Chris Farrell. (YouTube)

Noting some of the major blunders of the FBI, such as failing to follow protocols with the Florida school shooter and failing to follow leads on the Boston Marathon bombers, Judicial Watch's Director of Investigations Chris Farrell said FBI Director Christopher Wray should be replaced and that the entire FBI should be restructured as a "new investigative arm of the U.S. Marshals Service."

“People do need to go," said Farrell on the Feb. 16 edition of Lou Dobbs Tonight. "You can start with Director [Christopher] Wray."

"Frankly, I would go back 200 years to the U.S. Marshals Service," said Farrell, a former Military Intelligence officer and counterintelligence expert. "I would create a new division for investigations, and in about six to eight months I would shut the FBI down. Agents would be allowed to apply for, or laterally transfer to a new investigative arm of the U.S. Marshals Service and the FBI would cease to exist. That’s my idea.”

When guest host Trish Regan expressed reservations about completely revamping the FBI, Farrell said, “There’s a systemic, institutional problem. We can walk it back to the Tsarnaev brothers [Boston Marathon bombing] where they missed the leads, multiple leads on them. You can go back to Whitey Bulger for that matter. You can go back to existing corruption in El Paso, Texas. There’s all sorts of problems."

FBI Director Christopher Wray. (YouTube, Fox News)

"At this point, you’ve got a 200-and-some-odd record of the U.S. Marshals Service performing honorable work," he said. "So let’s create an investigative branch or division within the U.S. Marshals Service. Let the very fine agents, at the rank and file level who are trying to do their jobs, let them apply for, be screened, and then be admitted to this new investigative division. Then let’s take what’s left over of an obvious, deeply flawed organization, certainly at the headquarters, and shake it out."

Farrell continued, “Let’s start over. We don’t want to lose good people and we don’t have to. We can simply put them in a new investigative arm of the U.S. Marshals Service, an organization that has served honorably for more than 200 years.”

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Trish Regan then started to talk about holding certain FBI officials accountable and Farrell said, “Here’s the problem: If nothing changes, nothing changes. There has to be a radical, penetrating, severe examination. You have to turn over the furniture here."

"We have to reset the thinking," said Farrell. "It’s an institutional, cultural question. The entity itself has become poisoned."

As for the FBI's undeniable failure in the Florida school shooting case, Reuters reported, "A person described as someone close to accused gunman Nikolas Cruz, 19, called an FBI tip line on Jan. 5, weeks before the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, to report concerns about him, the Federal Bureau of Investigation said in a statement.

“'The caller provided information about Cruz’s gun ownership, desire to kill people, erratic behavior, and disturbing social media posts, as well as the potential of him conducting a school shooting,'” it said.

"That information should have been forwarded to the FBI’s Miami field office for further investigation, but 'we have determined that these protocols were not followed,' the agency said."

Florida Governor Rick Scott, a Republican, has called on FBI Director Christopher Wray to resign.