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Unease at F.B.I. Intensifies as Patel Ousts Top Officials
New York Times ^ | June 1, 2025 | Adam Goldman

Posted on 06/01/2025 5:44:36 AM PDT by Jim Noble

"Senior executives are being pushed out and the director, Kash Patel, is more freely using polygraph tests to tamp down on news leaks about leadership decisions and behavior"

Behind the scenes, his vision of an F.B.I. under President Trump is quietly taking shape. Agents have been forced out. Others have been demoted or put on leave with no explanation. And in an effort to hunt down the sources of news leaks, Mr. Patel is forcing employees to take polygraph tests.

Taken together, the moves are causing worrisome upheaval at the F.B.I., eliciting fear and uncertainty as Mr. Patel and his deputy, Dan Bongino, quickly restock senior ranks with agents and turn the agency’s attention to immigration. Their persistent claims that the bureau was politicized under previous directors, in addition to their swift actions against colleagues, have left employees to wonder whether they, too, will be ousted, either because they worked on an investigation vilified by Trump supporters or had ties to the previous administration...

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


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: adamgoldman; arrestadamgoldman; doj; doth; enemiestlist; enemyjournalist; fbi; fbisedition; never; nytsedition; prosper; treason
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What a time to be alive! Files hidden from the courts, the Congress, and the Chief Executive! A coup plot a decade in the making, and probably still active! Things now dangerous enough that the NYT is just taking dictation from "senior officials"! "Combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by the powers vested in the marshals by law"!

Time, Mr. President, to join Washington, Jackson, Lincoln, and FDR and use the powers the Constitution and the People have given you. He who saves the nation breaks no law.

1 posted on 06/01/2025 5:44:36 AM PDT by Jim Noble
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To: Jim Noble

Good!


2 posted on 06/01/2025 5:47:30 AM PDT by nuconvert ( Warning: Accused of being a radical militarist. Approach with caution.)
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To: Jim Noble

It’s very simple really. They were defending “our democracy” which has nothing to do with promoting the welfare of the American People. They are very evil men and women.


3 posted on 06/01/2025 5:48:35 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: Jim Noble

-——eliciting fear-——

There’s that word again. It is creeping into the mainstream.

The only active force within the progressive debacle is FEAR

The Fear is palpable


4 posted on 06/01/2025 5:50:26 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Where is ZORRO when California so desperately needs him?)
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To: Jim Noble

Why fearful if nothing to hide?


5 posted on 06/01/2025 5:51:44 AM PDT by Mlheureux
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To: nuconvert

I cannot be more happy, Kash is great! and with Bongino they are the dynamic duo


6 posted on 06/01/2025 5:51:59 AM PDT by ronnie raygun (t)
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...have left employees to wonder whether they, too, will be ousted...

Pedo Pete put my job on the line if I didn't take his clot shot. Fortunately, the Supremes stepped in. THAT was 'unease'.

7 posted on 06/01/2025 5:54:09 AM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: Mlheureux

Exactly!


8 posted on 06/01/2025 5:54:32 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Jim Noble

Imagine fearing sunlight? They must be vampyres.


9 posted on 06/01/2025 5:55:44 AM PDT by Kudsman (Cliff Note answer: because, DEMOCRATS. )
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To: Jim Noble

Daddy, are we there yet?

You have to build your army before you can go to war.


10 posted on 06/01/2025 5:56:16 AM PDT by bray (It's not racist to be racist against races the DNC hates.)
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To: AndyJackson

Research sociopathy.

Government attracts them ...at all levels of government.


11 posted on 06/01/2025 5:57:15 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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You mean fearful like the parents at school board meetings or the old ladies praying at murder clinics? That fearful? Or in as I may lose my job but not go to jail for speaking my mind by using my 1st amendment rights fearful?


12 posted on 06/01/2025 5:58:30 AM PDT by jimpick
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These guys were swooping across the country in body armor raiding homes including Mar a Lago, grabbing J6 people and grabbing stuff. Then Wray sat in front of Congress saying they don’t discuss ongoing investigations.

They have earned any discipline they get.


13 posted on 06/01/2025 5:58:47 AM PDT by lurk (u)
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To: Jim Noble

I want more than “unease” from the FBI. I want to see the slime leftists infecting the agency to be crushed and driven into the sea, and watch the lamentations of their women (whatever kind of woman hangs with a leftist).


14 posted on 06/01/2025 6:00:11 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: Jim Noble

The FBI is irredeemable and should have been shut down by now.

Without Congress acting, at least the previous regime should have been fired all the way down with as much ended or reassigned as possible.


15 posted on 06/01/2025 6:02:47 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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You’re SUPPOSED to strictly supervise law enforcement because they can run people’s lives they have so much power.

And you can’t have Law enforcement if the ones in charge can lie and break the law when they feel like it.

I guess the democrats will run on a platform of an FBI that acts like hitlerites and leaks all our secrets.


16 posted on 06/01/2025 6:03:01 AM PDT by Williams (Thank God for the election of President Trump!)
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Waiting for some judge in the Aleutian Islands to rule in 3……2…..1


17 posted on 06/01/2025 6:04:24 AM PDT by Hyman Roth
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To: nuconvert

Indeed it isn’t odd that all of them are democrats.


18 posted on 06/01/2025 6:06:58 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: Jim Noble

Hard to believe - in any way, shape or form - that this ‘stunning’ NYT article was written with a single author...there should be at least three or four!

GREAT news!


19 posted on 06/01/2025 6:07:00 AM PDT by BBB333 (The Power Of Trump Compels You!)
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To: hal ogen

“Government attracts them ...at all levels of government.”

**************

Regardless of what their initial motivation was for going into government many of them eventually develop a smug sense of elitism, entitlement and invincibility. This mindset becomes self-serving and they forget they are there to serve the people.


20 posted on 06/01/2025 6:11:53 AM PDT by Starboard
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