Healthy Mistrust

"Sorry, boss, but there's only two men I trust. One of them's me. The other not you."
--Cameron Poe (Con Air)

Recent cries of foul over the FBI's raid of Donald Trump's Florida home have fed apologists coming out of the woodwork. The FBI needs to be given the benefit of the doubt, they say.

In other words, trust the feds.

Truly?

Here's a partial laundry list of FBI corruption.

Mischief by government agents should not be surprising. As Madison observed, men are not angels. And because men are governed by other men rather than by angels, controls are necessary on those who govern.

Among those controls is healthy mistrust of those holding public office.