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No Country for Law Men: The GOP Votes to Defund the FBI
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
Republicans criticized the Bureau for investigating the more than 100 contacts ultimately found insufficiently collusive between the 2016 Trump campaign and Russia during that country's interference with our presidential election.
If Trump were a man with a spotless record of respect for the law, Republicans might be right to call into question the FBI actions against one so highly placed.
But no serious observer would call Trump above reproach in the face of the unprecedented catalogue of credible claims against him, including his questionable connections to Russia and the non-criminal court conclusions that he has engaged in fraud, rape, and insurrection.
In 1973, with the J. Edgar Hoover era over at the FBI, Attorney General Elliot Richardson refused to follow President Nixon's order to fire the Watergate special prosecutor, and so did his deputy.
It had been an article of faith in Washington until the Trump Era that the Justice Department, including the FBI should not be tampered with by the White House or Congress.
Thomas G. Moukawsher is a former Connecticut complex litigation judge and a former co-chair of the American Bar Association Committee on Employee Benefits.
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