POLITICIZING THE FBI: How James Comey Succeeded Where Richard Nixon Failed | The Daily Caller

POLITICIZING THE FBI: How James Comey Succeeded Where Richard Nixon Failed | The Daily Caller
"A little over 40 years ago, Richard Nixon went from a landslide re-election winner to a president forced to resign in disgrace.
Nixon’s downfall was the direct result of his unsuccessful attempts to politicize through patronage of an independent, straight-arrow FBI.
The commonsense, ethical lesson from this for all government officials would be to avoid attempts to use our nation’s independent fact-finder as a partisan force.
There is as well, of course, a more perverse lesson to be learned from Nixon’s downfall at the hands of an independent FBI, to wit: there is much power to gain by politicizing the Bureau, but only if its upper-leadership team is all on partisan board.
Emerging evidence increasingly suggests, sadly, that this was former FBI Director James Comey’s leadership strategy in our country’s most sensitive investigations..."
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