Americans have grown increasingly skeptical since 2016 of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, an institution they once regarded as the world’s greatest law-enforcement agency. I spent 33 years in a variety of positions with the FBI, and I am troubled by this loss of faith. Many lapses have come to light, and each has been thoroughly covered. The answer is a cultural change that occurred in the wake of the 9/11 attacks. For reasons that seemed justified at the time, the bureau set out to become an...

Source: Wall Street Journal March 19, 2018 22:07 UTC