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.