Abstract
This paper addresses the FBI and its agents lacking funds to live in major cities where they must work. The major issue is the lack of control within the FBI and the risk that agents will fall to corruption.
Introduction
With the FBI in dangerous territory due to budget restrictions and funding issues, the fear that the Director faces is one that could undermine the entire Bureau. If the Bureau cannot afford to pay its agents fair wages, those agents—who are privy to all manner of intelligence—become susceptible to fraud, bribery, kickbacks, and other types of corruption just to make ends meet. Already this is being seen with cases of FBI agents like Robert Lustyik, convicted of bribery (Clark, 2015; Huynh, 2015). Preventing this type of situation would be the best type of control to implement, as the situation presented in the case given to the Director is what that calls for immediate preventive action. However, concurrent controls and feedback controls might also be of use in the situation. Regardless, the present budgetary issues that the FBI agent cannot be fixed simply and the problem exists at a much more fundamental level: the FBI is having an image crisis; its brand has been damaged considerably (most recently in the Russiagate scandal surrounding the Trump Administration). Former FBI Director James Comey’s brush-it-under-the-rug approach to the Clinton-Lynch tarmac scandal on top of Clinton’s email/servergate scandal—on top of the Uranium One scandal (Solomon, 2017), along with the Clinton Foundation scandal—has all culminated in the FBI becoming one of the least trustworthy “deep state” apparatuses in the country (Scott, 2017). In order to obtain the public funding it needs to keep its agents adequately paid and to keep them from going rogue just in order to make ends meet, the FBI has to clean up its image, reshape its brand, and begin to appeal to the public once more. If the FBI can enhance its image, it is more likely to obtain more public funding in the future and thereby prevent its agents from veering towards corruption.
Major Issues
The major issues in this case are that the FBI is depleted of funds to adequately pay its agents. It is depleted of funds because it is...
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