What Mike Pence Gets Wrong about the FBI

The bureau can still be a valuable force for good, but not if we close our eyes to its very real, serious flaws.

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Left: Then-vice president Mike Pence at Joint Base Andrews, Md., in 2020. Right: FBI seal at the Justice Department in 2016.

Erin Scott, Yuri Gripas/Reuters

So . . . does Mike Pence think Mike Horowitz should stop criticizing the FBI?

Does the former vice president believe the lives of those he this week called the “brave men and women who stand on the thin blue line” at the bureau have been put at risk by the hundreds of pages of reports (see, e.g., here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here) in which Horowitz, the Justice Department’s own inspector general, has scalded the bureau for serial abuses of its national-security surveillance powers, shocking political bias, lying under oath to investigators, leaking investigative information, usurping the authority of federal prosecutors, petty corruption, and so on?

Andrew C. McCarthy

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Andrew C. McCarthy

Andrew C. McCarthy is a senior fellow at National Review Institute, an NR contributing editor, and author of Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency.

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