How badly damaged is the FBI’s reputation after series of corruption scandals and politicized prosecutions?
Even the FBI’s own agents have no confidence in Bureau leaders.
“An annual survey of FBI employees found a sharp decline in confidence in bureau leadership amid a series of scandals, results published Sunday indicate,” The Washington Examiner reports
“Although pride in working at the FBI remained about the same, faith in the ‘honesty and integrity’ of senior executives plummeted — going from an average employee rating of more than four out of five in 2017 to 3.5 out of five this year at the FBI’s 56 field offices,” the Examiner reports.
“The survey data was collected in February and March amid significant internal uncertainty about the fate of top leaders including then-Deputy Director Andrew McCabe and FBI agent Peter Strzok,” the Examiner notes.
That likely wasn’t helped by Strzok’s performance before a House committee hearing into FBI conduct, in which he admitted to political bias and reacted to a Democrat member admonishing the Republican chairman by smirking and shimmying like a taunting child.
Since the survey was taken the Justice Department released an explosive inspector general’s report on now-former FBI Director James Comey, calling his conduct and handling of politically sensitive investigation “extraordinary and insubordinate.”
If FBI agents think FBI leadership is dishonest and unethical, what are voters supposed to think?
AAN Staff
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