Decentralizing the FBI is the first step to depoliticizing it

While the centralization of the federal government helps to ensure that Americans’ democratic will is implemented by their leaders, it can also be a major hindrance to that goal.

Centralization breeds politicization. We are seeing this on a massive scale right now at the beginning of the second Trump administration, including at the FBI with an anonymous agent’s letter to Americans “warning” against the second Trump administration’s agenda that they voted to implement.