Here’s How Congress Can End The FBI’s Reign Of Terror

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Here's How Congress Can End The FBI's Reign Of Terror
Samuel Mangold-Lenett

The FBI is broken. No serious person who isn’t operating in bad faith would contest this fact. But it also, at least historically, serves an important purpose: solving high-level national crimes that local and state agencies lack the resources or personnel to solve.

That said, following the release of the Durham report and the publication of the “Twitter Files,” it is undeniable that left-wing partisan actors have thoroughly weaponized the nation’s largest intelligence agency against their ideological adversaries. The FBI must not be allowed to continue abusing the public, and in the event that holistically eliminating the institution is not an option, it must be majorly reformed to end its reign of terror.

A soon-to-be-published report written by the former Acting Secretary of Transportation Steven Bradbury for the Heritage Foundation titled “How to Fix the FBI” addresses this head-on.

Exploring various steps Congress could take to reign in this part of America’s rogue intelligence apparatus, Bradbury’s report details specific reforms that could mitigate the federal bureaucracy’s rabid partisan bias through nothing short of a complete structural overhaul of the agency.

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https://thefederalist.com/2023/07/07/heres-how-congress-can-end-the-fbis-reign-of-terror/

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This process of “[r]eimagining the FBI from the [g]round up” would likely involve carefully redefining and narrowing the jurisdiction and scope of the new agency, relocating the agency’s intelligence-gathering functions, establishing distinct components within the agency specifically focused on assisting the solving of local and state crime, reallocating resources and personnel to field offices, isolating and purging “information improperly collected on Americans,” and more.

But at a minimum, Bradbury contends, it must include “prohibit[ing] the FBI from participating directly in Section 702 surveillance and from querying the 702 collection on its own authority,” holistically reforming the FISA process by “appoint[ing] an amicus in all politically sensitive cases involving U.S. persons,” amending the length of the FBI director’s tenure, seriously considering reforms to the Hatch Act so that it applies to senior intelligence officials so they are held responsible as long as they possess a security clearance, and reorganizing the agency’s reporting structure so the assistant attorneys general for the criminal division and for national security can ensure better management.