FBI Director Kash Patel and Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino both overlook key issues. I’ll explain after a review of this update from Deputy FBI Director Bongino (as shared on his Twitter Account):
“In the best interests of openness and transparency I’ll be posting regular information updates on this account.
-The Director and I are working through many of the transparency issues. We are focused on getting this done the right way, and as quickly and efficiently as possible. Many of these cases involve victims, both young and old, who we will not allow to be re-victimized by a rushed and sloppy effort.
-We are engaging with all of our personnel on transparency, while simultaneously dealing with a number of serious threats to the Homeland, our children, our economy, and our infrastructure. We absolutely cannot afford to miss any threats in those spaces. Multi-tasking isn’t an option here.
-I am well aware of some of the early concerns expressed on social media about the speed of change. I understand. But I’ll state again, if you think I upended my prior job and lifestyle to take a vacation in FBI headquarters, then I can’t help you. You’ve already decided, despite logic and reason, that all is lost. It is not. Not even close. Because you don’t see things happening in live time, does not mean change isn’t happening. Not even close. You will see results, and not every result will please everyone, but you will absolutely see results. Just watch.
-God bless America, and all those who defend Her.
-Dan” (source)
Does this explain the FBI delay in executing an immediate presidential directive? Of course not.
Here’s the problem.
Kash Patel and Dan Bongino both fail to understand the severity of the compromise underneath them. Hence the “95% honorable” quote by Patel recently (interview with Gowdy).
♦ The core issue is that institutional corruption is the status of the FBI. That is challenging to deal with and simply cannot be addressed (in any reasonable timeframe, or effect) from the top of the leadership pyramid.
The various downstream field offices of the same institution (there are hundreds) will keep Patel/Bongino flush with busy work and positive investigative outcomes for them to announce on television. [see VA recently] That approach purposefully satiates a reviewing audience yet leaves the process under them without oversight.
Corrupt FBI officials continue operations as needed (influence selling, evidence burying, pay-to-play investigative outcomes, DC monitoring, money laundering, trafficking, drugs and generally willful blindness to their outside group partners) and simultaneously push specific attention-grabbing info up the ladder toward leadership offices in DC.
[As decades of top-down corruption took over, it slowly permeated the field offices. Most of the really good FBI officials; those who did not want to follow a path paved with the need to join the internal corruption; took up FBI positions in foreign countries. The good guys, the SMEs are overseas now, having long left the domestic rank and vile behind them.]
Kash Patel and Dan Bongino would likely make excellent FBI special operation compliance officers and internal auditors. That’s where the real impact can be delivered [think Elliot Ness approach].
However, as leaders of the institution, the function of their role – as outwardly prestigious as it might seem, essentially isolates them with busy work. They must assign the role of compliance and audit review below them, to the same internal silo operators who have previously been identified as working within a corrupted institution.
You might note that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent noticed this need very quickly, because he was/is a subject matter expert in large institutional leadership. Bessent has experience, Patel and Bongino do not.
Secretary Bessent hired/promoted/moved the IRS whistleblowers into strategic position; to become the heads of an internal compliance and audit team, reporting almost exclusively to Bessent himself.
Bongino and Patel would have been good in similar roles within the FBI organization. However, as heads of the agency they can affect very little operational change. Yes, they can steer the ship, but it is the chief engineer who determines the speed of the vessel. The mechanics within the FBI will simply control the speed and wait out the leadership.
Kash and Dan will then play a long game of whac-a-mole, removing each identified agent stalling as they are discovered. This will take more years than they have.
Contrast that FBI approach (Patel, saying everyone is awesome) with Treasury (Bessent, saying there’s an institutional problem here), and you will understand the visible absence of accountability.
♦ The issue is not Patel or Bongino’s intent or motivation. The problem is their ability.
So far, the duo has not publicly admitted the severity of the corruption they sit atop; let alone announce a plan to deal with it. Ergo the intellectually honest persons who understand the silo operations, only expect soundbites and pretenses.
Or, think of the problem like President Trump and Elon Musk (DOGE) to the total executive branch. President Trump is the tip-top of the silo. Elon Musk and DOGE are the compliance/audit officers, reviewing each agency – taking action and reporting back to the principal, President Trump.
