Drain the FBI to truly “drain the swamp.”

Republicans Must Drain the FBI to Truly “Drain the Swamp”

John Durham’s Report Exposes FBI’s Abuse of Power

Special Counsel John Durham’s report revealed that deep-state FBI officials abused their power to frame former President Donald Trump as a Russian asset. The 306-page report showed that the FBI relied on baseless fabrications commissioned by the Hillary Clinton campaign to construct the entire narrative for its investigation known as “Crossfire Hurricane.” The FBI conducted illegal surveillance on American citizens in an attempt to undermine the 2016 election. Durham stated that “neither U.S. law enforcement nor the Intelligence Community appears to have possessed any actual evidence of collusion in their holdings at the commencement of the Crossfire Hurricane investigation.”

The FBI’s History of Misconduct

The FBI has a history of engaging in blatant misconduct at the behest of Democrat operatives. Last summer, more than two dozen plainclothes agents raided Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence at Attorney General Merrick Garland’s personal direction, five years after Trump thwarted Garland’s Supreme Court nomination. FBI officials also deployed counterterrorism resources against concerned parents who showed up at school board meetings and began investigating Catholic parishes for “white supremacy.”

Cleaning House at the FBI

Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan, who chairs the House Judiciary’s Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, says it’s time to clean house at the FBI. Jordan suggests limiting how the FBI spends its money and exercising Congress’s authority, the power of the purse, to limit what the federal government, what the FBI and Justice Department, are doing to the American people. Jordan insists that Congress should lock up funding through the appropriations process and not allow the FBI to use federal tax dollars for inappropriate activity.

Abolishing the FBI

Wall Street Journal editorial board member Holman Jenkins Jr. recommended a way for Congress to abolish the agency altogether. Jenkins suggested a national investigative corps that would be more directly answerable to the 93 U.S. attorneys who are charged with enforcing federal law in the 50 states. The FBI’s culture at the top seems incapable of using the powers entrusted to it with discretion and good judgment or at least without reliable expectation of embarrassment. The agency should be scrapped and something new built to replace it.

Defenders of Federal Law Enforcement

Defenders of federal law enforcement would prefer lawmakers “reform” the agencies rather than dismantle them. Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates voiced concern over Trump’s plans in particular to implement a complete overhaul of the federal bureaucracy in a second term, starting with the Department of Justice. Gates told CBS’s Margaret Brennan that those institutions charged with protecting American freedom have compromised it in pursuit of political power. Lawmakers who are serious about “draining the swamp” ought to go after the head of the leviathan, and that’s the FBI.

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