From landing whales to snatching minnows: Steve Baker’s arrest disgraces the FBI

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From landing whales to snatching minnows: Steve Baker’s arrest disgraces the FBI

Sic semper tyrannis — “Thus always to tyrants” — is the state motto of Virginia, which was my home for the first five years I served as an FBI special agent. Virginia is also the home to the FBI Academy at Quantico. I don’t know if it is poetic or ironic that this motto adorns the flags flying over the land where new agents accept their badges, their duty weapons, and their credentials identifying them as special agents of the Federal Bureau of …