Rachel Poser

But it's drilled into them at Quantico, the FBI training academy, to try to balance the mission with American civil rights.

And Jill felt like that effort was being now completely ignored.

And so she says no.

She pushes back.

She's told in response, you know, Jill, you can get fired now or you can get fired when someone, a new administration comes in and starts looking into constitutional violations.

It was, in a sense, an admission that we know this is wrong.

We're asking you to do it anyway.

And if you don't do it, there will be consequences.

So what happens to her?

Well, first her squad gets taken away from her.

She gets reassigned.

I was also told that I was a problem.

And she's told that the seventh floor is aware of her.

The seventh floor means where the director sits in the Hoover Building in Washington.

So she knows that she's being monitored.

And she decides to leave.

I was on vacation with my husband in Virginia Beach, and one of my deputies was covering for me while I was away.

I had a routine check-in with her just to see if there was anything significant that needed my attention.

And one of the items highlighted for me was that, you know, the division in my absence had received questions about a piece of intelligence that the FBI published in September 2020.

So...