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Michael Weiss

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
2807 total appearances

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The Bulwark Podcast
Michael Weiss and Thomas Zimmer: Competent and Radical

It's the FBI that's stopping the IRGC from killing him. And Iran he has no love for, as we well know, right? Russia's a different story perhaps. But It's just a terrible appointment for so many reasons.

The Bulwark Podcast
Michael Weiss and Thomas Zimmer: Competent and Radical

It's the FBI that's stopping the IRGC from killing him. And Iran he has no love for, as we well know, right? Russia's a different story perhaps. But It's just a terrible appointment for so many reasons.

The Bulwark Podcast
Michael Weiss and Thomas Zimmer: Competent and Radical

And again, I mean, I've yet to see the impact day of, but right now I'm getting a real sense of foreboding from people both working in the FBI, but also who have left the FBI and are certainly aware of the culture.

The Bulwark Podcast
Michael Weiss and Thomas Zimmer: Competent and Radical

And again, I mean, I've yet to see the impact day of, but right now I'm getting a real sense of foreboding from people both working in the FBI, but also who have left the FBI and are certainly aware of the culture.

The Bulwark Podcast
Michael Weiss and Thomas Zimmer: Competent and Radical

And again, I mean, I've yet to see the impact day of, but right now I'm getting a real sense of foreboding from people both working in the FBI, but also who have left the FBI and are certainly aware of the culture.

The Bulwark Podcast
Michael Weiss and Thomas Zimmer: Competent and Radical

And QAnon is absolutely the subject of investigation by the FBI, right? So, I mean, this is the problem when you're big upping, when you're amplifying the very enemies of the United States that the agency you are now meant to head is meant to be keeping tabs on and arresting when they commit crimes. I would, too. Yeah. And again, G-men don't like it when you start going after their own kind.

The Bulwark Podcast
Michael Weiss and Thomas Zimmer: Competent and Radical

And QAnon is absolutely the subject of investigation by the FBI, right? So, I mean, this is the problem when you're big upping, when you're amplifying the very enemies of the United States that the agency you are now meant to head is meant to be keeping tabs on and arresting when they commit crimes. I would, too. Yeah. And again, G-men don't like it when you start going after their own kind.

The Bulwark Podcast
Michael Weiss and Thomas Zimmer: Competent and Radical

And QAnon is absolutely the subject of investigation by the FBI, right? So, I mean, this is the problem when you're big upping, when you're amplifying the very enemies of the United States that the agency you are now meant to head is meant to be keeping tabs on and arresting when they commit crimes. I would, too. Yeah. And again, G-men don't like it when you start going after their own kind.

The Bulwark Podcast
Michael Weiss and Thomas Zimmer: Competent and Radical

There is a camaraderie that obtains here, even if there is, as I mentioned earlier, disputes about protocol and practice. And look, I'll give you one data point, which I think is interesting. kind of revealing.

The Bulwark Podcast
Michael Weiss and Thomas Zimmer: Competent and Radical

There is a camaraderie that obtains here, even if there is, as I mentioned earlier, disputes about protocol and practice. And look, I'll give you one data point, which I think is interesting. kind of revealing.

The Bulwark Podcast
Michael Weiss and Thomas Zimmer: Competent and Radical

There is a camaraderie that obtains here, even if there is, as I mentioned earlier, disputes about protocol and practice. And look, I'll give you one data point, which I think is interesting. kind of revealing.

The Bulwark Podcast
Michael Weiss and Thomas Zimmer: Competent and Radical

So because of the aftermath of the Crossfire Hurricane investigation, the Mueller report, and then Trump's attempts to not just relitigate this, but dismantle it, dismantle the very premise and raise on debt for these things, which was rooted in legitimate counterintelligence concerns, morale took a beating at the Bureau such that, I mean, I was told that

The Bulwark Podcast
Michael Weiss and Thomas Zimmer: Competent and Radical

So because of the aftermath of the Crossfire Hurricane investigation, the Mueller report, and then Trump's attempts to not just relitigate this, but dismantle it, dismantle the very premise and raise on debt for these things, which was rooted in legitimate counterintelligence concerns, morale took a beating at the Bureau such that, I mean, I was told that

The Bulwark Podcast
Michael Weiss and Thomas Zimmer: Competent and Radical

So because of the aftermath of the Crossfire Hurricane investigation, the Mueller report, and then Trump's attempts to not just relitigate this, but dismantle it, dismantle the very premise and raise on debt for these things, which was rooted in legitimate counterintelligence concerns, morale took a beating at the Bureau such that, I mean, I was told that

The Bulwark Podcast
Michael Weiss and Thomas Zimmer: Competent and Radical

Agents who should be applying for 302s and doing surveillance and going through all of the paperwork and bureaucratic protocols to do their job and surveil subjects or persons of interest decided, you know what?

The Bulwark Podcast
Michael Weiss and Thomas Zimmer: Competent and Radical

Agents who should be applying for 302s and doing surveillance and going through all of the paperwork and bureaucratic protocols to do their job and surveil subjects or persons of interest decided, you know what?

The Bulwark Podcast
Michael Weiss and Thomas Zimmer: Competent and Radical

Agents who should be applying for 302s and doing surveillance and going through all of the paperwork and bureaucratic protocols to do their job and surveil subjects or persons of interest decided, you know what?

The Bulwark Podcast
Michael Weiss and Thomas Zimmer: Competent and Radical

Juice ain't worth the squeeze because I don't want to be hauled before Congress or have my name outed in the New York Times and then start to have my family swatted by MAGA and QAnon crazies, right? So imagine what's going to happen now. When you have to answer to a guy like Cash Patel. And that's happening already. Correct. That happened already. And it's happening currently.

The Bulwark Podcast
Michael Weiss and Thomas Zimmer: Competent and Radical

Juice ain't worth the squeeze because I don't want to be hauled before Congress or have my name outed in the New York Times and then start to have my family swatted by MAGA and QAnon crazies, right? So imagine what's going to happen now. When you have to answer to a guy like Cash Patel. And that's happening already. Correct. That happened already. And it's happening currently.

The Bulwark Podcast
Michael Weiss and Thomas Zimmer: Competent and Radical

Juice ain't worth the squeeze because I don't want to be hauled before Congress or have my name outed in the New York Times and then start to have my family swatted by MAGA and QAnon crazies, right? So imagine what's going to happen now. When you have to answer to a guy like Cash Patel. And that's happening already. Correct. That happened already. And it's happening currently.