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Damning report labels FBI ‘rudderless ship’ under Kash Patel — with him and Dan Bongino more concerned with building ‘personal résumés’
NY Post ^ | 11-30-2025 | Miranda Devine

Posted on 12/02/2025 5:01:00 AM PST by Sir_Humphrey

FBI Director Kash Patel is facing withering criticism from an alliance of active-duty and retired agents and analysts, days after the White House denied media reports that the president is about to fire him.

A troubling new report card on the first six months of Patel’s leadership concludes he is “in over his head” and his deputy, Dan Bongino, is “something of a clown,” according to the alliance, which in two previous reports warned about crippling DEI and politicization of the FBI during the Biden administration.

The Patel-led FBI is described in the 115-page report as a “rudderless ship” and “all f–ked up.”

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To: Sir_Humphrey

The Corney Brennan Alliance????


21 posted on 12/02/2025 5:38:51 AM PST by Steven Tyler
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To: vivenne

Just posted on CFP-—

Dan Bongino
@dbongino
Deep-state Devine strikes again.
Miranda loves attacking our reform agenda with gossipy anecdotes from disgruntled former employees because she’s upset that her “reporting” keeps falling apart under scrutiny. You can always count on Miranda for a timed hit piece when the Director and I make big changes.
Miranda prefers tbe old-guard.
I don’t.
Full steam ahead.
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22 posted on 12/02/2025 5:40:38 AM PST by Presbyterian Reporter
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To: Sir_Humphrey

I don’t think I’ll ever see a more antagonistic bunch of sleazebags than the swamp bottom scum-suckers that they are in the Democrat Party and RINO circles. A close 2nd would be the violent and some non-violent criminal migrants and their supporters.

Trump don’t pay it no mind until the SCOTUS gets involved. That’s a hallmark characteristic of his, and the HUGEness of the balls he has is something that the entire world should be thankful for.


23 posted on 12/02/2025 5:41:15 AM PST by equaviator (Nobody's perfect. That's why they put pencils on erasers!)
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To: lee martell

Patel likes the cameras too much. He should purge any Obama/Biden FBI holdovers who had a hand in this hit piece and are sabotaging his job.


24 posted on 12/02/2025 5:44:29 AM PST by DeplorablePaul
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Dan Bongino does not need to ‘build his resume’ — he left a multimillion per year job to serve this country.

With this kind of hack reporting he must be doing an excellent job!


25 posted on 12/02/2025 5:48:16 AM PST by BBB333 (The Power Of Trump Compels You!)
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To: Wilderness Conservative

This is the same line of crap dems have using for years.


26 posted on 12/02/2025 5:48:40 AM PST by chopperk
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To: Sir_Humphrey

Says whom?


27 posted on 12/02/2025 5:49:31 AM PST by jmaroneps37 (Freedom is never free. It must be won rewon and jealously guarded.)
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To: Sir_Humphrey

an alliance of active-duty and retired agents and analysts


Filthy leftists. The bureaucratic side of the government is full of them.


28 posted on 12/02/2025 5:50:17 AM PST by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: BBB333

Perhaps Bongino and Kash should be made to switch places.

That would be a big improvement.


29 posted on 12/02/2025 5:50:26 AM PST by dforest
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To: Sir_Humphrey

What report? I don’t think the article says who prepared it and if it has any authority.

It seems it is nothing but some left-wing idiot’s blog post of personal opinions they want to publish.


30 posted on 12/02/2025 5:51:32 AM PST by CodeToad
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To: cgbg

Excellent post!


31 posted on 12/02/2025 5:59:10 AM PST by redfreedom (They’re AWFUL...Affuent White Female Urban Leftists)
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To: avital2

It would seem like the “old school FBI’s” would have a far easier time righting the ship under Kash than Mueller, Comey, or Wray.


32 posted on 12/02/2025 6:00:20 AM PST by alternatives?
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To: HYPOCRACY

Hey, didn’t FBI agents lie to the FISA courts? I haven’t heard about them being fired, let alone charged, found guilty and sent to prison.


33 posted on 12/02/2025 6:09:32 AM PST by Pollard
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To: avital2
.." old-school FBi’ers who are trying to right the ship."

Further, Devine noted the group seems legit and have been supportive in the past, so it is disconcerting. Equally disconcerting, however, is the 'old school' factor.

On balance, I'm happy with their accomplishments to date.

34 posted on 12/02/2025 6:10:25 AM PST by chiller ( Davy Crockett said:"Be sure you're right, then go ahead." I'll go ahead.)
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To: Sir_Humphrey

I’m having trouble determining the authority or veracity of the “report card”, or even its author. Was it AI generated? How did the report card, which seems to speak on its own behalf, come to its conclusions?


35 posted on 12/02/2025 6:10:57 AM PST by rightwingcrazy (;-,)
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To: Presbyterian Reporter

Patel and Bongino claim the evidence proves the Butler assassination attempt was by a lone wolf.

I will never trust them again.


36 posted on 12/02/2025 6:11:08 AM PST by odawg
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To: odawg

For me it was the Epstein “suicide”—a bridge too far....


37 posted on 12/02/2025 6:11:56 AM PST by cgbg (The master is nice only when the dog behaves as expected.)
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To: alternatives?

yes - but identifying/investigating/righting the wrongs of last decade, cleaning out Swampsters burrowed in, doing normal national FBI work, responding to new incidents, etc - it’s a lot. Patel may be more of a cop than a manager. anxious to see how Potus treats him at Cabinet meeting today.


38 posted on 12/02/2025 6:12:03 AM PST by avital2
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To: avital2

LOL.

Yeah, and Comey is an upright Boyscout.


39 posted on 12/02/2025 6:12:50 AM PST by TheThirdRuffian (Orange is the new brown)
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To: AndyJackson

i am quoting Miranda who said specifically this was a reformist group that surfaced in 2023?.she has more knowledge than you or i, presumably. no one is denying presence of enemies within.


40 posted on 12/02/2025 6:14:45 AM PST by avital2
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