Steve Neavlingticklethewire.com
New FBI agents are already required to tour the Holocaust Museum.
FBI Director James Comey is adding another required visit in Washington D.C. – the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial, the USA Today reports.
“I think it will serve as a different kind of reminder — one more personal to the bureau — of the need for fidelity to the rule of law and the dangers in becoming untethered to oversight and accountability,” Comey said.
The move marks quite a departure from the bureau’s attitude toward King prior to his 1968 assassination.
The FBI conducted secret surveillance of the civil rights figure in an effort to discredit him.
The requirement to visit the Holocaust Museum has been in place since the late 1990s.
Comey said the MLK memorial tour will remind agents that “we will be judged not only on whether we succeed in defeating crime and terrorism, (but) on whether we do so while safeguarding the liberties for which we are fighting.”
