‘The FBI Is Not Above The Law’: Sen. Chuck Grassley minced no words in declaring that the federal government’s chief law enforcement agency must follow the law like everybody else. “The FBI is not above the law,” the Iowa Republican said during a hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday on whether the crime busters can defy 72 inspectors-general by refusing to allow the watchdogs access to selected official documents. “It is laughable,” Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, said of the FBI’s access restrictions. “It is laughable. And it really is completely unacceptable.”
‘The FBI Is Not Above The Law’ Thursday August 6 th , 2015 at 10:18 AM The Daily Caller 1 Share 4666405 Sen. Chuck Grassley minced no words in declaring that the federal government’s chief law enforcement agency must follow the law like everybody else. “The FBI is not above the law,” the Iowa Republican said during a hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday on whether the crime busters can defy 72 inspectors-general by refusing to allow the watchdogs access to selected official documents. “It is laughable,” Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, said of the FBI’s access restrictions. “It is laughable. And it really is completely unacceptable.” Grassley, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Cornyn, a former Texas attorney general, and other members of the panel, are working on legislation to affirm that the Inspectors General Act of 1978 , which says IGs have the right to access “all” federal records covers all federal record