At the Battle of Jutland, Admiral Beatty was heard to say, “There seems to be something wrong with our bloody ships” after three of his “greyhounds,” his beloved battle cruisers blew up and were sunk in a few minutes. What was wrong was his management; Battle Cruisers were not designed to engage battleships in a gun-to-gun battle, but Beatty misused his ships with the results of several thousand British seamen lost for no purpose.

The same poor management seems to have infected the F.B.I. Instead of focusing on their primary function, for one, they have recently displayed an amazing ability to interject themselves in politics to the ruination of their reputation and for disastrous consequences to the nation. There is no record of any police force becoming politicized to the benefit of the nation they swear to serve. History is littered with examples of police forces which have served their political masters and the abuses that have been done.