FBI Director Christopher Wray must do significantly more work to clean up the corruption and mismanagement within his agency. Rogue investigators and prosecutors with excessive discretionary powers seem to be running wild, representing a threat to both liberty and the rule of law.
Conservatives in particular have complained for years that while there are plenty of excellent personnel in the FBI, the culture in some parts of the ranks is of agents who are power-mad, score-settling, politicized, and unaccountable. Now, we learn that a 2019 internal audit of the bureau found that its agents broke the rules at least 747 times in just a year and a half in investigations involving high-profile targets such as politicians, news media, and religious groups.