Both President Trump and Elon Musk are familiar leading massive organizations (high competence, high motivation). However, even with their incredible large institutional skillset, both Trump and Musk need to break down the responsibilities using DOGE. Musk hires highly competent highly motivated DOGE members to do the actual compliance and audits.
Again, Kash Patel and Dan Bongino do not possess the same executive leadership skills (they are low competence, high motivation). The pair of FBI directors need high-direction and high-support to overcome their competency challenge.
If the institutional corruption within the FBI was being addressed, we would not need to be told the institutional corruption within the FBI was being addressed. We would be able to visibly see it.
Ex. If Treasury was saying 95% of IRS employees were honorable and good, Secretary Bessent would not be removing tens-of-thousands of IRS agents.
The FBI reportedly has around 48,000 agents/employees.
Step one begins as President Trump, Elon Musk and Scott Bessent each noted. First, admitting there’s an institutional problem. Patel and Bongino are denying they have an institutional problem.
I/We want to see Kash Patel and Dan Bongino succeed. However, it takes large system executive leadership skills to execute any effective reform strategy. Patel and Bongino would be excellent compliance officers, unfortunately that’s not the role they have been assigned to.
That’s the problem.
TIME TO CLEAN OUT THE CORRUPT FBI
DOGE is not needed here.
Two internal teams of squeaky clean lawyers for the DOJ and squeaky clean cops for the FBI need to be called in from outside both agencies reporting only to the AG and Batman and Robin in the FBI.
The litmus test for absolutely every one of the 48.000 people in the FBI is whether politics ever entered decision making. One example of a political decision at any time in their work history, (for either liberal or MAGA) is cause for termination.
Call in the Texas Rangers
That one.
An the J6 FBI agents? Not corrupted?
Where is all of the J6 video?
Time is a ticking and it ain’t sounding good.
Step one to respond to any crisis or issue is to “Contain the issue and prevent further damage.” IMO Patel and Bongino can execute this interim step but I agree they are probably not the right leaders to solve the systemic issue with FBI. PDJT will likely have to bring in a highly competent executive type to restructure/rebuild the organization.
Maybe General Flynn and Mayor Rudy.
Flynn was played by Stroker.
Amen
And the CIA.
What is Radcliff doing? Is the fox watching the henhouse?
Wait until after Ratcliffe’s meeting with Musk. See if DOGE is allowed to audit anything other than office supplies.
The FBI henhouse has 56 field offices. If 5% of 48,000 agents are corrupt, then there are 12,000 compromised agents. Are the compromised agents kept close to the DC Henhouse where they can control the investigations and manage the systems?
Does the FBI past give out their shady GRANTS to orgs like antifa and BLM with their emphasis on technical training, etc?
Do they dilute those “good ones” by sending them overseas and in distant field offices to keep them away from the 12,000 main ones in DC and here in the US who are corrupt? The fish rots from the head down?
DOGE get to work!! Find those secretive FBI grants and who is maintaining the corrupted system asap. Feral Burglars Incorporated? It seems to be regular order for the bureaucracy!
Would the FBI send the bad ones to overseas posts TO HIDE there from Kash and Dan? The mind boggles!. Sheesh!
Too late to edit my comment. My numbers are way off! 2400 not 12,000. Still that’s what they are calling as a small percent of corrupted agents. Sorry for the mistake. Carry on! The GRANTS do require some looking into.
“The core issue is that institutional corruption is the status of the FBI.”
[This article here at TheConservativeTreehouse]
The mistake might be using the multiplier of ONLY 5% in your calculations. … The empowerment of a Federal Bureau of Investigation came about, as a result of both political and police corruption at the Federal, State, and Local levels over 100 years ago.
As to the number of ‘corrupt’ and ‘noncorrupt’ FBI agents, they ALL are responsible for ‘What they do and what they >fail to do!’ … All the FBI agents are obligated to this standard when taking the Oath to become an FBI agent.
