Republican sights are set on the Federal Bureau of Investigation . Everywhere you turn, GOP notables are demanding that the FBI be reinvented — or perhaps disbanded altogether. For any civil libertarian, the Bureau, which functions as America’s secret police, as well as the top federal law enforcement agency, is an easy organization to view with suspicion.
At the Conservative Political Action Conference in Dallas this weekend, Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) publicly demanded the defunding of the FBI. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), a longtime FBI critic, has accused the Bureau of playing politics in favor of Democrats on a host of high-profile issues, about which he claims multiple FBI whistleblowers have spilled the beans to him.
Republicans aren’t wrong to suspect the FBI has lost its way. The Bureau's mishandling of 2016 allegations that then-candidate Donald Trump was in bed with the Kremlin left many Republicans with a bad aftertaste. That got worse with the FBI’s 2020 missteps regarding Hunter Biden’s notorious laptop, the counterintelligence implications of which are painfully obvious .
Last week, FBI Director Christopher Wray admitted as much in testimony before Congress, stating that allegations of politically driven interference inside the Bureau about that laptop were "deeply troubling." When you add in Republican claims that the FBI oversells domestic extremism on the Right while lowballing it on the Left, it’s no wonder that many in the GOP want to force change upon the...
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