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Michael Weiss

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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.

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

And yeah, there's going to be a lot of early retirements, I would expect. A lot of people who just don't, they're not going to want to have to put up with this. And they're going to be fearful for not just their livelihoods, but, you know, as I say, being doxed and exposed as... perfidious agents of the American Stasi or whatever the hell these people are portraying them as.

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

And yeah, there's going to be a lot of early retirements, I would expect. A lot of people who just don't, they're not going to want to have to put up with this. And they're going to be fearful for not just their livelihoods, but, you know, as I say, being doxed and exposed as... perfidious agents of the American Stasi or whatever the hell these people are portraying them as.

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

And yeah, there's going to be a lot of early retirements, I would expect. A lot of people who just don't, they're not going to want to have to put up with this. And they're going to be fearful for not just their livelihoods, but, you know, as I say, being doxed and exposed as... perfidious agents of the American Stasi or whatever the hell these people are portraying them as.

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

Well, you know, look, a lot of people, first and foremost, are concerned for am I going to receive a paycheck? What's going to happen to my pension, right? I mean, you don't want a president coming in and saying, I'm going to fire everybody. And even if legally there's no grounds for this, right? I mean, it's the harassment. It's the concomitant effects of declaring somebody an enemy of the state.

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

Well, you know, look, a lot of people, first and foremost, are concerned for am I going to receive a paycheck? What's going to happen to my pension, right? I mean, you don't want a president coming in and saying, I'm going to fire everybody. And even if legally there's no grounds for this, right? I mean, it's the harassment. It's the concomitant effects of declaring somebody an enemy of the state.

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

Well, you know, look, a lot of people, first and foremost, are concerned for am I going to receive a paycheck? What's going to happen to my pension, right? I mean, you don't want a president coming in and saying, I'm going to fire everybody. And even if legally there's no grounds for this, right? I mean, it's the harassment. It's the concomitant effects of declaring somebody an enemy of the state.

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

So, you know, I have in my reporting on – the GRU, on Russian intelligence, on Havana syndrome, gotten close to a number of former CIA officers, one of whom is Mark Palmaropoulos, who I'm not afraid to say has become a very good friend of mine. Mark doesn't know if he is going to be here on January 20th, meaning should he stay in the United States?

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

So, you know, I have in my reporting on – the GRU, on Russian intelligence, on Havana syndrome, gotten close to a number of former CIA officers, one of whom is Mark Palmaropoulos, who I'm not afraid to say has become a very good friend of mine. Mark doesn't know if he is going to be here on January 20th, meaning should he stay in the United States?

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

So, you know, I have in my reporting on – the GRU, on Russian intelligence, on Havana syndrome, gotten close to a number of former CIA officers, one of whom is Mark Palmaropoulos, who I'm not afraid to say has become a very good friend of mine. Mark doesn't know if he is going to be here on January 20th, meaning should he stay in the United States?

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

Because lawyers are telling him and telling others who signed that letter questioning the veracity of the Hunter Biden laptop story, maybe you should cool your heels abroad somewhere for the foreseeable future. just because Trump and his team had made it very clear that these guys are in their sights.

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

Because lawyers are telling him and telling others who signed that letter questioning the veracity of the Hunter Biden laptop story, maybe you should cool your heels abroad somewhere for the foreseeable future. just because Trump and his team had made it very clear that these guys are in their sights.

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

Because lawyers are telling him and telling others who signed that letter questioning the veracity of the Hunter Biden laptop story, maybe you should cool your heels abroad somewhere for the foreseeable future. just because Trump and his team had made it very clear that these guys are in their sights.

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

Now, that is a pretty terrifying prospect that people who work for the CIA, the FBI, or other government intelligence law enforcement bodies who guard us while we sleep, who have done things – On behalf of this country, they cannot talk about, but should it ever come to light, and it always does down the line when the history books are written, are decorated heroes for a reason.