By Allan Lengel
ticklethewire.com
These have been tough times for the FBI. President Donald Trump fired Director James Comey and Deputy Director Andrew McCabe and has continually attacked the integrity of the organization. Then there’s the the texts from FBI agent Peter Strzok.
So, this survey comes as little surprise.
The bureau’s “climate survey” shows that the rank-and-file confidence in the FBI’s senior leadership has taken a sharp hit, reports Lawfare.com, which obtained the survey under a Freedom of Information lawsuit.
The site reports:
Across an array of metrics, both at headquarters and in the FBI’s 56 field offices, employees still express high esprit de corps about the FBI itself and their work for the bureau. But when asked about confidence in the vision of the FBI director, the value of direct communications from him, the honesty and integrity of senior bureau leaders, or respondents’ respect for those leaders, there is a striking drop in confidence from previous years. Some questions from prior years that might have been particularly evocative were not even asked in this most recent survey.