There seems to be corruption at all levels of government now days. Elon Musk and DOGE is just ‘finding a small portion’ of the corruption. … Maybe, the preachers are right, that We as a Nation are failing because so many Americans have turned away from God. We are ALL obligated to God through the Natural Law, for ‘our thoughts, our words, what we do, and what we >fail to do.’
Even many of the Left Wingers, that claim to reject God, will cite an ‘obligation’ to speak out LOUDLY at a perceived injustice. … [As a personal note: If a person was to create a modern illustrated Bible, many of today’s Left Wingers could be used as examples of the Demon Possessed.]
I was just going to correct you. Glad you caught it! Still a lot of people!
5% of 48,000 is 2,400.
Kash is too busy living the nightlife in Vegas with his girlfriend.
both are losers to the cause. We need some real FBI agents who will step up and turn in the bad ones. They know they aren’t going to get fired, but promoted. Time to gut the FBI is NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh brother … and the up-votes you receive too …
Got a better idea champ?
Offer a massive bonus for anonymous whistleblowers. That will get the ball rolling.
A great operational analysis. The 95% comment was it for me. The Treehouse over the years blew up that number with all the evil operations that happened or did not happen.
The Noose
The Gymnasts
Epstein
Mar a Lago
J6
and there are many many many more
One last wk of a black lady; can’t recall details but she masterminded a shenanigan in which she was victim of white intimidation.
She created her own noose (with which to hang herself), leaving behind her DNA on it. Next one will have learned that lesson.
I think 9/11, a number of other molestation cases that did not have high profile victims but went on for years, with Penn State numbers. Then there has been mind boggling courthouse embezzlement schemes. Aided by fed bench helping cover, while three letter went to investigate an orange tree being stolen outside their office, instead.
Yes, the 95% comment speaks dismal volumes. Cash is saying he finds himself in an organization populated by an overwhelming number of highly honorable folk tarnished by a few bad apples. FAIL. How disappointing. How standard Inside Beltway groupthink
Patel has appeared on Sean Hannity too many times. Sounds just like him with the loyal rank and file BS.
the rank and file are mostly rank
For me, the “tell” was the FBI intel assessment of Radical Domestic Terrorists (Traditional Catholics) within the Catholic Church. Have all those ‘analysts’ been fired? Has this ‘assessment’ been used as Exhibit A on how NOT to do ‘tradecraft’ when writing intelligence product on your fellow Americans?
I also still want to know who all these Khaki pants, baseball hat, masked Nazi protestors are that pop up every 6-12 months for ‘demonstrations’. Who are these people?
I think the above examples show how deep the rot is throughout the FBI.
Las Vegas … many innocent unarmed civilians killed & wounded … they use the same ‘story’ going back more than 50 years, ‘lone wolf, probably mentally ill gunman’ … case closed, nothing else to see here, move along …
911 … many innocent unarmed civilians killed & wounded … ‘those terrorist hi-jackers were on our radar” …
Tell us again about those 95% ‘good guys’ & how competent/capable/effective they are.
And those terrorist Parents.
We just got to about 50% in this thread alone.
I said the same thing about Vegas! That was swept under the rug very quickly.
What about Waco and Idaho? Massive murder personified—shame on all.
The mass shooting in Las Vegas at an outdoor concert shortly after Trump assumed the presidency in 2017.
PDJT and Musk are currently focused on the CIA. Let’s see if DOGE can identify and then turn off the money supply on their clandestine trechories. The FBI would be next.
If they can find all of the fraud in Social Security with illegal aliens cashing in, surely they can find something in the FBI money trail that leads to lots of crap they have done/undone over the recent years.
Every agency and dept. in DC is suspect. The lifers are self-serving careerists, who strive to aid the dnc any which way they can.
By design.
Whomever “vetted” and submitted to President Trump these two names for these roles knew exactly what they were doing. Popular, handsome, telegenic. Able to snow the American people while absolutely nothing in the corrupt institution gets corrected.
Bongino’s podcast come to life. Can’t wait for him to tell some corrupt agent “Cutesy time is over…”
Oh wait, 95% are all good. Nevermind.
Have they terminated anyone????
