The credibility and trust factor in the Federal Bureau of Investigation is in the proverbial shitter right now.
As far back as 2014 - and you know it has to be longer, corruption, scandal, criminal acts, attacking whistleblowers, lack of integrity, honesty, objectivity, ethics, morals, and a complete lack of respect for the law at the top, in leadership and those being groomed within the organization to take over, as Comey did from Mueller, has been exposed.
The US IG report on the FBI was disturbing:
- Abandoning Standard Operating Procedures and Policies to conduct Double-Standard / biased investigations
- Perjury Traps
- Allowing some to be questioned NOT under oath
- Lying to witnesses, telling them they are having friendly chats instead of letting them know they are being interviewed
- Failure to advise them to seek counsel / have counsel if they want and instead telling them they don't need it
- NO video or audio recordings of interviews
- No transcripts made
- 302s written 7 months after an interview based on almost non-existent notes
- Witnesses being indicted while the FBI Director & Agents claim the witness never lied
- Witnesses proven to have lied protected from indictment
- Altering witness testimony AFTER the testimony was given
- Reportedly coaching witnesses to say
- Allowing multiple witnesses sit in on questioning 1 witness, allowing them to hear and 'sing the same story'
- Obstruction - refusing to comply with subpoenas
- Hiring / Using foreign President-hating foreign spies working with Russians providing known debunked propaganda
- Using that propaganda illegally to try to alter an election / take down a President
- Leaking Classified.....
...and on and on and on......