Michael Feinberg

Joten minun alkuperäisen vastaukseni vaikuttaa sinulle, mutta uskon, että menen takaisin erilaiseen asiaan. FBI on ollut jo melko pitkän aikaa johtamassa yksityiskohtaisen valinnanjohtajan kanssa, joka on ollut erittäin tärkeä kylpy.

It's not a particularly nefarious position. It's simply a very senior ranking intelligence analyst from headquarters who is in charge of coordinating all potential threat streams and crimes that may...

Tämä tapahtuu valinnan kontekstissa. Eli puhumme jotain asioita kuten yleinen korruptiivisuus, yrittäjien pyrkiä pysäyttämään ihmisiä valinnan kautta, ja mahdollisen teröristitarkoinnin tai ulkomaalaisen interferenssin valinnan kautta.

Tämä ei kuitenkaan kuulosta vihreältä. Se on sellaista asiaa, jota FBI haluaa tehdä. Ongelman, että olen hieman vahvistunut Yhdysvallan puheenjohtajan kommentteihin, koska ainakin viimeiset vuoset, joissa olin FBIlla, tämä oli yleinen tapahtuma jokaisella valmistelun kohdalla. Ongelma on,

that everything the FBI has done under this director prior to this message going out undermines the very things that the FBI is supposed to be protecting in this role. So, yes, you want a senior executive who is going to be looking at foreign interference in a U.S. election.

If that's the case, you don't also disband the FBI's foreign influence task force. You don't disband the Office of Director of National Intelligence Foreign Malign Influence Center. You don't reassign people at other intelligence agencies away from foreign influence. You don't massively cut the number of staff at CISA, which guards American electoral infrastructure.

And if you care about violent crimes centered around the electoral process, you don't pardon every January 6th insurrectionist. If you care about public corruption, you don't appoint somebody who allegedly took a $50,000 bribe in a kava bag to a position of import. This message in itself is not particularly concerning to me,

Mutta luultavasti kaikki muu, joka on tapahtunut FBIin vuodesta 20.1.2025, saattaa ajatella, että he voivat ottaa tätä normaalia, toivottavaa tapahtumaa ja jotenkin tehdä sen malevolenttinen.

Yhdysvaltuutettuja, joilla on 50 maa- ja maa-alueilla, he ovat skeptisoineet. Ja tämän skeptisismin parantaminen on se, että me saamme, ajattelen, viime aikoina, kun tämä puhelin tapahtuu, käsittelemme siitä, mitä oli sanottu sen aikana. Jos se on vain logistiikkaa, kuten nähdä jotain, sanoa jotain, tässä on tippilähtö, tässä on raportin rakennus,

I don't think we have a ton to worry about with respect to this specific meeting. If they do much beyond that, we have a lot of reason to be concerned. Because we know that Tulsi Gabbard took a bunch of voting machines from Puerto Rico to test them from vulnerabilities. We know that the FBI in an unprecedented raid that flies in

in the face of just common sense and logic seized a bunch of ballots from an election that Trump insisted he won, yet not a single court in the country ever agreed with him. You know, courts give the Justice Department something called the presumption of regularity.

And that's a grace that the public and the media have generally given the government as a whole. What I think at this point, it's fair to have the opposite presumption. And we do need to be looking at the results of this phone call and what comes out, because there's a lot of other stuff they've done with respect.

President Trump is only ramping up his unprecedented push to effectively take a wrecking ball to the federal government, laying off thousands.

The government invested an immense amount of human capital in terms of getting me to the point where I was when I was forced out.

My job for the entirety of my career was to figure out who in the United States was spying on behalf of the People's Republic of China and then figure out ways to either stop them from doing it and arresting them and prosecuting them or

Or more ideally, actually recruiting them to covertly work for the U.S.

government while they were still ostensibly in the service of the Chinese.

They were discussing how they enlisted in the military almost immediately after Pearl Harbor happened.

It caused me to reflect that 9-11 had not really changed my career path at all.

In all candor, I felt a little bit ashamed that I, who had many more advantages than they ever did growing up, did nothing to help the country that made that possible while they immediately answered a call to service.