I have been there with that view but have deteriorated considerably beyond that.
Unfortunately, "a few" is all the key players in FBI headquarters. Comey, McCabe, Ribycki, Baker, Page, Strzok, Ohr, Clinesmith, and various others that remain unidentified but Horowitz says they have cut corners or altered things or followed a flimsy process in a way that is a threat to all Americans if they come under FBI purview.
I get that the pro-American thing is to stand by the FBI until the end, and have been on the full ride. I even supported and defended Comey early on. But there is a pervasive culture of corruption and shoddiness (at best) among senior leadership and at DC headquarters and there is no reason for me to believe that it does not extend lower in the ranks now too. It is what happens when leadership fails. I have stuck up for rank and file at length but honestly am not in a position to confirm that there is not widespread corruption out on the field too. I don't see leadership culture that would counter it.
I heard a retired FBI senior leadership type the other day say that the field offices are finding it harder to get convictions in some instances because it just takes one person on 12-person jury to believe that something the FBI testified to may not be credible or fair. I can see that happening. I would not trash them but neither would I give them the benefit of the doubt to the same extent as in the past.
Yeh, I know. What I wrote is not pretty, but I dont get there easily. If I could see some justice along the way then that might help a little.