge from the director at the time, Robert Mueller.
FBI agents are dogged people who do not care about the direction of political winds.
Scorched-earth attacks from politicians with partisan goals now threaten that support, raising corrosive doubts about the integrity of the FBI that could last for generations.
To be effective, the FBI must be believed and must maintain the support of the public it serves.
What are we to make of the recent allegations of political bias at the FBI, particularly those involving two employees whose cringe-worthy text messages continue to threaten the agency's reputation? While it would be disingenuous to claim that those two are not at least guilty of exercising incredibly poor judgment, it would be equally disingenuous for anyone who really knows the modern-day bureau to insinuate that the organisation is plotting from within.
The assumption among confused and dismayed FBI employees is that the attacks are meant to soften the blow should the investigation by Mueller, the Special Counsel, lead to additional charges.
Josh Campbell is a former supervisory special agent with the FBI, who had served as a counterterrorism investigator and special assistant to the bureau's director.
http://gulfnews.com/opinion/thinkers/why-i-am-leaving-the-fbi-1.2168225
FBI agents are dogged people who do not care about the direction of political winds.
Scorched-earth attacks from politicians with partisan goals now threaten that support, raising corrosive doubts about the integrity of the FBI that could last for generations.
To be effective, the FBI must be believed and must maintain the support of the public it serves.
What are we to make of the recent allegations of political bias at the FBI, particularly those involving two employees whose cringe-worthy text messages continue to threaten the agency's reputation? While it would be disingenuous to claim that those two are not at least guilty of exercising incredibly poor judgment, it would be equally disingenuous for anyone who really knows the modern-day bureau to insinuate that the organisation is plotting from within.
The assumption among confused and dismayed FBI employees is that the attacks are meant to soften the blow should the investigation by Mueller, the Special Counsel, lead to additional charges.
Josh Campbell is a former supervisory special agent with the FBI, who had served as a counterterrorism investigator and special assistant to the bureau's director.
http://gulfnews.com/opinion/thinkers/why-i-am-leaving-the-fbi-1.2168225
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