A column by Scripps Howard’s Dan Thomasson headed “Why FBI’s Mueller must stay” opens: “Despite some grumbling on Capitol Hill, it makes an infinite amount of sense for President Barack Obama to extend Robert Mueller III’s term as FBI director for an additional two years. With domestic security officials at all levels anticipating some terrorist activity in response to the elimination of Osama bin laden, it would be an absolutely terrible time to begin a transition of leadership in the agency…”
WATCHDOG: Apart from “infinite amount of sense” and “absolutely terrible” and “Congress… has aided and abetted” rhetoric signaling a lack of cogency, Thomasson apparently has no sense of the history behind the 10 year term limitation, which happens to be two years longer than for the presidency.
In his position of head of the FBI, Mueller has so much information on all administration officials and our legislators that he can effectively black mail them into re-appointment, as did J. Edgar Hoover who only God was capable of firing. If there are hundreds of qualified individuals to be president (we just don’t get most of them as candidates!), certainly there are competent individuals to be appointed as head the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Below is an excerpt for Wikipedia concerning the dragon J. Edgar Hoover who maintained there was no such thing as the Mafia, scorned gays while he was one, and persecuted liberals as Communists:
“John Edgar Hoover (January 1, 1895 – May 2, 1972) was the first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) of the United States. Appointed director of the Bureau of Investigation—predecessor to the FBI—in 1924, he was instrumental in founding the FBI in 1935, where he remained director until his death in 1972. Hoover is credited with building the FBI into a large and efficient crime-fighting agency, and with instituting a number of modern innovations to police technology, such as a centralized fingerprint file and forensic laboratories.
Late in life, and after his death, Hoover became an increasingly controversial figure. His critics have accused him of exceeding the jurisdiction of the FBI.[1] He used the FBI to harass political dissenters and activists, to amass secret files on political leaders,[2] and to collect evidence using illegal methods.[3] It is because of Hoover’s long and controversial tenure that FBI directors are now limited to 10-year terms[4]…
