FBI looks like Trump's base
With 67 percent white male agents, the bureau doesn't resemble America. Did its conservative culture play a role in Comey's surprise decision to reveal the Clinton email probe?
The typical Federal Bureau of Investigation special agent is white, male, and middle-aged, often with a military background — in short, drawn from the segment of the U.S. population most likely to support GOP nominee Donald Trump.
That demographic reality explains much of the heat FBI Director James Comey is taking from his own work force at the moment for his handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation and inquiries into the Clinton Foundation.
Days before the presidential election, FBI finds itself at the center of a political maelstrom, with Comey being sharply criticized by Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and even President Barack Obama, who’ve faulted the FBI director for going public with word of new evidence in the Clinton email probe.
That furor has exposed dissension in the FBI’s ranks, prompting a flurry of leaks about alleged efforts to impede the Clinton-related inquiries and exposing lingering anger among agents about Comey’s July decision not to recommend any charges in the email probe.
Incendiary, politically-charged remarks from former FBI officials—with one prominent ex-FBI leader publicly calling the Clintons a “crime family”—are also endangering the law enforcement agency’s reputation for sober, non-partisan investigation.
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