What’s that sound you hear in the background? A mini H-bomb, you say? And you see a small mushroom cloud over the J. Edgar Hoover building? We daresay that that’s because a leaked report from the FBI is 180 degrees apart from what the official stance is with the White House regarding the longevity of Kash Patel in his role as Director. Oh, and “Clown” Bongino isn’t faring too well right now, but let him tell you about it. Daily Beast:
A deeply embarrassing leaked report has exposed the dramatic divide in the FBI as the Trump administration insists FBI Director Kash Patel’s job is not at stake.
The bureau’s second in command on Monday pushed back on the brutal internal assessment of the bureau’s leadership and suggested it was simply the work of disgruntled employees.
Deputy Director Dan Bongino on Monday claimed “a LOT of people are very upset at the changes and reforms we’ve made at the FBI. They will do anything to revert to the old ways of doing things.”
He accused them of leaking “gossipy nonsense to media outlets and ‘journalists’ with a clear agenda.”
But the report painted a grim picture within the premier federal investigative agency and the performance of its current top brass.
The 115-page report was put together by a group of active-duty and retired agents and analysts for the House and Senate Judiciary Committees as a “pulse check” on the first six months of Patel’s tenure in the top job.
The blistering assessment slammed the FBI under Patel’s leadership as “dismal”, “all f—ed up,” and a “rudderless ship,” and concluded the director is “in over his head.”
It also included a bruising observation that Bongino is “something of a clown.”
The report, first leaked to the New York Post, spread like wildfire with a series of damaging headlines across numerous publications and has sparked debate over whether the inexperienced FBI director is hurting rather than helping the Trump administration and the president.
I’m willing to bet that Trump himself has come to the same conclusion. The only problem is that he needs to save face. Saving face is infinitely more important to Trump than fixing any kind of a problem, no matter how blatant it is. That’s the quandary that the good people of the FBI find themselves in, along with the rest of us, is how to see government function properly when there are department heads and cabinet members woefully out of their depth running the show. The article goes on to show what an ego Patel has, not that that is new information.
One anecdote, reportedly from a source who served for decades in the FBI, claimed that Patel refused to step off a plane until he had an FBI raid jacket, as agents were investigating the shooting death of Charlie Kirk.
It eventually led Patel to borrow a jacket belonging to a female agent.
After he complained about the empty spaces on the jacket, agents took off their own patches to cover the empty Velcro parts, according to the report.
That right there tells you everything that you need to know. Patel’s concern was appearances, only. How did he look? Was he dressed right? Being photo op ready is everything, doing the actual job is of secondary importance, if at all.
And of course “Trump Derangement Syndrome” in an excuse, and Bongino says it remains within the “left-leaning factions” within the FBI and personnel “openly express disdain” for the president. Wow, fancy that? At least when Christopher Wray was in charge, he was a seasoned agent before he became FBI Director and he wasn’t creating horrifically bad headlines. But that was during Trump 1.0 and the rules are different for Trump 2.0.
And I call your attention to the fact that all this is happening in Trump’s first year. Pete Hegseth is now being investigated to see whether he committed murder and this leaked report is out from the FBI and it’s only December 1. We predicted that when it all hit the fan it would be Hegseth’s doing but as you see, Patel and Bongino are running a close second.
“The bureau’s second in command on Monday pushed back on the brutal internal assessment of the bureau’s leadership and suggested it was simply the work of disgruntled employees.”
Yes, this is true.
The bigger problem is that the ‘disgruntled employees’ are ALL OF THEM.
“Patel’s concern was appearances, only. ”
Unlike any other member of the Trump administration.
Oh wait a second …
Trump’s entire life, now including his administration, is just show-biz. No content worth mentioning, just makeup, bullshit and lies. It won’t change. The best we can hope for is a Democrat win in ’26 which can block Trump from doing much further damage to our already-crippled country.