No
not one dirty person .. no .. and Kash is cashing it in in LV … wow, what a loser he turned out to be
Agree with your synopsis here. Excellent portrayal of precisely what’s occurred.
I agree with Sundance’s analysis, although sad to say. It seems as if the appointment of Kash & Dan are only intended to produce regular “we caught ‘em” press conferences, so that the majority of Red voters think good things are now happening at the FBI.
Those of us who’ve paid attention will be completely disappointed.
Both disappointing. Not surprised.
Just can’t get it right in the Trump administration.
We will limp along for 4Y and IF dems take back control; full nazi style, corruption. It won’t die in the 4Y, just simmer and smolder.
It’s not so much can’t get it right as it is who will be allowed to be given the position.
Just in the last couple of weeks, senators Collins and Cassidy knocked back a nominee. By all accounts
perfect for the position, but against their donors.
So not much has changed, McConnell’s succession plans are still operational.
The midterms are just “over there” and what happens then will be because of what didn’t happen now.
I am beyond disappointed.
Worried if lose either chamber, over next 2Y.
Lib, activist judges will do their part for these 2Y hoping to turn last 2Y into deadlock. That’s THE plan and seems to be working thus far.
Unfortunately, it may have to take illegal means to bring change.
The time will fly by. We have no time for any error, no matter how small. Too many have already happened. Our country’s problems are numerous and massive, and I have a very bad feeling about where this is all headed, esp economically. Our debt is a bomb just waiting to go off. Note: I am not a bot or a troll and I voted 3x for this President. Editing to add: “When all else fails, they take you to war.”
Correct
If they do take back control, HIS WILL be done. Do not be anxious for you life….what you will eat, what you will drink,what you will wear, the Lord feeds the birds of the air, how much will he feed you he knows you need all these things and he knows what you need before you ask him.
This piece explains a lot, including the massive but faux resistance to Patel during his confirmation hearings. Surely someone in the administration is monitoring this site and is able to summarize this article for 47’s consideration. I also predict the Bongino Army will attack this article – unless I misjudge its intellectual honesty.
evidently they are NOT … DJT JR didn’t know Boasberg daughter worked for one of the NGO …well, maybe he did and he just acted like the didn’t
Seems they are ALL actors……..is the only one TRUE to their self Melania Trump who seems to have said HE&& no to returning to the dumpster fire and painting a portrait that is a lie?????
The “duo” ? Not the “Dynamic Duo” ?
“Holy Hole in a Donut! Batman.”
They underwhelm me very much this dynamic duo……another Susie Wiles influence? The transition team let us down.
i’m sick of their excuse it’s about the victims. The American citizens are the victims so let’s get some answers posthaste. I knew this was going to happen with Bongino because the deep state needed him silenced and what’s a better way to silence Someone than put them right inside the organization that you’re trying to protect.
You think it’s fair to make this analysis in less than 6 weeks on the job for Patel and just 2 weeks for Bongino ?
Absolutely if neither one is willing to admit that the FBI is a politically corrupt organization.
Especially since, in their media positions, they went on and on about corruption.
Pretty much heard from the firing squad except from this dynamic duo. 1500 hundred sent to another state so far is the great beginning to cleaning the FBI or so they want us to believe.
Re-read Sundance’s explanation why he is making that assertion at this time. He compares those two to other newly appointed heads of agencies who have NOT defended their personnel as “95% honorable” but instead publicly observed that they have serious problems.
5% of the FBI workforce cannot be solely responsible for the agency’s long record of unethical and – in too many high profile incidents – blatantly unconstitutional actions across the country for the past 17+ years.
If 95% of the agents were “honorable” there would be whistleblowers by the hundreds going public as witnesses to corruption.
Offer them massive bonuses.
That would taint their testimony.
Now If they can provide hard evidence, some consideration can be given.
If they haven’t delivered visible results yet they likely will never do so.
Yes six weeks seems short. But the nest of corruption can fortify itself until it is nearly impossible to destroy in that amount of time.
