Ron DeSantis rejects 'canard' that FBI, Justice Dep't are independent agencies
Expect that a President Ron DeSantis would have a firm hand on federal law enforcement agencies, if comments made Saturday in Iowa mean anything.
During an event in Clinton Saturday, the Republican candidate told supporters that the idea that the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Department of Justice are “independent agencies” is just a “canard” that allows them to be unaccountable to the Executive Branch.
DeSantis said “part of the reason you’ve seen these agencies weaponized is because they haven’t been held accountable by anybody for many, many decades.”
“There’s this canard in Washington that they’re ‘independent agencies’, that the President’s not allowed to be involved in DOJ or...
