William Webster, a longtime U.S. public servant who served as the head of both the FBI and the CIA in a career spanning the late 1970s to the early 1990s, has died. He was 101.The FBI confirmed his death in a statement Friday.

His family announced his death in a statement that called him an “extraordinary man” who “spent a lifetime fighting to protect his country and its precious rule of law.”

He was credited with restoring trust to the two sullied agencies after the domestic-spying and Iran-contra scandals of the 1970s and ‘80s.

Texas Republicans have been trying to bring the state Democratic lawmakers back in order to vote on their redistricting plan.

Using the FBI to track down AWOL Texas Democrats is an unnecessary expansion of federal law enforcement authority.

Will the FBI help the Republican Party force through a partisan redistricting plan in Texas, or not? The answer to that question is of vital importance to sustaining American democracy. Republican state legislative leaders want to redraw Texas’s congressional districts to give their party as many as five more seats in next year’s midterm elections.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) on Thursday pushed back against claims by Republicans that the FBI would help “track down” Texas state Democrats who fled the Lone Star State amid the redistricting battle.