Patel and Bonjino are the Mr. Cleans. They’re both high profile celebrities who don’t want to allow spots on their records. Therefore, keep the dirt hide and no one can blame you for not being able to remove it.
kash and bongino are good and loyal to the country but got no leadership (big cojones) skill and organizational talent. One can only hope they learn fast.
Would it make a difference if PDJT switched Bongino’s and Patel’s roles?
Bongino seemed to be more aggressive in the outside world.
all an act … grifter …
Bonjino seems to be aggressive behind a microphone and in front of a camera.
Any resistance should be met with an immediate firing or demotion and relocation.
I think these two were chosen to protect Trump’s flank while he makes the necessary changes to our government.
There is a difference between what is an “acceptable” criticism of IRS and FBI.
Nobody cares if you say IRS is corrupt. They’re an easy punching bag.
If you publicly say FBI is corrupt, it will create a vulnerability for the commie left to attack, and could tarnish every FBI investigation & testimony – resulting in many very bad people not being prosecuted or having their cases overturned on appeal.
Ignore the PR statements and soundbites and watch the real action. If FBI continues with business as normal, Patel has failed.
If, on the other hand, there is a quiet exodus of career FBI staff – agents and administration – things are looking hopeful for meaningful change.
I totally agree. People need to be a bit more patient around here.
Patience is a Deep State euphemism for energy dissipation and achieving slow victory by inertia.
That was my first thought as well. Kinda like “today’s warfighters are America’s best and brightest” for DoD. It’s a throw away line.
This is one where Team Trump needs to insert the two white horse riders into regular/weekly slots on the Prez schedule.
“What have you done lately?”
Since the DS will fight tooth and nail as the target set draws closer to IC centers of gravity, moving swiftly with surprise becomes more important.
The ghost of Ephram Zimbalist Jr still exerts an amazing pull.
“ and Dan will then play a long game of whac-a-mole, removing each identified agent stalling as they are discovered. This will take more years than they have.”
I’m convinced this is why Trump is removing people from key positions, often at somewhat painful expense.
It’s too time consuming to focus on anything other than pulling the weeds, putting down weed barrier and getting the new plants rooted and watered.
The trash pile can be left to the wind or dealt with later
Excellent summary.
The stance of Patel and Bongino is more “Full and complete investigation” theater and I am sad to write that; my hope was a move to clean house and flush the agency of Deep State influence but so far, no.
Could Bondi be the Bessent within Justice pressing these two and setting the guidelines?
No.
Wouldn’t the mess within the FBI and other alphabet agencies be substantively rectified if for the love of the republic AG Pam Bondi arrested somebody?
Not with a DC jury.
Bongino states stop the premature criticism, there’s a lot going on you are not aware of. Then Sundance doesn’t stop but raises the criticism. We don’t know who Bondi, Patel and Bongino are investigating within or outside the FBI. You cannot build a case by publicly criticizing your entire organization and then demand cooperation from the rank and file.
Let’s lay off the condescension on the abilities of the heads of these agencies. It seems that Sundance desires leaders that will inform him personally what, when, who, where and how something is going to happen. I respect and admire most all that Sundance has accomplished in the last 10 years. This site has changed for the worse since the inauguration, with a multitude of speculative posters, not all of them legitimate.
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While your point is valid, I think you missed the point of Sundance’s criticism.
Using the overgrown garden analogy, you can’t just start pulling weeds. If you only do that and don’t first hit it with roundup, put down weed barrier, and put new plants in the desired arrangement… the overgrowth will
Just keep growing back.
Bungling the Epstein file release was an ominous precursor. We’re allowed to be impatient. Bongino monetized our impatience as a MAGA cheerleader. Head cheerleaders are often not the best star quarterbacks. It remains to be seen whether Bongino can lead a team down in the mud or whether he even wants to.
Sundance doesn’t work for Bongino.
Working on “transparency.”
One time, back when I listened to his podcast, he said too many FBI agents were hired right out of our leftist universities and as a result, were left leaning liberals. A book I read about how the FBI totally botched the first world trade center bombing where they had an informant IN the bomber group and later botched detecting 9/11, it was pointed out that agents with field experience were NOT the ones promoted to management, which explains a lot, like the field agent prior to 9/11 reporting that the perps were taking airliner pilot courses, but weren’t interesting in the landing part who was ignored.
