{"id":17321,"date":"2025-04-04T11:42:53","date_gmt":"2025-04-04T11:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/f-b-i-leaders-push-to-restore-trust-in-the-agency-they-once-undermined\/"},"modified":"2025-04-04T11:42:53","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T11:42:53","slug":"f-b-i-leaders-push-to-restore-trust-in-the-agency-they-once-undermined","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/f-b-i-leaders-push-to-restore-trust-in-the-agency-they-once-undermined\/","title":{"rendered":"F.B.I. Leaders Push to Restore Trust in the Agency They Once Undermined"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Before they took control of the F.B.I., the bureau\u2019s two top leaders, Kash Patel and Dan Bongino, were some of the agency\u2019s most rabid critics, attacking it at every turn for years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But now that they are running the agency, the two men have pulled a kind of bait-and-switch: In recent emails to thousands of F.B.I. employees, they have sought to use the bureau\u2019s damaged reputation \u2014 a reputation that they themselves helped tear down \u2014 as a rationale for bringing reforms to the supposedly broken organization.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cOver the past few years, the F.B.I.\u2019s reputation has been damaged in the eyes of our employers, the American people,\u201d Mr. Patel wrote on Wednesday in one of the messages. \u201cI know each of you, serving across this great nation, are tackling cases that will further the betterment of the communities in which you live and work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cTimes of change can be uneasy, but they are necessary,\u201d he went on. \u201cBusiness as usual is no longer business as usual.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Absent from Mr. Patel\u2019s communications with his 38,000 employees was any mention of the persistent assaults that he himself has launched against the F.B.I. over the years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Before he ascended to the post of F.B.I. director, Mr. Patel repeatedly distorted the facts about the bureau\u2019s investigation of Russian meddling into President Trump\u2019s 2016 campaign. He has also been a central purveyor of conspiracy theories, accusing federal agents of having helped instigate the attack by Mr. Trump\u2019s supporters on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">This tactic of officials campaigning to restore trust in public institutions that they themselves helped to damage has been used before by Mr. Trump and his allies. After Mr. Trump lost the 2020 election, he and his supporters promoted widespread lies that the race was marred by fraud, only to use their own false statements as a basis for their efforts to overturn the vote count.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Patel\u2019s email described what many F.B.I. agents believed they have been doing all along, even before he took control of the bureau: Investigating possible violations of federal laws. And they say that nothing has changed since Mr. Patel took the helm, though they are deeply worried about the current leadership and whether the bureau will tackle cases that could lead to a clash with the White House.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In offering agents extensive praise for the work that they were already doing, the email also seemed like a tacit acknowledgment that Mr. Patel was trying to do more to win the trust and loyalty of his skeptical subordinates.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Luke William Hunt, a professor at the University of Alabama and a former F.B.I. agent who testified Wednesday before a congressional subcommittee examining the bureau, said Mr. Bongino\u2019s comments were a stretch of the imagination.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201c\u2018Disregard everything I said,\u2019\u201d Mr. Hunt said. \u201c\u2018I am now a straight shooter.\u2019 That\u2019s laughable. It would be foolish or na\u00efve to believe a statement like that. You\u2019re asking an F.B.I. agent, who looks at the evidence, to believe that everything that is on print or on video is not representative of who they are.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">It remains unclear, even 30 days after Mr. Patel arrived at the F.B.I. what sorts of changes he intends to carry out. He has moved senior executives into new jobs and current and former agents applauded some of those choices.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But some of those moves appear at odds with Mr. Patel\u2019s past derision of the F.B.I.\u2019s aggressive approach to Jan. 6. The new assistant director Mr. Patel named to run the Washington field office, Steven J. Jensen, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/15\/us\/politics\/kash-patel-fbi-deputy-director.html\" title=\"\">was in charge of the bureau\u2019s domestic terrorism operations section<\/a> on that day, and he played a key role in responding to the attack on the Capitol.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Jensen was also responsible for establishing a system to monitor incidents of violence at school board meetings across the country as potential acts of domestic terrorism \u2014 one of the most serious complaints that Mr. Patel himself had about the F.B.I. under the Biden administration.In his 2023 book, \u201cGovernment Gangsters,\u201d Mr. Patel wrote that the Justice Department targeted parents who pushed back against \u201cprograms to teach their children vile and hateful race theory.