Look at Congress

I found the congressional hearing of FBI agent Peter Strzok profoundly disturbing. First, the political opinions of investigators have never heretofore disqualified them from conducting an investigation. If that is now the case then Congress should be asking for the political opinions of all investigators and comparing them to the investigation results, which is obviously a pretty bad idea. I do not recall a congressional investigation of Republican Ken Starr as he pursued the Whitewater affair, and he was virulently anti-Clinton. But that was a time when Congress actually respected our democratic institutions.

Secondly, it is the right of Congress to oversee potential misconduct in the FBI. However, this should be conducted behind closed doors, and if there is a finding, it should then be made public along with corrective action. It is simply appalling to me that Congress itself is undermining one of the organizations we depend upon for our national security by parading accusations of bias and launching personal insults even after the inspector general reported no evidence of bias in the actions of the FBI. To quote the report “no evidence that the conclusions by department prosecutors were affected by bias or other improper considerations.”

The scandal here is Congress.

Doug Verret, Sugar Land