Showing posts with label Politicizing The FBI: How James Comey Succeeded Where Richard Nixon Failed. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Politicizing The FBI: How James Comey Succeeded Where Richard Nixon Failed. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 5, 2018


By Daily Caller, June 02, 2018

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.