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Rank-and-file FBI agents dismayed, ‘embarrassed’ by bureau’s handling of New Orleans terror attack
Washington Times ^ | January 4, 2025 | Kerry Picket -

Posted on 01/04/2025 1:45:51 PM PST by george76

FBI agents say the bureau’s first response to the New Year’s Day terrorist massacre in New Orleans’ French Quarter was disastrous and another reason why the Senate can’t move fast enough to confirm President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to run the agency.

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Agents wondered why Lyonel Myrthil, the special agent in charge of the New Orleans FBI office, did not appear

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The New Orleans FBI Office sent Assistant Special Agent in Charge Alethea Duncan, who wore khakis, a blue polo shirt and a nose ring, to the first press conference after the attack.

She immediately contradicted New Orleans Mayor Latoya Cantrell, who said at the press conference that her city was “impacted by a terrorist attack.”

Ms. Duncan stepped forward after the city’s police chief spoke and said, “This is not a terrorist event.

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the public should “see the bureau, not somebody with a ring in their nose. Who the hell would go on TV with a ring in their nose,” another agent said. “Who the hell would ever say it’s not a terrorist event when there’s an ISIS flag flying on the back of a truck?

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not surprising that Ms. Duncan did not initially call the New Orleans incident terrorism because it didn’t fit the FBI leadership’s current definition of terrorism.

“It ain’t terrorism unless they have a MAGA hat on. For the last three years, all of the new agents, that’s all they know. It’s going after the right-wing or Trump supporters,” the agent said. “This is endemic with the headquarters. That’s all they know.”

The agent added, “This is what happens when all you do are January 6 cases.”

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Other agents were perplexed about why Jabbar’s residence was left open for the public to gain access, including reporters from the New York

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Louisiana
KEYWORDS: agents; aletheaduncan; bourbonstreet; fbi; fbiagents; fbiakastasi; isis; jabbar; january6; ledbythenose; neworleans; nosering; terrorattack; wondering
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1 posted on 01/04/2025 1:45:51 PM PST by george76
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Be careful. Plenty of people on FR seem to believe that everyone in the FBI is irretrievably corrupt.
2 posted on 01/04/2025 1:48:47 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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they can go cry to Hannity ...


3 posted on 01/04/2025 1:51:05 PM PST by bankwalker (Repeal the 19th ...)
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To: george76

No surprise here.


4 posted on 01/04/2025 1:52:11 PM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: Jamestown1630

Trump should call on all of them to speak out before he takes office. They will have no need to be afraid. Name names.

It’s like the 40 or so Benghazi witnesses. They didn’t speak out so it didn’t happen.


5 posted on 01/04/2025 1:52:16 PM PST by DIRTYSECRET
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Get stuffed Glowie Troll.


6 posted on 01/04/2025 1:53:09 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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Its like being a local KGB head in some province, being unexpectedly thrust into the national spotlight

The very first thing you must do is not contradict the central party political narrative.


7 posted on 01/04/2025 1:53:11 PM PST by PGR88
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“It ain’t terrorism unless they have a MAGA hat on.”

XD XD... when I read that I had to go see if I got suckered by the Bee again.


8 posted on 01/04/2025 1:54:46 PM PST by Sarcazmo (Dr. Sarcazmo esq. DDS, CCNA, DVM)
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One only has to look at the press conferences to discover who the FBI selects to be the heads and spokespersons. The Las Vegas P.D. and D.C. police too....are there no white men that are capable?


9 posted on 01/04/2025 1:55:13 PM PST by vetvetdoug
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To: Jamestown1630

I heard on the radio from a former agent it is 50/50 these days.


10 posted on 01/04/2025 1:56:03 PM PST by Sarcazmo (Dr. Sarcazmo esq. DDS, CCNA, DVM)
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Brainwashed to hear J6 J6 in their minds. No other danger exists.


11 posted on 01/04/2025 1:57:05 PM PST by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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They’ve reportedly been talking to Jim Jordan for a couple of years.


12 posted on 01/04/2025 1:58:05 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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They are!!!!!!!!1


13 posted on 01/04/2025 1:58:33 PM PST by Muhammy
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To: grey_whiskers

The deep intellect evidenced by your responses continues to fascinate me...


14 posted on 01/04/2025 1:59:59 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Jamestown1630
Be careful. Plenty of people on FR seem to believe that everyone in the FBI is irretrievably corrupt.

You seem to know nothing how such organizations really operate

When an organization is highly centralized and highly political, (ESPECIALLY so with national law enforcement or security organizations), the morals, thoughts or hopes of the rank-and-file members simply do not matter. It only matters in the unknowable margins.

One follows ALL directives, and one adopts the acceptable bureaucratic mindset, or one does not have a life or career in that organization.

15 posted on 01/04/2025 2:01:09 PM PST by PGR88
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“Plenty of people on FR seem to believe that everyone in the FBI is irretrievably corrupt.”
They are irretrievably corrupt as long as they remain in the FBI as it is currently constituted.
Just as everyone in the SS or KGB was corrupt as long as they remained in those organizations.
The FBI is garbage and an enemy of regular Americans. If it’s not radically reformed or replaced all FBI agents will continue to maintain the corruption by virtue of their continued employment.


16 posted on 01/04/2025 2:02:07 PM PST by grumpygresh ( Civil disobedience by non-compliance; jury and state nullification.)
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There have been essentially NO whistleblowers at the FIB as it became the enforcement arm of the WOKE BRIGADE!


17 posted on 01/04/2025 2:04:45 PM PST by Uncle Miltie (muslims ARE INBRED IGNORAMUSES. See my "About" page for proof.)
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Sorry, I don’t believe any organization made up of human beings is that homogeneous.

And there are about 40K people in the FBI.


18 posted on 01/04/2025 2:05:10 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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Special Agent in Charge Alethea Duncan, who wore khakis, a blue polo shirt and a nose ring,

An FBI ASAC wearing a nose ring!! Un-frickin-believable!!
19 posted on 01/04/2025 2:06:12 PM PST by Signalman (When your enemy is digging himself a hole, don't take away his shovel)
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Don’t get your hopes up, I’m already taken.


20 posted on 01/04/2025 2:06:15 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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