Pam Bondi elicits more concern regarding lack of ability to scale a large, productive leadership team. Patel and Bongino are less worrying at this early stage. They know, and the White House knows, that they can’t bring serious cases against FBI senior leadership until the Star Chamber of the D.C. Federal Circuit Court is fixed.

Yep, like I’ve seen saying since he was nominated, Kash has never run a big organization. At the time, I thought FBI was only 35,000 employees, lol.

You they’re in over their heads when Kash releases a statement focused on the 2017 Congressional shooting. What started off okay, “Tell us who in the agency participated in the J6 investigation. Turns out, it was 1/3 of the FBI. Those people should have been immediately fired. Were they? No. Did they immediately fire everyone who participated in the MAL smash and grab robbery? No.

And I agree, did they put the whistleblowers in charge of key positions focused on rooting out corruption? No.

FBI has the same problem/excuse as DoD. Everyone is “too important” to just fire. So nothing happens.

The bureaucrats will ALWAYS make excuses, usually by declaring everyone “mission essential”. Give them 30% fewer people and watch how fast the shenanigans end. Watch how fast the make-work activities end.

As the saying goes, “I’m sorry, I can’t hear you over the sounds of your inaction.”

I’m with Patel and Bongino all the way. I hope you will advise them directly.

So nothing of significance is going to happen and our enemies will use that for another false narrative.

“They found nothing in 4 years, The FIBs are wonderful public servants like we told ya”.

I like Dan and Kash, but as Dan is fond of stating, I’m not looking to date them. I agree with Sundance that I would have had different and highly specific roles for them in their areas of expertise. I’d had Kash somewhere in the DOJ and Dan at the USSS, reporting to leadership with specific goals. First, Kash reminds of the saying “Diplomacy is the art of saying “nice dog” until you find a big enough rock.” He’s talking how he thinks a leader of an organization should be talking. I think he understands the institutional issues, you could hear all of that on War Room. I mean Trump praises Lindsey Graham as it suits him; talk is cheap. So how do we assess substantive change at the FBI and ATF? It isn’t all about firings. What about getting the bad FISA queries to near statistically zero? How about we reduce the “they were on our radar” admissions to “we prevented this attack”. Also, what do we know about the team behind these two? Have they brought in any of the whistleblowers like Kyle Seraphim, Steven Friend, or Garret O’Boyle? I think we are going to have to dig a little deeper than public statements on an interview with Rooster, and if things are bad, we’ll have to call the baby ugly.

These two are the date we have at the dance, so how do we try to make the most of it? They have to be the two most publicly accessible FBI directors in the history of the agency.

Queue the naysayers….Every article about a cabinet member has been met with the “I don’t trust ____” blah, blah, blah. Democrats are notorious for being against everything, and for nothing. I hate to see our side doing the same.

Brilliant analysis.
Thank you, MAGA Brother.

Patience is a virtue, one I wish were more prevalent. How many days has Trump been on the job?

Trump chose these people. No one else, President Trump picked them.

All I can say is, this isn’t going to age well.

Patel is almost certainly using psychologists to try to achieve long term institutional corporate culture change. No easy task. One you do not achieve by spanking all the employees publicly the moment you arrive. Ask any school superintendent or CEO who entered promising change and left in complete failure four years later.

(You know what level of impact works to create huge cultural change? Three years of fear porn, lock downs, and masks. 9 11. Trauma. It lingers in subtle ways).

The decision has been made that there will be an FBI in some form at the end of this. We are likely going to have to live with it.

Beyond that,

Patel and Bongino are read in. Military is the only way. (We are now wrapping up the “demonstrate to the public that the judiciary is just as corrupt as everything else” operations).

And if you think the circumstances that will require the deployment of the US military on US soil are not going to appear courtesy of Team Satan, you haven’t been paying attention to history.

Stock Market crash of 1929. Weimar Republic. Hyperinflation. Riots. Paramilitary operations.

Ford flicking off the light switch. Cyberattack to kill the Colonial pipeline again. And on and on.

These are the true threat levels the country is facing. Not just some field agent collecting local favors.

There are reasons POTUS kicked the hornet’s nest with the third term talk. One is that the other side has to take that possibility seriously, and that means their strongest position they will ever be in, in terms of capability and forces in-country, is right now.

He is waving the red flag at the bull. It’s a “come at me.” (And die).

As to arrests – you need a clean judiciary to try the ensuing cases, helloooo. How’s the landscape right now?

You also need to consider that the compromise operations targeted probably 80 to 90 percent of anyone who is anyone in every field of endeavor in North America over the last 40 years. Once the full extent of what was going on on those islands is known, even a random picture at a two hour beach party with Epstein or similar is going to be enough to ruin anyone.

