Sen. Eric Schmitt:
Well, I think, honestly, you look at what’s the approval rating that’s plummeted over the FBI in the last four years because of the weaponization of the Biden administration, that’s kept really good people away from the FBI that might have applied who don’t want to belong to a Stalin-like political retribution campaign.
That’s what we have seen. Those are the facts. That’s what we have seen the last four years.
What Kash Patel testified about in that committee hearing I thought was really refreshing. He said that about a third of the FBI agents are in Washington, D.C., right now. Get those FBI agents across the country to take on violent crime, to take on human trafficking. There’s cities all across this country that could use that sort of help.
That’s what he’s talked about. So regardless of the fearmongering that’s taking place about what’s actually going to happen, that’s not what’s going to happen. Now, look, if there are people in the Department of Justice that had a political angle and wanted to subvert our justice system by settling political scores, of course they should be dismissed.
But that’s not what we’re talking about. People who are doing counterterrorism, as you mentioned in your question, those people are going to have their jobs, and we want to reward people for doing a good job. But I think we should also make sure that we don’t have political hacks executing a political agenda in these agencies.
