Mark Fisher

So it's a wholesale rejiggering of what agents are doing.

It's resulting in a lot of people retiring early, retiring as soon as they're able to, and quite a number, as you said, who've been fired.

Yeah, this is something that Patel has denied, but we heard this from several agents who said they've been asked about their loyalty to Director Patel and to his own personal agenda.

This is one of a number of ways in which a lot of FBI agents feel like the standards for being an agent have been lowered.

For example, Patel has shortened the length of the FBI Academy from 18 weeks to eight weeks of training.

And he's no longer requiring all new agents to have a college degree.

Many agents in the FBI have advanced degrees.

And many of them have done specialized work in languages and so on to prepare themselves for the kind of international investigations that the Bureau does so well.

So it's really disappointing to a lot of the people who've devoted their lives to the Bureau to see what they see as a watering down of those standards.

Well, during his time between administrations, so between his time at the National Security Council and his time as head of the FBI, he spent those out years on a number of efforts to make a lot of money.

And he did make a lot of money.

Some of it was selling stuff very much in a Trump kind of model.

He set up a website to sell his cash-branded clothes that he had made.

K and then a dollar sign and an H was kind of the logo.

He raised money for some of the January 6th defendants.

He promoted dietary supplements that he claimed would undo the damage from the COVID-19 virus.

He wrote three children's books called Plot Against the King.

The main character of those children's books was a guy named Cash the Wizard, who was the hero.

And he led a battle on behalf of King Donald to find the bad guys who were scheming to elect Hillary Quinton on not Election Day but Choosing Day.

And so he was highly involved in all of these efforts to make some money and push Trump's agenda.