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It was painful to watch the FBI, which I proudly served for over 24 years, be turned into a political weapon by idealists and anti-Trumpers. The FBI is now facing a new director tasked with dramatically changing how the agency uses the powers entrusted to it. The challenge is to dramatically reform the FBI without destroying this once-respected organization.
In BC (pre-Comey) in 2013, the FBI enjoyed the full trust of the American public because it focused on its core mission and distanced itself from politics. FBI agents have dismantled violent gangs such as MS-13, split up powerful drug cartels in Colombia and Mexico, and virtually eliminated nearly two dozen Mafia families. BC’s FBI arrested a global terrorist and thwarted a foreign intelligence agency’s espionage efforts.
According to a Rasmussen poll, 64% of the public believes the FBI has been weaponized. The FBI cannot function without the support of the American people. Former FBI Director Chris Wray, who resigned on Wednesday, missed an opportunity to rectify the situation. His successor will likely be President-elect Trump’s choice, Kash Patel. A new FBI leadership team must restore public trust and restore the idea of an apolitical FBI.
FBI Director Christopher Wray announces resignation
Much of the FBI’s goodwill was wasted by its blatant political investigation into the Trump campaign and its blatant abuses with four FISA wiretaps of Trump campaign operatives based on opposition investigation “dossier” commissioned by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. It was done. FBI officials leading the investigation were texting each other about their ability to “sniff out Trump supporters.” He communicated his intent to “stop” Trump and spoke of implementing what was described as the FBI’s “insurance policy” against Trump’s inauguration. The FBI leadership team set up an outrageously deceptive briefing for the incoming cabinet secretary, the respected Army General Mike Flynn, which resulted in his entrapment.
Compare two different FBI cases focused on so-called “foreign election interference.” When suspicions surfaced that Russians were trying to influence the Trump campaign in 2015, the FBI immediately launched an investigation that, incredibly, did not focus on Russian operatives. Instead, they imposed the strictest powers on Trump campaign officials.
The FBI infiltrated the campaign with an informant, launched four FISA wiretaps on Trump campaign aides based on the trashy Clinton dossier, and targeted Trump’s appointees and advisers for criminal prosecution. Leaks of information to the media by FBI officials were ubiquitous.
Trump says Wray’s resignation is ‘a great day for America’ and insists Kash Patel is ‘best qualified’ to lead FBI
In 2024, when Iranians were caught systematically hacking various communications of President Trump and providing them to the Biden campaign, the FBI was conspicuously silent.
In 1982, as a young lawyer, I joined the FBI to make a difference. There are thousands of skilled and dedicated FBI employees who joined the company for the same reason. They want new leaders.
The reluctant investigation into the Clinton email debacle, the reckless investigation into Joe Biden’s storage of classified government documents in the garage of his Delaware vacation home, and the FBI’s investigation into former President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence. Contrast this with the aggressive pre-dawn military raids by And then there was the zealous but ultimately unconstitutional indictment by the special counsel. The BC FBI would never have abused its powers to make such an unnecessary intrusion into the private residence of a presidential candidate at the behest of a political opponent’s prosecutor.
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The FBI conducted a similar military raid on pro-life activist Mark Hawk, who was later acquitted by a jury. At worst, they scorched the earth to identify and arrest the many January 6 protesters who had trespassed onto the grounds.
FILE – Then-Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Christopher Wray speaks during a House Judiciary Committee hearing on July 12, 2023 in Washington, DC. (Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
But during the 2020 riots, Antifa and BLM carried out hundreds of arson attacks on government buildings and police vehicles, destroyed small businesses, and took over entire city blocks. They attacked police, disrupted public facilities, and disrupted vital government services. A police station in Portland, Oregon, was attacked and abandoned by rioters to avoid bloodshed. These public order violations were ignored or charges were dismissed. The FBI was noticeably inactive.
The FBI constantly warns about right-wing extremism and investigates thousands of such incidents, but it has not tampered with destructive and sometimes violent left-wing groups such as Antifa as “just a movement.” Not yet.
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One of the biggest embarrassments was the lackluster FBI investigation into the Biden family’s influence-spreading/money-laundering scheme, confirming the lie that Hunter Biden’s laptop was “Russian disinformation.” is. B.C.’s FBI uncovers millions of dollars in illicit funds moving through dozens of offshore shell companies to implicitly or explicitly provide special services to shady actors working on behalf of foreign enemies or operatives. That would have triggered a thorough investigation with all the stone in the bag. In an astonishing abuse of power, the FBI influenced powerful social media companies to censor any posts that challenged Russian disinformation narratives.
Still, the FBI must be rescued. This country needs strong federal law enforcement/intelligence agencies that set standards of excellence. Four years of open borders have facilitated the infiltration of terrorist organizations that can carry out multiple large-scale terrorist attacks, such as those carried out against Israelis. More than 30,000 young Chinese men illegally entered our country through a network of Chinese-funded safe houses. Many of them are intelligence agents sent to steal important technology and state secrets. South American gangs are terrorizing entire neighborhoods. Mexican drug cartels have become the richest and most powerful criminal organizations in the world. We need an FBI tasked with addressing these threats with urgency.
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In 1982, as a young lawyer, I joined the FBI to make a difference. There are thousands of skilled and dedicated FBI employees who joined the company for the same reason. They are hungry for new leadership to restore the FBI to its status as the world’s most respected law enforcement/intelligence agency. However, simply destroying the FBI does not demonstrate good leadership.
The next leadership team must thoughtfully overhaul the FBI and drain the agency’s swamp created by a decade of partisan influence without doing irreparable damage. That is what the American people expect and deserve.
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