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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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That is exactly what he did when he sent them to regional offices out of DC. This is the blowback.
I guarantee you 95% of the people commenting on this thread didn't read the article. They looked at the headline and just reflexively reacted, "Bongino good!" "Patel good!"
This wasn't a random group of current and former FBI officials. These were people she knew who had been very supportive of Trump's reform agenda at the FBI and were stunned by the incompetence and lack of professionalism they saw from leadership.
If this were the dedicated wishing to right the ship, where were they over the last 12 years at the least??
If not for Miranda Devine doggedly pursuing the Hunter Biden laptop story, the media would still be insisting it was a Russian disinformation op
Bongino only shrinks himself further with this:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/12/deputy-director-dan-bongino-torches-deep-state-devine/
From “damning” in the title to “troubling” in the first few paragraphs. That’s a big change. And do REAL FBI guys doing a report use “f*****g” in their work?
And who exactly instigated this report?
RUDDERLESS DESCRIBES THE FBI UNDER OBAMA & BIDEN
“””And who exactly instigated this report?””””
I have read the 65 prior comments and I have seen NO FReeper commenting that they have actually read the 115 page Scribd report.
I clicked the link to the 115 page report and found that I have log-in in order to read it. Why is the NY Post making it difficult to read this supposed damning report?
yes - not Swampy at all.
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think they have done quite a bit but have as huge a mess to clean up as DHS - and don’t know who Miranda’s sources are. i know she was more than annoyed when she couldn’t get info out of FBI for Crooks expose, so she may have a bit of a chip on her shoulder.i am anxious to see how POTUS treats Patel at Cabinet meeting today.
The last thing Bongino needs to do is “pad his resume”. He was making far more money before taking this position.
This is all just psyop bluster to disrupt operations and distract from getting things done.
BS. Just agitprop sowing discord.
Rubbish. These are dissidents just like the 51 pukes who swore Hunter’s laptop was Russian disinfo. Their only purpose is to make life more difficult for the Trump team.
True. And we can’t lose anyone.
We are way past day one. Will we hear the same a year from now?
Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino unloaded on New York Post columnist Miranda Devine on Monday, accusing her of running yet another coordinated “deep-state hit piece” on reform-minded FBI leadership.
Bongino wrote on X:
“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 the old guard. I don’t. Full steam ahead.”
The blistering statement landed after Devine published an article in the New York Post portraying FBI Director Kash Patel as “in over his head,” a “clown,” “all f–ked up,” and running a “rudderless ship,” all claims based on anonymous sources, many from current and ex-FBI personnel.
Column’s up: Damning report labels FBI “rudderless ship” under Kash Patel and Dan Bongino who are accused of being preoccupied with social media and building “personal résumés” https://t.co/tH96Dt0fRF
— Miranda Devine (@mirandadevine) December 1, 2025
Devine’s piece centers on a 115-page so-called assessment compiled by a self-appointed alliance of active and retired agents who openly admit they were embedded during the Biden-era FBI, a period marked by DEI obsession, political targeting, Russiagate hoaxes, retaliatory investigations, and record-low public trust.
Their critique:
– Patel is “inexperienced.”
– Bongino is “a clown.”
– Both are “too active on social media.”
– And both refuse to bow to the old-guard culture that ran the FBI into the ground.
One of the report’s major anecdotes is that Patel allegedly preferred to exit an FBI jet wearing a raid jacket with both Velcro patches attached.
Even more laughable, they accuse Patel of “taking credit” after the arrest of the Kirk assassin.
Another “scandal” described breathlessly in the report: Patel was upset that internal discussions about his firearm credential leaked from FBI Academy staff, and he wanted to know who leaked it, ordering polygraphs.
In any serious intelligence organization, leaks of internal security discussions would be treated as a major disciplinary issue.
But for Devine’s sources, rooting out leakers is “punitive.”
Buried deep in the article is an explosive admission. One of the sources admits that “Trump Derangement Syndrome remains alive and well under left-leaning factions embedded within the ranks of the FBI.”
They further reveal:
– Agents openly express contempt for the president.
– Field office televisions are tuned to left-wing propaganda channels, MS NOW (former MSNBC) and CNN.
– The Bureau’s recruitment pipeline prioritized left-leaning hires, especially from education backgrounds.
Assistant Director for Public Affairs at the FBI, Ben Williamson, also released a statement blasting the report from Devine:
“Kash and Dan took over an agency with approval rating below 40%. Knowing that, they came in as disrupters and are choosing to do things differently. Of course that’s going to receive criticism from the old guard and outside pundits. That’s to be expected.
What’s more surprising here is to see the New York Post elevating a dossier of anonymous complaints from current and ex-FBI personnel as some form of gospel.
Here’s also what they don’t tell you: the unconventional approach may get criticism, but the data says it’s working.
-Violent crime arrests: 100% INCREASE
-Espionage arrests: 40% INCREASE
-Homicide rate: Double digit DROP from 2024, on track for record low year
-Child victims identified or located: 23% INCREASE
-Nihilistic Violent Extremism arrests: Almost 500% INCREASE with FBI + partnersThey’ve also turned over nearly 40,000 documents to Congress – by far a record, and in just 9 months. We have new major productions on cases like Arctic Frost nearly every week.
You can criticize the approach – but you can’t deny the numbers. And they’ve been historic with President Trump’s leadership. Kash, Dan, and Andrew all know challenging a bureaucracy comes with pushback but they still choose to do it. And frankly that’s what the voters demanded.”
Yeh, because he and Bongino are cleaning house.
Absolutely nothing has been done about J6 and the FBI's involvement in setting it up.
Only idiot would believe that the mistakes made at Butler were a result of incompetence rather than complicity or that the FBI didn't know who Crooks was before he shot Trump.
Ryan Routh was a recruiter for the Ukraine war and was giving interviews with media a couple of years before he tried to assassinate Trump. He had to be working with the government in order to do that. Yet, nothing has been revealed about his relationship with the Biden regime and/or Deep State.
And, now, we have the six Democrat congressman openly encouraging troops to disobey Trump's orders and not a thing has been done about it.
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