Posted on 03/31/2025 8:04:09 AM PDT by hardspunned
Patel and Bongino both fail to understand the severity of the compromise underneath them. Hence the "95% honorable" quote by Patel recently (convo with Gowdy).
The core issue is that institutional corruption is the status of the FBI. That is challenging to deal with and simply cannot be addressed (in any reasonable timeframe, or effect) from the top of the leadership pyramid.
The various downstream field offices of the same institution (there are hundreds) will keep Patel/Bongino flush with busy work and positive investigative outcomes for them to announce on television. [see VA recently] That approach purposefully satiates a reviewing audience yet leaves the process under them without oversight.
Corrupt FBI officials continue operations as needed (influence selling, evidence burying, pay-to-play investigative outcomes, DC monitoring, money laundering, trafficking, drugs and generally willful blindness to their outside group partners) and simultaneously push specific attention-grabbing info up the ladder toward leadership offices in DC.
(Excerpt) Read more at x.com ...
There seems to be nothing going on at the CIA also. Look back at the attacks on America that have occurred over the past 25 years. Even a total invasion by foreign nationals from all over the planet. The CIA should have seen this coming and did something to stop it. We even had a known communist running the joint.
The article makes a flawed assumption: that solving internal corruption requires a public admission of it and a detailed, visible plan.
But real institutional reform—especially in law enforcement—is often silent by necessity. Broadcasting your moves only tips off those you’re trying to root out. Silence can be strategic, not a sign of failure.
It also underestimates Patel and Bongino by implying they don’t grasp the scope of FBI corruption. Patel himself was targeted by a politicized FBI investigation—he’s no stranger to the problem. His “95% honorable” line may not reflect denial, but strategy: boosting morale among good agents while quietly isolating the bad.
Reforming an institution this entrenched can’t happen overnight or in the open. Treasury’s approach under Bessent may be effective, but that doesn’t make Patel’s efforts any less serious. Judging a covert cleanup operation by its lack of visibility misses the point entirely.
What more, at this point, do they need to investigate about Vindman or Strzok to prompt the FBI to question them? Remember the hundreds or thousands of perjury traps laid by active FBI agents from 2016-2024 when there were no real crimes?
Thousands of felonies a frigging ham sandwich could successfully prosecute if someone at FBI cared to rock the boat a little bit. I guess they’re afraid one of the innocent, hard working “95%” might have his rights infringed upon.
The man who wrote the memo about going after the Catholics is still in the FBI.
That’s a great article by Julie Kelly.
For crying out loud, “95% honorable”!
It doesn’t mean they don’t go after the problems.
It is like Trump saying positive things about his opponents.,
That's why you don't tell your enemy what you're going to do before you do it.
Revenge served cold and all that.
If the Justice Department has evidence of crimes occurring and probable cause to arrest individuals exists, why not arrest? How then is putting on a case frivolous? They shouldn’t be worried about how good their conviction statistics look. They get paid to prosecute. Let the chips fall where they may.
Well at least they’re not trying to claim they’re 99.9% honorable like Wallbanger always does.
/sarc
I generally like Sundance, but this is really illogical. The argument is that Patel and Bongino are good mid-level managers but don’t have the experience of executive suite management that Trump and Musk, and Scott Bessent ,do. So, if Trump appointed Patel and Bongino to positions illustrating the Peter principle so well, particularly in an agency at the very top of the deep state totem, what does it say about executive level decision making?
They haven't cleaned up 100% of the entrenched Deep State, conducted all of the trials and sentencing we think should happen, gotten rid of DEI, shuttered dozens of agencies, erased the deficit, turned over all the judges, brought peace to Ukraine and the Middle East, and deported all the illegal aliens in less than 60 days in office.
This is true. It wouldn’t do to say 50% (or more) of the FBI is bad. You would not be able to get anything done.
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Same thing here about Pam Bondi. Barely been there a month and they are always complaining...
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Fire them all, shut it down, and start from scratch.
Horse apples!! We are prepared. The Left is not prepared for the response and backlash.
I saw how you did that!
has one single person been arrested yet?
theres your answer...
I assume you are joking? This is sarcasm right?
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