Louie Gohmert: “It is nice when we can talk across party lines about someone's excellent level of service. It has been an honor and…”

“It is nice when we can talk across party lines about someone's excellent level of service. It has been an honor and privilege to serve with Marcy Kaptur my 13 years here in Congress. Unfortunately, I want to move from talking about someone with ethical, upright, and righteous scruples to talking about a former FBI Director. {time} 2015 I had concerns back when Robert Mueller was FBI Director. And some people have forgotten, but one of the things that he implemented as FBI Director that I have heard from FBI agents around the country caused a great deal of concern was what he called a 5-year up-or-out policy, which, in essence--it is more complicated than this, but basically anyone who found themselves in a supervisory position within the FBI offices anywhere in the country, in the world, they were in a supervisory position for 5 years. At the end of that 5 years they had to either come to Washington and most likely ride a cubical, sit at a desk, or they could get out of the FBI. Most of the honorable, wonderful agents we had in the FBI across the country that so many people here in Washington with the FBI like to point to--why? Because they can point around the country to upright, moral, ethical, honest FBI agents so that you don't look at the top of the FBI as it has been here. Since I have been here in Congress both under the Bush administration followed by the Obama administration, there have been problems at the top of the FBI.…”