Ben Wittes
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the guzzling the beer video incident got under Trump's skin, that Cash might be a little bit more careful.
But he doesn't seem to be.
I'm not sure what else to say about it.
There is no way to run the FBI in the fashion that he has run it, which has involved decimating the senior and even middle management of people who have served honorably.
I mean, the purge has been dramatic, and there's no way to do that without having significant operational consequences.
most of those operational consequences are and will remain invisible because they just take the form of crimes that go unsolved or take much longer to solve, right?
And how do you know that a crime that goes unsolved would have been solved under the previous iterations of FBI leadership?
Or how do you know that one that took six months may have taken three and a half months, right?
And so most of it is completely invisible
But there are these things that are not invisible.
And one of them is the behavior of the director who, you know, be clowns himself in all kinds of really asinine ways and also behaves in ways in private that become public because they so discussed the people in the bureau that, you know, people talk about it.
And there's a lot of that.
The second thing that are visible is FBI agents participating in stuff that they absolutely should not be participating in.
Right.
A search warrant at the Fulton County Elections Board requires about 100 agents, you know, and that means that 100 people had to agree to go execute that warrant.
So there are these things that are super visible, but the larger impact is invisible and just is, you know, the justice system at the investigative level working less well than it should.
And you saw the same thing with John Bolton, the raid on John Bolton's house, that that was announced in the New York Post the moment it was happening.
And then Cash Patel tweets FBI agents on mission.
No one's above the law.
I have known FBI directors personally during their times as FBI directors.
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