Letter: Facts are what investigations have to produce; import of bias is overblown

Investigators are entitled to be biased and to dislike the person they are investigating.

Back in the days of Al Capone, the Bureau of Investigation (now called the FBI) investigated the actions of Al Capone. Does anyone think that the federal agents investigating Capone needed to be unbiased in order to do their jobs well? Of course not. They were lauded as good, faithful agents.

I am sure they all had a huge bias, and that was to find some way to arrest Capone. I can’t even imagine what names they called Capone.

However, their bias alone would get them no convictions. They needed facts to convict. Without the facts of tax evasion, they would not have been able to put Capone away.

Special Counsel Robert Mueller fired the single agent who called Donald Trump names by email. But actually, just as with Capone, agents can have their personal feelings about Trump or anyone else. That won’t get a single indictment. What counts is facts. Regardless of bias or not, it was facts that got four indicted so far in the Russia probe. It was facts that persuaded two of those indicted to plead guilty already. The sniveling over bias is overblown.

Facts get people indicted, not sour dispositions.

Gordon Johnston, West Valley City