The basket of apples is rotten or we would have seen more whistle blowers during the Russiagate garbage. “Transparency” isn’t going to fix that.
BTW, where’s the updates on Crooks?
Trump ordered Secret Service to provide ‘every bit of information’ on would-be assassins
Feb. 8, 2025
https://nypost.com/2025/02/08/us-news/trump-ordered-secret-service-to-provide-every-bit-of-information-on-would-be-assassins/
Would-be Trump assassin Thomas Crooks may have had accomplice, data show, as investigators say FBI is suppressing info
Feb. 27, 2025
https://nypost.com/2025/02/27/us-news/would-be-trump-assassin-thomas-matthew-crooks-may-have-had-accomplice-data-shows/
On the JFK files thing, a professional who has written some NOT conspiracy theory NUT books on the assassination says that the CIA has released no additional files and is, therefore, in violation of Trump’s order.
When an entire system is SO rotten, a few newbies at the top aren’t going to fix anything in a major way without a total personnel reset… which won’t happen.
Entirely speculative on my part: number one priority, as always, is economic growth and employment (throw in price stability if you like). Number two is border security/deportation of all criminal elements (at the least). If these two goals are met with above the norm results, the likelihood of earning another four year term goes up substantially (barring any scandals). Two terms? Cleaning up the recidivist traitors in the IC looks a lot more doable.
There is the current action slate…and there is setting the table for the next term. The Dems are trapped into a position where all options (given their base) are negative, unproductive, destabilizing. So many chess moves in play or waiting for the opportune time that it is difficult to track/conceive.
yep .. why have we not heard anything? Even the POTUS himself does not seem intereted….wth is goin g on?
Now he’s talking about a 3rd term and riling up all those folks who already hate our guts.
The President talks about a lot of things. Some of them get amplified and deliberately misinterpreted for the purpose of “riling up the folks who already hate our guts.”
I can imagine, for instance, the issue of a third term underpinning a delegitimizing of the Biden 2020 “win” evidentially, legally, and using it in a way that PDJT’s current term would amount to a third one. As well, I’ve heard an alternative suggestion as to why the notion of a third term might not be referring to Trump running again.
Well we wouldn’t want to upset the haters LOL
Nice summary
It’s hard to fathom that Trump, and some of his key advisors, would not be aware of the total rot of the Fed Bureau/I.
If that assumption is correct, then one has to consider the “Don’t shoot yourself in the foot” mantra that would guide you to not say out loud that the organization is rotten to the core, to somewhat stay under the radar so you can control timelines.
As true many times in the past, I can only hope that Sundance is wrong….
makes me wonder what the TRUE intent of the 2nd term was … was it to say “I beat you guys at your own game” .. “I have the office” … then just forget about what happened for 15 years? Is Trump at the stage in life where he is just willing to say “I was 2 term President” and forget all the hurt thye put on him and his family and US???
don’t know at this point … but the people he put in seems to just there lapping around the pool….not intersted in righting the ship
You know better than that.
What person with even half a brain would think like this? Everything he has gone thru and continuing to go thru including possibility of loss of life for him to say, “I was 2 term President”. Absolutely not from my standpoint
which chat bot to you use to serve this swill
The lord knows the hearts of men. He knows what he’s doing here. Just be patient and wait, wait for the lord. If America is destined to succeed, his will be done. If America is destined to fail STILL his will be done. Either way His will be done. We must continue to pray without ceasing. Look what happened in PA (my home state). We lost a state seat because of a lack enthusiasm to continue to support Trump. We have been infiltrated at the state levels, and this is where things need to change, and everyone here knows this. Peace to all.
but men CAN stop it … POTUS could stop it with the right people……….seems he puts the wrong people in position all the time. I took my Trump gear down weeks ago, my enthusiasm for the 2nd term left when I saw who was getting hired and not fired. Am over it and expect the mid terms to be a huge loss. Congress is off on another vacation. 100 days with NOT one thing done, and POTUS seems to be fine, his trips home every weekend seem to soften his ire of the week … heck it’s crazy
At this point Biden did get more done
Yeah all the time …. Look at the disaster that the trump organization is
Do you like anything? Ice cream? Cake? Puppies? Your Children?
