Set aside the question of whether President-elect Donald Trump chose good nominees to lead the FBI and Department of Justice (he hasn’t). Either way, those national law enforcement behemoths have become abusive. They desperately need reform.

For one example of their abusiveness, I report here for the first time about an unforgivable investigation under the Foreign Agents Registration Act, one of several outrageous ones of which I am aware, that shows why it should be easier to punish agents and prosecutors who improperly exploit their vast power to harass victims and even ruin lives.