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Is the FBI salvageable? Here's what bureau insiders have to say
The Blaze ^ | July 1, 2025 | Rebeka Zeljko

Posted on 07/04/2025 1:06:01 PM PDT by Twotone

Americans sent a clear message to the swamp after President Donald Trump swept all seven swing states and secured the popular vote in November. Since then, the MAGA base was promised an administration staffed with change agents eager to uproot the political establishment in Washington, D.C.

The winning streak continued after Kash Patel was successfully confirmed to head the Federal Bureau of Investigation alongside Deputy Director Dan Bongino, both of whom have been allies to the president. Patel and Bongino also shared a common mission going into the FBI: The status quo isn't working.

Now five months into Patel's tenure, several former agents and FBI whistleblowers described how their optimism has faded into disappointment.

"Kash Patel and Dan Bongino both used to consistently call for dismantling the FBI, or at minimum, for a massive restructuring of it," one FBI whistleblower told Blaze News. "The latest revelations only bolster the position that the FBI has become a secret police organization. Yet, there has been no mention of the criminal charges against FBI employees involved in this gross miscarriage of truth and justice. There has been no mention whatsoever of any form of punishment for those involved."

"Like most of the FBI's known corruption, cover-ups, and illegal activities in recent years, these revelations began with yet another whistleblower," he added. "Only then did the FBI 'leadership' discover how deep the corruption surrounding this election interference was. Still, no whistleblower has been vindicated, reinstated, promoted, or provided back pay and damages under the 'new' FBI."

Other whistleblowers like Marcus Allen share this sentiment, saying the bureau is beyond help.

"Attempts to salvage the FBI are a fool's errand," Allen told Blaze News. "Its reputation is damaged beyond repair. It has lost the public trust and proven itself to be an enemy of the American people and rightfully elected American governance."

Allen previously worked in the FBI's Charlotte field office before he was abruptly put on unpaid leave for challenging the official narrative surrounding the January 6 protests. After being branded a conspiracy theorist, Allen was eventually given his security clearance back by former President Joe Biden's administration and was awarded back pay as part of a settlement with the FBI. Allen later resigned from the bureau.

"They know when they have been abandoned," Steve Baker, investigative reporter for Blaze News, said. "When they speak out, that goes against the culture of the FBI. It goes against the intelligence community at large. If you embarrass that community, you will be ostracized."

Clint Brown, who worked closely alongside Patel during his Senate confirmation process, pushed back on critics, noting that Kash has been heading the bureau for only five short months.

“Kash is an extremely methodical person and very strategic,” Brown told Blaze News. “He is going to work through everything methodically and in the right way. Not everything is a narrative. Not everything has a quick fix. We’re living in the real world.”

"The former leadership may have tarnished it’s own reputation, but they’re the institution that exists to catch the bad guys, and they still have to do that while fixing the place," Brown added.

While continuing to "catch the bad guys," Patel has also lead the popular crusade against former Director Christopher Wray, which many current and former agents have championed.

Patel announced last week that the bureau uncovered evidence of Wray lying to Congress about China's involvement in influencing the 2020 election. These findings also detail how the agency "recalled" a report that contradicted Wray's testimony under oath to Congress denying China's involvement.

"There are a dozen other people that we could put in the perp walk parade," Baker told Blaze News. "But the guy that needs to lead the parade is Christopher Wray."

This evidence is just the latest piece of a larger puzzle implicating the former FBI leadership for working to influence the 2020 election. Whether it's coordinating with social media monopolies like Facebook to promote one party over the other or censoring the bombshell Hunter Biden laptop story, all signs suggest the FBI was involved.

"To date, this is unequivocally the worst example of FBI election interference," Steve Friend, another FBI whistleblower, told Blaze News. "The Steele dossier and censorship of the Hunter Biden laptop were abhorrent attempts to smear Donald Trump's reputation and deter voters from his camp. However, this latest revelation that the FBI covered for a foreign adversary to stuff ballots for Joe Biden strains all bounds of credulity and requires an honest conversation about whether the FBI should be dissolved."

"Disgraced FBI Deputy Director Paul Abbate knew this," Phil Kennedy, a whistleblower and former FBI agent, said in a post on X. "He was the executive who allegedly said, 'FBI employees who question the bureau's handling of January 6-related cases can seek employment elsewhere.' He helped hide the crime and then imprisoned Americans demanding answers."

Patel has also led a broader effort to decentralize D.C.'s influence in the bureau and empower local field offices to continue doing the day-to-day work that impacts communities.

“As far as reforms in the FBI, there’s been a restructuring in the organization, and it’s still ongoing," Brown told Blaze News. "Agents have been moved out to the field, and this is all part of reorganizing the FBI over the long term and doing it methodically.”

While some former agents believe that the new leadership is a step in the right direction, other whistleblowers say the bureau remains unchanged, forever being driven by the status quo.

"The FBI has demonstrated an unwillingness and inability to understand the complexities of corruption within the FBI writ large and the simplicities of emergent national security and public safety threats," one whistleblower and former DHS employee told Blaze News.

"The new FBI deputy director has told Americans this is 'our FBI,'" Kyle Seraphin, another FBI whistleblower, told Blaze News. "It turns out, 'our FBI' is the same FBI it was last year: deceptive, duplicitous, and functioning on operational morality. The FBI serves the FBI, polishes the reputation of the FBI, and exists to prop up the legend of the FBI. Americans can see the results — promises without production, press releases instead of probable cause to arrest, and backroom document deals instead of disinfecting sunshine. The status quo is 'cutesy time,' and it is unquestionably continuing."

Although critics insist the culture remains unchanged, Brown says Patel was the right choice to push for a change. In order to successfully restore integrity to the bureau, Brown argues that Patel needs both time and trust from the rank-and-file agents.

