A former FBI official said this week he has noticed a difference in the way the national media has covered the bureau in recent years.
“It’s something that’s kind of surprising,” former FBI Assistant Deputy Director Terry Turchie said on Fox News Monday.
Turchie referenced a recent editorial in the New York Post that attacked Democrats and “their puppets in the media” for being soft on the FBI now that the agency has been critical of President Trump.
“The entire left-of-center was righteously angry when it learned of the FBI’s long-term surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr. — but defend the bureau’s long-term surveillance of former Trump adviser Carter Page, even after the Justice Department inspector general, Michael Horowitz, detailed 17 significant inaccuracies and omissions in the FBI’s applications to spy on him. And that surveillance was ‘justified’ in the first place by a ridiculous dossier assembled to order for Trump’s opponent,” the editorial read. “Yet, none of that seems to bother the Left.”
Turchie said the FBI went down hill under former Director James Comey.
“It became so bad, in fact, that when Mr. Mueller left in September of 2013 and James Comey was coming on, FBI employees, and I’m told hundreds of them, signed a letter. And essentially the letter said the FBI is being deliberately led in the wrong direction, and we have some chance and some time to turn it around, and we hope you do that, and we’ll be committed to helping you,” he said. “Comey ignored the letter and kept on the same course, and you saw what happened in 2015 and 2016 — the FBI hit the rocks, and so did the country.”