\u201d The department, Mr. Patel said, \u201cjustified its threatening campaign against parents in a memo that labeled these law-abiding citizens as \u2018domestic terrorists\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Patel\u2019s email reminisces about the F.B.I. that he \u201cfell in love with\u201d but now had lost its way. He riffs on special agents \u201cwho without fear or favor, pushed through whatever roadblocks to secure righteous investigations of those who had abused the public trust and treasure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The previous director, Christopher A. Wray, who stepped down before Mr. Trump could fire him, said exactly the same thing as Mr. Patel. During his seven years running the agency, he urged agents to conduct investigations the \u201cright way, every time.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIt means conducting investigations without fear or favor, and it means not pursuing investigations when the proper predication is not there,\u201d Mr. Wray <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fbi.gov\/news\/speeches-and-testimony\/director-wrays-remarks-at-fbi-farewell-celebration#:~:text=It%20means%20conducting%20investigations%20without,staying%20above%20partisanship%20and%20politics.\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">said in December<\/a> when he announced he was leaving.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In his email, Mr. Patel laments that special agents \u201cwhose word was beyond reproach \u2014 whose cases, that as prosecutor, I knew had meticulously met and documented proof of the elements of the crimes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The assertion is notable given the criticism Mr. Patel has leveled at the bureau over its search of Mr. Trump\u2019s Mar-a-Lago estate after he left office. He suggested in his book there was no reason to do so and accused the judge who approved the search warrant of being biased. \u201cThe Mar-a-Lago raid makes Watergate look like the teacup ride at Disney World,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But F.B.I. agents and prosecutors obtained a court-approved search warrant because Mr. Trump repeatedly refused to comply with the government\u2019s requests to return they documents that officials said were classified.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">All along Trump allies of the F.B.I. have complained that the Jan. 6 defendants were denied due process in hundreds of court cases, casting them as political prisoners. In reality, they were allowed to fight their charges in the same way as all criminal defendants do but did not like the outcome.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-6\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Indeed, one of Mr. Patel\u2019s favorite targets was the F.B.I.\u2019s Russia investigation known as Crossfire Hurricane that scrutinized whether any Trump associates had conspired with Russia during the 2016 campaign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Serious mistakes were made in that investigation, and agents were disciplined for botching applications to secretly obtain a surveillance warrant. But the Justice Department\u2019s inspector general found that its agents had good reason to open Crossfire Hurricane.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A lengthy investigation by a special counsel appointed under Mr. Trump, John H. Durham, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/05\/15\/us\/politics\/trump-russia-investigation-durham.html\" title=\"\">accused the F.B.I. of \u201cconfirmation bias.\u201d<\/a> Still, in his final report, Mr. Durham said that \u201cas an initial matter, there is no question that the F.B.I. had an affirmative obligation to closely examine\u201d the tip that prompted the investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Durham charged no high-level F.B.I. or intelligence official with a crime and acknowledged in a footnote that Hillary Clinton\u2019s 2016 presidential campaign also did nothing prosecutable.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Hunt acknowledged that the agency was \u201cnot a perfect institution\u201d but emphasized the role conservative critics had played in undermining the bureau. \u201cBut all of those investigations that the right has wanted to make a big deal about are based on proper predictions \u2014 by that I mean there were specific and articulable facts that justified investigating those matters.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/04\/us\/politics\/kash-patel-fbi-trust.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before they took control of the F.B.I., the bureau\u2019s two top leaders, Kash Patel and Dan Bongino, were some of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17322,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[3058,2933,2094,900,114,1373,117,3060,3059,113,111,2932],"class_list":["post-17321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-us","tag-bongino","tag-christopher-a","tag-daniel","tag-democratic-party","tag-donald-j","tag-federal-bureau-of-investigation","tag-justice-department","tag-kashyap","tag-patel","tag-trump","tag-united-states-politics-and-government","tag-wray"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>F.B.I. 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