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Well, if you want my honest answer . . . .

You have two options as President.

1). Restructure the Agency.

— replace all appointed officials in the agency. Not all at once, but over a couple of years.

—hire some serious people to advise on replacements.

— THREATEN to increase congressional oversight. This is the last thing serious (and non corrupt) people in the agency want. They will clean up their own house in response.

— Ironically, expand it. Engage in new hiring with guidelines for recruitment. In fifteen years, you’ll have an agency more like you want.

2). Your other option. Do nothing. Let the process play out. Career officers are interested in domestic crime and terrorism, not in quasi-political squabbles.


What you don’t do is what Trump did. You don’t try to strong arm the director and then make public statements that sound just like a perp to every sentient FBI agent.

I don’t know if Trump is innocent or guilty. I do know his handling of the FBI was ham handed.