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Make the FBI Director removable like other agency heads

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, chapter 17, p. 552. Written by Gene Hamilton.

Make the FBI Director removable like other agency heads

The document says “shouldWho acts: Congress, PresidentHow: legislationp. 552 in the PDF
What the document says

“the next conservative Administration should seek a legislative change to align the FBI Director’s position with those of the heads of all other major departments and agencies.”

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 552

The FBI Director serves a ten-year term, an arrangement adopted to insulate the post from political pressure. The chapter says the Director must remain politically accountable to the President in the same manner as any other agency head, and frames the change as ensuring prompt political accountability and reining in perceived or actual abuses.

What the document actually says

“the next conservative Administration should seek a legislative change to align the FBI Director’s position with those of the heads of all other major departments and agencies.”

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 552
That sentence, in plain words

Change the law so the FBI chief is like other agency heads.

What this is about

The FBI chief serves a ten-year term. That was meant to keep the job out of politics. The book says the president should be able to remove him like any other chief.

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