No one is saying that there wasn't corruption before Clinton. Of course there was. Clinton however, deliberately made it all-pervasive and put his own cohorts in place.
The question is: how much good do you think it will do to set up a new agency, when the culture that rotted the old one from within is still in place and doing the hiring?
My first thought was, "How does Cachelot specify "the culture" in his mind?". Looking back at your previous post I am assuming that this is ...
"he stacked the rest of the administration the exact same way.
If the administration=the culture my answer would be :
The *new* administration holds the responsibility and the power to begin with clearing out those untrustworthies that administer in his name,then engage honorable people to "do the hiring".
I certainly agree that the corruption must be cleared from the top down, rather than vice-versa. Question now is, are there men to do it?
When the FBI can murder 80 men, women, and children on national television, the voters change control of both houses of congress, the new Republican leadership agrees to have hearings, and then, then at the last minute, changes the whole agenda into one that blames the victims and clears the FBI of any wrongdoing, it seems pretty hopeless.
Sure, Klintoon was in charge, but if the Republicans had cleaned house and put a few FBI officials in jail, we would never have had a second Clintoon term and the Republicans would have solid majorities in both houses today. Lack of integrity and corruption must run very deep for the Republican leadership to give up that vision so easily.