"Kash is the guy that exposed the 'Russia, Russia, Russia' hoax," Brown told Blaze News. "He did it methodically, and the president knows that."

"The other thing is he picked the guy who’s going to relate to the brick agents," Brown added. "Trump’s philosophy, whether it’s FBI or DOD, he said the same thing about Pete Hegseth, is that he wants people who are doing the job to feel like they have a leader who understands them. So Kash has to earn trust within the FBI, while having to expose, methodically, while also having to catch bad guys, in order to reform the FBI. Without their trust, they’re not going to follow your leadership to fix things.”

The FBI did not respond to a request for comment from Blaze News.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
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1 posted on 07/04/2025 1:06:01 PM PDT by Twotone
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To: Twotone

Im going with “No!”.


2 posted on 07/04/2025 1:07:56 PM PDT by TalBlack (Their god is government. Prepare for a religious war.https://freerepublic.com/perl/post?id=4322961%2)
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To: TalBlack

The agency had a lot of time to hire people who think “right”. What percentage might have voted for Trump, maybe 10 percent?


3 posted on 07/04/2025 1:09:26 PM PDT by TalBlack (Their god is government. Prepare for a religious war.https://freerepublic.com/perl/post?id=4322961%2)
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To: Twotone

What happened to the Jan 6 bomber investigation, Epstein files and ALL the JFK files?

We can forget about ever seeing the dirt-filled 911 files, full of dirt on our supposed (lol) “allies.”

Meet the new boss.


4 posted on 07/04/2025 1:17:07 PM PDT by AAABEST (That time Washington0 DC became a corrupted, existential threat to us all...)
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To: Twotone

Patel and Bongino must’ve received a hell of a deal. I guess Maxwell was incarcerated for trafficing children to nobody.


5 posted on 07/04/2025 1:18:28 PM PDT by bicyclerepair
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To: Twotone

You’d almost have to “stand up” a whole new FBI, using lie detection and other methods (social media searches of agents and their families/friends) to pick people from the current FBI, while at the same time, letting deadwood liberals and moles go.

It would take the Trump Presidency and the next Presidency (a Republican) to get anywhere.

Almost impossible.


6 posted on 07/04/2025 1:18:47 PM PDT by airborne (Thank you Rush for helping me find FreeRepublic! )
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To: Twotone
People forget how the Swamp is so deep and entrenched. It will take time to clean out the so many immense bureaucracies.

On the upside camera-ready AG Bondi has recently filed lawsuits against Los Angeles, and I think SF, Chicago, NYC. Since they are all "sanctuary" cities is could be slam dunk because of Title 8 USC 1324 and 1325. Reducing or dissolving the Swamp is a much bigger internal effort. I have faith in Patel and Bogino.

7 posted on 07/04/2025 1:23:45 PM PDT by A Navy Vet (USA Birth Certificate - 1789. Death Certificate - 2021? )
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To: Twotone

Patel’s first order of business was to promote this pile of human garbage.

https://nypost.com/2025/04/09/opinion/miranda-devine-kash-patels-fbi-promotion-of-maga-villain-sends-wrong-message/


8 posted on 07/04/2025 1:28:38 PM PDT by HYPOCRACY (Wake up, smell the cat food in your bank account. )
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To: TalBlack

So am I.


9 posted on 07/04/2025 1:30:16 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Twotone

FBI delenda est.


10 posted on 07/04/2025 1:43:13 PM PDT by glorgau
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To: HYPOCRACY; A Navy Vet
Patel’s first order of business was to promote this pile of human garbage.

Do you believe he did so unthinkingly or without a plan?

Do you think he may have wished to give the "pile" as much room as he could, rather than drive him underground?

11 posted on 07/04/2025 1:44:21 PM PDT by frog in a pot (We must be increasingly careful about who we choose to be our nation's Commander-in-Chief. )
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To: Twotone

I have seen no 3 a.m. SWAT raids on FBI Traitors.


12 posted on 07/04/2025 1:46:27 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: AAABEST

Kash may be as bad-if not worse-than Comey. Comey didn’t pretend to be on our side.


13 posted on 07/04/2025 1:47:24 PM PDT by nonliberal (Russia is not my enemy.)
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To: Twotone

FIRE Every Agent.

CANCEL Every Pension.

The Good Agents did NOTHING for decades.

Make them ALL suffer.


14 posted on 07/04/2025 1:48:12 PM PDT by OHPatriot (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: frog in a pot

My thoughts are he didn’t want to drive them underground he needs them to THINK he is on their side!!!


15 posted on 07/04/2025 1:49:03 PM PDT by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell )
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To: Twotone
"There are a dozen other people that we could put in the perp walk parade," Baker told Blaze News. "But the guy that needs to lead the parade is Christopher Wray."

So far ... nobody at all.

16 posted on 07/04/2025 1:51:56 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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To: airborne

Your proposal is what must be done.

The “impossible” must happen.

My life experience is that the “impossible” is totally doable by folks who have a serious “attitude” and determination.


17 posted on 07/04/2025 1:53:24 PM PDT by cgbg (It was not us. It was them--all along.)
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To: A Navy Vet

Where are all the fired lefty FBI agents on tic toc and other social media?


18 posted on 07/04/2025 1:53:57 PM PDT by cableguymn (Can't cancel all of us)
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To: Twotone
It can be done. But we should relocate most of their employees to Alabama which is what Kash is doing.

There should be a small office at Ronald Reagan Building.

No fancy headquarters. We are not trying to create the Stasi here. We had a taste of it during the Biden Administration.

19 posted on 07/04/2025 1:58:03 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: A Navy Vet

“Drain the swamp” apparently referred to the J Edgar Hoover building.


20 posted on 07/04/2025 1:58:11 PM PDT by Mr. Blond
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