Political Quotes

“Mr. President, as the leading law enforcement Agency in our country, the FBI does critical work every single day to keep our Nation, to keep us, safe--from counterterrorism and countertrafficking to fighting cyberattacks and so much more. At a time of global instability, FBI agents are working day in and day out to protect us from threats, both foreign and domestic. But today, the FBI and the Department of Justice face a crisis caused not by any outside threat but rather by the men and women tasked with leading these Agencies. Instead of focusing on potential attacks, hacks, or violent criminal enterprises, we have a DOJ and FBI that have been turned inward on themselves. In just the last month, dozens of senior career FBI and DOJ employees have been purged--purged--en masse by President Trump and his administration. Hundreds of thousands of the prosecutors and FBI special agents and analysts may be next--in fact, I shouldn't use the word ``may,'' will be next. Purging hard-working and dedicated civil servants does nothing to make us safe; in fact, it does just the opposite. Attorney General Bondi recently announced the creation of a ``weaponization working group.'' It only continues this trend. Through this working group, she is doing what she told us she would not do in her confirmation hearings. She is ``investigating the investigators'' with this working group, and I expect will be prosecuting the prosecutors.…”