Sasse: ‘The FBI Doesn’t Take Loyalty Pledges to an Individual’

Sunday on ABC’s “This Week,” when asked about reports that President Donald Trump asked FBI Director James Comey to do a loyalty pledge in January, Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE) argued the FBI “doesn’t take loyalty pledges to an individual.”

Sasser said, “The FBI doesn’t take loyalty pledges to an individual. The FBI is a special institution that is supposed to be defending the American Constitution by letting investigative paths go where they lead and obviously, when you’re an agent at the Bureau, all the way up to the director of the bureau, you don’t take a loyalty pledge. That’s a specific agency that has a really hard job. We need the American people to know they can trust the FBI in the future. Everybody needs to take it upon themselves to say what am I doing now to advance the ability of the American people to trust in institutions in our government like the bureau in the future.”

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