C’mon wvgal, take a step back and regroup.
it’s ok to be deflated for a spell, as things will ebb and flow.
I agree with almost all of your posts lately, but your last sentence is really off the chart.
it’s april tomorrow, so let’s see what rolls this week (tariffs and all).
It would seem their first order of business would be to recruit and train compliance officers. Bongino is well aware of the institutional corruption that surrounds him. He lived it.
He also made a valid point In his world he is giving it all up, It was easy for Bongino like all the other opinion writers and talkers to cast shade from outside, to divine intent or to smother in easy critique. Now he takes on the hard work of being accountable for words and deeds.
If I was looking for someone to put together a staff of compliance officers I would tap Bongino in a second. As anyone here is well aware in most cases the agency leads are press officers it is the next two or three tiers of deputies that do the work.
His Statement in my opinion is pitch perfect as is his dismissal of early critiques.
we are f *****ked … just saying. I knew it in my heart
Have WVG posts been hacked?
it has been going on for a long time
Never thought of that!
I feel certain that both would welcome your input, Sundance.
They’re both SCARED. Something our great President knows nothing about. We need fearless men or women in those positions which are extremely hard to find.
I think Sundance has hit it. As much as I hoped otherwise the cleaning out of bad apples isn’t happening. Laura Loomer is vetting more of the bad apples than either Kash or Dan. That’s one single investigative reporter.
Patel and Bongino have plenty of material to harness and work with –
“Empower Oversight sent an early March letter to FBI general counsel Samuel Ramer, asking the bureau for help related to the improper treatment of FBI agents and employees Garret O’Boyle, Marcus Allen, Stephen Friend, Zach Schofftsall, Monica Shillingburg, and Michael Zummer. The letter also includes new details on four clients whose names were redacted, at least one one of whom wants to share FBI abuses from his time working under Strzok, the fired FBI supervisory special agent deeply involved in Crossfire Hurricane.”
FBI whistleblowers, including one with info on Strzok, want bureau to review their cases | Just The News
This:
“The pair of FBI directors need high-direction and high-support to overcome their competency challenge.
If the institutional corruption within the FBI was being addressed, we would not need to be told the institutional corruption within the FBI was being addressed. We would be able to visibly see it.”
So to sum up the critique here .
Bongino hasn’t said that everyone who works under me is a corrupt? That shows an incredible naiveté when it comes to institutional structure.
ALL institutions are hives, MOST within the hive believe they are doing their job and doing it well compared to their co-worker. MOST steal office supplies but do not steal the furniture. HIGH moral gets you 60 percent efficiency from the hive LOW moral gets you 40 percent.
Think of the majority as NPCs add a dose of “Locker Room BS” and you get a more accurate picture.
“You’ve already decided, despite logic and reason, that all is lost”
Just who is this “you” he is talking about?
This is not a job for the whiny and defensive, Dan. If you can’t take the heat, get out of the kitchen. Or better yet, grow up.
Deer in the headlights. The bad agents sent out of DC to field offices wait out this administration. In 4 years the next administration signs a bunch of executive orders undoing all that Trump signed. We are right back into the mess.
I hope this is not the case. Until people are jailed and congress does it’s job of passing laws the above will hold true.
There are a few FBI whistle blowers out there and are big on X…they have pointed out that in the recent news conference catching the MS13 leader standing in the background is a SAIC who was responsible for one of the corrupt cases (honestly can’t remember which one)…but clearly NOTHING has been cleared out…I mean this guy was literally standing behind Patel…it is so much in your face it is frightening. Patel could have brought these whistleblowers in like Bessant did for the IRS but didn’t…Just because you write a book or have a podcast or were a former cop/agent, doesn’t make you a good manager/leader….the question to me is did DJT know this but did it anyway? I believe so…for reasons of his own
Not to mention a 24 year old is the Top dog? LOL… Okay
There is no F”in way the FBI needs 48,000 people! Start by cutting it in half.
