Ann Coulter, a known conservative commentator, suggested that the FBI should “disband” because the bureau isn’t the same as it was under former longtime Director J. Edgar Hoover.
Coulter made the remarks during an interview on “The Howie Carr Show” shortly after the host mentioned the FBI counterintelligence agent Peter Strzok’s affair with former FBI lawyer Lisa Page.
Strzok and Page faced the fury of the conservatives after private text messages between the pair surfaced showing negative feelings about then-candidate Donald Trump in 2016 calling him “disgusting” and “horrible.”
“Wasn’t it more than somewhat discouraged for FBI agents, especially those in counterintelligence, to get themselves into potentially blackmailable situations like, say, having an affair with a coworker?” Carr asked Coulter.
“It’s time to disband the FBI,” Coulter responded. “This is not J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI, which was so good that liberals are still hysterical over it.”
“My father was in the Bureau for a few years after law school,” she continued. “You not only had to be a lawyer back then in order to be an FBI agent, as I think I’ve told you on your program. It wasn’t strictly policy, but J. Edgar Hoover, and of course they were all men, generally preferred Catholics and Mormons on the grounds that they were incorruptible, they were very, very honest and you could trust them. And you didn’t really have a lot of trouble under Hoover and we actually had an enemy in Russia then.”
The late Hoover was first appointed as the director of what was called the Bureau of Investigation in 1924 before founding the FBI in 1935. He served as director until his passing in 1972 at the age of 77.
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