UPDATED: Louis Freeh is the real culprit in the Richard Jewell story

The FBI has been in the news a lot recently, and we've been commenting on the misdeeds of the Bureau's politicized upper management and legal advisers. However, today Ron Kessler has an excellent article that points out the complexities when people condemn the FBI as an institution. My intent in recommending--highly recommending--this article is not to offer a blanket defense of the FBI as such, but to point out that nothing is as simple as we'd like it to be.

Louis Freeh is the real culprit in the Richard Jewell story

The FBI is badly in need of reform. That's a true statement, but it's also a fact that the travails of today's Bureau reflect the defects of America as a society. That's inevitable. The FBI has a legacy of advanced thinking in law enforcement that has been tarnished as it has been dragged down with our other institutions into the morass that the Left has inflicted on the country. Reform of the FBI can only be accomplished as part of a much broader restoration of American society.

UPDATE: More Great Moments in FBI History.