Of the 48,000 employees, how many are thought to be bad/unsalvageable?
In the 95% are good thinking, that means 5% are not good. 5% of 48,000 is 2,400. Is that the right number?
10% of 48,000 is 4,800. Is that the right number?
If there are/were 8,000 FBI employees in DC, that’s 16.67%. Is that the right number of bad/unsalvageable? Are we to believe every single FBI employee in DC is bad?
Let’s keep it all in perspective.
Do we really believe all 48,000 are bad and un-Patriotic individuals?
As Sec. Lutnick would say, “That’s just silly.”
Are we to believe President Trump has “The Best” team in place by accident? Is he just lucky? Or is he just “Rucky”?
Why was the FISA authority extended? Who would be doing that important work to bring the Swamp/Deep State to heel? Someone has to do it.
As one poster stated yesterday, how does a mouse eat an elephant? Answer: One bite at a time.
Pretty sure the statute of limitations is about to run out on this one…all by design…
And their Bondi boss is so blinded by her self-importance and self-promotion that she is both low motivation and low competence to do what needs to be done.
Beware beware the sky is falling THE SkY IS FALLLLLING!
Good article A lot of it makes sense. Yet I’m still going to kick back and see what happens.
I believe Dan and Kash are Patriots,I also truly believe they will work hard to the best of their abilities to make right the wrongs.
Will it be perfect no will it be optimal hopefully so.
As Sundance stated they can only do so much. It’s the underlings that will stall.
That doesn’t mean the both of them are not trying to make a difference.
Really sick of seeing all the haters with I want it today me me me attitude.
It doesn’t work that way never has.
Dan,Kash ride on and bring about the best possible changes within your power!
Thanks for your service!
The only person I see who acts with speed is Elon.
Maybe he should be FBI Director or AG?
Then maybe Americans will have their investigations of real crimes and this criminal conspiracy network.
My bet is all the evidence they need is within Signal and Salt Lake City. Both are perfect tech for Elon to own and decipher.
Exactly so and why the FBI needs to be shut down and reinvented under the US Marshalls. They will never be able to shake their tyranny until there is no one left there. Kash and Dan need to start over.
Burn it down (figuratively); salt the earth where it stood.
How long before Harold and Kumar take a knee?
Heh.
The problem to me is Patel and Bongino listened to and believed Sean Hannity and his there are a few bad apples in the FBI but 99.9% are good apples! The real problem is the whole damn orchard is bad, rotten to the core in capable of being reformed with new training programs and methods! Against the better judgment of many Treepers here, including myself, the FBI will survive and not be disbanded! God help us if the Democrats ever get control of the White House again!!! Those armed short liberal white chubby women FBI agents who took a knee to BLM will rise in the ranks and someday be in charge of FBI offices!!! Instead any agents that took a knee to BLM should be considered a bad apple, someone tell Patel and Bongino!! JMO
The FBI and the CIA are not salvageable. To pretend that they are, is pretending.
Isn’t that a decision for the President to make and not the heads he’s named to the agencies?
The FBI is the American branch of the globalist political police. It must be DISBANDED.
Yeah, I’m going to move right in, that “leadership” of an armed law enforcement agency and tell them “I know you’re mostly corrupt and I’m coming for you!!!”
What does Sundance THINK would happen if they did what “the public” thinks it wants?
It’s convenient to think of the FBI as a mob. And, gonna be honest here — I think they are a mob after all the politicization in hiring, training and promoting for decades? How can it be anything EXCEPT that?
The cases Dan refers to are important I’m sure. We don’t get details but as categories they are important.
So where will those cases go? How will they be managed if the FBI is being investigated and even DOGE’d? If Trump were to establish a NEW law enforcement agency in order to migrate both the cases and the somehow “vetted and uncorrupt” FBI people, that would be something we could all understand.
If the FBI is a body and the corruption is the disease, then the head needs to be amputated along with the spinal cord.
IME that’s a correct assessment. Motivated ferrets need to be inserted into the belly of the beast. If there was any agency that had “95%” good people there would be a need for a special hotel to house whistleblowers.