Retired FBI boss says agency has lost independence, been co-opted by liberal DOJ ideologues
Former Assistant Director Chris Swecker says bureau has been pressured into improper domestic spying, censorship.
By John Solomon
Updated: January 3, 2023 - 11:47pm
In a stunning rebuke, the FBI's retired chief of criminal investigations says his old agency has yielded the independence Congress gave it under the law and is now subservient to a group of liberal ideologues inside the Justice Department who have pressured agents to stray into unwarranted domestic spying and censorship.
Ex-FBI Assistant Director Chris Swecker on Tuesday became the latest law enforcement or political figure to support creating an independent commission modeled after the U.S. Senate's 1970s Church Committee to investigate the FBI's practices and impose reforms on the storied law enforcement agency.
He told Just the News that the bureau's problems start with the politicization of its ranks by DOJ.
"What I see is that it's basically a wholesale takeover by the Department of Justice, which is filled with political appointees in every top position, and then by extension, right into the administration," Swecker said in a wide-ranging interview on the John Solomon Reports podcast.
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