Not everyone partook. Do we really want to be sloppy? And lose (unfairly and to our national detriment) almost our entire contractor capability in, say, the national defense arena?

Think about it.

Who writes a book called Government Gangters, meaning he knows who the crooks are and the crimes but then never goes after any of them?

Don’t these people realize that if they don’t investigate and arrest these treasonous criminals that come 2028/2029 that THEY will become the hunted, persecuted and they will be sitting in a jail cell. Because the DS knows how to use the courts to bankrupt, convict and sentence people on total bogus charges.

Surely President Trump understands this……..

The civil servant is the problem. Ever had a visit the DMV? Here I have my proof of insurance , oh we don’t check that, WHAT? Family after family of government employees. Think about it, you all know the whole family that is employed by the government might not be the same branch but still government. There was a time when civil servants did not have the benefits they do today. The private sector attracted the best with benefits: vacation and healthcare. Now civil servants have far better than some of the taxpayers who pay them. A jobs program for many who are not employable in the private sector. The civil servants cannot be fired, have no boss are free to do as they feel, come to work or not, fall to sleep at their desk, make a policy change, give a benefit or deny it there is no accountability. The boss…there is no boss it is a socialist club. Harsh but true. Generations of incompetence willfully ignorant employees.
Now you have them inoculated with a political agenda.
It is not one agency or one government it is Civil Service as a whole. Federal, State and local.
The problems that we face are vast. It will take all we have.

I’d like to be optimistic, but I’ve learned that serves no one except my direct descendants. LOL.

The CIA and FBI are the most corrupt of all the institutions and I would think that it would be like disassembling a bomb of unknown origin… very carefully. Which, doesn’t mean fast. And maybe the face of the FBI needs to be Patel and Bongino, while the wires are being carefully, and quietly, traced and cut. Just sayin… a possibility.

The CIA and FBI, apparently, have a lot of resources (six ways to Sunday) that they can deploy/employ, at will, from a myriad of locations on the planet.

What we used to do in planning for a large layoff or merger is make sure every communication device was officially registered, way in advance, so that when the time came to turn them off (i.e., forbid entry to the networks), it was one click at the right time. Of course, the black ops sorts don’t use registered devices… I’m sure there are people on the payroll (not THE payroll) that no one even knows about (assassins and the like) who go and do with a word or code or sign. Maybe this is one of the reasons USAID had to be shut down first. The money laundering facilities had to be choked out to prevent further payments, but then of course, with the sprawl of our government… money could be coming from anywhere… social security or a University or dept of ed, etc. They’ve had decades to perfect their grift and hide their dark secrets.

I have no idea. I’m fine with “smile for the camera” and on the backside be ruthless. If that’s what is happening.

I do so feel for all the people doing good work who just had their funding cut off, but it’s such a mess out there that it’s impossible, at this juncture, to determine who the good and bad guys are. The money spigot must be turned off. At least until such time as there is a realignment.

Great analysis as always.

I found Bongino to be lacking directness in communication skills as a pod caster and broadcaster. I simply could not listen to his shows. My heard would hurt from his extraneous and continual tangents.

I don’t know how he succeeds now with that handicap. I hope others found him better.

Scrape the FBI. It’s the only way to be sure.

Bongino’s X post is weak. He should never again mention his old career as a podcaster.

Remember the best hitter in baseball only got a hit 4 out of 10 tries.

How do you fire an entire agency tasked with protecting the country? Who takes their place? Scary stuff….

This can’t be that hard. Fire the first tier directors. Then the 2nd tier. Then the third tier. Put new people who are loyal to Trump in charge. Ex-sheriffs if you have to.

Fire anyone associated with J6. Then see where it lands.

Start investigating anyone who went after US citizens, such as those who wore masks dressed up as White Nationalists at parades. That happened several times. Find out who they were.

Bring in outside investigators who have no connections to the FBI. Get rid of that fat. If you make a mistake, re-hire them.

This can’t be that hard. You need someone who elicits the managerial ethics of “managing by walking around.” That was the business school model 40 years ago. Get your boots on and start taking the axe to these bureaucrats. Stop with the time wasting interviews on Fox. Get to work. 14 hour days. Whatever it takes.

Who writes on a book on the corruption then doesn’t know how to get rid of it?? My gosh.

“The issue is not Patel or Bongino’s intent or motivation. The problem is their ability.”

i would disagree there. if Kash is busy telling us how most of the agents are “good people” – his motivation is absolutely in question.

The FBI agents in the DC office need to go. They were promoted to the heart of the beast for a reason.

The same is true for the top two levels of field offices. Loyalty to Satanic Global Marxism in defiance of their solemn oath to the US Constitution was a requirement.

