Michael Feinberg
speaker
133 appearances
5 recordings
2 series
first heard Sep 2025
last heard 29 Aug
Michael Feinberg’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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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 to
to the holding of fair and free elections, that gives me considerable concern.
I think at one point we spoke about it and I actually used the phrase that my hair was on fire.
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.
Shortly after overhearing that conversation, I applied to the FBI.
The mere application process takes 12 to 24 months.
Hand-to-hand combat and firearms and tactics.
The Bureau sent me to summers of immersion training in Mandarin.
There is a myth among many people who have not worked for the intelligence community or law enforcement agencies before that personnel are fungible, that you can easily force somebody out of retirement age and just have them replaced by
by a new recruit.
In reality, every year that somebody spends in the community, they are providing more value than they did the year beforehand, simply because they have more expertise and better judgment.
It's not just a question of the millions of dollars that the government spends training us.
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