In normal times, the televisions are humming at the FBI’s 56 field offices nationwide, piping in the latest news as agents work their investigations. But these days, some agents say, the TVs are often off to avoid the crush of bad stories about the FBI itself. The bureau, which is used to making headlines for nabbing crooks, has been grabbing the spotlight for unwanted reasons: fired leaders, texts between lovers and, most of all, attacks by President Trump. “I don’t care what channel it’s on,” says Tom O’Connor, a veteran investigator in Washington who leads the FBI Agents Association. “All you hear is negative stuff about the FBI … It gets depressing.”
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WNU Editor: The ones who have seriously damaged the reputation and trust of the FBI are the ones who have been running it for the past few years. We now know via through the Inspector General's investigation on former Acting FBI Director McCabe, admissions from former FBI Director Comey that he leaked to the media as well as now knowing how he handled Clinton's email investigation, coupled with the release of former FBI counterintelligence boss Peter Strzok text messages .... that senior FBI officials prioritized influencing the political process in favor of one political party over the other. Once you politicized an institution, it is very difficult to correct it. And as long as there is that perception that the FBI has been weaponized to favor one political point of view .... this crisis is going to continue.