Backfill with FBI whistleblowers and promote from below. The less time in the agency, the better, say no more than a few years to learn the ropes but not have enough power to be the target of corruption by the leadership. First, they want to see if you okay with corruption.

This will inevitably remove a few good ones and won’t eliminate all the dirty cops, but it’s a start.

Still, the focus needs to be on securing an honest election nationwide.

Cleaning up a mess that took over a generation to develop is going to take many honest election cycles to clean out.

Long-term legal action against those that sold our country out won’t happen unless this happens.

DC is sewer is simple to deep to expect anyone to clean it up in less than two years.

Well, I can agree with the analysis that @Sundance provides. I would hope that THEY KNOW it’s NOT. 95% good agents—these guys ARE NOT stupid. Hopefully, this is ONLY rhetoric so the BAD actors don’t dig deep and bury themselves—hiding for 4 years.

I suppose that they can really be thinking that 95% of the agents are good. I would equate that to some very smart friends who are democrats and believe that Kamala (or anyone really) would’ve been better than 47—it’s just derangement from reality, even when the facts show it to be otherwise.

if it is that kind of derangement, then I do agree more with Sundance—not much will be happening.

BIG IF … Patel and Bongino are working to fix the rank and file as well as leadership issues … it is by necessity due to the magnitude of the job going to be done by creating 1-pocket of “TRUSTED” agents at a time …. and out of sight … not in the news and especially NOT in the District Court Rooms.

The only way a clean-up happens is if they TAKE CONTROL of the Personnel Management Function of the FBI and ATF … to hire, fire, promote, train, assign, reassign et al … new staff, while moving out rotten staff.

Note there have been news stories of “transfers” FROM the ATF to the FBI recently.

This is the only way a totally ROTTEN TOOL can be remade while still trying to perform it’s stated mission.

AG Bondi and her staff have the very same challenge … and with the death of DC US Attourney Jessica Aber, that challenge just got bigger, for DoJ and FBI/ATF as they both have INTEL Entities linked to the CIA. That death was questionable and a warning shot in my opinion.

How soon we all forget how lucky President Trump was when he fire the SDNY prosecutor for disobeying orders in 2017 … lucky because the NY as well as DC FED Courts did not intervene at the time. Even with those Courts not intervening it was still a challenge.

So maybe Patel and Bongino should bring back Seraphin, Friend, O’Boyle and other FBI whistle-blowers to help them.
After all, these men had the courage to speak up even though they knew they would be punished severely for doing do.
They also know where the bodies are buried. They are the caliber of men required to fix the problem.

Bongino IMO put his reputation on the line with his radio program. I believe people will have high expectations of him. I also believe he knows that, hence the tweet from him. Pride.

He talked tough regarding USSS performance, openly irritated at other crises of law enforcement. One thing though, he did ask listeners to wait for some things to shake out before freaking out/concluding. Not sure if that always was his M.O = to wait.

Now, he must be transparent, and deliver. Pride. Maybe he will light a fire under his boss, Patel.

“The issue is not Patel or Bongino’s intent or motivation. The problem is their ability.” Patel and Bongino can employ compliance/audit officers, if they will. We’ll see.

I’m stayin’ right here on the fence. Patel and Bongino have experience at high levels in Federal organizations, and I don’t think anyone can question their motives. A cleanup was always a difficult proposition, but nobody could want to clean house more than those two men.

If there were better choices available, I can’t name them. By comparison, Gaetz was a mouthy lawyer and politician who had never been on the inside. I know SD has a track record of getting these things right, but I’m keeping my torches and pitchforks in the closet for now.

“FBI Director Kash Patel announced this week that he had handed over to Congress long-sought bureau records related to the 2017 congressional baseball game shooting following years of House Republicans arguing the bureau was stonewalling on why it had labeled the attack “suicide by cop” instead of domestic terrorism”

SOURCE :
https://justthenews.com/government/security/kash-patel-says-fbis-yearslong-stonewalling-2017-congressional-baseball

Excellent summary of a challenging process.
I find the comments very interesting considering we are on the outside looking in, the only things we the public know of the FBI is what the corrupt media tells us and that information is spoon fed to the media outlets. We have seen the weaponized actions as failures that the agency just can not seem to explain, the slow walking of factual information or just the refusal to answer anything.
As Sundance stated Dan and Kash do not have the ability to correct this problem, and they seem unwilling to acknowledge a problem exists.

Control is the goal.

Is it possible Kash and Dan know the issues of the embedded swamp rats but aren’t talking about it while they start the process of rooting them out? By not talking about it publicly the rats may be lulled into a false sense of security and they may become careless and easier to identify and purge.

Unfortunately, Patel has a Napolean complex (short-man syndrome), and Bongino is full of himself with his new title. I would listen to his radio program until he would announce how great and smart he was, and then would turn the channel. It would happen every time.

