Actual Truth from CNN

Writing at resolutely anti-Trump CNN, attorney Paul Callan looks at the evidence and concludes something that has almost certainly has shortened his tenure at that fount of Fake News. Hat tip to RealClearPolitics for the link.

The ferocity of President Donald Trump's recent attacks on the integrity of the FBI has sent shock waves through an agency accustomed to public adulation in recent years. Sadly, much of the presidential criticism of the bureau may be entirely legitimate.

While I rarely agree with much of what the President does or says regarding legal issues, this time he's got it right. The FBI's reputation has been severely damaged not by the President's criticism but by a systematic failure of the bureau's leadership.

The field agents of the FBI should still retain the trust of the American people. Their honor and dignity has not been compromised; but the bureau's leadership ranks require a prompt and thorough house cleaning by the new director, Christopher Wray. The bureau's leadership has forfeited the reputation of a cherished American institution.

Props to Callan for truth-telling in a setting where it is both unwelcome and unusual. Like him, I am saddened to see the Bureau tarnished.