After the publication of the House Committee on the Judiciary’s report on the effects of DEI policy at the FBI, Assistant Director of the FBI’s Training Division, Jaqueline Maguire, penned a rebuttal. Published on the FBI’s official website, Maguire said some things that, up until very recently, were true of the FBI’s hiring process. Historically, the FBI has sought America’s best and brightest, seeking the most competitive candidates to join in the mission of the world’s premiere law enforcement and intelligence agency.
Maguire says that things have indeed changed, but we all know the changes have not been for the better.
Maguire cites statistics from 2022-23, which documents the graduation of nearly 2,000 new agents from the FBI academy—individuals which were selected from a pool of 48,000 applicants. Getting a seat at the FBI academy is an achievement few are able to realize. But, that is of small comfort to an onlooking population of citizens, and retired and current agents, who have all witnessed the undeniably atrocious antics of people like Peter Strzok, Andrew McCabe, and Lisa Page—a trio who have become emblematic of personal bias and government weaponization.
But, highlighting how difficult it is to become an FBI agent only underscores how critical it is to ensure that the people who find those seats have been selected on the basis of merit, not gender, race, or worse, sexual proclivity.
At least for now, the majority of FBI agents continue to work diligently to preserve civil liberties while aggressively pursuing the criminals who threaten........