Patel knows how to talk tough, for sure, but it’s all for show. Inside, he’s scared shitless of what the 95% think of him, and he wants them desperately to like him.

We’re still in a whole hell of a lot of trouble.

Yes, Patel and Bongino need to elevate the whistleblowers to key positions. Those whistleblowers know the ones that need to be fired.
Patel and Bongino need to recognize their own skill sets are lacking at this point in the game.

President Trump has given both of these guys an opportunity to do something good. With mid-terms approaching, resistance will only get worse. We need to see dramatic action.

Look to GE (General Electric) CEO Larry Culp as an example. He turned GE upside down and inside out; sold off huge divisions and reorganized the mess created over decades by the previous CEOs, Jack Welch and Jeff Immelt. GE was/is a much bigger organization than the FBI.

In a related matter, we have a judge ruling La Pen ineligible, as she leads her race. Anyone see a pattern here?

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/latest-blow-european-democracy-judge-rules-marine-le-pen-ineligible-run-president-2027

Alex, jump right on this!

So, who should have received the Director and Deputy Directors positions at the FBI?

Seems like most department heads are talking heads, nobody wants to tear down the system, especially without the support of congress and the supreme court both of whom are awfully silent about supporting the Trump administration and they seem too demure, regarding corruption, (‘we can’t have the world see that the US of A is just as corrupt as everyone else).

Then there’s the boss who mouths about ‘building a new headquarters’ for these undeserving 95% ‘honorable’ agents.

The handwriting on the wall will be revealed tomorrow and reinforced on way or another in Nov ’26.

“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].”
As I began reading this article my thoughts went straight to compliance and audit. There is no reason why these two could not effectively create a division within the FBI to accomplish this task. Who’s to say they haven’t began to do so already?
The very best advice for initially cleaning up any corruption within the FBI was to decentralize the organization and farm out the agents to the homeland field offices…get their collective siloed asses out of DC!

Andrew Torba at GAB has the right idea. Build a parallel system.

Since we can’t have Col. Boyd* the closest we have is Colonel Douglas Macgregor to implement the OODA loop against the swamp. Long term goal shut down the FBI et all.

POTUS can create by EO an investigative system that will have 3.5 years to drain the swamp.

First priority of this new organization is investigate who actually controls CONgress.
With the no doubt damning evidence of corruption CONgress can be “persuded” to actually restore OurRepublic ™️

*someone here put me onto the book BOYD and I thank that person!

I wondered if getting Bongino to take the role in the FBI was to remove him from his radio/podcasting position which I thought he was excelling at. I do understand that refusing the role would have led to him being marginalized and lose access to the political process.

“After all, why not? Why shouldn’t I keep it?”

Patel and Bongino will keep the ring of power, because casting it into the fire would mean “multitasking”.

I feel like Treehouse is gaslighting everyone on Trump’s appointees: So far, get rid of Bondi, Waltz, Patel, Bongino, Ratcliffe. May I remind you that they have only been in office for less than two months. The “Deep State” has been around since at least the late 1940’s and maybe as far back as Woodrow Wilson. Give them a little more time.

The sticking point for me is….Patel knows the extent of the corruption…you only needed to hear him on War Room…Without explanation, all the sudden, “95% rank and file are good”? JMO, Patel looks like he made promises to get the head of the FBI position. He has turned out to be another career politician. Don’t know what Bonginos deal is other than saving his country. He gave up a successful podcast.

Wow! Best analysis I’ve seen of the conundrum facing the leadership of the FBI, Sundance.
Patel and Bongino have passion, but lack the iron-willed determination to simultaneously lead and effectuate the very change they were hired to address.

TREY GOWDY Syndromn. Talk like a tough guy who has it all figured out. Then accept a job begrudgingly for 8-10 million a year. Theater at its finest.

I spoke w/ an agent at a function for a friend quite some time back. At that time, they said the FBI, and probably most federal law enforcement, were akin to the mortgage broker characters in The Big Short. “Now I own a boat.” was the line from the bar scene they used to demonstrate. It made me sad, actually, as I appreciate law enforcement.

I hate to be overly fatalistic, but it’s my mood today, particularly after reading, and understanding this article.
I’ve come to this conclusion:

If you truly want to weed out the corruption in the federal government, or in government, writ large, you have to start in kindergarten.

Didn’t Kash just get confirmed? Bongino too? People want microwave results on everything.

Follow Pr Trumps lead. Pick one issue, or incident–Establish the corrective action on monday, on tuesday put all the offenders in custody, on Wednesday announce to the world the consequences for the offenders. During that processthe next group will have been incarcerated, and Thursdays announcement will be made to the world,,,,Friday again,,,and again, and again.

I just don’t think Bongino is that smart.