The cure is worse than the disease. No matter how desperate I am for heart surgery, I won't go to the surgeon who kills all his patients. The very first direc

The cure is worse than the disease. No matter how desperate I am for heart surgery, I won't go to the surgeon who kills all his patients. The very first director of the FBI was J. Edgar Hoover, who ran the FBI as a lawless private army for literally fifty years. And there has been really no systematic reform since. Systematically corrupt law enforcement is worse than no law enforcement at all. Systemically broken organizations are unfixable, particular ones that have been broken for over a century. If the US really needs the law enforcement that the FBI is supposed to provide and mostly doesn't, they should set up a new, non-corrupt, competent organization to do it, and fire everyone in the FBI. They won't, of course. Accountability is not any sort of value in US government.